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The Twisted Future of Optical Signal Modulation

A new optical modulation scheme that twists light into different states of orbital angular momentum could change fiber optics and wireless point-to-point data transmission.

Who cares that we no longer have privacy?

Your inalienable right to privacy has been alienated; does losing this right threaten civilization?

Self-driving cars will save money and lives as they destroy jobs

Self-driving cars will save us money, time, and prevent death and injuries, but at what cost?

The speed of thought

The three timescales of thought dictate the time it takes to hit the brakes or to run from a tiger, but it takes longer to have an idea and much longer to learn how to do things quickly.

Improve your answer resolution and unleash innovation

Answer resolution combines the intense focus needed to find nuance in the very similar with the intense defocus needed to find relationships among the very dissimilar.

Happy anniversary, EDN: you���re old

Report from 2076: Things have changed in 60 years.

Happy anniversary, EDN: you’re old

Report from 2076: Things have changed in 60 years.

Transmitter FFE makes the channel do the work

Transmitter FFE tricks the channel into doing its own equalizing.

Reduce your prejudice to innovation

The biggest obstacle to innovation is our own internal prejudice systems and the "not invented here" mentality. Fortunately, we can get around them.

You can't think out of a box built of TLAs

Success in the 21st century is built on innovation but every industry builds TLA walls that stifle creativity.