I am instinctively drawn to the concept of prototyping new technologies and experiences by gluing together concepts from science fiction. Lots of it is obvious in retrospect: you may notice the iPad in Ender's Game. Today's smartphones were called "data pads" in 80's Star Wars novels. And so on.

Amy Webb, the founder of Webbmedia Group, and co-founder of Spark Camp (a great event in its own right), is going to join us this March to conduct an interview on stage with craigslist & craigconnects founder Craig Newmark...

As you can tell by our speaker lineup for 2015, we’re sold on the idea of firms having a “Chief Economist” on staff.Hence our aggressive courting of Redfin’s Nela Richardson to join us onstage.

We typically think what happens at Dent is pretty cool and pretty well worth the time, but it's really nice to see some other folks think so, too.

Dent speaker Craig Newmark will be joining us in Sun Valley this March to provide insights into a topic near and dear to him, the importance of trust in journalism. Craig asserts that a trustworthy press functions as the “immune system of democracy”, and while that sounds intuitively true, what evidence exists to support that case?

Those of us who Ski or Snowboard are already counting the inches as they fall (8 this past weekend in Sun Valley) and looking forward to our time on the slopes.

Amazingly it's already December. We're only a few months away from our annual gathering in Sun Valley this March 22-25, 2015, and the schedule is really starting to take shape.

A recent study found that employees who sit at their desks for more than 6 hours a day are more likely to experience moderate symptoms of anxiety and depression

NBC, spurred on by terrific ratings for last year's "Sound of Music Live!," has made a huge bet on a special effects-heavy production of "Peter Pan," which will air live tonight at 8pm Eastern.

"It's something that's always in the background that keeps everything else moving," says Sam Drabble of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), a London-based nonprofit. "It allows us to live very busy lives, and it's not something we ever need to think about."