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Our Infinite Capacity for Self-Deception

Tony Schwartz | Posted 04.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Fraud, Humans, Money, Economic Crisis, Economy, Bernard Madoff, Psychology, Future, Scandal, Living News
Tony Schwartz

Companies are only as evolved as the leaders who run them, and the people who work for them. What got us here won't get us where we need to go.

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Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle

Randall Amster | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: The Future, Future, Media News, Unified Theory, Information Overload, Green Collar Economy, Green Jobs, Rush Limbaugh, Current Events, Economy, Victory Gardens, Information Age, The Commons, Teleportation, Recession, Star Trek, Nature, Privatization, Agribusiness, Robotics, Gardening, Gmo, Robots, Vulture Capitalism, Humor, Speculation, New Media, Humor and Satire, Media News
Randall Amster

From now on, I will only get my news from future-based sources, and thus seek to remain ahead of the curve. Outlandish, you say? Impossible? You are obviously so behind the times.

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Keeping Down With The Joneses: A Top Ten List

Emily Bracken | Posted 03.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: How to Save Money, Competition, Keeping-Up-With-the-Joneses, Top Ten List, Consumerism, Wall Street, America, Economy, American-Savings, Future, Saving Money, Comedy, Lists, Comedy News
Emily Bracken

Illegal immigrants' work ethic becomes a source of national pride. No one works so hard for so little money with such inadequate health care.

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Bookcamp: the Books are All Right

Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Bookcamp, Publishing, Books, Socialmedia, Future, Music, Barcamp, Technology, Reading, London, Ebooks, Book Publishing, Publishing Industry, Old Media Death Watch, Media News
Hugh McGuire

BookCamp London started with a blank grid: 6 time slots and 5 spaces (or 5 spaces, 6 time slots?), with participants asked to fill in the grid, adding sessions they'd like to discuss.

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What Will Change Everything?

Linda Stone | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Science, Dreams, Future, Predictions, Technology, Living News
Linda Stone

John Brockman, an agent representing some of the finest minds in science, poses a provocative question to an international community of physicists, psychologists, leaders and dreamers.

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America

Hal Donahue | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Politics, Iraq Veterans, Holiday Season, Wwii, Theater, Future, Happiness, Veterans, New York, Politics News
Hal Donahue

New Yorkers gather from all over the nation and abroad; where they come from and what they are reaffirms that we are all "real Americans," even those "pesky" immigrants.

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Necessity is the mother of social innovation

Lucy Bernholz | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Philanthropy, Buzzwords, Predictions, Charity, Socialenterprise, Strategic Philanthropy, Economy, Economic Predictions, Nonprofits, Bcorps, Social Entrepreneur, Future, Giving, Foundations, Living News
Lucy Bernholz

Reposted (with edits and additions) from philanthropy2173 Ah, December. The anticipation of snow, unless you're already several feet under. The warmt...

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So What Now, Republicans?

Sahil Kapur | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Science, Social Conservatives, Future, Republicans, Foreign Policy Hawks, Economic Elitist, Dick Armey, John J. Pitney Jr., Joe the Plumber, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

What's the Republican party to do now? They could continue alienating intellectuals and maintain their march of cultural ignorance, or the party can do some soul-searching and rediscover their core values.

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The America That Can Be/The America That Has Been

William Bradley | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hawaii, Global, John McCain, Chicago, Presidential Campaign, Future, Civil War, TV Advertising, Barack Obama, Navy, First Black President, Politics News
William Bradley

In Barack Obama and John McCain, we representatives of an emerging set of values and an enduring tradition. But we didn't get the sort of constructive debate between these traditions showing the value of each.

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Business Lesson of Election '08: It's the Vision, Not the Economy.

Jack Myers | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Vision, Future, Barack Obama, Economy, Business News
Jack Myers

No matter what media companies achieve in the next months, short of radical cost-cutting that eats into the corporate bone, they will not be rewarded with increased shareholder value.

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A Planet Changing Election

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Future, Children, 2008 Election, Apollo Project, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

We have more to be proud of as Americans than just generating wealth and fighting wars. Barack Obama offers us the potential to reignite that vision and imagination.

