"Capitalism is the Crisis" (Occupy Wall Street Sign).

The industrial age is finally coming to an end, and with it the old model of capitalism is ending as well.

The continuing global economic mess, growing inequalities and environmental destruction, to name a few crises, are causing many to...

BlackBerry? Are you kidding me? I converted to the iPhone ages ago.

Except that I've been trying out BlackBerry's newest phone, the Q10, for a week. And guess what? I love it, and my iPhone is going to an old phones home or wherever these things go.

Like a phoenix...

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

By Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

Reviewed by Don Tapscott

Into an air of great anticipation, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen have published The New Digital Age. (Sad to say, my publisher never...

Back in the BlackBerry's heyday, a new habit in restaurants became known as the "BlackBerry prayer." Those at the table would hold their BlackBerrys in their laps, trying to inconspicuously respond to a steady stream of e-mails and texts. No matter how engaging the table conversation, the BlackBerry offered the...

(DAVOS, Switzerland) The European skiers have once again checked into the hotels of this small Swiss village, replacing the attendees of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.

One occurrence this week caused me to stand back and reflect more broadly on the meaning of this event and the...

DAVOS, Switzerland -- For many years I've been writing about how the Internet and new models of pedagogy will bring an end to the university's monopoly on higher education.

Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.

It's happening right now. We may even remember this week...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- I've just come from an amazing discussion by some brilliant people about how connected vehicles and transportation systems will transform mobility. The discussion focused on how self-driving cars will improve road safety and traffic flow and reduce transportation's carbon footprint.

The idea is that if cars on...

Yesterday, I wrote about the World Economic Forum's 88 Global Agenda Councils and the valuable work they are doing.

I am a member of a council addressing the tricky issue of how we inform ourselves as societies when the traditional media and tools of doing that are unravelling....

As I mentioned in my last posting, the World Economic Forum has moved from a once-a-year meeting in a small Swiss town to a year-round discussion looking to effect global change. One benefit of this shift is that the WEF now generates a significant amount of research, much of which...

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum has started. Once again, world leaders, including heads of government and ministerial representation from all but one G20 country, are among the more than 2,500 participants from over 100 countries that are gathering in this small Swiss ski area of Davos-Klosters.

I've...

Questa settimana (3-14 dicembre) a Dubai si sono riuniti i rappresentanti di più di 190 governi, per un incontro a porte chiuse di tremenda importanza che dovrebbe fissare i paletti su come va gestita la rete, e su chi dovrebbe metterci i soldi.

L'International Telecommunication Union (Itu), agenzia...

Representatives of more than 190 governments have convened a profoundly important closed-door meeting this week in Dubai to hammer out how the Internet should be run and who should pay for its operation.

The International Telecommunication Union, a low-profile United Nations agency that's sponsoring the meeting, sets out the technical...

Encyclopedias, record labels and publishers were once in the business of producing unique content that generated big revenues. All are being bludgeoned by the digital age that brought abundance, mass participation, democratized production and the rise of a new delivery channel -- the Internet.

A similar fate could soon await...

Foxconn, the high-profile electronics company that builds Apple's iPhone and other products in China, was back in the headlines after workers rioted at its Taiyaun factory. Foxconn has attracted attention in the past for poor working conditions and a series of employee suicides.

Fang Zhongyang, one of the factory workers,...

The "are corporations people?" debate returned to the public eye when Elizabeth Warren made it part of her speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Warren has had an ongoing feud with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the topic, with Romney saying corporations are people and Warren...

The following is an excerpt from the convocation speech given by Don Tapscott to the 2012 class of INSEAD, a graduate business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

You don't need my advice on how to be successful. As an INSEAD graduate you're fully...

Here's a question for President Barack Obama's re-election team. It could influence the outcome of this year's election:

How do they get the "we" back?

We all remember how Obama broke new ground in the 2008 campaign by using social media as a powerful political tool. Obama's campaign created an...

That deafening noise that Formula One fans in Montreal and viewers around the world hear this weekend might not be just the supercharged cars screaming past the grandstands in quest of the checkered flag. It will likely also be the banging of pots and pans by the tens of thousands...

The ubiquity of digital gadgets and sensors, the pervasiveness of networks and the benefits of sharing very personal information through social media have led some to argue that privacy as a social norm is changing and becoming an outmoded concept. In a seven-part series Don Tapscott questions this view arguing...

The ubiquity of digital gadgets and sensors, the pervasiveness of networks and the benefits of sharing very personal information through social media have led some to argue that privacy as a social norm is changing and becoming an outmoded concept. In a seven-part series Don Tapscott questions this view arguing...