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Are you a conservative, pays-with-cash sort of consumer or a smartphone-wielding early adopter? As it turns out, what's in your wallet may say more about you than you think.

Nobody knows what the next 30 years will look like, but Canadian filmmaker Jim Munroe offers some disturbingly possible speculations in his upcoming mockumentary, Ghosts With Shit Jobs. Will 2040 be a time when over-educated Americans scurry after the few jobs that Chinese and Indian workers refuse to do?

As Larry Page takes the reins from CEO Eric Schmidt, the questions for investors are: Will Facebook keep gaining on Google? Or will Page steer it back to its original counter-corporate spirit, embracing risk over short-term profits? Or have the risk-takers gone soft?

While we've seen credit cards becoming part of our gadgets, like the iPhone VISA case, there's another movement underfoot to revolutionize what a credit card or debit card looks like and how you use it. The Card 2.0 is a new-concept credit card that isn't just changing the way you keep your card...

When Lewis Dvorkin founded True/Slant, his expert blogging community, his goal was nothing less than inventing a new business model for journalism. Now, Dvorkin is attempting to install that nimble but high-quality model at Forbes Media.

King Tut had a pyramid to keep his memory alive, today for the relatively low, low price of $399, immortality seekers can store one gigabyte of digital memories and a DNA sample in a nuclear bomb-proof vault in Gstaad, Switzerland. Forever. "Don't just disappear," cautions the Swiss DNA Bank's...

The impending release of the iPad and its plethora of competitors aren't just shaking up the technology industry; but also the traditional publishing industry. Consumers will soon see how the widespread availability of a slate reading device can revolutionize the way they read, interact and...

Look out Judy Jetson, Electrolux plans to make pots and pans seem so last century. Henrik Otto, world renowned director of Global Design for Electrolux in Sweden envisions smart kitchens of 2050 as a cross between the Sci-Fi channel and the Food Network. Designed to address a population the UN...

Right now you probably use your GPS to get to the mall, rather than find your way around the mall, but Kevin Foreman, CEO of Point Inside,envisions that will change in the near future. The team at Point Inside, which makes a mall navigation app for the iPhone and Android devices, is made up of...

Nobody sets out to rack up credit card debt, but once you stop paying off your balance every month it becomes easier and easier to pay less and less. Before you know it, you're paying $20 bucks over the minimum, vowing (unsuccessfully) each month to stop charging anything else to the card. All too...