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."
What does it mean for our digital future when the Internet has become a giant game where the goal is to acquire as many fans and followers as quickly as possible, across as many social platforms as possible?
The current retirement system assumes that people must diligently save and invest in order to buy things in the future. But what if people were free to share, barter and swap for these goods?
Individuals, corporations and government organizations are sitting on vast treasure troves of archived data that can be branded and then digitized as tiny propaganda across the Web to support their own agendas.
A manufacturing revolution brought about by new 3D printing technologies could restore the United States as hub for manufacturing jobs—sooner rather than later.
The Web of the immediate future is one that is increasingly visual, empathetic and design-centric. If it had a gender, it would be female.
It’s no longer enough just to have a Big Idea. Now you need to have a Big Idea about how to spread that Big Idea.
It turns out that there are small clusters of innovation being created all over the world, in some places you might least expect.
It almost goes without saying that the recent demise of bookseller Borders, which is in the process of liquidating more than 200 of its superstores around the nation, was inevitable. […]
Avenues: The World School, a exclusive school set to open in 2012 in New York City, will be one of the most forward-looking and global schools on the planet. But will this model fix America’s educational system or just exacerbate inequalities?
As some of you may realize by now, the FORTUNE Innovation Forum will not be taking place in 2007, and that means the Business Innovation Insider, which was launched as […]
Through a process of serendipitous innovation, a team of biomedical researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York may have discovered a new way to attack cancerous […]
First of all, let me say that I love Cirque Du Soleil and I’ve been to one of their shows in New York City and one of their shows in […]
n nThe people in the picture may look like doctors, but they’re actually two small business entrepreneurs from Queens making traditional Colombian flatbreads known as arepas. If you’ve ever spent […]
Gordon Graham of the Broken Bulbs blog points to a nifty little “sloganizer” tool that can be used to come up with all kinds of deliciously offbeat innovation slogans that […]
Yesterday on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal (sub req), Harvard Business School professor Niall Ferguson, author of bestselling books like Colossus and Empire, coined a new word […]
n nCheck out this cool innovation event sponsored by IBM next week in Boston: “The Dawning of the Age of Experience.” (Hat tip: Scott Janousek) Experience design is no longer […]
Being able to tap into the innovation occurring at the Bottom of the Pyramid was one of the themes of C.K. Prahalad’s breakthrough book in 2004, as he explored ways […]
In the Wall Street Journal (sorry, no link available), Kevin J. Delaney explains how companies of all sizes are mining search engine data to come up with innovative new product […]
n nnnn nIf you’ve been tracking the business innovation space over the past year or so, you’re probably aware that Scott Berkun is working on a new book about innovation […]
For years, researchers have known about the existence of Junk DNA – long sequences of DNA for which no known purpose or function has been identified. In some cases, this […]
Many would claim that “innovation” remains the hottest buzzword in business today. Yet, according to this graphical chart from Google Trends (which measures the popularity of certain search requests), it […]
n nOver at the Great Human Capital blog, Margaret Wheatley has written a beautifully moving description of innovation that ties in to many of the themes that will appear here […]
Langdon Morris, author of the book Permanent Innovation, has just posted the latest results of an online survey on innovation that was conducted by Innovation Labs during November and December. […]
Now is your chance to ask Donald Trump any question you want – preferably about innovation or creativity, but if you want to know something about Melanie, hey, that’s your […]
Fortress Investment Group, the first-ever hedge fund IPO, starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. If you don’t already have your hard-earned dollars (or euros) tucked away in […]
This case study of Disney kicks off what I hope becomes a regular series on business innovation that I’m calling “Survival of the Most Innovative.” (an obvious reference to the […]
One of the most interesting examples in Malcolm Gladwell‘s landmark book The Tipping Point was the case of shoe retailer Hush Puppies, which experienced a hipster revival in the mid-1990s, […]
Obviously spooked by the prospect that Americans might finally embrace alternative energy sources like ethanol, the oil industry is mounting a massive PR campaign based around “innovation” to get out […]
n nWhen it comes to innovation, is it too much of a simplification to say that there are two types of people — creationists and evolutionists? Creationists believe that most […]
n nIdeas are the life-blood of the innovation community. With that in mind, over on the Principled Innovation blog, Jeff De Cagna announces the launch of a new series of […]