Dual Perspectives

Future of the Screen: After the CRT, a Display Deluge

Ars Technica reports: A series of technical breakthroughs has led to myriad new ways to look what used to be peripheral — today there is a new display technology for a every possible use, and a possible use for new every display technology.

Future of the Screen: Terminator-Style Augmented-Reality Glasses

Wired reports: What used to be pure science fiction is now a bona fide display technology — today it's in the labs, but tomorrow, the the tech will be balanced on the bridge of your nose.

Future of Cyber Security: What Are the Rules of Engagement?

Ars Technica reports: As modern warfare moves from the clash of armies to cyberspace, the strategists need to retool their thinking.

Future of Cyber Security: Hackers Have Grown Up

Wired reports: Hacking used to be a casual affair, the province of smart college kids mostly fooling around. No more. Today's hackers mean business.

Future of Newspapers: Profitless? Go Wireless

Wired reports: Information doesn't always want to be free — as Steve Jobs' iPhone app store has proven, brilliantly — and that fact may both save the news business and turn classical newsroom economics on its head.

Future of Newspapers: Newspapers Founder, But Civic Journalism May Survive

Ars Technica reports: Despite all the bad news about the newspaper business, the fact is that journalism itself will endure. Already, there are some interesting online experiments in in-depth and local reporting.

Future of the Web: I Want My WebTV

Ars Technica reports: Web apps are changing the world of TV.

Future of the Web: Location, Location, Location

Wired.com Reports: Geo-apps are going to remake the digital world.

Future of Open Source: Collaborative Culture

Wired reports: User-created online culture isn't "mass culture," but it's culture by the masses.

Future of Open Source: Hack This Gadget

Ars Technica reports: The open source movement spawned a generation of collaborative coders. Now it's affecting the hardware industry.

Future of Social Media: The Walls Come Crumbling Down

Ars Technica reports: The fatal flaw with all the social media sites — MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and the like — is that they are all separate services, but that may all be about to change, and soon.

Future of Social Media: Is a Tweet the New Size of a Thought?

Wired.com reports: Why the most ephemeral of all the social-web services, Twitter, may also turn out to be the most significant.

Future of Games: The Game of Life

Wired.com reports: How game design can revolutionize everyday life

Future of Games: No Quarter Given

Ars Technica reports: How strong copy protection on videogames promotes piracy

The Future of Reproduction: The Birth Business

Portfolio.com reports: The medical-industrial birth complex is under siege. New research says it's too costly and too inhumane. Are we at a tipping point?

The Future of Reproduction: Male Pregnancy

Wired.com reports: Reproductive science is heading into territory that once only comedians dared to tread, including the means to let a father carry a baby to term.

The Future of the Phone: Dialing for Dollars

Portfolio.com reports: The arrival of the mobile application store is about to change the way you use your phone, and the industry that makes it.

The Future of the Phone: The End of the Cell

Wired.com reports: Soon "anytime minutes," "roll-over minutes," and even your mobile-phone contract will seem as quaint as the corner pay phone.

The Future of Money: DIY Currencies

Wired.com reports: All the elements are in place for cell phones stuffed with many different microcurrencies.

The Future of Money: The Return of the Gold Standard

Portfolio.com reports: The most successful of the current crop of microcurrencies is GoldMoney, a 21st-century take on the oldest financial trick in the book.

Future of Energy: Geothermal Heats Up

Portfolio.com reports: There is a limitless amount of energy right under our feet. So why doesn't geothermal get any respect?

Future of Energy: Artificial Geysers

Wired.com reports: In the not-too-distant future, it's the environmentalists who might be chanting "Drill, baby, drill" over and over again.

The Future of Music: The Celestial Jukebox

Wired.com reports: The killer app for music—any song, at any time—is almost here. The only question is whether or not we'll label everybody who wants to tune in to it a "criminal."

The Future of Music: Record Labels Get Real

Portfolio.com reports: After years of blaming the internet for their woes, the major labels are starting to face the music— and see the problem as one they made themselves.