I am challenging the leadership at Facebook to take the necessary steps to mature into the grace, wisdom and true power of full leadership.
Aaron Shapiro | Posted 05.03.2012
Uncertainty is an easier destination to arrive at than confidence, especially when the truth is, there's no such thing as making anything that's really new. Everything is an evolution of something else. But you can make something better.
David Rice | Posted 01.22.2012
Human evolution is being challenged to accommodate -- indeed keep up with -- the massive global change wrought by our technological genies. Detroit is in a very unique position to take advantage of this evolutionary wave.
Biz Stone | Posted 12.04.2011
The assault on the American dream is relevant to each and every citizen of our country and requires our collective efforts to ensure America's future success. We believe better leveraging innovation can help us get there.
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.20.2011
You have to care about a problem before you're motivated to solve it. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone because his wife was deaf and he wanted to help those who couldn't hear.
James M. Gentile | Posted 10.04.2011
As Research Corporation for Science Advancement prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year (as America's oldest foundation dedicated wholly...
Ian Fletcher | Posted 08.20.2011
The Thiel Fellowship program's essential strategy consists in smoothing the path of individual geniuses, and this is simply not where the bottleneck to innovation lies in America today.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 07.31.2011
Despite our smug self-image, the U.S. actually only ranks in the middle of the pack for resources committed to innovation. In truth, our economy is not innovative enough -- and it's costing us, big-time.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 07.28.2011
To get our economy back on track, we need to stop dreaming that innovation is purely a self-financing private-sector game and start paying for the innovation we need. Either that, or we're not going to get the economy we want.
The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 07.03.2011
Widening income inequality has been a thorn in America's side for some time now. Turns out, other countries in the developed world aren't exempt from ...
Caroline Simard | Posted 05.27.2011
I have written extensively on this blog and in other venues about the barriers that women in technology face: unwelcoming cultures, bias and stereotyp...
Meredith Ely | Posted 05.25.2011
While detailing plans may be beneficial overall, what strikes me is how convoluted and politicized the planning process is.
Meredith Ely | Posted 05.25.2011
The education and technology worlds are coming together, but perhaps not as strategically or advantageously as they could.
Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011
The foremost environmental issues in the coming year revolve around air pollution, especially the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. But what about the longer view?
Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 05.25.2011
Researchers at the Media Lab, are letting their brains crack open, dreaming up big ideas, combining art and science and play, producing and presenting their demos, and inventing their future.
Stephen Balkam | Posted 05.25.2011
While he is not a Luddite, William Powers is acutely aware of the onslaught on the psyche the Internet and the new technologies have brought.
Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011
In another disturbing instance of politically-motivated intimidation of climate scientists, last week Virginia AG Cuccinelli issued a new civil investigative demand to UVA for emails and documents related to Dr. Michael Mann.
Larry Bock | Posted 05.25.2011
Join us at the 2010 USA Science & Engineering Festival in October as we take steps to create a national network of science festivals, coordinated by satellite events in each state throughout the duration of the Festival.
Gregory Unruh | Posted 05.25.2011
Well over a decade ago, I became interested in what I termed the "climate policy paradox." On one hand, there is plenty of evidence that climate chang...
Leonid Kogan | Posted 05.25.2011
The same innovation shocks that create consumption heterogeneity among households have heterogeneous impact on firms, displacing an average growth firm less than an average value firm.
Jack Myers | Posted 05.25.2011
Marketers' objectives are shifting away from traditional cost efficiency-based criteria and towards increased emphasis on value, results, and relationship-based decision making.
Allessandra Bradley-Burns | Posted 05.23.2012