Jon Iwata, IBM’s senior vice president of Marketing & Communications, explains why freedom is the best social media policy for employees.
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For those of us young enough to have grown up in a world in which the internet has always been a thing, these maps of the web from 10-15 years ago are practically relics from an ancient time.
Everyone you pass on the street, each person you drive by every day, has a story as well. To claim their death is not worth noticing is to say that their life was not worth living. And that’s too bad, because interdependence is something we all rely on every single day, knowingly or not.
Tech entrepreneur Brad Templeton returns to Big Think to discuss how Bitcoin disrupts the finance industry.
In my personal auditory life, and apparently in that of many of my fellow humans right now, there’s a podcast revolution going on. Why this? Why now?
The future of Facebook may be as a major content-host. Instead of clicking links to visit outside sites, much of what you read on the web could soon be within Mark Zuckerberg’s domain.
The bombshell announcement that Rolling Stone was backing away from its University of Virginia rape story has opened a societal window to the nature of story corrections and how publications handle journalistic errors.
The greatest international internet meme war dates back to 2005. Many brave pixels were wounded. “I didn’t know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get […]
Before you trash those old electronics, you may want to give some thought to how this old device could better your own or someone else’s life. Consider some alternative ways to recycle and reuse old tech.
Loneliness isn’t just for the elderly, more adults 18 to 24 report these feelings of isolation, which make people depressed, stand-offish, and untrustworthy. So, how can you cure the lonely?
A viral music video featuring several fascinating sound experiments is making its rounds across the internet this week. The song title, “Cymatics,” refers to the science of visualizing audio frequencies.
When cultural commentators remark on the dangers of technology, they are not all Luddites by trade.
In a move described as an effort to prevent “cultural and linguistic chaos,” China’s State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has banned puns and other forms of “misleading” wordplay. Critics of this decision say the government is just trying to crack down on jokes about poor leadership.
You have two choices when raising your kids in the internet age: shield them from the online bad or actively prepare them to be good e-citizens. While the former is easier and feels more safe, the latter will better serve the child through adulthood.
Ayah Bdeir had a dream – take electronics out of the hands of experts and large companies and put them in the hands of ordinary people in order to make […]
A second scientific experiment, this time in America, has established that telepathy is possible.
Xapo CEO Wences Casares calls Bitcoin “maybe the most important social experiment going on right now” that could one day replace the gold standard.
Just because there is more information available doesn’t ensure that we make more informed choices. The modern media provide information in ways that play right into the brain’s instinct to do as little work as possible, including the work of getting that information, and thinking carefully about it.
People who leave comments in online forums to deliberately provoke angry and emotional reactions from others are not much nicer in real life, according to a study published in the journal Identity and Personal Differences.
Bestselling author Daniel H. Pink explains that just because fewer people occupy job positions called “salesperson” doesn’t mean members of the workforce are doing any less selling.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web 25 years ago, spoke this weekend about the need for more MPs who know how to code.
“We went, and by we I meant all of us, we went and built this wonderful Internet thing you’ve heard of…. But what has the government done and what has […]
It’s a classic idea in both Psychology and Economics that when things get cheaper or easier to do they get done more often. While this is an idea sculpted out […]
There’s nothing like signing up for a random chat… and winding up with an improv serenade! “I created this project for fun. Initially, I had no business goals with it. […]
Created during the 1980s to serve as a bridge between PG and R, the MPAA’s PG-13 rating has become a joke, says film critic Chris Klimek. He argues that shooting for a PG-13 rating promotes artistic conservatism and draconian content standards.
To what degree are you allowed the privacy to grieve the loss of a family member? Christos Catsouras found out in October 2006. His 18-year-old daughter, Nikki, died after slamming […]
Leila Janah, founder and CEO of the non-profit business Samasource, describes the organization’s core concept as a way for technology “to unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside.” Sometimes […]
A map of Africa displaying Ebola’s limited geographical reach seeks to educate the internet about the ridiculousness of ostracizing people who have recently returned from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Researchers at the University of Washington have devised a way for battery-free devices to skim a connective link from errant WiFi signals, potentially increasing the reach of the Internet of Things to include just about any thing.