Self-Driving Cars Could Destroy Fine-Based City Government. What's the Downside?
Increasing automation limits the ability of authorities to profit off human error.
Innovation
The U.S. Patent System is Broken: Derek Khanna on Trolling and Low-Quality Patents
Our current patent policy hurts our economy and hampers innovation.
Capitalism Spurs Medical Innovation
Efforts to remove the 'profit motive' from medicine is a self-interested move by professional meddlers.
How Stuffed Animals Got Cheaper, Softer, and Safer
Here's a true tale of why things are better than they used to be.
Amazon Gets Permission to Fiddle with Delivery Drones, Very, Very Carefully
FAA allows them to fly during the day, with pilot and observer always watching.
Could Automation Be Labor Unions' Death Knell?
Automation needn't be scary for workers, but for traditional unions, the robot future may hold a different fate.
Who Will Be Screwed Over by the FAA's New Drone Rules?
The precautionary principle strikes again.
How Central Planners Kill Innovation
It's no coincidence that most innovation happens in cities far from Washington, D.C.
Professors Resist Higher Education Innovation
Some vendors of higher education may have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to make improvements
Can We Save Nature by Making It Economically Useless?
"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.
Smartphones vs. Taxi Drivers
Regulators and entrenched interests scramble to cope with the e-hailing revolution.
How Cutting-Edge Medicine Might Have Spared Us the Ebola Epidemic
The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude
Let's Play God!
Gene drives could be a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
Dell Becomes Latest Mainstream Brand to Embrace Bitcoin
Dell is making cryptocurrencies more accessible to mainstream consumers by accepting Bitcoin on its website.
From Guns to Pastries: How 3D Printing Will Change the Way We Make Practically Everything
Just wait until artists get their hands on this technology.
Facebook Buys Crowdfunded Pioneering Virtual Game Company: Opportunity or Betrayal?
Regulations make it impossible for small backers to get a piece of the action.
