Vivek Wadhwa

Just as the U.S. spends hundreds of billions on warships and planes, it should invest in an information warfare machine focused on continually preempting disinformation.

To terrorists, autonomous drones open an entire new field of possibilities. Imagine attacks on 100 locations in a single day.

The pandemic has almost shut down entire industries, forcing companies to adapt -- and doing incredible things for a pivot to innovation.

You don't always need to innovate. You can first copy. If need be, you can then buy the innovator. (But never steal the intellectual property.)

If these companies were cars, Facebook would be the one without safety belts — and WhatsApp the one without brakes.

With China’s innovation centers nipping at the Valley’s heels, it is time to dispel some of Silicon Valley’s myths.

The Walmart acquisition of Flipkart may convince Indians that the best opportunities are not in Silicon Valley but at home. Then look out.

Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart demonstrates Indian e-commerce’s coming of age -- and argues for protectionism.

As Steve Jobs said, “Picasso had a saying, ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’" Innovators need to be like Picasso.

Social media has led to less human interaction, not more. It has suppressed human development, not stimulated it. We have regressed.

Autonomous cars need to be relegated to special tracks and highways for at least two more years, until they can deal with pedestrians.

While AI systems can now learn a game and beat champions within hours, generating lots of hype, they are hard to apply to business applications.

A lot of good will come from quantum computing, including better weather forecasting, but it could also open up a Pandora’s box for security.

As progress in the field accelerates at an exponential rate, 2018 should see an avalanche of breakthroughs toward “quantum supremacy.”

Short-sighted immigration policies in the U.S. are driving talented engineers and entrepreneurs back home to China and India.

China is right, and America doesn’t realize how much things have changed and how rapidly it is losing its competitive edge.

The world is surely moving from text to voice as the primary interface on the internet -- with profound implications for how and what we buy.

The Vicarious breakthrough and AlphaGo Zero success are encouraging scientists to think about AIs in bolder ways.

Silicon Valley got a free pass on ethics when computers were for nerds and hobbyists. Now, technology is the underpinning of economic growth.

As grocers just saw, the incursion by Amazon is the new nature of disruption: Disruptive competition comes out of nowhere.

We have seen the increasing anger of the electorate from both the right and the left in the U.S. elections -- and now in Europe, too.

With Google and Wikipedia, we can be experts on any topic; they don’t make us any dumber than encyclopedias, phone books and librarians did.

We welcome a better future, but we worry about the loss of control, of pieces of our identity and most importantly of freedom.

The right solution isn’t for the U.S. government to set minimum wages or pick winners; it is to let the free markets do their magic.

This should be the most innovative decade in history, and must be if we’re going to avoid a Mad Max dystopia in favor of a Star Trek future.

Among many other things, the U.S. could follow India's lead in doing away with currency and moving toward a digital economy.

We need to focus on building a world in which we worry more about sharing prosperity than about fighting over what little we have.

The U.S. can close the doors and watch competitiveness fall-- or welcome the world's best to boost innovation and create jobs.

Manufacturers must be held to strict standards -- but also must be protected from litigation that would kill innovation.

Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from some Muslim countries sent shock waves through the tech industry.

Long ago, our home appliances became electrified. Soon, they will be “cognified” because of the spread of bots and the AI inside.

The driverless car is just the beginning. Imagine the Hyperloop taking you to your office hundreds of miles away in less than an hour.

We are already seeing ways in which computing, sensors, artificial intelligence and genomics are reshaping entire industries.

Of 191 "unicorns" worldwide, 42 are in China and eight in India. There were almost no blockbuster technology start-ups in Asia a decade ago.

The distant future is no longer distant. The future is happening faster and faster, and it is happening everywhere at once.

Despite the crash and considerable trepidation, the author soon found himself trusting his Tesla to drive while he attended to email.

In the fields in which it is trained, AI exceeds the capabilities of humans. It has advanced more in three years than in the past three decades.

Silicon Valley often thinks it can live by a different set of rules than corporate America because it is innovating. Wrong.

Yes, more than ever. But many in Silicon Valley are arguing otherwise -- and I fear that I am losing the debate.

The powerhouses of Silicon Valley demonstrate that business models now trump products—and platforms trump business models.

Innovation now follows a clear path, in insurance and elsewhere. Apple is showing the perils of not following that path.

It is time to start a nationwide dialogue on how we can distribute the new prosperity that we are creating with advancing technologies.

The Swasthya Slate, costing just $600 and no bigger than a cake tin, performs 33 common medical tests and can be operated with minimal training.

Apple's dispute with the FBI about opening an iPhone is just the start of a series of unanswerable questions on ethics and technology.

Superbosses create master–apprentice relationships. They customize coaching to what each protégé needs and are constant fonts of wisdom.

While technologies are always advancing, 2016 will be a defining year for several, including artificial intelligence, robotics and virtual reality.