Op-Ed Columnist - The Do-It-Yourself Economy - NYTimes.com
The Great Inflection is the mass diffusion of low-cost, high-powered innovation technologies — from hand-held computers to Web sites that offer any imaginable service — plus cheap connectivity. They are transforming how business is done

Dimensions of design/Against ahistoricity « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
You can learn to do a decent card sort (excuse me: “content affinity analysis”) in ten minutes, and work competently with Arduino in a good solid month of effort, but if you’re genuinely concerned with improving the quality of interactive...

Inside Art - Reality Leaves a Fingerprint on the Biennial - NYTimes.com
The 2010 edition of the Whitney Biennial — that giant survey of American art on the Upper East Side of Manhattan — will not only try to chronicle current goings-on in contemporary art, but it will also reflect the world at large. Thus, in these...

Museums Were Blinded by the Boom, Critics Say - NYTimes.com
the economic downturn has reined in a lot of these big dreams and has also led to questions about whether ambitious building projects from Buffalo to Berkeley ever made sense to begin with. Some critics are arguing that arts administrators and their...

Technology Horizons' 2010 Research Agenda: Humans in a Designed World—Transforming Experiences and Environments | Technology Horizons' 2010 Research Agenda: Humans in a Designed World—Transforming Experiences and Environments | Institute For The Fut
Over the next decade we will find ourselves living in a world in which everything is programmable—an environment permeated with vast amounts of data, analytics, algorithms, code of all kinds, and automated actions. In this world social networks,...

How the Bazaar by Jose Andres Is Changing Restaurants - WSJ.com
A new model is changing the dining landscape across the country. The rise of small plates, big bars and hotel restaurants.

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The Path to Prosperity - DBusiness - November/December 2009 - Detroit, MI
If Michigan is to flourish in the Information Age, it must shed its Rust Belt tendencies, attract and retain more college graduates, and offer great places to live, work, and play

The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach | Fast Company
Design Within Reach's brand remains strong, but its business is a mess. Once a pioneering online retailer, it looks today more like an old-fashioned brick-and-mortar operation.

How Web 2.0 is changing the way we work Andrew McAfee - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Strategy
Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way companies do business. But can these tools help them achieve their goals?

Endless Innovation: The New Way to Work: Top 5 Trends to Watch in 2010
there are five macro trends that will be shaping a New Way to Work in 2010 and beyond. Together, these five trends point to a New Way To Work in which creativity and innovation are more valued by employers than ever before and the traditional notion of...

When the Fat Lady Sings: The Fate of Commercial Real Estate | Newgeography.com
So what happens to commercial real estate?

Action, In Words and Pictures | GOOD
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change.

Five Ways to Change the World : Places: Design Observer
So you want to change the world? Start by changing the built environment. Buildings shape our experience and open up or close down possibilities for life. Hardly anyone gets to realize his or her visions for transforming society, but activism through...

GM may move 1,500 jobs from Renaissance Center | freep.com | Detroit Free Press
GM seeks state tax breaks to keep workers in Detroit

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