Joel E Lewis

Imagine a world where when you leave a job, instead of telling you to pack your desk, they tell you to:
… deposit your ideas at the door before passing through the brain scanner to make sure you aren’t taking any ideas with you. And don’t forget to leave any thoughts you brought with you from [...]

Interesting talk about the technology revolution’s ability to remake government, from the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party.
What really strikes me looking around the world today is that information technology has remade retail and remade media consumption, but there are still huge industries it hasn’t begun to touch – Finance, Health Care, Energy, Education, and Government. [...]

Time to start reading science fiction, because the future is here.  Now, eye surgeons are getting more requests to customize patient’s eyes based on their life or lifestyles.
Julian Stevens, of Moorfields Eye Hospital, is an expert on laser refractive surgery. He has, in the past, offered tailored treatment for members of the special forces. “They [...]

When was the last time our government went through a significant overhaul?  No, I don’t mean when was the last time the people switched but the game stayed the same.  I mean when was the last time the structure really changed?  The best examples that comes to mind would FDR’s terms (each one brought new [...]

If you haven’t heard of High Frequency Trading yet, you will soon.  It is changing the way markets work, improving liquidity and price setting, while allowing those few with access to the requisite tools to take a lion share of the profits generated.  For example:
It was July 15, and Intel, the computer chip giant, had [...]

Until very recently, writing was linear out of necessity – one page came after another.  Some books, like House of Leaves (a favorite), try to side step this limitation by throwing content at you.  The straight narration is accompanied by footnotes, and two different commentators have comments ranging from sentences to page’s long in the [...]

You can sleep better at night, because your down pillow might be part of a major energy solution.
What I really like about this possible solution is that it could kill two birds with one stone (forgive the pun): making hydrogen viable and affordable and reusing rather than disposing of chicken feathers.

What if our current economic crisis was not just caused by poorly designed financial markets, but by a lack of growth driving innovation?
what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if outside of a few high-profile areas, the past decade has seen far too few commercial innovations that can transform lives and move the economy [...]

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the focus has been on better accounting for risk, better matching employee pay with the long term value they generate, and creating new regulations to “fix” the markets.
Arguably, better matching pay with value created is ideal, but it is also difficult to measure, which is why we rewrite [...]

Witness the birth of Google, the business giant:
Veach and Kamangar argued that all the ad slots should be auctioned off. In search, Google had already used scale, power, and clever algorithms to change the way people accessed information. By turning over its sales process entirely to an auction-based system, the company could similarly upend the [...]