Innovation

Innovation

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An authentic career strategy built around sustainability involves embedding these key principles into all jobs, argues Marilyn Waite.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
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Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
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"You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today."
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A wave of innovation is coursing through the nuclear industry — but ingrained opposition is the biggest roadblock.
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In 1900, the UK clearly was the richest country in Europe. That's no longer the case.
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One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
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Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.
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Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.
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“Neurotech is not just about the brain,” says Synchron CTO Riki Banerjee, explaining how their tech can help with paralysis, brain diseases, and beyond.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Playing the long game in Japan is about creating something so enduring that it becomes timeless.
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Women bring new and innovative ways of exercising power to the table, argues Gaia van der Esch. All business teams will benefit.
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And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
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From tulips to Bitcoin, bubbles have been given a bad rap as destroyers of dreams — but they’re essential for our brightest future. Here’s why.
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It’s been 65 years since Richard Feynman saw “plenty of room” in the nano-world. Are we finally getting down there?
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A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI's impact on jobs.
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The Wharton School professor — and author of Co-Intelligence — outlines ways we can tap into the AI advantage safely and effectively.
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By looking back at future dreams we can see our current hopes and visions in a whole new light.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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“We can build AI scientists that are better than we are… these systems can be superhuman,” says the FutureHouse co-founder.
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Sure, “who you know” matters — but your best contacts will be the ones you don’t know very well.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Magnificent time-tested buildings are filled with lessons in resilience and stability — and the benefits for investment strategy can be huge.
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Off-the-shelf consumer technology is helping people pursue their interests — and advancing science at the same time.