I like forward looking websites.  Probably the best, most well known one is called Ted.  I highly recommend browsing through it’s presentations.  Very educated people giving (usually) very good presentations that are fact/data based – they tend to take a less ideologically based view than most sources.

However, research sites are interesting too.  Here’s one about ten interesting projects that Microsoft research is working on.  http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120108-10-microsoft-research-projects.html