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The Future of Leadership

Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Survival of Wisest, Information Age, Self-Awareness, Hartwick College Commencement, Happiness, Leadership, Commencement Address, Happiness and Health, Leadership Advice, Happiness Tips, Happiness Research, Commencement Speech, Leadership Tips, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

Today as you celebrate this major milestone in your life and commence a new stage of your life journey, I ask you to reflect on the gift of life itself. And life, in essence, is nothing but awareness.

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Could the U.S. Be Facing a Brain Drain?

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.27.2013 | Denver
Read More: Leadership, Women, Small Business, America, Latin America, USA, Forbes Insights, Information Age, European Union, Jobs, U.S., Women in the Boardroom, Business, China, Brain Drain, Asia Pacific, Brain, IDEA Economy, Careers, Grant Thornton, International, Empowerment, Money, Economy, Entrepreneur, Denver News
Alexia Parks

With only 21 percent of women in senior management in the U.S., is America at risk of a "brain drain?" The answer is probably "Yes," as corporate executives shop the world for talent to manage their fast-growing businesses.

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Dead Prez Return With New Album at SXSW

Shira Lazar | Posted 05.15.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Mixtape, Educational, Turn Off the Radio, Austin, Rdio, John Lennon, Future, Music, 2013, Shira Lazar, Spotify, Sxsw, Lennon, Show, Workout, Rbg, Hip Hop, Million Miles, Fit Club, Tour, Guest, Bus, Dead Prez, Rap, Streaming, Information Age, Stic Man, Electronic, Interview, Texas, Non Profit, Movement, Youtube, Live, M1, South by Southwest, International, What's Trending, Video, Black Voices News
Shira Lazar

Even though it's been a while since the duo released a full album, M1 assures us that they've been hard at work, putting out mixtapes, working on their "Turn Off the Radio" series and Stic dropping his workout album.

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If We Turn the Internet Into the World's Memory, What Becomes of Our Own?

Vanessa Lafaye | Posted 02.27.2013 | TED Weekends
Read More: Ted Prize 2013: A Wish to Inspire the World, Education Technology, Education, Sugata Mitra, Sugata Mitra Ted Prize, Human Brain, Information Age, 2013 TED Prize, Memory, Creative Economy, TED Weekends News
Vanessa Lafaye

It is interesting to note that Mitra's TEDTalk is titled, "The Future of Learning" rather than "Education." This distinction seems like the heart of the issue, not only for self-organized learning environment, but more widely.

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Business and the Cacophony of the Jobs Reports

Blair Forlaw | Posted 04.06.2013 | Business
Read More: Jobs Report, Business, Work, Economy, Outsourcing, Leadership, Offshoring, Start-Ups, Information Age, Startups, Business News
Blair Forlaw

We don't know how to manage the tension of a new world that is both/and, not either/or. So we sit on the sidelines with every economic announcement, cheering for the life or death of whatever data bit or trend that ignites our emotions, feeling more and more helpless and perplexed.

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Japan's Lost Decades: Could They Happen in the US?

Ho-Hyung Lee | Posted 03.19.2013 | Business
Read More: Government, Global Supply Chain, U.S. Economy, Markets, Global Economy, Economics, Economy, Information Age, Government Spending, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Global Financial Crisis, Japan, Recession, Business News
Ho-Hyung Lee

Japan was like a rich man with a lot of savings, but it has spent too much over the last 20 years. The United States is still a reserve currency country, but its deficits pose a threat as the national debt becomes a serious issue for its economy.

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Connected Learning: An Agenda for Social Change

Mimi Ito | Posted 01.15.2013 | Home
Read More: Information Age, Internet, Education, Education Reform, Technology, Education Policy, Networked World, Learning, Education Equity, Connected Learning, Home News
Mimi Ito

There is a unique opportunity before us with today's technologies to make the entry points and pathways to knowledge, learning and opportunity accessible to many more young people. It's a question of will.

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In Case You Missed It: I Am One with Social Media

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted 02.27.2013 | TED Weekends
Read More: Cyborgs, Cyborg, Machine Communication, Tedtalk, Communication Studies, Information Age, Machines Make US More Human, Second Self, The Self, Artificial Intelligence, TED Weekends News
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

Like pen pals, landlines and citizen band radio before, cyberculture is about navigating social spaces through use of new tools.

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WATCH: Cooking In The Information Age

Noah Galuten | Posted 01.30.2013 | Taste
Read More: Information Age, Ferran Adria, Finger-Biscuits, Apple, El Bulli, Nesquick, Beer, Cooking How-To, Video, Taste News
Noah Galuten

You can now, basically, cook anything you want.

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Information Age Lessons From Passover

Dovid Efune | Posted 06.06.2012 | Religion
Read More: Jews, Matzah, Elijah, Online Publishing, Israel, Passover, Judaism, Information Age, Seder, Religion News
Dovid Efune

The Jewish Sages of old implemented rituals of remembrance and practice that utilized all possible communicative stimulants that their era presented them with. Perhaps we will be inspired to apply their historic challenge to the trials of our age.

