innovation

This independent zone, with its own regulations and social norms, will be built from scratch on 10,231 square miles of untouched land at a cost of $500 billion. 

“Well, technically it did land… just not in once piece.”

It’s an incredibly exciting time to be alive, especially if you’re an explorer. We may have been to almost every point on the globe, but there is so much left to understand.

This infographic, by Anna Vital from Funders and Founders, recaps the significant moments of Steve Jobs’ journey on, and sometimes off, the path of success. 

Illinois passed a bill that could abolish AT&T’s obligation to provide the state’s citizens with landline telephone services.

Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.

Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.

A new paper suggests population size and migration explain the sudden bursts of innovation seen 50,000 years ago.

From Abraham Lincoln’s founding of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, to the US currently leading the world in the Nobel Prize count (a third of which we owe to immigrants), America was built on science. What happens when we doubt and defund it?

Humans worship at the altar of excellence, but is our complete obsession with this “quality controlled” mode of intellect holding us back?

Skepticism has a place, but it’s optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.

What if we build from the sky down? NYC architects release designs for a skyscraper that would hang from an asteroid and travel between hemispheres.

The ‘Project Wing’ drone system is going to change life as we know it—and inadvertently fix all your storage problems. rn

As its CEO, Bill Nye lays out the missions The Planetary Society would like to see NASA focus on over the next 20 years. NASA by nature goes where the future is, and Nye can’t help but think of another industry that should follow suit.

Disney does more than make cute movies. Researchers from its innovation branch want to turn your living room into a magnetic field. 

These glycerin “smart glasses” may be the only specs you’ll need – although they do need a design intervention at some point.

Astro Teller’s innovation tip? Fail fast. Here’s how he cultivates and rewards intellectually honest failures, and helps his team get comfortable with the idea.

Universal Basic Income an expensive system to be sure, but social justice commentator Eva Cox argues that the societal returns will be worth the investment.  

Kimo Kippen is the Former Chief Learning Officer for Hilton Worldwide. What’s his view on Airbnb? He sums it up in one word: excited.

The most impactful technology inventions in history are ranked.

Visionaries know why they get out of bed each day. Do you? Ethnographer and leadership expert Simon Sinek explains how to find direction and fulfillment in your personal and professional life.

A “needs statement” is the core element and guiding force for such an innovative endeavor, says Stanford Professor Paul Yock.   

Are you a maverick or are you a mouse? Author Julian Guthrie brings us one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time in ‘How to Make a Spaceship’.

The CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation lays out three tools to boost innovative ideas and re-draw the frontiers of business and creativity.

No pep talks here, just a prediction by innovation expert Alec Ross that gene code and precision medicine is set revolutionize life the same way that computer code has.

From a personal tutoring service for his young cousin, Salman Khan’s company Khan Academy has grown exponentially into a massive, global, online engine for learning.

Should you invest in Bitcoin? Maybe not, says Brad Templeton, but that doesn’t mean the digital currency isn’t amazing in and of itself. Templeton explains what Bitcoin achieves and how it will lead to further innovation.

Chris Anderson, curator of TED Talks, explains how the plummeting price of bandwidth about a decade ago opened opportunities for new innovation to grow.

The CEO of Crowdfunder discusses disruption of the early stage finance process by way of exponential technology while also explaining the benefits of helping young entrepreneurs compete at scale.

Uber is an example of an exponential company that harness technology to revolutionize whole industries.