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At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, scientific and business leaders of the quantum computing industry hailed "spectacular" ...

BlackSky Technology Inc. has shown some significant progress since my last article 10 months ago, warranting a fresh evaluation of its investment potential. The company continues to narrow its ...

In the new book "Power and Progress: Our 1,000 Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity," Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson look at how technology has too often benefited the elite few and not the ...

Does technology advance higher education? This question seems ridiculous to those of us who work in educational technology and online learning. Of course, technology pushes higher education forward.

We asked activists, entrepreneurs, historians, and economists how they define this deceptively simple term. What do we mean when we talk about progress? In general terms, to make progress means to ...

I firmly believe in the transformative power of education. It’s not just a way to impart knowledge, but also a means to solve the world’s most pressing issues. The recent shift towards online learning ...

Congress is in dire need of improving science and technical expertise as a legislative resource. Thankfully, there is a straightforward solution: reinstating the Office of Technology Assessment. The ...

Those eight words sum up a lot of the conversation going on in society at the moment. Some serious head-scratching about the whole relationship between “technology” and “progress” seems like a good ...

One of the more promising healthcare AI advancements is the development of remote patient monitoring tools such as symptom checkers, symptom assessments and digital self-triage. These tools not only ...

David Brazier is Administrative Management Officer in the Office of the Director of Information and Communications Technology Division of the Department of Field Support (DFS) at the United Nations in ...