A Brave and Startling Truth from Maya Angelou
A Brave and Startling Truth We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination …
Technology in the Home: The Future in Home Appliances from GE
From machines that check vital signs and dispense medicine to laundry stored in compressed pellets, things are changing. Ready? In 2013, GE asked its designers to dream up what appliances …
Feeling the Road: The Toyota FV2
Will autonomous cars replace the freedom of the open road with the “predictability” of machines? Here’s an alternative from Toyota. One can see why a car that drives itself is …
Here Come the Flying Cars: The Terrafugia Transition® and TF-X™ Concept
People have been fantasizing about flying cars since the automobile came into being at the beginning of the twentieth century. From Star Wars to the Fifth Element and beyond, science …
Illuminating Architecture: Projection Mapping and O (Omicron)
We assume that technology will take us into the future, but what happens when it connects us with the past? Hala Stulecia, or Centennial Hall, in Wrocław, often known as …
Quote for Today: Lee Sherman
The humble little school library… was a ramp to everything in the world and beyond, everything that could be dreamed and imagined, everything that could be known, everything that could be hoped. …
Quote for Today: Ralph Hodgson
Stupidity Street I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat. I saw in a vision The worm in the wheat, And …
Quote for Today: H.G. Wells
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the …
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish …
Of Mud and Poetry Contests: What Kind of Creative are You?
Flowers don’t often grow in clay and piles of mud seldom win sculpture contests. Are you using your creativity effectively? Mud is a substance with a myriad of uses, from …