WIRED columnist Virginia Heffernan on the long, strange history of worshipping technology. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a90c71fb4bf6c3e4d40592f/master/pass/PrayTech-FINAL.jpg
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Jaron Lanier Q&A: VR Visionary and Author of ‘Dawn of the New Everything’
Lanier may not have sired the term “virtual reality,” but he’s one hell of a father figure. https://media.wired.com/photos/59fcf499f34e083b513ef9b3/master/pass/1217-WI-APLANI-01_sq.jpg Feed: All Latest
Meet The X-Ray Visionary Looking for Signs of Life on Mars
Australian astrobiologist Abigail Allwood will serve as a principal investigator on NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. https://media.wired.com/photos/59bc6a3b108a49475bc81f97/master/pass/1017-WI-APWOOD-01_sq.jpg Feed: All Latest
The Visionary Behind the TEDx of Failure
For anyone starting out in business, don’t get your hopes up. Around three-quarters of venture-backed startups never make their investors money, and “the failure rate is obviously even higher” for those who fail to reach that stage, says Harvard Business School professor Thomas Eisenmann. And yet, go to any entrepreneurship conference, business seminar or networking […]
A ‘visionary in global finance’ had 2 simple ideas, and changed investing forever
Vanguard In 1974, John C. Bogle founded Vanguard Group, which transformed investing forever with the index fund. The index fund, which passively tracks a market index, allows ordinary people to invest in the stock market at much lower fees than in traditional, actively managed funds. Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, […]
