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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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James Randi has shunned faith since he was a kid spending collection plate money on ice cream. “If my dad and mom are up there someplace… I ask them to […]
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The Yale computer guru decries the dangerous trend of know-it-all scientists (Richard Dawkins?) telling people that “religion is trash.”
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Industrialism taught us how to be wasteful of material and human resources. We need to get out of this mess.
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Jane Jacobs once said: “When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave.” New York doesn’t have to worry.
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Our geography is an economic and political geography. It’s a geography of class, it’s a geography of political partisanship, and it’s a geography of anger. That “worries the heck” out […]
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Whether it’s in service, creative fields, or agriculture, people deserve work that’s meaningful, pays well and uses their skills.
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Richard Florida worries about the notion that you can rebuild Detroit around an urban farm. Why would you turn a great city into a cornfield?
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Forget the “American Dream” for home ownership. We need a system for a 21st Century that fits our flexible and mobile economy.
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The U.S. hasn’t been making much of the possibilities brought by the downturn—but most other countries have been doing even less.
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A conversation with the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
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What will ultimately drive business to prioritize sustainability?
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Companies that are leading the way in reducing their environmental impact.
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The short term internal benefits of integrated reporting will eventually lead to a companies superior performance.
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It’s an obvious idea that’s crucial to building a sustainable society. So why are we behind?
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The major question of the 21st century “is whether human beings can summon the integrity … to resist the many ways in which computers will encroach on human dignity.”
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While the system continues to revolutionize and evolve, its unchanging failure is its inability to monetize.
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The centerfold of a Superman comic book inspired the inventor who sent the first-ever Internet message.
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Digital technology has solved the problems of visualization and building. Going forward, great architects will “deal with the exceptionality of the synthetic moment in inventive ways.”
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Engineers progress in their work by testing things so that they fail.
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Ultimately architecture is unique. Each building sits in a site in a certain moment in a very different way.