MIT Technology Review Pakistan sits down with acclaimed entrepreneur and philanthropist Tariq Farid. Tariq Farid is an acclaimed Pakistani-American entrepreneur who is Founder and CEO of Edible Arrangements International—the pioneer and worldwide leader in high quality, artistically designed fresh fruit arrangements. Started …Continue reading
Change is the only Constant
The Inventor of world’s first IBM PC virus, chairman and founder of Brain Telecommunication Limited and owner of Brain Computers, Amjad Farooq Alvi spoke with Jawad Ali, MIT Technology Review Pakistan’s chief correspondent and research editor on cybersecurity landscape, why he built …Continue reading
Our Varsities Have Turned into Junk Factories
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumnus and preeminent physicist, Dr. Hoodbhoy is currently Zohra and Z.Z. Ahmad Distinguished Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Forman Christian College, Lahore. Earlier, he taught at the Quaid-i-Azam University for 40 years. He graduated from …Continue reading
Investing in SMART IDEAS
Naeem Zamindar is the country director of Acumen, a nonprofit. He is actively involved in the development of entrepreneurship as the current president of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in Lahore and is on the advisory council of the IBA School of Entrepreneurship, …Continue reading
Can Pakistan solve its energy crisis?
How did you become an expert on energy policy for the government? Well, I was the federal minister for Water and Power in the caretaker setup. After that stint, the elected government asked me to give a debriefing on the power sector …Continue reading
Aquion Founder Jay Whitacre on the “Miracle Technology” in Batteries
The award-winning battery pioneer talks about the future of energy storage and the path to scaling low-cost, nontoxic batteries. Jay Whitacre, a professor of materials science and engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and the founder of Aquion Energy, is the winner of …Continue reading
Technology Stalled in 1970
Peter Thiel has been behind some prominent technologies: he cofounded PayPal and was an early investor in such companies as Facebook and LinkedIn. But he’s convinced that technological progress has been stagnant for decades. According to Thiel, developments in computers and the …Continue reading
Steven Chu
As a leading and active scientist, Steven Chu broke the mold when he became energy secretary of the United States in 2009. In his four years of service, he made the Department of Energy more innovative, launching the Advanced Research Projects Agency …Continue reading
A Feminist Critique of Silicon Valley
Shanley Kane is cofounder and editor of the most interesting and original of new publications that cover technology: Model View Culture, a quarterly journal and media site that offers readers a remorseless feminist critique of Silicon Valley. The critical distance expressed by …Continue reading
Putting Technology in Its Place
Kentaro Toyama calls himself “a recovering technoholic”—someone who once was “addicted to a technological way of solving problems.” Five years in India changed him. After getting his PhD in computer science and working on machine vision technologies at Microsoft, Toyama moved to …Continue reading