What is Big Think?

We are Big Idea Hunters…

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?

Entrepreneur Jeff Slobotski is hard at work making America's Great Plains the next region of technological innovation. With Silicon Alley and Silicon Valley well-established, Slobotski believes that cities like Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City may form the backbone of a new generation of tech start ups. "What has made Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Austin or Boulder different are not the exact same things that will make the Omaha, Des Moines and the Kansas City regions successful. If we want to change American cities, we need to start by increasing the connections in our own backyards."

What's the Big Idea?

Slobotski offers some tips for bringing together your community and concentrating resources in a way that will help entrepreneurs, investors, mentors and stakeholders: "One of the first steps we identified as being pivotal to developing and consistently building our community is to identify a community champion... If something is not being done, then it falls upon you to create the change you want to see. ... The next step in building a community is to have a distribution channel to share information through events, profiles or stories. For us this was, and continues to be, the Silicon Prairie News website."

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