Walter Russell Mead would substitute telecommunications for physical infrastructure much faster than the actual situation warrants ("Infostructure Is the New Infrastructure," op-ed, Oct. 16). With his ...

The intersection of cities, technology, and data dominates our world. Cities have long been the engine for global growth, and they increasingly rely on technology and data to run well. Unfortunately, ...

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Thomas Edison and a few other ...

Among advocates of big government and Keynesian countercyclical stimulus, one subject keeps coming up: infrastructure. They're always arguing the short- and long-term benefits of building new highways ...