We know about Archaeopteryx lithographica thanks to an image-making process found in the Earth's crust.

This third installment of a serial review of Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants encounters technology as a force with a sense of purpose and a plan. What that plan consists in we don't know�and it seems that technology isn't telling.

If you've followed Gearfuse for awhile, no doubt you've noticed changes in the last few weeks. We're expanding on the coverage of gadgets and inventions that Gearfuse has long featured, dialing up our filters to gather a broad spectrum of amazement across science, technology, and culture. We're asking big questions (sometimes too big!), overturning our assumptions about discovery and innovation, setting our clocks to awaken us to technology's past as well as its future. The first change happened early in November, when I joined Gearfuse as editor and lead writer.

We've met the shadow biosphere, and it is us.

Flying towards the future, eyes fixed on the past.

The history of the attention span is very distracting.

Coffee isn't only a stimulant, but also a social glue and fuel for creative lives. A proposed mobile app would allow caffeinated bloggers, writers, artists, and designers to share their coffeehouse-generated work in real-time.

To Kelly, the advance guard of the technium is to be found among the quadrillions of computer chips networked into vast electronic systems. But It may be difficult to discern whether the desires driving that process belong to technology, or are our own.

The Tokyo-based Shimizu Corporation is one of the world's leading construction and engineering contractors. It's also a prolific producer of corporate science fiction: fanciful, high-concept design projects that offer glimpses of astonishing futures. Its "Luna Ring" envisions such a future for the moon�and for Shimizu.

After seeing the alleged smartphone time traveler in a documentary featured on the DVD of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Circus,” I became intrigued with the concept of time travelers popping up in Chaplin films. In fact, I’ve been seeking them out. You can imagine my surprise when I was watching the 1936 Chaplin film ‘Modern Times’ and came across this eerie ...