Will you survive a nuclear attack?

But I've got news for you jet-setting city-slickers looking down on us from the first class cabins of your coast-to-coast red-eyes. Once the nukes start dropping on metropolis, you just might find yourself knocking on the doors of us milquetoast Midwesterners. How come? Why not take gander at Google Maps-inspired website, Would I Survive A Nuke, and see how you and your fellow metropolitans will fair perhaps a 50 megaton Tsar Bomba detonates downtown.


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How amnesia works

Imagine waking up in your bedroom with no idea of where you are. Something feels familiar about the cotton sheets, the pictures on the wall, the sheer curtains, but you can't place it. Minutes later, you feel that same sensation of waking up, but this time you're standing at your dresser, wearing a T-shirt and jeans with no recollection of ever having been in bed. It's as though your consciousness lacks a past and a future, like a stop-motion film in which every previous frame is destroyed.

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What does the future mean to you?

The future means different things to different people, and that affects both individual priorities and corporate strategic decisions, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says in this Big Think video. For a contract worker, the future can be measured in weeks; other workers may think in terms of how far they are from bonus season; and owners and investors may take a much longer-term view of the future. "That's feedback back to you of how their systems work. I'm not saying it's bad; I'm saying it helps you understand," Schmidt says.

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What the next 40 years of tech...[comment]

Mashable surveyed readers what the next 40 years of technology might look like. Over 100 submitted their thoughts and insights, but one stood up the best insight, the great thoughts of Kyle Dziekan

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