Opinions

If Obama’s reform passes, universal coverage models will be rule among advanced economies, making it more likely that emergent economies will also embrace universal healthcare systems. However, Big Pharma raises the spectre of a drop in R&D spending due to lower prices

New forms of collaborative innovation are breaking down the barriers of physicality and making the open source philosophy also applicable to hardware inventions

It’s mothers who select news. They accompany children in their life choices and are responsible for filtering information flows and picking media sources

Fashion: the back door to high visibility. Buying ads warrants press attention and gets you on the front page

Without a Google-like search engine for amateur content, users could end up fleeing the social web

The boundaries between work and leisure fade, but choice about one’s own time is an illusion if the office takes over the household