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Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

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

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

We've already seen digital picture frames pre-loaded with viruses; I'm not eager to have my refrigerator hacked or my alarm clock turned against me.

Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.