Dominic Basulto

Dominic Basulto

Digital Thinker, Electric Artists

Dominic Basulto is a digital thinker at Electric Artists in New York and a contributor to The Washington Post's Ideas@Innovations blog. He is working on a manuscript of a new book on innovation called "Endless Innovation, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful."

 

 

What does it mean for our digital future when the Internet has become a giant game where the goal is to acquire as many fans and followers as quickly as possible, across as many social platforms as possible? 
The current retirement system assumes that people must diligently save and invest in order to buy things in the future. But what if people were free to share, barter and swap for these goods?
Individuals, corporations and government organizations are sitting on vast treasure troves of archived data that can be branded and then digitized as tiny propaganda across the Web to support their own agendas. 
A manufacturing revolution brought about by new 3D printing technologies could restore the United States as hub for manufacturing jobs—sooner rather than later.
The Web of the immediate future is one that is increasingly visual, empathetic and design-centric. If it had a gender, it would be female. 
It's no longer enough just to have a Big Idea. Now you need to have a Big Idea about how to spread that Big Idea. 
It turns out that there are small clusters of innovation being created all over the world, in some places you might least expect.