When Technology Becomes Magic
If you are like most people in today’s busy and technologically inundated world, then you’re probably packing a small arsenal of gadgets on your person at all times. In the not so distant future, the number of technological devices you feel the need to carry around with you everywhere you go will be exponentially diminished. No, this isn’t because of a new iPhone or Android mobile device — and it’s not something Apple, Inc. has dreamed up and patented but hasn’t released yet. What I’m talking about are neural interface devices. These little...
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- Should doctors use a ‘shopping cart’ for health care services? February 22, 2012RAND Corporation’s Robert Brook makes the case for an Amazon.com-like checkout system of medicine, in the latest issue of JAMA: What if every time a practitioner used an electronic medical record system to order a procedure or test for a patient, an electronic shopping cart appeared, indicating how much that “purchase” would cost? What if at the end of the d […]
- The GOP’s big donor advantage, and small donor problem February 22, 2012Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam profile the “rarefied group of millionaires and billionaires acting as kingmakers in the GOP contest.” “I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections,” casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who is funding a pro-Gingrich super PAC, said in an interview published this week in Forbes magazine. “But as long as it’s doab […]
- Our unequal tax system, in one HTML table February 22, 2012Bruce Bartlett and Kevin Drum point to a striking table in the 2012 Economic Report of the President (pdf) showing that there’s a huge variation in what people of similar income levels actually pay in federal taxes: Read full article >> […]
