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Milton Glaser has no problem with mediums that limit design potential—they can produce great work—but he worries that technology is removing the most powerful instrument of art from the equation: […]

Does sexuality impact the world of professional bonding? Internet entrepreneur Peter Sisson weighs in on the issue. This video is part of a “Profiles in Entrepreneurship” series with Start Out, […]

Wine Library TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk alerts the wine industry of major changes being brought on by new media and social media, but defends the old guard – Robert Parker and […]

In 2005, The New York Times revealed that under a presidential order signed in 2002, the National Security Agency (NSA) had been monitoring the phone calls, e-mails, and internet traffic […]

The social networking site Twitter has taken off this year. According to Alexa it is now the 15th-most widely used site on the web. Its micro-blogging format—users post 140 character […]

It’s startling to think that a six-foot one-inch, 230-pound football star can be undone by 140 little characters, but that’s exactly what happened to Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry […]

Europe’s obsession with tradition has made its venture into the Internet age a relatively slow one. BigThink recently posted about Italy’s troubles with censorship, blogging and the government’s tight grip […]

Al-Jazeera English Television celebrated its fourth birthday at the end of last year.  Launched with much fanfare, albeit after an eighteen month delay, the channel that promised to tread where […]

Margot Wallström believes the Internet and social media have strengthened democracy in both the EU and the United States.

Whether you like it or not, you have a personal brand. Wine Library TV host Gary Vaynerchuk, one of the Internet’s most successful social media operators, tells Big Think how […]

Fittingly, it was my wife who pointed me to a great little story in the Washington Post about how some women in India are refusing to get married until the […]

When Nigeria handed over a disputed peninsula to Cameroon last year, it looked a lot like a happy ending — a war averted and, in the words of the United […]

Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.

Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.

Gary Vaynerchuk is “not here to joke around” when it comes to employing social media such as Facebook and Twitter to build his brand. The Internet has created a whole […]

Some career journalists must feel like disenfranchised aristocracy. The high overhead of printing and distribution used to make quality content as rare, and therefore as valuable, as gold. But today, […]

Google’s threat to exit China, due in part to severe government censorship, indicates yet another failure of state officials to grapple with unprecedented complexities of regulating the internet.

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Technology and media bloggers have been quick to declare the death of print, both in newspaper and book format. The bold new future will come to us through e-readers like […]

Technological change captures attention in every era, exciting dreams (and nightmares) about the future, filling histories and literature with stories about its powerful effects. The newest and most impressive devices […]

Valerie Steele is a fashion historian and the chief curator of the Museum at FIT. She stopped by Big Think last week to talk about the “F” word– fashion, that […]

Author Gay Talese came by Big Think this afternoon and spoke to us about marriage, the subject of his next  book.  He is writing about his own half-century-long (and still […]

When Gary Vaynerchuk visited Big Think to talk about wine and the new media revolution, he stressed the facts that there are many podcast niches waiting to filled by enthusiasts […]

A discussion with the professor and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Big Thinker and Harper’s Magazine editor Bill Wasik appeared today in a New York Times op-ed musing upon the waning lure of New York City to young creatives.  The replacement?  […]

Each day the Internet feels like a newly published set of encyclopedias. So much new content, only about 16 waking hours to take it in, and really it’s only a […]

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I’m bursting with things I want to share here today. But we’ve got a new look and new blog names, so I want to start by explaining what to expect […]

If you didn’t know about the magnitude of the Google Library Project, you’re not alone. In 1994, Google began approaching major libraries offering to digitize their stacks with an eye […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its opinion on Google Book’s proposed settlement with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers concerning its massive digitization project which aspires […]