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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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What's the Latest Development?

A previously German-only social media site has officially opened to the English-speaking world, showing off its members' knowledge by hosting written articles in a variety of professional fields. The goal of the site, named ExploreB2B, is to generate discussion around those articles with the aid of project boards and virtual industry conferences. According to its founders, the new site improves on LinkedIn by establishing some members as experts on certain topics, reducing the number of duplicate message boards and allowing other users to subscribe to experts' discussions.

What's the Big Idea?

One of ExploreB2B's more interesting features is its crowdsourcing platform for individual business projects. "The site’s project boards can be used to look for specific suppliers, or for help in solving other business problems. Requests for help can also be shared, so people can pass on new business to contacts they know might be interested." The site will also introduce premium features, which are free for now. Among them are an analytics tool which allows the user get a better idea of "who's reading their articles, how they got there and what their interests and industries are."

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