Influx

Philips has always been a company that’s dedicated resources to visioning the future. I’s latest effort for Dutch Design Week is particularly intriguing in the way it integrates microbes and nature into the home. Their idea is to create a home based ecosystem that filters, processes and...

If you had talked to political experts at the beginning of 2011 and they would have told you Americans would never do what Europeans have done for years and take to the streets, but that has now changed with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which with the backing of the Unions has...

Nick Carr has a great response to the buzz and attention surrounding Amazon’s new e-reader launches and points out a fact about the changed reading experience they want to bring about. “The video is something of a Rorschach test. A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance....

There was further proof of America’s decline in the recent Global Competitiveness Report from the World Economic Forum, it showed America slipping from 4th to 5th in the world. If America is looking to re-invent itself on the global stage and it’s clear that ingenuity and creativity...

When the government of Ecuador puts a gun to the world’s head and says ‘Give us $60 million, or we let the oil companies into our rainforests“, the situation is spelled out in black and white; protection of the environment has a price. Ecuador has given the world four months to...

It could easily be argued that computer code and coding is a new language that will be as important as English in the classrooms of the very near future.With technology and the internet becoming such a pervasive part of our lives, ideas and concepts will be living and breathing experiences, not...

Beer Table is a new concept in the world of beer, it’s a bar with a difference. Located in my neighborhood-Park Slope, Brooklyn- it takes beer to a new level. It’s a place where beer is savored, nurtured and there’s many a story to tell about the process and story of each brand...

If you read the reports of expert analysts in commodity markets they will tell you that the earth’s resources aren’t finite and in many cases we are soon going to be running short of certain essential supplies. From an economic perspective, it’s simple-we are going to have to pay...

With so many contradictory data points it’s very tough to get a definitive answer that explains exactly where the economy is currently “at”. I thought this chart was a pretty good summary of just how bad it got in 2008-2009 and where we are now. It’s a graph from the US...

If you want to see the US’s future, take a look at Japan- there are some startling similarities; a spluttering economy and a rapidly aging population. It’s not surprising given Japan’s tech savvy that they would be developing some innovative solutions to try solve the problem of...

This might be the start of some kind of series with the idea being to fish out from the internet universe’s thousands of headlines that come to our attention every week, a handful that seem strike us as especially interesting. 1. New York Times adds 281k digital subscribers last quarter via...

Food magazines have traditionally followed a fairly predictable formula and target; lots of well-shot images, recipies and a few feature articles on a destination, all targeted and focused firmly and squarely at the female reader. David Chang is one of America’s most innovative chefs and...

One of the things behavioral economics does teach us is that we value short-term gain over long-term profit. It’s hard-wired into our DNA and it’s all about our immediate survival, but take a look at this headline from Treehugger and you will soon realize that it’s at the root of...

Willam Frey at the Brookings Institution has done some interesting work looking at the aging of America by examining the last three sets of census data. His analysis shows the shift is quite staggering with over 50% growth for 55-64 year olds over the past 10 years alone. Frey highlights some...

America is at an interesting time in its history; for a country that’s historically been so focused on the bright, gleaming new future, it’s seems uncertain about exactly what the future holds. In the absence of a clearly defined future and with the various component parts of the...