We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and why? Big Think is an evolving roadmap to the best thinking on the planet — the ideas that can help you think flexibly and act decisively in a multivariate world.
A word about Big Ideas and Themes — The architecture of Big Think
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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Technologies that amplify the best of human nature
What’s the Big Idea? As Silicon Valley startups race to develop the next generation of online marketing tools – new software based on sophisticated algorithms that will leverage the information of Facebook’s soon-to-be 1 billion users to put products in front of just the right consumer at just ...
This stuff is about your health, not about productivity or politics or fact checking. I think that having a healthy information diet will actually make you live longer and having a poor information diet will kill you faster. – Clay Johnson What’s the Big ...
What's the Big Idea? Visit Gizmodo, Wired, TechCrunch, or Engadget, or talk to "epiphany addict" Jason Silva, and a bracing wave of techno-optimism will wash over you. The future, you'll feel, will be a place of seamless, harmonious interconnectedness in which humans, separated for millennia by ...
We have all experienced “dehumanizing” technology – software or hardware that seems to diminish our ability to communicate with others or to function effectively in the world. Technology that creates new boundaries between people rather than erasing old ones. With this in mind, Big Think is ...
What's the Big Idea? Is technology humanizing? For Peter Diamandis, a technology optimist and the author of the new bestseller, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think , the answer is a resounding yes. "We’re living as emperors and kings would have lived 100 years ago and we take it for ...