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Financial Fog: Today's Teens Are Unprepared to Make Future Financial Decisions

Tom Davidson | Posted 05.07.2013 | College
Tom Davidson

Students are ready and willing to learn. We, as parents and educators, and even policy makers and financial institutions, need to step up to help them succeed.

Digital Game Changers Hail the Web's Transformative Potential

Paul Zwillenberg | Posted 03.27.2013 | Business
Paul Zwillenberg

Technology has the potential to generate growth and reshape the nature of work, collaboration, and economic activity. But it takes people with the vision to challenge the status quo, envision the future, and go for it.

Misreading the Facts on E-Books

Warren Adler | Posted 03.13.2013 | Books
Warren Adler

The printed book will survive as long as the generation that grew up with the printed book remains an economic factor in its survival. When that generation passes into history, the digital bookshelf will be the dominant technology for the reading public.

The Future of Film and Social Change

Layla Revis | Posted 10.24.2012 | Entertainment
Layla Revis

This evolving mediascape may continue to be under-the-radar and consistently in search of funds, but it could also very well mark the future of film -- at home or in the theater.

Too Much Hype in the Mobile Health App World?

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 09.22.2012 | Healthy Living
Barbara Ficarra

It doesn't seem as if there is too much hype -- just little guidance. The push to move the mHealth app world forward may be in the power of consumers to clamor for health and wellness apps that are safe, reliable and trustworthy.

Dear LinkedIn (and Facebook and Google): It's My Life. Isn't It My Data?

Michael Hinshaw | Posted 08.14.2012 | Business
Michael Hinshaw

The era of Big Data is upon us. Unfortunately, it's marked by Big Screw Ups -- like LinkedIn's.

Instagram vs. Kodak: Smart Customers Sidestep Stupid Companies

Michael Hinshaw | Posted 06.24.2012 | Business
Michael Hinshaw

The bigger question is why a larger, established company like Kodak didn't invent Instagram, or an app like it. They have the resources, the talent and the opportunity. What is it that stalled -- possibly fatally -- this once-smart company?

Making the Earth Our BFF

Patricia Draznin | Posted 06.18.2012 | Comedy
Patricia Draznin

With Earth Day hurtling toward us faster than you can skin a free-range carrot, we consider our nation's progress in cleaning up the ecosystem that we've been trashing for decades. Here at the Oh Zone, we did what any skilled researcher would do to find the answer. We asked Siri.

The Reality Of Kids And Screen Time

| Posted 12.25.2011 | Parents

By Caroline Knorr (Click here to read original article.) Did you read to your kids today? Did you park them in front of the television? Did you han...

Time, Well-Being and the Political Moment

Paul Stoller | Posted 10.12.2011 | Technology
Paul Stoller

In America, the land of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, there seems to be a limited pool of well-being. We are wired-in, but existentially alone; we are electronically connected in social networks, but isolated from social groups.

Digitalman: Faster Than a Speeding Byte

Peter Block | Posted 05.30.2011 | Technology
Peter Block

No technical obstacle stands in Zuckerberg's way. He never needs a help line, never is referred to a system administrator, never is asked for an "SSID" or a password that he has not memorized.

Has the Business Card Finally Had Its Day?

Andy Miah | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Andy Miah

How should we regard the business card in a digital age? For a few years now, I have been photographing business cards. but today, I decided that they should go into the public domain.

We Need to Reinvent Brain Care

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Alvaro Fernandez

An assessment of basic neurocognitive function should be an essential part of any psychiatric evaluation. The mental health field should adopt a brain-based model for diagnosis and treatment.

China's Senior Market: Gray Today, Golden Tomorrow

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Tom Doctoroff

Marketers must realize that, as incomes rise, the Middle Kingdom will become more modern, more international, but not more Western. Goods must be positioned in accordance with cultural imperatives.