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, […]
Attempts at Solutions
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 […]
The Profits of Nonprofits
“Technology is way advanced, and it’s the business models that are lagging way behind, limiting what social entrepreneurs are able to accomplish,” says Victoria Hale, founder of two nonprofit pharmaceutical […]
Jimmy Wales on Leadership
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales talks about leadership at the Washington Post. Wikipedia is an example of the internet at it’s best. From the contribution of volunteers, and small infrastructure technological infrastructure, […]
Everyday Heroes
No man knows the nature of evil like Dr. Philip Zimbardo. In 1971, he transformed college students into brutal guards and traumatized prisoners in the horrific Stanford Prison Experiment. The […]
Responsible Knowledge Based Innovation
(Society Magazine-May/June 2006) “Corruption,” a charge leveled by Professor Craig Calhoun, after Jennifer Washburn’s allegations in University, Inc., is a serious one. It is not all all clear to me […]
Battling The Information Barbarians
China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the class with Google. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704878904575031263063242900.html?m…