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Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age

Connie Yowell | Posted 05.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Technology, Education Policy, Learning, Education Reform, Education, Information Age, Home News
Connie Yowell

In a world so full of knowledge and an abundance of learning possibilities, isn't it our responsibility to work as hard as we can to see that every child has a chance to unlock his or her potential?

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The Power of Shutting Up in the Internet Age

Edward Muzio | Posted 02.14.2012 | Technology
Read More: Information Age, Internet, Facebook, Comments, Blogging, Blogs, Social Media, Facebook News Feed, Technology News
Edward Muzio

Every ounce of attention, positive or negative, feeds more power to the content receiving it. That's the power of shutting up: it keeps you from voting for what you despise.

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On Brain Blur

Marian Salzman | Posted 12.07.2011 | Technology
Read More: Advertisingweek, Information Age, Social Media, News Cycle, Advertising Week 2011, Advertising Week, Advertising, Technology News
Marian Salzman

The pace at which we work now is beyond warp speed, and the window in which to look ahead for PR -- and all disciplines -- is closing so fast that many of us are finding ourselves with fingers caught in the frame.

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The Spirit of a Generation

Debra Ollivier | Posted 12.02.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Reinvention, 1960s, Baby Boomers, Rotary Phone, Parenting Teens, Teenage Love, Digital Age, Information Age, Feminism, Parenting post50, Star Trek, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

We don't choose the decade we're born into. We can only hope that the collective entrepreneurial spirit of our generation can mobilize itself to create a better future not only for our kids, but for our parents and for ourselves.

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The Power of Connections in a Shrinking World

Rev. Larry Hollon | Posted 11.09.2011 | Media
Read More: 9/11, Information Age, Globalization, Global Interconnectedness, International News, Media News
Rev. Larry Hollon

The tide of history is sweeping us toward a more interconnected and interactive world. It is better to embrace this reality than to ignore it and be swept up in the current.

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Digitalman: Faster Than a Speeding Byte

Peter Block | Posted 05.30.2011 | Technology
Read More: Information Age, Computer Age, Information Economy, Facebook, Digital Technology, Digital Age, Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network, Social Network, Technology News
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.

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Let's Bring Aging Americans Into the Information Age

Marcia Kerz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Information Age, Adults in Information Age, Technology, Technology Education, Oasis, Technology Generation Gap, Adults and Technology, Politics News
Marcia Kerz

As young Americans have become the most tech-savvy generation in history, the generations preceding them have not kept pace -- to the detriment of their economic and even physical well-being.

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The key to Turning Data into Information

Jose Vilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Information Age, Education, Assessment, Information Overload, Data, Teachers Assessment, Home News
Jose Vilson

The tons of assessments we drop on students monthly give us nothing but decimals and percentages, rarely making any definitive statements about the progress that our students make in their education.

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Digital Age Hopes, Stone Age Acceptance

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Acceptance, Stone Age, Mindware, Mindfulness, Hope, Information Age, Pattern Interruption, Reading, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Most weeks I pick up two or three random books (from a local store that sells used books). Some of them I read cover to cover, others - I skim. I fi...

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Upheaval at the Turn of the Millennium

Kenneth Kales | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Generations, Popular Culture, Society, Economics, American History, Industrial Age, Information Age, Impact News
Kenneth Kales

The working people of this great nation are fighting with our hearts and souls to salvage what we can of an older Industrial Age society, and forging ...

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A Proposal for a Minor Revolution in Human Affairs

Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Information Age, Project PM, Internet, Skepticism, Media News
Barrett Brown

Today, we are blessed to exist in an age of unprecedented tumult and potential by virtue of the advent of the internet and the information age as a whole.

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Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part Two)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Thomson Reuters, Law, Digital Media, Wall Street Bailout, Newspapers, Reed Elsevier, Wall Street Reform, Information Age, Future of Publishing, Media, Wall Street Journal, Gannett, Lexisnexis, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Publishing, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, New York Times, Washington Post, Media News, News, Business News
Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

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Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part One)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Digital Media, Thomson Reuters, Law, Wall Street Bailout, Reed Elsevier, Information Age, Wall Street Reform, Future of Publishing, Media, Gannett, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Publishing, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, New York Times, Washington Post, Media News, Newspapers, News, Lexisnexis, Business News
Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

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The Three Laws of Social Media

Josh Sternberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Information Age, Science, Thermodynamics, Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Laws, Media News
Josh Sternberg

Our era is called the "Information Age" for a reason. The pervasive idea that information should be both accessible and free is as strong a tenet of democracy as the ability to criticize the government.

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Health Care Reform and The Awesome Power of Techno-Confusion

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Future of Journalism, Google, Newspapers, Death Panels, Information Age, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Dr. Peggy Drexler

Information technology has added rocket fuel to the engine of democracy. Will it power us forward or keep us spinning wildly in one spot?

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