Essays
Sensors: Accelerating The Pace of Scientific Discovery. Edge Question 2016
The Future of Work: We Have Been Here Before.
Pacific Standard Aug 2016 – PDF Version
What Will Be The Place Of Humans In A World Occupied By An Exponentially Growing Population of Autonomous Machines.
Edge Question 2015
Google Glass signals a wearables revolution.
CNN – April, 2014
Why it’s bad for Facebook fo gobble up Oculus.
CNN – March 2014
The Illusion of Scientific Progress.
Edge Question 2014
The Coming fight Between Engineers and Druids.
Edge Question 2013
Facebook’s wounds are self-inflicted.
CNN – Aug 2012
Looking Back from 2100: The Wonders We Didn’t Expect.
The Futurist 2012
How to Save the Global Economy.
Foreign Policy – Jan/Feb 2012
Plate Tectonics and the Beautiful Theory of Continental Drift.
Edge Question 2012
Can Yahoo be Rescued? Lessons from Apple.
New York Times – November 2, 2011 — PDF Version
Summer of discontent 2012 will shape our decade to come.
San Francisco Chronicle – October 16, 2011 — PDF Version
A Game for Elites, Not Day Traders.
New York Times – October 11, 2010 — PDF Version
Do you live in a “gayborhood”?
San Francisco Chronicle – July 15, 2011 — PDF Version
Americans should talk about politics more.
San Francisco Chronicle – August 7, 2011 — PDF Version
Time Span of Discretion.
Edge Question 2011
New era, new god.
The Economist – November 22, 2010 — PDF Version
Service sharing essential in era of deep deficits.
San Francisco Chronicle – November 7, 2010 — PDF Version
Secrets of Google’s Robo-Car.
Daily Beast – October 11, 2010
The Bay Area needs to act like a city-state.
San Francisco Chronicle – July 11, 2010 — PDF Version
A Third Kind of Knowledge.
Edge Question 2010
A Looming American Diaspora.
Harvard Business Review – February 2009
Get ready for a new economic era.
McKinsey&Company What Matters – February 26, 2009
The Discovery of Non-Human Intelligence Will Cure Humankind’s Existential Loneliness
Edge Question 2009
The mouse turns 40.
VentureBeat – December 5, 2008
Will the Treasury ‘Outsource’ the Bailout to Wall Street?
ABCNews.com – September 30, 2008
Beware of PedTEXTrians!
ABCNews.com – September 19, 2008
Obama’s ‘Cybergenic’ Edge.
ABCNews.com – June 2008
High-Tech Quake May Shake More Than Silicon Valley.
ABCNews.com – April 2008
The best forecasters will be computers.
Edge Question 2008
Move Over, the Robot’s Driving.
ABCNews.com – November 2007
Foreward to E.B. White: Notes on Our Times
Levenger Press – 2007
Iron on Troubled Waters: The real climate debate Lies ahead. ABCNews.com – September 2007
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting.
Harvard Business Review – July/August 2007
Time for a Sea Change.
FP Foreign Policy Magazine – May/June 2007
Capitalism’s Diverging Future.
January 2007
Revolution in a bowl: Ramen Inventor Fueled Valley Innovators.
San Jose Mercury News – January 14, 2007
Humankind Is Particularly Good At Muddling.
Edge Question 2007
Farewell Information, it’s a Media Age.
December 2005
The Ghost Dance Half the World is rushing toward the future and the other toward the past. Both have weapons.
California Monthly – September 2005
GBN Book Club: Dormouse, Radical Evolution, and The Glass Bead Game. GBN Book Club – May 2005
Untangling the Future.
Business2.0 – June 2002
Failure is the Best Medicine.
Newsweek – March 2002 — PDF Version
Man Bytes Dogma (Looking Back on the Internet Revolution). 2000
The Real Y2K Bug: Forget Your Computer—Worry About the Wacko Down the Street. 1999
Disinteremediation: Longer, Not Shorter Value Chains Are Coming. 1998
Lifeform Generation. 1998
Remembering Brendan Gill. 1998
Sensors: The Next Wave of Infotech Innovation. 1997 — PDF Version
Are You Machine Wise?. 1997
The Future is Now. 1997
It’s the Context, Stupid. 1994 — PDF Version
The Place of Originality in the Information Age. 1994 — PDF Version
Will Magazines Go The Way Of The Horse? 1993
Cyberpunks Anticipate a New Digital Counterculture. 1993 — PDF Version
Hot New Medium: Text. 1993 — PDF Version
The Future of Travel. 1993 — PDF Version
The Manager as Mystic. 1993 — PDF Version
The 76-Year Century. 1992 — PDF Version
Anxiously Waiting for the Millennium. 1992 — PDF Version
Consumers and Interactive New Media: A Hierarchy of Desires. 1992 — PDF Version
Are EMFs a Risk? Sweden Thinks So. – 1992
Electronic Piñata. 1992
Solitude—Scarce Resource of the 1990s. 1992
Farewell, PC—What’s Next? 1991 — PDF Version
Variable Prices: An Idea That Flies. 1991
Welcome to a World of Global Villages. 1990
Why the Next Computer Is Like the DeLorean Automobile. 1990
Consensual Realities in Cyberspace. – 1989
Information Surfing. 1989 — PDF Version
Information Surfing and Information Shocks. – 1989
Electronic Books. 1988
The Death of Design. 1986
Photo Essays
Fighting Fire with Fire. San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine – September 2001
Alang: The Realm of Lost Ships. Wired – February 2000 — PDF Version