When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.