Globalization and Communication
We have entered an age where communication connects us all. Globalization is here to stay. But what does that mean for us as a society? Globalization brings about big changes in the way we operate and...
View ArticleThe Future of Communication
The way we find information has changed and is changing drastically everyday with the creation of new technology. Social networking, such as Digg and Delicious, have created new and more effective ways...
View ArticleHow Monkeys Mirror Human Irrationality
Think you are smarter than a monkey? Yale Psychology Professor Laurie Santos begs to differ. She has been studying human irrationally by comparing it to decision-making in our primitive relatives. She...
View ArticleWhen Ideas Have Sex
Forget IQ. It is a concept that has become irrelevant, says author Matt Ridley. It’s how well people communicate their ideas that makes us intelligent. By communicating effectively, our ideas are able...
View ArticleBuilding the Game Layer on Top of the World
Seth Priebatsch, Princeton dropout, says building the social layer to society is finished. It’s over. Facebook rules that world. But Priebatsch says there the next framework to be built will be the...
View ArticleMatt Ridley on The Rational Optimist &“Ideas Having Sex”
We have our physical evolution, but what creates our cultural evolution? Author Matt Ridley says this occurs from the exchange of ideas. In fact, he says we are the only species to have done this which...
View ArticleWhere good ideas come from
Before coffee houses first appeared, the most common form of drink was alcoholic, because the water was not safe too drink. It was these new coffee shops that sparked the age of enlightenment. But, it...
View ArticlePopulation: how much of a problem?
When people discuss population growth, the debate usually sways to the problem either being the third world with their ever-expanding population, or the rich at their great use of global resources....
View ArticleThe Case for Collaborative Consumption
Rachel Botsman says we’re “wired to share.” That’s exactly why companies like Zipcar and Swaptree are so successful, she says. Collaboration is taking us back to an earlier time where our communication...
View ArticleThe Social Animal
Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences — insights with massive implications for economics and...
View ArticleHow the washing machine boosted intellectualism
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. Economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of...
View ArticleChildren, Education, and Urban Poverty from an Organizational Perspective
Our cities have numerous problems. The panelists in this forum discuss how attention needs to be paid to the organizations and institutions that create these problems, and not the individuals.
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