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...
Read Now14 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...
Read Now03 2024 May
Playgrounds and Swing Sets Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore
Here’s a radical thought that really shouldn’t be: what if playgrounds were designed for teenagers instead of younger kids? At the Anna C. Verna Playground...
Read Now26 2024 April
Why Industrial Tourism Is One of the Fastest Growing Trends in Travel
Portugal is one of several countries investing big into industrial tourism – a term that describes experiences where travelers can visit factories to see how products get...
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 Now18 2024 April
Meet Tupperware: The Slowly Fading Brand That Should Have Won the Nostalgia Trend
Tupperware parties were a thing; once so iconic that they symbolized an entire cultural movement of work-from-home (mostly) female entrepreneurs in a time when opportunities...
Read Now15 2024 April
Augmented Reality Comes to Sports, Thanks to Wrestlemania
Last weekend The Rock made his return to wrestling and a “new era” for the sport was on display at WWE’s Wrestlemania 40 event. The...
Read Now11 2024 April
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 Now10 2024 April
The App That Recreates Social Media’s Dopamine Hits Without Actually Letting You Post Anything
One of the irresistible allures of social media has always been the dopamine hit from people engaging with the things that you post. Getting likes feels good....
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 Now03 2024 April
What The “Bridesmaid Burnout” Tells Us About the Future of Friendship
Back in early Fall of 2023, Glamour magazine launched a series of articles on the topic of “bridesmaid burnout.” Inspired by the spiraling demands of time, money...
Read Now22 2024 March
Facebook Brought Back the “Poke” Button … Here’s Why So Many People Started Using It Again
About a decade ago in a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg once wrote “we thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no...
Read Now