22 2024 May
How To Overhaul Presidential Debates? Stop Pretending it’s a Debate.
This past week both political parties agreed to hold a Presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump. Many observers are already criticizing it as a...
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20 2024 May
Should All Celebrities Be Advocates?
Earlier this month, a campaign on TikTok known as Blockout 2024 was launched as a response to tone-deaf social media posts from celebrities and online...
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14 2024 May
Imagining the Future of Hip Hop and Art in 50 Years
The day after the Met Gala, the Internet was flooded with deep fakes of celebrities who weren’t there, wearing things they never wore. Some of them...
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13 2024 May
The Most Idiotic Idea in America Is Getting Worse … and No One Seems Ready to Change It
Here’s an oversimplified but basically accurate sales pitch for publicly funded stadiums: you (the taxpayer) give millions of dollars in tax incentives to pay for...
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01 2024 May
What The New Ban on Non-Competes Actually Means for Companies
This week the FTC issued a rule this week that bans non-compete clauses, estimating that up to 8,500 new startups will be created as a result...
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30 2024 April
How Water Flipping, Excess Solar Energy and Shifting Hydropower Stations Show Us the Future Is All About Water
The skies were orange above Athens and that was just one of several climate and energy related stories this week that offered a glimpse into stories we...
Read Now25 2024 April
Detroit Rides “Post Bankruptcy Energy” To Become America’s Most Unlikely Boomtown, According to WSJ
About ten years ago, no one would have said the city of Detroit would be sitting at the perfect crossroads of multiple urban trends. Around...
Read Now12 2024 April
Should Prisoners Be Allowed to Use Social Media? Inside the #JailTok Movement and Debate
There is legislation under consideration in the UK that would have “harmful content filmed inside prisons removed from social media platforms more quickly.” It stems from a...
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Aruba Becomes First Nation to Use the Internet Archive to Back up Their Entire History
The Indigenous population of Aruba was first colonized by the Spanish, and then the Dutch – which has given the Caribbean island a diverse history....
Read Now09 2024 April
AXA’s New Foresight Report Offers 100 Reasons to Love the Future
There are plenty of futurists who will offer you a list of all the ways the world can go wrong, and things could be worse....
Read Now08 2024 April
Harper Collins Identifies Eco-Friendly Fonts to Save Thousands of Trees and Reduce Paper Usage
Every few months there are new sustainability stories of the world’s largest brands trying to create less wasteful packaging. Coca-Cola announced a new lighter bottle design this...
Read Now29 2024 March
This Brilliant Nonprofit Might Have the Answer to Solve America’s Political Division
The widely publicized death of local news has created a knowledge and truth void when it comes to very important public questions. Like how are your tax...
Read Now21 2024 March
If Anyone Can Explain The “Weight Loss Revolution” … It Might Be Oprah
The “meta-narrative” of Oprah’s legendary media career has been her weight loss and body image. As a result, she may be the perfect ambassador to...
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