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A Year From Now

Tom Cosgrove | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, Mccain, Alaska, Future, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, President Palin, Politics News
Tom Cosgrove

In this election season finale Coco the star of www.mypresidentpalin.com predicts the future. See it to believe it: ...

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Accountability and a New Vision for the Upfront. Part 3 of Jack Myers' 2003 Vision for the Future of Media and Advertising

Jack Myers | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Media Futurist, Accountability, Economy, Media Spending, The Future, Future, Business News
Jack Myers

Business, especially the media business, is not simple. Incompetence can no longer be tolerated. To the smart go the spoils.

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Creating the Next American Economy

Michael Northrop | Posted 11.26.2008 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Economy, Carbon Emissions, Economic Crisis, Future, Green Living, New York City, Business News
Michael Northrop

Imagine if we put in place a concerted effort to build transit in this country. We could return 10-15 percent of household income to peoples' pockets.

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Change My World

Vicki Strauss Kennedy | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Children, Politics, Songs, Election 2008, Future, Change My World, Living News
Vicki Strauss Kennedy

I want to leave a world that is protected and prosperous and safe for my children, and all those tinier souls that my children were, once, not so long ago.

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Losing Grip on Reality: What Ails the American Economy Runs Deeper Than the Credit Crisis

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Education, Economy, Economic Crisis, Science, Inventions, Innovation, Future, Business News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

Public investments in basic research and education have been our most reliable economic engine. And yet in recent years we have failed to maintain that engine and to refill our tank.

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The End of Philanthropy as We Know It?

Lucy Bernholz | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Credit Crisis, Foreclosure, Future, Economy, Home Foreclosures, Giving, Living News
Lucy Bernholz

I don't think a short-term drop in giving is all we're facing here. Many factors will fundamentally restructure the business of giving as we've come to know it.

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It's The Emotional Maturity Factor, Stupid!

Steven G. Brant | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Future, Mccain Temperament, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

John McCain's temperament has been a side-bar issue for some time now, as people wonder if he would take us to war unnecessarily ("bomb bomb Iran"). S...

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How to Green Your Genes

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Plastics, Pesticides, Epigenetics, Organic Food, Dna, Parabens, Health, Duke University, Genetics, Future, Green Living, Cleaning, Organic, Family, 100 Days, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

Studies suggest that what we eat, how we live, and what our environment exposes us to today could have an impact on the health of our distant descendants.

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Let My GOOPers Go

Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republicans, Republican Party, Neoconservatives, Future, Politics News
Ellis Weiner

The Republican Party, in order to save itself, should do what the children of Israel did to save themselves upon their exodus from Egypt. They wandered in the desert for forty years.

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Door Number 1 or Door Number 2?

Matthew Stein | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Prices, Sustainability, Future, Business, Ecology, Collapse, Climate Change, Green News
Matthew Stein

In the 1800's, millions of people decided that slavery was an evil whose time had passed, and they put Lincoln in power to end it. If we proactively manage the transition away from fossil fuels, they will meet the same end.

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Do Americans Think - Or Just Act?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Columnist, French, Conscious, Berlin, Obama, Linguist, Future, Verb, Past, Fareed Zakaria, Bush, Bill Kristol, Un, Global Public Square, Poop, Nyt, Who Killed Daniel Pearl, 18th Century, Josef Joffe, Think, Act, Magazine, Unconscious, Language, Cnn, Herr SpöRl, Conditional, Tense, Bernard-Henri Levy, Present, Die Zeit, German, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and...

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The Oil Crisis Is (Still) Not Like A Toothache: Fighting The "Drill Now" Rhetoric

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Consumer, Energy, High Gas Prices, John McCain, Drill Now Drill Here Pay Less, Environment, Drilling, Future, Newt Gingrich, Culture, Offshore Drilling Ban, McCain Offshore Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Martin Bosworth

Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."

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McCain 2014

Lizz Winstead | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2014, John McCain, Future, McCain 2014, Politics News
Lizz Winstead

2008-05-20-beargrrking.jpgWhile John McCain has laid out his wonderful vision for the world in 2013, I had to ask, but what about 2014?

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Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision

AP | TODD LEWAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Microchips, Future, RFID Chips, Microchips Applications, Politics News

Here's a vision of the not-so-distant future: _Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allow...

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