What You See from Here, You Don’t See From There
By Yoram Yahav

How would you feel my San Diego friend if rockets were shot from Tijuana, Mexico into your neighborhood? How would you feel Senator Joe Blow if rockets shot from Cuba would land on the roof of your children’s school next to Dupont Circle in Washington DC? And how would you feel Mr. Erdoğan of Turkey, if a Syrian kid playing in the backyard of his parents’ house, would shoot a long range missile right into Ankara?

Well, allow me to speculate on your feelings and reactions my dear virtual friends. Basically, you would be infuriated, you would want to catch those responsible for these preposterous and despicable acts… More>

Kids Continue to Amaze: Ethiopian Children Master Tablets
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

A recent article in MIT Technology Review reports on how One Laptop Per Child project, led by Nicholas Negroponte, has morphed into One Tablet Per Child – and how children in a remote Ethiopian village, with no access to schooling, have conquered tablet computers with preloaded programs in English with exceptional speed!

They even hacked the tablets and enabled disabled cameras!… More>

A Glimpse at “Deep Future”
By David Miron-Wapner

Stager’s glimpse into the Deep Future of life on earth helps us truly apprehend the enormity of modern industrialized global economy’s ability to alter the earth’s life sustaining systems.

It is sobering to know that in the name of progress and economic development we are committing grave offenses in relation to countless innocent unborn generations... More>

Designing Our 21st Century Hospitals
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

In the case of hospitals, good design can be the difference, literally, between life and death, or between controlled costs and runaway budgets.
This was the theme of an international conference on 21st century hospitals held at The Technion on October 11.  Billed as a “gripping interaction between architects, designers, medical practitioners, Academe, and decision-makers,” the conference was organized by Prof. Noemi Bitterman, who heads Technion’s industrial design program, and by the Architecture Faculty and School of Medicine… More>