Over a decade ago, when I set out to create my future history of the world timeline, I realized I needed to figure out what drives technological advances, in order to try and predict the  future.  It didn’t take long to realize that the twin drives of sex and war spawned or accelerated much of

It’s a sign of the modern world that when Google asks you to do a Doodle you’ve truly arrived.  Such it is for classically trained, but pop culture inspired artist Takashi Murakami. Then again, you know you’re killing it when a statue of an asteroid titted anime sculpture fetches you $427,500 at Christie’s.  We should