Serious Games
Games have been on my mind more than usual lately, both because of Jane McGonigal’s new book Reality is Broken, and Bruce Sterling’s review of The Art of Game Design. […]
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Can Egypt Happen in the US?
Umair Haque at the Harvard Business Review offers a grim appraisal of current society, and our future. The mechanisms of the economy that used to support growth now work towards […]
Towards a Closed Loop Economy
Innovation is Serious Business. It’s the key to prosperity, national security, health, jobs, you name it, innovation will solve it. But for all the talk that gets thrown around […]
What Comes Next
This is a continuation of a previous post. I won’t be breaking any news when I say that the Mubarak regime is done. At this juncture, the momentum of the […]
Social Media and the Revolution in Egypt
Revolution in Egypt is the story of the week. Over the past seven days, ordinary Egyptians have come together to oppose the 30 year rule of Hosni Mubarak. The protests […]
Davos: Back to the Future
Parag Kanna has a fascinating thesis on what the Davos conference is. Davos, for the unfamiliar, “where each January the planet’s most influential heads of state, CEOs, mayors, religious leaders, […]
Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving
Anybody who has spent significant time with military officers will know that they are often smart, ambitious, patriotic people. Yet, at the same time the military as a whole is […]
Plutocracy Now
“As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously noted, different from you and me. What is more relevant to our times, though, is that the rich of today are also different from the […]
Kickstarting World Literature
“Did you know that only 3% of literature in the United States is literature in translation? Words Without Borders has published everyone from Ha Jin to Javier Marias, and now […]
Augmenting Humanity @HeatSync Labs
Let’s start this year off with a bang! I just got back from HeatSync Labs, where the local hackers are taking their eyes off of 3D printing, near-space missions, tesla […]