Context 1.0

Ryan Singel, late of Wired, has left the magazine to work full-time on a new…

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Do the right thing

I'm continuing to write a set of Sunday posts that revisit in turn the ideas…

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Thinking globally

Last Saturday, Tom McCraw, one of my instructors when I attended Harvard Business School, passed…

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Cults of authority

Last month, I wrote a post about IAC's recent decision to stop producing a print…

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Community organizers

[What follows is an update to "The library within us". As the introduction notes, I've…

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The engagement economy

The third section of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto includes a chapter, “The Engagement Economy”, written…

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Election day

More than twenty years ago, Greil Marcus published Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural…

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Having enough

I'm continuing to write a set of Sunday posts that revisit in turn the ideas…

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