Clive Thompson Explains Why We Can Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth
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Bill Gates is now saving the world, aggressively tackling third world diseases. He's a geek -- good at thinking concretely about giant numbers. We look at the huge numbers of mass disasters, plagues or killing fields and go numb. Gates looks at them and runs the moral algorithm: Preventable death = bad; preventable death X 1 million people = 1 million times as bad. More of such geeks might help us respond to today's mass tragedies.
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Ziff Davis - Linux and open source are at the heart of today's computing technology. Deal with it.
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Each year, Pop!Tech brings dozens of world-class thinkers and doers, along with hundreds of listeners, to a three-day retreat in rural Maine. Their goal: Save the world.
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It must say something about our times that Bruce Schneier, a geeky computer encryption expert turned all-purpose security guru, occasionally gets recognized in public. "My life is just plain surreal," he says.
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Millions of pounds are on offer for   the person who comes up with the best way of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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CANNES, France -- It just doesn't seem fair. We're sitting in a bungalow by the Mediterranean with Leonardo DiCaprio, and he's talking about the end of the world. Not necessarily the end of the Earth, mind you. The planetary ecosystem will continue to function (barring collision with a meteor, bu...
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Need some positive input? These blue-sky devices could make every geek's life a little less irritating.
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Martin Rees is a new breed of doomsayer. He doesnât just move the hands of an imaginary and inscrutable clock, he offers to bet on disaster.
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Mr. Know-It-All Clive Thompson metes out the tough calls on breast-feeding, buying fame in WoW and opting out of the social web. From Wired magazine.
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Humans have become highly reliant on technology to keep us safe. But when we go off the grid, as our reporter recently did, there can be grave risks.
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Science & environment: An engineer's skill at turning gas guzzlers into efficient cars has led rock legends and big businesses to seek out his expertise
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Saves planet one lightbulb at a time For the second week in a row the Guardian has turned the power of the Internet onto the problems of the planet - at this rate, it surely can't be long before we're all saved. Last week editor Alan Rusbridger unleashed 15 million readers on Africa, this week environment writer Leo Hickman is trying to shut down coal-fired power stations.â¦
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K. Ananth Krishnan has a hard enough job handling the technology requirements of a global IT consulting behemoth with 89,000 globally dispersed employees and 34 to 35 percent annual growth. But as an avid follower of Clayton Christensen, author of the classic business book "The Innovatorâs Dilemma," he would never be content to merely stay on top of things. Innovation is part of his regular diet.
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Geeks continue to be a  hot commodity at the broadcast networks.
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Open-source geeks are devout in their belief that software should be free to all, and hold as their icon the Linux alternative to the Microsoft commercial empire.
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The proliferation of action-adventure movies can be explained by our collective craving for heroes. They need not come from other planets or have super powers, for we have all-too-mortal creatures worthy of hero worship in our firefighters.
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Why is there no such a thing as "B game" -- a game so bad it's good? Columnist Clive Thompson plays some of the worst recent videogames, and wonders why they don't produce the same enjoyment as B movies.