The more you look at patterns of technological progress in the postwar era, the clearer it becomes that America's military has provided much of the seed-corn to grow today's technologically advanced economy.
Automatic spending cuts take their toll on research grants and R&D funding, which some say ‘will unquestionably have a dramatic effect on innovation and the economy.’...More
Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Marc Andreessen of the United States will share the first-ever prize with Louis Pouzin of France and Tim Berners-Lee of Britain....More
The president is proposing to take some of the oil and gas revenues from public lands and put it toward research on energy-efficient engines, developing cheaper batteries and advancing biofuels and natural gas....More
With U.S. unemployment at or above 7.8% since his first inauguration speech, President Barack Obama has spent a great deal of time touting manufacturing as a key to new job creation....More
The bill will support the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation -- a $1 billion concept President Barack Obama introduced in March 2012....More
Dialogue introducing new forecasting study on what the economy might look like in 2025 with a manufacturing resurgence. Video from the Aspen Institute....More
Manufacturing makes America strong. It makes families and communities strong. It provides national security. It gives us energy security. And for the 12 million men and women who work in manufacturing, it gives us pride....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers.com demonstrates how Big Data is transforming the business and industrial worlds and enabling new technologies and new breakthroughs that will help manufacturers work more efficiently than ever before....More
Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates the inner workings of additive manufacturing machines and provides some real-life examples of how 3-D printing technology could dramatically change the manufacturing and retail industries as we know them today....More
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab break down the engineering and design challenges they faced during the Curiosity rover's complicated landing near the Martian equator on Aug. 5, 2012....More
