RealAudio – Many think that young gamers are rotting their minds or wasting their time. Not so, says John Beck, senior research fellow at the Annenberg Center of the Digital Future. The gamer generation, he …

RealAudio – Da Vinci’s unbounded curiosity resulted in more than 20,000 pages of inventions and discoveries that today shock us for their foresight. He created a bicycle, a flying machine, and a “car,” centuries before …

RealAudio – Moira Gunn speaks with trend analyst Michael Tchong. Where and what are the hottest trends? From clothes to electronics, from lifestyle to entertainment, what’s happening now and what will happen next? [TechNation]

RealAudio – Moira Gunn speaks with Linda Bernardi, the CEO of ConnecTerra, about the future of R-F-I-D. It seems those tiny tags may change just about everything. [TechNation]

RealAudio – Moira Gunn speaks with Marco Iansiti, a professor at Harvard Business School. They’ll talk about the “ecosystem — in which all businesses — large and small” live. [TechNation]

RealAudio – Prize Pulitzer winning author Jared Diamond joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new book Collapse, in which he shows how societies historically have squandered or savored their natural and human resources and …

RealAudio – Is it possible to predict the future? Maybe not, but a growing number of people are trying. Call them trendspotters, futurists, trendtrackers; they all are trying to give themselves and their clients a …

RealAudio – Dr. Stephen Hawking speaks at the University of California Santa Barbara. [Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics]

RealAudio – What is the Higgs Boson? Why is it so important to scientists and how are they planning to find it? [In Our Time]

RealAudio – For centuries, human progress was marked by domination of the natural world, mining, and extracting and leaving piles of waste behind. The new scientific approach called biomimicry wants to stop the fight with …

RealAudio – T.R. Reid, one of America’s best-known foreign news correspondents, traces the rise of the European Union into an economic, political, and cultural powerhouse poised to rival the United States. [The Diane Rehm …

RealAudio – One day, journalist Carl Honore realized that his life was far too hectic. He rushed through airports, he was grumpy all the time, and he even rushed his son’s bed-time stories. When he …

RealAudio – World-renowned biologist Richard Dawkins joins Larry Mantle to discuss his most comprehensive book on evolution yet. The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Houghton Mifflin), based loosely on the …

RealAudio – Scientists at the State University of New York and the New York State Department of Health have created an electrode cap that monitors electricity from brain waves. The cap creates a link between …

RealAudio – Man has nearly depleted the energy source we once thought inexhaustible, according to California Institute of Technology Vice Provost and Professor of Physics David Goodstein in his new book Out of Gas: The …

MP3 – Dr. J. talks with Douglas Rushkoff, author of Open Source Democracy, published by the UK thinktank Demos. Rushkoff is the author of nine books, including Cyberia and Playing the Future. [Changesurfer Radio]

RealAudio – 95-year-old Peter Drucker is one of the world’s most respected thinkers. For six decades, he’s helped shape many of today’s great corporations and made the study of management theory a respected discipline. …

MP3 – Physicist and author Fritjof Capra explains sustainable design, systems thinking, complexity theory, and the notion of emergence, in the social context. Fritjof sees eco-literacy as the key to our future, a subject he …

RealAudio – Imported from the USA about 5 years ago, life coaching prides itself on helping people decide what is really important in their lives. Once they’ve realised what their true priorities are it tries …

MP3 – Dr. J. talks with former rock promoter and respected scientific Renaissance man Howard Bloom about his book Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. …

RealAudio – The author of ENIAC talks about the triumphs and tragedies of the world’s first digital, electronic computer and the two men who built it. [AnnOnline]

RealAudio – George Dyson argues that life, having first developed through biological evolution, is currently emerging once more, this time through the spontaneous evolution of intelligence within our rapidly expanding information networks. [AnnOnline]

RealAudio – James Yorke coined the phrase “Chaos Theory.” He’s this year’s [2003] winner of the prestigious Japan Prize for his contribution to science. He’s with us this hour, bringing order finally, to our chaos. …

RealAudio – John Keefe and Samantha Beres explore the new world of self-evolving computer organisms. They also show how a bunch of independent computer programs, or even little robots, can develop community behavior. Like ants …

RealAudio – After graduating from the MIT — the country’s beacon of high technology and advanced scientific research — Eric Brende, and his wife Mary, decided the complexities of a high-tech, modern life were not …