Ultrasound technology through the eyes of a search engine.

A simple Google search for ultrasound retrieves a plethora of information. Not surprisingly, the top results reveal the uses for ultrasound in the detection of pregnancy and for use by veterinarians (please see www.vetimagesolutions.co.uk for more information). However, this...

Ultrasonography - what does the future hold?

Rapid progressions in our understanding of disease and pregnancy, alongside technological advances, have resulted in an abundance of uses for ultrasound imaging. The choice of ultrasound equipment available to the practitioner also ensures the needs of the patient will be...

Woman Shaping Africa's Tech Revolution

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/24/world/marieme-jamme-africa-technology/index.html?iref=obinsite (CNN) -- Senegalese-born Marieme Jamme is at the forefront of the technology revolution that is slowly transforming Africa. As chief executive of Spot One...

Al Gore and "Corporate Fascism"

During the 2000 election many on the Left claimed that there was no difference between Al Gore and George Bush and that both were "corporate fascists." History has shown how wrong that stance was.Al Gore has spent the bulk of his political career pushing an issue that impugns...

The future is brighter than you think

By Peter Diamandis, Special to CNN (CNN) -- I've been talking to corporate groups a lot lately about the idea that the future is going to be better than many of us think -- that we will live in a world of abundance made possible by new technology. Repeatedly,...

The Demise of Empathy at Home and in the Family

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Empathy is on a precipitous decline in the family and home environments. Technology is partly to blame, but so are other social and economic trends. On June 9, 2005 the BBC reported about an unusual...

What Business Owes to Science

For a long time, there was a strong movement militating against business. There is some of that now; but there is a much larger movement militating against science, and it includes many people who have business affiliations. It is time that this movement be met...

IQCRACY: A Recipe for the Survival of Our Species

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The survival of the species depends on the establishment of an IQcracy, a Platonian Republic of the Intellect. At the top, serving as leaders and decision-makers, would be people with 150 IQ and higher. ...

Maximizing Benefit On All Sides

The process of achieving optimal solutions in presence of two sides clashing does not come from compromise but rather from supporting what each side is right about while eliminating what it is wrong about. In most cases, the motive for each side is legitimate, and it is right...

Decadence: Myth and Reality

The concept of decadence continues being used in political discourse, especially by some on the Right. It is time that there be an intelligent refutation to these claims. The word "decadence" is referred most commonly to the Roman Empire in its last stages. "Decadence" -...

Economic Growth and Environmental Sanity

There are many people who believe economic growth and environmental sanity to be interests opposite of one another. That does not have to be the case. The environmental problems of today are not a result of economic growth or of technology. They are a result of wrong...

How Modern is Help Desk?

Have we really mastered the art of technology? The Medieval Help Desk video may suggest otherwise. Centuries ago the book was a form of technology that revolutionized the spread of information. Before the book became the source for information transformation though, people...