Small business meets big business in the world of product development, patenting, manufacturing, and retailing. Black and White interviews Mike Marks, inventor and co-founder of WorkTools.

Robert Brandegee, co-founder of marketing and communications firm Brandegee Inc., outlines how his firm was effective and how his organizational process worked for clients. Now retired from business, he is a furniture designer, artist, and art collector.

Alan Kay is behind some of the most significant technology designs altering the Personal Computer Industry for the past 30 years. Kay— who has worked with Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, MIT Media Research Lab, and Hewlett Packard— is now running Viewpoints Research Institute. His latest involvement in the design of the OLPC XO machine is an indication of his vision for the future direction of the computer industry. He is out to change the landscape of the computer industry he helped create by introducing concepts and ideas that will affect the everyday lives of millions.

Dr. Irving Wender, Distinguished University Research Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, speaks with Black and White. The discussion touches on Wender’s focus on extending our energy resources, his work and patents, his involvement with The Manhattan Project developing the first nuclear bomb, and his views of the existing nuclear climate of several countries.

Several months ago, mentions by the media of the term Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) were few and far between. SWF commonly was thought of as an acronym for Single White Female, but a new common reference to SWF may be on the horizon. Currently, SWFs with estimated values of two to three trillion U.S. dollars […]