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The ability now to create a company is so much more efficient because you don’t have to like guess in advance what you’re going to be able to do with it.
The public gains made by AI, such as beating chess champions and winning Jeopardy tournaments, have ironically also demonstrated its limits.
Do you know what a “tiger mom” is? Does the phrase “the tipping point” immediately bring Malcolm Gladwell to mind? “Idea entrepreneurs,” argues John Butman, are a new and influential breed, driven primarily by passion for an idea and the desire to spread it.
A few months ago I posted a piece on the alarming resurgence in the use of lie detectors in the UK and the US. A new documentary looks at the use […]
“The idea is that education is moving away from a centralized physical location and more to somewhere students can learn from anywhere.”
It’s the most natural thing in the world – for an American parent especially – to praise a child for her intelligence or talent, rather than for how hard she […]
Ultimately we’re never going to get people used to the rate of exponential change. Humans will always be somewhat resistant to it.
As I explained a couple of years ago, I lost interest in talking up Constitution Day when the government said we at colleges that get federal money are required to […]
“You can’t live or die every day thinking about redemption,” a self-reflective Eliot Spitzer told Big Think in 2010.
It’s the first time such conspicuous planning has been observed in the field — in this case, Sumatra — among non-human primates.
As we take seats at that table we have different perspectives.
“I do not know whether I shall return from my long weekend trip alive,” the mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport once wrote. “But I do know that the number of traffic […]
As Penn Jillettesaid right here on BigThink.com, “Reading the Bible (or the Koran, or the Torah) will make you an atheist.” Of course, just reading the Bible itself—all 66 canonical […]
The key fundamental aspect of being a good business leader is that you want to initiate.
It’s the collaboration between the DNA from all your ancestors that keeps you alive.
Companies need to test their most interesting people now, to get them ready to take over soon. The markets demand this, and ignoring the markets is always foolhardy.
Honda is using existing vehicle-to-vehicle systems to create a network in which data broadcast and received by both cars and pedestrians will help prevent accidents.
A hawk is somebody who wants to keep all the data and a dove is somebody who says no, we need to anonymize it.
Google has always been alert to the danger of advertising and even accepting advertising at all because it might corrupt or lead the people running the search engine to want to corrupt the results in favor of advertisers.
Health is not going to come from the health care system. Health is going to come from each one of us where we live, eat, work, play and pray focusing on how to do the right thing.
I just read an alarming piece on what the world will look like, possibly soon, when the efficacy of our current arsenal of antibiotics really starts to fade. There […]
Many Americans seem to hold on to a romanticized portrait of Columbus even when they are exposed to his dark side.
Human beings or businesses are global and human beings are semi-movable. That creates a real challenge, especially when you move into the realm of digital businesses.
The more complex challenge you have, the more relationship matters, the depth of the relationship between the teachers and student.
It doesn’t take a study to explain that being better able to listen to and understand others will make you more successful in your career and your relationships.
Here’s what two excellent sociologists have concluded about marriage today: Thanks to falling working-class wages, the outsourcing of American manufacturing, the thinning of company benefits, and the rise of part-time […]
The Stories They Tell celebrates “September 12th thinking” at its best—a generosity of the spirit, a heroism within us all, and a strength to continue moving forward despite the terrible knowledge that the anarchy and insanity that spawned the attacks exists in our world.
The anticipated pain and the fear of what might happen by coming out is less scary than a life in the closet.
My research shows that for each additional job in a high-tech company in a local community, you create about five additional jobs outside high-tech in that community.