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Big ideas are lenses for envisioning the future. Every article and video on bigthink.com and on our learning platforms is based on an emerging “big idea” that is significant, widely relevant, and actionable. We’re sifting the noise for the questions and insights that have the power to change all of our lives, for decades to come. For example, reverse-engineering is a big idea in that the concept is increasingly useful across multiple disciplines, from education to nanotechnology.

Themes are the seven broad umbrellas under which we organize the hundreds of big ideas that populate Big Think. They include New World Order, Earth and Beyond, 21st Century Living, Going Mental, Extreme Biology, Power and Influence, and Inventing the Future.

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Reverse-Innovation

Countries in which cultural and economic activity is in the process of rapid growth and industrialization

New World Order

No E-Book For You, Says Stephen King

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3 days ago

What's the Latest Development? Once considered a pioneer in digital publishing when he offered a short story solely in e-book format back in 2000, Stephen King has announced that his latest novel, Joyland, will be released solely as a physical book starting June 4. Although Amazon does have it ...

New World Order

China: The Descending Dragon

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about 1 year ago

What is the Big Idea? China's growth is slowing. Its economy expanded at 8.1 percent during the first quarter, which is significantly slower than the previous quarters and a disappointment compared to the last decade of double digit growth.  There are two main reasons for the cool down ...

New World Order

Myanmar's Long Road To Reform

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about 1 year ago

What is the Big Idea? After years of political and economic deadlock, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) is coming out of stagnation at a dizzying speed. Since he took office in March 2011, President Thein Sein released a number of political prisoners and took steps to reform the economy. And ...

New World Order

Asia's Next Economic Frontier

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about 1 year ago

What is the Big Idea? While the world was celebrating Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's party's victory in Sunday's special elections in Myanmar, a new currency exchange rate went into effect.  Effective April 1, the exchange rate is now at 818 kyat to the dollar and the country is ...

New World Order

The Middle Man Takes Center Stage

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about 1 year ago

What’s the Big Idea?  Want to scare a book publisher, a record store owner, or even a doctor? Creep up behind her and shout: disintermediation! This is the term du jour for "cutting out the middle man," which happens any time a producer of something - a writer, a band, or a pharmaceutical ...