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Leading thinkers set the stage for a series of discussions about the multiple revolutions now intersecting around the world: new technologies, new cultures, new states, new corporations and newly empowered individuals.
How does the Analog Organization respond to the Digital Individual?
The continuing global economic crisis makes urgent a discussion of the economic implications of globalizing technology. Productivity gains continue, but will jobs grow as well?
Chinese companies continue to expand around the world as domestic Chinese technology relentlessly improves. How should the world and business respond?
Mankind’s urban migration brings staggering benefits: more productivity, innovation and equality. Density and diversity supercharge creativity. Can cities fuel global economic expansion?
How does one teach, coach and mentor people with instant access to everything? What jobs are we educating for?
Industrial-scale mining techniques are now available to governments, large corporations and even individual prospectors. What are the new tools of big data?
Creativity and the arts both define and shape society. But both artists and media companies feel at risk in an everyone-is-a-broadcaster world. Who will articulate the values of the future?
Personal data is the economic asset class of the 21st Century. How will information flow lead to new business models, markets and regulatory frameworks?
As individuals assert more power in the marketplace, companies are being forced to re-imagine their traditional top-down philosophies. Those that can change and evolve to take advantage of this new ecosystem will thrive; those that can’t (or simply won’t) may not know what’s about to hit them. Mutate or die!
Citizen scientists called biopunks who work outside traditional corporate and academic research walls are learning how to hack life itself. A new era is opening in which DIY biology is as central as information was to the computer revolution. It will require new ethics, new professions, new philosophies and both subtle and spectacular innovation.
Corporate, political and academic leaders the world over are now planning for the Techonomic Age. Space is not only the final frontier, but it may be the one that most radically shapes and defines our future.
Can we build a secure Internet?
Companies, regardless of industry, are transforming themselves with technology. Successful techonomic businesses must learn to continuously transform their nervous systems with software.
The Quantified Self movement is starting to shift health and personal motivation paradigms. Will knowing one’s numbers lead to better health, lower costs and usher in an era of individualized medicine?
Cities are shaped by transportation systems. What infrastructure and mobility innovations will define 21st-century urbanism?
In an era marked by individuals empowered with better information and faster transaction tools, how do we define, preserve and protect value as we build ever more efficient networks of exchange?
Business is struggling to keep up with employees and consumers empowered by social media to broadcast their desires and discontents with unprecedented speed. Where will the current wave of social media-based enterprise collaboration tools take us? How are organizations and executives adapting and evolving?
An Interview with Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General, International Telecommunications Union.
A Conversation with Vivek Ranadivé, TIBCO Software, Inc.
A Conversation and Performance with Lyle Lovett.
A debate between Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, and Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Center for Digital Business.
An interview with Craig Mundie, Microsoft Corporation.