Behind the digital divide [The Economist]
Much is made of the “digital divide†between rich and poor. What do people on the ground think about it? Read full story
Much is made of the “digital divide†between rich and poor. What do people on the ground think about it? Read full story
Ray Kurzweil is an accomplished inventor, but he is best known for his wild prognostications about the future. Is he as crazy as he sounds? Read full story
Camera-phones are not just for taking pictures. They can be used for other things too, from shopping to treasure hunts. Read full story
“Design thinking” can create rewarding experiences for consumers — the key to earnings growth and an edge that outsourcing can’t beat. Read full story
The latest generation of these ever-smarter garments look like ordinary clothes, not something only a cyborg would don. Read full story
Blogging has transformed political commentary, rattled the media business and inundated the Internet. Does it have a place on Wall Street? ThinkEquity Partners, a boutique investment bank in San Francisco, was going to find out on Thursday by introducing a…
Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate…
For years, American corporations and the European companies that do business with them have faced anti-American sentiments from Europeans. But with the war continuing in Iraq and discomfort growing over United States dominance, the companies have been forced to…
Even the Davos World Economic Forum now has its own weblog. Go to the Davos blog
Does Robert Scoble, a celebrity blogger on Microsoft’s payroll, herald the death of traditional public relations? Read full story
The hi-tech and the arts worlds have for some time danced around each other and offered creative and technical help when required. Read full story
“Lifestyle centres” make big-box retailers look and feel like small-town shops. How can entrepreneurs compete? Read full story
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> Ettore Sottsass — one of the post-war architects who literally invented the idea of Italian Design — is today eighty-seven years old: a true éminence grise. Recently, I talked to the designer/writer and cultural provocateur at the Barry Friedman…
“Davos diary: This is not about money” by Jim Fruchterman, President, The Benetech Initiative. Read full story
Architect William McDonough has witnessed China’s rapid modernisation and sees hope for sustainable development. He is working to bring his cradle-to-cradle protocol to China, where old buildings are being demolished as quickly as new ones are constructed. Read full story
Sporting Puma sneakers and a downtown hipster haircut or two, a team from the design firm Imagination USA shuffles into a fourth-floor loft in New York’s SoHo district. They’re met by David Polinchock, who offers Blow Pops and ushers…
Corporate social responsibility as the tribute that capitalism pays to virtue. Read full story
Microsoft Corp.’s research unit is turning to social scientists in a new effort to understand the long-term possibilities for computer technology in developing countries. A Microsoft Research lab, to be inaugurated tomorrow in Bangalore, India, plans to employ anthropologists, ethnographers…
“Digital media have not only made in-roads in the way visual artists, musicians, designers, film makers and other cultural practitioners work – they have created a new context”. Michiel Schwarz’s insightful Dutch policy paper on “e-culture”, that has just…