Visionaries – 10.09.17

“Christine Peterson and Nanotechnology.” Christine is Co-Founder, former President, and Projects Director of Foresight Institute. She lectures and writes about nanotechnology, AI, and longevity. She is co-author of Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution(Morrow, also free online) and Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work (knOwhere Press, also free online). She advises the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Global Healthspan …

The Personal Computer Radio Show – 04.19.17

The Personal Computer Show prn.live 6 PM ET  Wednesday, April 19, 2017 IN THE NEWS o   Internet and computing pioneer Robert Taylor dies o   Support for the original version of Windows 10 ends May 9 o   Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs   FEATURE SEGMENTS o   Product Review – Acronis True Image New Generation 2017 …

Emily Schwartz Greco – A Big Fat Radioactive Lie

Not long ago, no billionaire worth his cufflinks would be caught dead without hurling bales of money at our nation’s educational system. They bankrolled charter schools, high-stakes testing, and the splintering of big high schools into smaller academies. Their failure to make American kids learn more scuffed the luster on this enduring philanthropic fad. Billionaires have landed, therefore, on a …