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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Some parents need to confront the fact that their children are not normal and that they are not normal parents either.
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Datafication refers to the fact that daily interactions of living things can be rendered into a data format and put to social use.
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Instead of outsourcing innovation overseas we need to create a talent funnel here in the United States. If we don’t act, “we’re gonna be faced with significant challenges as a […]
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More than ten years after the publication of his groundbreaking work of urban theory, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” Richard Florida is sticking to his assertion that the rising […]
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Former Microsoft executive John Wood explains his strategy for creating and developing his non-profit Room to Read at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, Massachusetts.