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John Seely Brown argues that foregrounding the Humanities is our only hope of sustaining innovation in the United States.
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Lean thinking was a concept that originated in the Japanese car industry in the 1970s but can be applied to the challenges of sustainability and conserving natural resources
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One of the inventions that may be realized by advances in nanotechnology is the creation of a Von Neumann probe, which is essentially a virus, a self-replicating probe that can […]
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Most businesses understand that social media is important, but not necessarily how to use it in their own best interests.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, which traits are most adaptive to a historical moment in which old certainties have vanished and anything is possible? According to Seely Brown, they include bravery, […]
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A panel on technology and sheer courage disrupting autism at the 2012 Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA.
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In John Maeda’s experience as an artist–turned–President of the Rhode Island School of Design, the ideal leader falls somewhere in between Lao Tzu and Father Knows Best.
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Mindfulness therapy is an emerging, non-pharmacological therapy that involves exercising the human brain to improve learning, memory problems, anxiety and problems with depression.
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The ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge.
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Julia Galef provides a fix for the “the commitment effect,” the condition of sticking with a business plan or a career or a relationship “long after it has become quite […]
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It’s very complex as to whether or not we really want to catch a liar. We think we do. What if we find out that both of our presidential candidates […]
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Steve Carlotti, CEO of The Cambridge Group, says Apple’s success is due to the company’s ability to uncover latent demand.
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We may not yet possess those cool transparent computers they have on CSI, but we live in a science fiction fantasy world of seamless information exchange, one in which even […]
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English is the dominant inter-language of the world and it is used and spoken by vastly more people than those who have it as their first or family language. How long will this last?
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Does your theory about what may have happened in a situation in some way determine the kind of evidence that you look for and the kind of evidence that you […]
Guy Kawasaki reflects on how he got his foot in the door at Macintosh because of who he knew, not because of his skill set. Nonetheless, this led to a […]
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Michio Kaku says this brain-to-brain communication would involve not just the exchange of information, but also the transmission of emotions and feelings, “because these are also part of the fabric […]