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  [Note to readers: I was one of a select few bloggers to be invited by General Motors to a behind the scenes opportunity at the current Chicago Auto Show to meet and interview top management.…

  In January, I spent two weeks attending the world’s largest consumer technology convention and a much smaller but very important annual television convention.  This column is to give you…

It can be argued that the three most transformative technologies of the last twenty years are the personal computer, the Internet and the cell phone.  I have written often in Evolution Shift…

Imagine a leader who wastes government money on vanity projects at the expense of higher taxes but is criticized by no one benefiting. That isn't just California government now, it was also an 1837…

Wormhole begins quickly. Hannah McElhinney’s cousin, who has travelled to Malaysia for a medical treatment, has sepsis. She’s in a coma. One page later, she’s dead. The pacing of the book’s opening…

Halloween is the most rumor-prone of holidays. If you read the folklore that passes as social media, Halloween has its own holiday character, like Santa, but he's named Secret Sadist and putting…

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, is reviled by elitists in the literature field because things he wrote, such as "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "it was a dark and stormy night…

Die Naturwissenschaften began publication in 1913. It was a German general science magazine like England had with Nature or the U.S. with Science. Now it is owned by a corporate conglomerate and goes…

Skip the glossary. Yes, it's the kind of thing editors love because of the famous communication guidance 'assume a lack of vocabulary but not a lack of intelligence' but that is when you're writing…

I want that table, I'll say that right out of the gate.You won't see the table on the cover, there is a gaming die and four cars even though only one of them ever drives to the place where all of the…