December 2011
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“In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the...”
– Amazon Kindle: A Highlight and Note from a Personal Document (via futuramb)
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Watch‘Tis the season for lists: wish lists, to-do lists and even lists of new years resolutions. Adriane Herman could be called the queen of list-making and list-taking. She’s been collecting people’s lists for the past few years, and, in doing so, has gained an inside look into how people spend their time, determine their priorities, and organize their lives. After digging through waste baskets in...
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“That there’s no one right answer, no one right path. I need to be open to the...”
– Eden Full on solar power, appropriate technologies and life as a young female inventor. Full was recently named one of Forbes 30 under 30 energy disruptors.
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North Indian ‘Apni Beti’ Program Strikes a Blow... →
In a cement-walled room at the end of a rutted road in the rural Indian district of Bhiwani, a teenage girl named Lado sits in a shaft of sunlight and talks confidently about her future. “I want to be a math teacher,” says the 17-year-old, her printed green scarf falling on to her lap. “I tell my parents, ‘Do whatever you want, but educate me. Let me go to school.’”
Welcome to the front lines...
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“The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business...”
– Ken Auletta, media commentator for The New Yorker, Quote of the year - and the decade… (via interestingsnippets)
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Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets →
Researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, it can tease out multiple patterns hidden in health information from around the globe, statistics amassed from a season of major league baseball, data on the changing bacterial landscape of...
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Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future...
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February 2012 will see the debut of Arc, a bold new digital publication from the makers of New Scientist. Arc will explore the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated authors – backed up with columns by thinkers and practitioners from the worlds of books, design, gaming, film and more. Arc 1.1 is edited by Simon...
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“In the National Strategic Narrative we offer three priorities we believe are...”
– An Update on A National Strategic Narrative from Capt. Wayne Porter (PopTech 2011)
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The play’s the thing: What video-game technology... →
A DECADE AGO the computer industry was abuzz with talk about “virtual reality” that would allow the construction of convincing digital facsimiles of the real world. As it turns out, the games industry has come quite close to delivering this. Modern games use cheap hardware and software to create three-dimensional worlds with convincing textures and lighting, objects that obey real-world laws of...
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“The big problem that I’m hoping to tackle in a lot of the more public works that...”
– Nicholas Felton (PopTech 2009) on tackling big problems.
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WatchSaman Arbabi and Kambiz Hosseini’s satirical television show, Parazit, broadcast on Voice of America, has become an international phenomenon, drawing more than 700,000 followers. The show uses the power of satire combined with content from citizens on the street to expose injustices happening across Iran.
“We just try to laugh and make people laugh at things that are absurd in a...
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SMS for Violence Prevention: PeaceTXT... →
By Patrick Meier
One of the main reasons I’m in Nairobi this month is to launch PeaceTXT International with PopTech, Praekelt Foundation, Sisi ni Amani and several other key partners. PeaceTXT International is a spin-off from the original PeaceTXT project that several of us began working on with CeaseFire Chicago last year. I began thinking about the many possible international applications of...
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WatchCheryl Heller says, “Do your homework.”
In the second installment of our interview series with social enterprise leaders, GOOD talks to Cheryl Heller, who works at the intersection of design, communication, and enterprise in a number of roles—as CEO of Heller Communication Design; chair of the board of PopTech, the social innovation nonprofit; and founder of a new MFA program...
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Social or Cultural Entrepreneurship: An Argument... →
Cultural entrepreneurs, who often rely heavily on new media tools such as Twitter and Kickstarter, use persuasive communications and peer influence to shift attitudes, beliefs, and behavior and, in doing so, change the world for the better.
Think of cultural entrepreneurship as social entrepreneurship’s little sister. Social entrepreneurship has gotten considerable attention in the last decade...
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WatchPatrick Tressett and Frederic Fol Leymarie: The human touch of a robot’s hand
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“A solution is not a solution if it doesn’t work for the people for whom it’s...”
– Cheryl Heller on SVA’s new Design for Social Innovation MFA
PopTech Board Chair Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of a new MFA program, Design for Social Innovation, at the School of Visual Arts in New York. As the founder of Heller Communications, she’s been working at the intersection of...
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WatchRobert Neuwirth (PopTech 2011) tells us about life in the informal economy, what French culture classifies as System D. 1.8 billion people on the planet subsist through economic transactions that happen outside legal spheres and, by 2020, two thirds of our planet will be doing business in this domain. The future is the free market vs. the flea market.