Blink and you could miss 'the power of thinking without thinking'
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Malcolm Gladwell, a writer at The New Yorker, is best known for his first book, The Tipping Point, a surprise best seller about how trends spread. Blink, his second book, is a similar blend of anecdotes and academic research woven together to explain "the power of thinking without thinking."
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How to be more productive without feeling like a tool.
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People who think their instant messages disappear after being sent should think again.
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You may be confused now, but you won't be when you finish reading.
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F OR THOSE of us with average IQs, booting up a computer each morning is like switching on the car ignition: a daily act of blind faith. In both instances, a misfire throws our lives into instant turmoil and leaves us utterly dependent on expert help.
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Scientists say they have developed a non-invasive, brain-computer interface that enables a person to move a cursor across a computer screen just by thinking about it.
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An exercise paradox: a walk wakes you up, but hard training will run you down.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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If you spend time looking back, you'll miss what's coming up.
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Thought might not be dependent on language, according to new research by UK scientists.
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Stress makes you forgetful. How many people have gotten home after a blindingly stressful day and realize they&#39;ve forgotten some important event or errand?
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NEW YORK  - Older women with sleep-related breathing problems may have a heightened risk of impairments in thinking and memory, a new study suggests.
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Our brains can turn down our ability to see to help them listen even harder to music and complex sounds, say experts.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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NEW YORK  - People who see colorful "auras"  in response to people or words may simply have a brain  condition, not psychic powers, according to a new research  report.
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It doesn't take a genius to catch on to the fact that in IT, innovation is a mandate. Push the envelope of what's possible, or find yourself relegated to wayside. But, to borrow a favored David St. Hubbins Spinal Tap aphorism, there's a fine line between clever and crackpot when it comes to making good on technological breakthroughs in the enterprise.                                                      It is in that spirit that we revisit last year's level-headed look at crackpot technologies that could transform the enterprise, putting the screws to a new rack of could-be enterprise contenders. But before you write off nanotech or direct brain interfaces as the next big enterprise thing, consider this:  [ For an in-depth look at last year's crackpot tech assessments, see: 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise ]  Of the dozen technologies we examined last year, several made significant enterprise-minded strides since we first assessed their IT prospects. Desktop Web apps, for one, lent credence to the conjecture that fat productivity suites might just have a shorter future than previously thought; solid-state drives popped up everywhere, from ultramobile laptops to the datacenter; and Sun's datacenter-in-a-box proved compelling enough for Google to move first to patent it. Even quantum cryptography received a vote of confidence, with Switzerland tapping the technology to protect parliamentary election transmissions.   Sure, some of this year's out-there technologies may prove fruit for future high-profile tech flops lists, but without forward-thinking, there would be no worthwhile enterprise advancement. So raise your eyebrows or your suspicions as you deem fit, and join us in assessing the potential each of the following technologies has to earn IT's respect or derision.  ? Nanotechnology ? Optical computing ? Pervasive computing ? Wireless power ? The $100 laptop ? Direct brain interfaces ? Enterprise supercomputing ? Virtual worlds