As our interfaces get continually smarter, how do we keep them from dehumanizing us? Should we be concerned that U.S. youth have had forty years of declining math, science, and analytical reading skills? A debate from the Accelerating Change 2004 conference. [ Listen ]

What can we learn from the adult industry?

A cyberspace pioneer, Andrew is one of the first "netrepreneurs," founding more than 25 online advertising and software companies including W3, Inc., which was the first company to develop commercial software for membership management, and Adknowledge, which developed centralized web-based advertising. [ Listen ]

On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Andy Hertzfeld, the programmer of the Mac Toolbox, and author of "Revolution in the Valley: The Making of the Mac."

And in this week's BioTech Nation segment, Moira speaks with Dr. Patricia Oseweijer, who discusses the difference between genetically modified foods and the technique of genomics.

The software industry is shifting from large-scale, prescriptive processes that mandate rigorous procedures and policies to lighter, more agile methodologies. Are these agile processes appropriate for your organization? If so, which should you consider adopting? What challenges can you expect and how can you overcome them? Another in our special presentations from the SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series. [ Listen ]

His goal is no less than "universal access to all knowledge." It's possible, but will we do it? The 26 million books in the Library of Congress? In Word format, that's only about 26 terrabytes, small enough to fit on a single bookshelf. The entire collection could be scanned for only $260 million. Music? Only 2-3 million discs have ever been sold. Movies? Only 100,000-200,000. The question is, "What are we allowed to scan?" [ Listen ]

For many top composers and sound designers, the Macintosh is the tool of choice for videogame music and audio production. Clint Bajakian, recipient of the 2003 Game Audio Network Guild awards for Best Interactive Score and Music, walks you through his production process and demonstrates the possibilities of interactive audio. Clint also lays out his vision for the next-generation software tools that could make the Mac an even better platform for audio production. [ Listen ]

Sean Bonner wrote, "[JotSpot] is a cool wiki-ish app that does the standard wiki stuff but also allows you to e-mail pages around and rank users (giving them specific access based on that). Additionally it lets you use forms and include structured info on the page. One thing that looks really cool is the ability to integrate RSS feeds and Google searches and all kinds of feeds like that." [ Listen ]

The benefits of Agile are many, the implementation is easy, and the problems are daunting.

In this presentation entitled, You Thought it was Easy: Wrestling Gold from Today's Software Projects, Ken Schwaber, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium & Chairman of the Agile Alliance, discusses the obstacles to wresting that gold.
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Halley Suitt interviews Dan Gillmor, the nationally known columnist for The San Jose Mercury News who recently left the paper to pursue a new venture in citizen journalism. Dan is the author of the book We The Media: Grassroots Journalism By The People, For The People, which was published in 2004 by O'Reilly. His new venture, Grassroots Media, has everyone talking and visiting his new blog, where he's got a great discussion going on about blogging and journalism. [ Listen ]

After Mark Cuban made a billion or so selling his company to Yahoo! during the height of the Web 1.0 craze, he decided to buy a basketball team. Fortunately, he bought the Mavericks, a team whose name suits his style: brash, out there, and unconventional. Now he's back in the media business with HDNet. Cuban is a stitch onstage, a straight-talking no-punches-pulled Wildman with irreverent. [ Listen ]