Unpossible
‘Post-truth’ was named the Oxford Dictionary word of the year. No fitting word reflects the strangeness of 2016 with the
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Lost together
Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need
Read moreThe New Zombie
Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.
Read moreShaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism
Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media
Read moreDevelopmental Design and The Innovator’s Mindset
Blackberry, once the ‘must have’ device is no longer so and may no longer even exist. Looking back on how
Read moreThe Job Market Metric In Education
Post-secondary and continuing education is continuing to be rationalized in ways that are transforming the very foundation of the enterprise.
Read moreComplexity and the Senseless Marketing of the Future
Futurists take what we know now and project into the future ideas about things will be like years from today
Read moreDesigning for Resilience
The environmental problems of today require new ways of thinking says a recent Worldchanging post on environmental sustainability and increasingly this looks more like four pillars coming together: design, systems, integration and resilience.
Read moreBack to School and the Lesson of Accumulation
As we go back to school it is time to consider how the stresses of teaching and education build up over time and why it might be worth re-thinking its impact.
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