Commentary

On a pleasant June day in Fitchburg, Secretary of Commerce Cory Nettles talked about a “diverse portfolio” approach to economic development. His logic? Invest in Wisconsin’s economy as you would your personal investments: some moderate but time tested winners, some intermediate growers,...

It's no news that broadband access is on the rise in U.S. homes, and among the highly connected set, at least, the arrival of broadband is followed rather quickly by the installation of wireless home networking. In fact, I would...

Nanotechnology will impact life events. Our approach to medicine and healing will shift radically once these new techniques become mainstream. Manufacturing will shift radically. The applications of these new and highly complex technologies are estimated to have an impact in excess of one trillion dollars...

A few weeks ago, I wrote that the proliferation of mobile phones, PDAs, BlackBerry devices, and the like was blurring the line between consumer and enterprise purchase and application of technology. After all, very few people have a mobile phone...

MADISON – The only thing standing between Wisconsin and a blackout as widespread as last week’s Northeast power outage is our still-sluggish economy. If more people were working and businesses were operating near peak capacity, as they were in the late 1990s, Wisconsin’s overtaxed transmission...

It took thirteen years for the federally funded Human Genome Project to fully identify all 30,000 genes in human DNA. Now comes the challenge of analyzing and making sense of all the data that was generated from the lengthy study....

Congratulations, Knucklehead! You did it; you brought Bill Gates to his tender knees. Oh, yes, you could hear the cries ringing throughout the Microsoft campus. 'Curses, you worm writer, you!"...