View image | gettyimages.com My apologies in advance for the length and nearly stream-of-consciousness nature of the following: While there appears to be consensus that we are rapidly innovating our way toward a future without work — or at least work as we have known it — we find myriad predictions and theories as to what this actually means, most ...
Dear Millennials: Once upon a time (in the 1970s), the actor you might know as Steve Martin was a rising star in stand-up comedy. One of his jokes began with the premise that he would tell you how to earn a million dollars and never pay taxes. The real laugh in the bit came when Martin would say, “Ok, first ...
I know I’m a little late to the party in featuring this article by Jonathan Taplin, but anyone who has not yet read “Sleeping Through a Revolution” should find time to do so. Taplin is a former motion picture and music producer and has for the last 12 years been Director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. This article is ...
Yesterday’s New York Times offers a very well-articulated editorial by media writer David Carr on the larger economic cost of free media. Using an example of buying fresh fruit at a neighborhood stand, Carr questions his own instinct to undervalue the price of a bunch of grapes in context to the way in which so much access to “free stuff” ...
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. … The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip. – Ronald Reagan, The Guardian, 1989 The knowledge and power of the Information Age will be within reach not just of the ...
