All nations evolve their infrastructure along with their peoples’ knowledge and technologies. From our distant past as small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers, we learned the use of fire to smelt iron ...

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 ...

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 ...

With America’s infrastructure and IT infostructure in dire straits, and little if any federal government momentum to move money into critical investment, Top 20 Under 40 team members were clear that ...

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 ...