Jon Van

Many people talk about "thinking outside the box," but the folks at the World Future Society actually live there. Their futuristic thinking will come to Chicago, by the truckload, in...

The possibility of dialing 911 and failing to get help scares people so much that federal regulators mandated that Internet-based phones solve problems connecting through 911 by fall. Yet a...

Robots are a manufacturing mainstay, and they are great for exploring inhospitable places like Mars. But their role in health care is less celebrated. So it was refreshing this week...

Even when people go someplace to get away from it all, they like to take most of it with them these days. At least that's the implication of the latest...

Information technology chiefs across corporate America are circling the wagons over leakage of personal information related to employees and customers. "Businesses are feeling squeezed," said Steven Adler, a data governance...

A coalition of consumer advocates said Thursday that the pending megamergers of the nation's largest phone carriers should be blocked. Most industry observers expect that the acquisitions of AT&T Corp....

At the height of the dot-com bubble, Chicago-based Universal Access Inc. was worth about $6 billion. It filed for bankruptcy last year and last month agreed to be purchased for...

Jay Stern sells stuff he hopes his customers will never use--antidotes intended to help protect people exposed to dirty bomb radiation against cancer and other pathology. Stern is sales vice...

Applying magnets and electrical fields to cure a patient's maladies has a long history--much of it bordering on quackery--but the latest development has encouraged some researchers. A small study published...

Enthusiasm for nanotechnology is no small thing, especially in Illinois. Earlier this month local dignitaries broke ground at Argonne National Laboratory for a $72 million nanotech center where scientists can...