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TECH & INNOVATION: How to get metadata right

Metadata can become coherent once you use the right tools.

TECH & INNOVATION: Metadata—The information behind the information

The hidden helper that can also reveal more than you expect.

TECH & INNOVATION: Seeking a model way to sustain cultural creativity

What makes culture valuable is precisely what makes it difficult to support.

TECH & INNOVATION: The breath behind the story

Numbers don’t lie, but they don’t sing either.

TECH & INNOVATION: Finance, narratives, and bubbles

It is simply easier to tell a story than to deliver a product. What to do when storytelling outruns substance.

TECH & INNOVATION: Books, cake and the cloud

How the new publishing ecosystem works for authors and readers alike.

TECH & INNOVATION: Our world has changed

Many of the systems, beliefs, and habits we rely on were built for a world that no longer exists. That is why so many of our institutions feel out of sync and why so many people feel disoriented.

TECH & INNOVATION: The new way to validate a hypothesis

How imagination meets experiment in the modern creative process.

TECH & INNOVATION: Long Arc Economics

It takes a long time to make anything real happen.

TECH & INNOVATION: From inspiration to impact

Being creative is not enough; you need to get it out there for others to share.

TECH & INNOVATION: The paradox of prosperity

Psychologists refer to the existence of too many choices as choice overload. This is where we live right now!

TECH & INNOVATION: When unsustainable systems collapse

When collapse comes, renewal follows and each time it comes faster and faster.

TECH & INNOVATION: Short attention spans

Creators create meaning for themselves by sticking with projects longer. Consumers with short attention spans pursue instant gratification. t

TECH & INNOVATION: Broadcasting learning, streaming culture

Culture is no longer bound by walls or geography. Streaming and community broadcasting together create a hybrid model that connects the local and the global, transforming concerts, galleries, and classrooms into shared experiences that both educate and inspire.

TECH & INNOVATION: Deeper structures

While melodies, like individual voices, capture our attention, it's the underlying harmonic progressions that create lasting impact and infinite possibilities in music, leadership, innovation, and society.

TECH & INNOVATION: Tools of freedom, walls of power

Wealth, influence, and decision-making power are concentrating faster than ever in a smaller number of companies, platforms, and individuals. This is not just a tech story. It is a shift that affects markets, politics, and daily life.

TECH & INNOVATION: Innovation diplomacy

Why the rules of innovation apply to diplomacy.