Pizza Palace Revolt
Opening Insights: Leaders Beware Et tu Brute?WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar At one time all roads led to Rome, but due to a corrosive and out-of-control national culture, Rome fell, and then it vanished. History doesn't [...]
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And You Think You’re Not Being Manipulated
Opening Insights: What is Real? The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have createdare destroying how society works—no civil discourse, no coöperation,misinformation, mistruth.... I feel tremendous guilt. I think we all knewin the back of [...]
Ditch the Smartphone
Opening Insights: A Brain Prosthetic The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk aboutis that things just might have been better before the Internet.We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text [...]
UAS for Socially Responsible Agriculture
Opening Insights: Cultivating People The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops,but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.MASANOBU FUKUOKA, The One-Straw Revolution Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), or drones, are changing the [...]
Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dancer?
Opening Insights: Is it Real? Don't worry that children never listen to you;worry that they are always watching you.ROBERT FULGHUM We live in a strange world. It's a reality that most of us have come [...]
Unabashed Partisan Favoritism
Opening Insights: Role Change Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive.A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to [...]
Launching a Platform: Leveraging Your Impact with AI+BI+HI (Part IV)
Offering a Social Change Perspective Cyndi Suarez is back with the last of four articles describing the value of platforms, how to integrate them and the value they add to your operational strategy. This ongoing [...]
Launching a Platform: Leveraging Your Impact with AI+BI+HI (Part II)
A Platform for Organizational Sustainability Cyndi Suarez presents the second of four articles describing the value of platforms, how to choose a platform type and then build it. This ongoing discussion is intended to illustrate [...]
It’s Not Enough to Disagree
Opening Insights: Friends to Enemies Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.GROUCHO MARX Let's say that you and I meet at a restaurant. This [...]
Giving Google Greater Access – To YOU
Opening Insights: How Much is Too Much Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police [...]
Online Spaces for People
Opening Insights: Digital Spaces Humanity moves forward when we find new waysto rely on and understand and trust each other.ELI PARISER Most of the places we go online to meet and share the human condition [...]
Replacing Human Relationships
Opening Insights: Artificially Human I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight,maybe at the national and international level,just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.I mean with artificial [...]
“Mission and Values Change the Game”
Opening Insights: To Be of Values It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.ROY DISNEY The world of business is one of strategy and competition, where innovators toil to gain [...]
Freedom of Speech for Approved Speakers Only
Opening Insights: Freedom for Most Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nationmust begin by subduing the freeness of speech.BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Every now and then an article is written that illustrates the undiluted chaotic peril [...]
Orwell – Legacy of a Visionary
Opening Insights: Legacy that Lives On Who controls the past controls the future:who controls the present controls the past.GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 It would be too easy to plunge into the details of George Orwell's satirical [...]
Looking Beyond the Horizon
Opening Insights: A Case for Impeachment The difference between a politician and a statesman isthat a politician thinks about the next electionwhile the statesman think about the next generation.JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE As the fervor intensifies […]
Education Debacle
Opening Insights: Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders Education is the passport to the future,for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.MALCOLM X A narrative circulating since the early 90’s tells of the US K-12 education […]
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The Youth are Getting Angrier
Opening Insights: Catalyst for Change There are two things a person should never be angry at,what they can help,and what they cannot.PLATO Anger gathers on the horizon like storm clouds. Soon there will be lightning […]
Google Search Now Picks Up on Context
Opening Insights: Knowledge is Power Technology is, of course, a double edged sword.Fire can cook our food but also burn us.JASON SILVA Google is getting smarter. Through improvements to its search function it has taken […]