Dominic Basulto
Digital Thinker, Electric Artists
Dominic Basulto is a digital thinker at Electric Artists in New York and a contributor to The Washington Post's Ideas@Innovations blog. He is working on a manuscript of a new book on innovation called "Endless Innovation, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful."
On June 14, the day designated as Titanic Takeover Tuesday, a group of hackers known as LulzSec took down the website of the CIA, hacked into 62,000 email accounts and […]
Heading into one of the first major Presidential debates of the 2012 election campaign, it’s time to ask: What role will social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube play […]
The latest great announcement by Steve Jobs, eagerly awaited by the Apple faithful, was not a shiny new product like the next iPhone or iPad – it was something much […]
The U.S. has gone to war over the surprise attack of its naval fleet in Pearl Harbor, the torpedo attack on warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, and indiscriminate attacks […]
The past two weeks have seen a whirlwind of innovation in the music industry – everything from Amazon.com’s $0.99 blowout offer for Lady Gaga’s new album to Apple’s decision to […]
As much as the car chieftains of Detroit try to fight it, America is slowly but surely turning away from the concept of car ownership. Instead, hundreds of thousands of […]
After 25 years, Oprah Winfrey’s history-making TV show has come to an end – and so has The Era of the Analog Celebrity. In many ways, Oprah defined what it […]
Now that we’ve had time to reflect on the daring attack on Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani compound by Navy SEAL Team 6, it’s been fascinating to hear about all the […]
Ahead of the formal G8 summit this week in northern France, the world’s technology visionaries are gathering in Paris to meet with the G8 leaders to discuss the future of […]
The same people who brought you Wikileaks are back, and this time, they’ve created a virtual currency called Bitcoin that could destabilize the entire global financial system. Bitcoin is an […]
The technology world is all about tipping points, and last month marked the first time ever that a mobile phone (the iPhone 4) became the most popular camera on the […]
After seeing how mobile and social networking technologies led to popular revolutions in places like Tunisia and Egypt, is it possible that we’ll soon see a similar type of revolution inour own backyard?
Hedonistic Sustainability is not an intellectual paradox. It is, instead, the latest and most exciting evolution of the green movement that is just now coming into its own as a […]
Have you noticed that something in the digital zeitgeist has changed the way we think about creativity and commerce? Artists are no longer just “artists” – they are now entrepreneurs, […]
Ever wanted to travel back in time to your favorite city and imagine how it actually existed hundreds of years ago? Or hear the stories of a city’s residents in […]
For years, architects and urban planners have occupied themselves with dreaming up clever new ways to revitalize America’s deteriorating urban centers – transforming warehouses into upscale lofts, finding creative new […]
After the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center this week, there will only be one more space shuttle mission left before the era of NASA’s manned […]
If you think about any of the most popular Internet start-ups that have appeared on the public radar within the past year, they all share one unique characteristic: they are […]
We are living in an unprecedented era in which personal data about our digital identity, our online activity, our financial dealings, our geo-location and even our Social Graph – is widely available […]
Forget the mouse and keyboard, and even the swipe, pinch and touch – the next generation of human-computer interactions will be the gesture, the body movement and even thoughts from […]
The Allen Human Brain Atlas could launch a type of neuro-scientific Renaissance that finally decodes the mysteries within our minds.
The far-reaching political changes that have occurred across the Middle East might actually have been predicted by looking at the data about the rapid pace of technological development in the region.
The next great billion-dollar concept on the Web might just involve airbed mattresses, second-hand couches and the ability to swap and share local accommodations on a global scale. A group […]
One of the hottest ideas in business and technology is the idea of leveraging gaming technology to solve real world problems. Now is the time for the healthcare industry to take notice.
Bringing philosophers into the corporation is not an entirely new idea. But in our new era of computational power the Philosopher-Kings will be determining how each of us lives, thinks and feels.
Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth. In the same way, it might be quaint one day to believe that everything once revolved around the PC rather than the mobile device.
Wall Street investment banks will begin trading a new type of exotic financial instrument in which the underlying cash flows of an artist's creative works are re-packaged into off-balance sheet derivatives
Design Thinking is one of the most fashionable concepts in the innovation world these days. But could it really save industries that are on the fast road to extinction?
If it lives up to its initial promise, the much-ballyhooed new app Color represents a fundamentally new type of mobile social network that, in many ways, is almost the polar opposite of Facebook. What’s so radical about it? For one, Color has done away entirely with the notion of the Friend.
At one time, it seemed inconceivable that Detroit—the leading automotive center in the world—could ever lose its place on the world stage. But what if Silicon Valley is not ready for the Post-Silicon Era?