Nov. 15, 2019
David Katz - Plastic Bank, a social enterprise from Canada, says it is monetizing plastic recycling while empowering those most affected by the waste. It works to prevent plastic waste from entering oceans by incentivizing people in developing countries to collect plastic from their communities in exchange for cash or good and services -- be it food, clean water or school tuition for their children.
Nov. 15, 2019
Dr. Robert Muggah writes: Building the cellular city means investing in, but moving beyond, mitigation and adaptation.
Nov. 14, 2019
Jennifer Dulski - "When you give people actual goals and responsibilities in your community, then you can create a movement. When someone takes a risk, other people will join. The key thing: embrace your first follower."
Nov. 14, 2019
Andrew Hessel - “It’s amazing that they get chemical synthesis of DNA to work,” says Andrew Hessel, president of Humane Genomics, which is developing new cancer therapies by reprogramming viruses, and co-founder of Genome Project-write.
Nov. 13, 2019
Dr. Hod Lipson - Research at Columbia University is investigating the possibility of cooking food while it’s being 3D printed.
Nov. 13, 2019
Sly Lee - If you take a quick dive into the neuroscience of touch, it is at the core of the human experience; it affects our cognition, our emotions, our sense of bonding and connection, our learning, memory and retention, even our behavior.
Nov. 13, 2019
Sly Lee - “If you think about technologies we have today to keep in touch with our loved ones from a distance, we are extremely limited in our ability to connect and feel present with them,” said Sly Lee, CEO at Emerge. “Even with technologies like XR, you’re still a spectator limited to two senses: sight and sound. We have a 10 year roadmap to build products that create the next paradigms of presence.”
Nov. 12, 2019
John Hagel - Why are opportunity-based narratives so critical to learning? There are many reasons. They’re a call to action and a key to creating new knowledge is action – people who passively sit around, even if they’re thinking great thoughts, aren’t going to learn as fast as those who are actively trying out new approaches to create value and reflecting on the impact that’s been achieved so that they can refine the approaches to create even more value.
Nov. 12, 2019
Avi Reichental - Today, Reichental is one of the most well-known names in the 3D printing industry and while wary of Monday morning quarterback syndrome he is well placed to provide insight into the opportunities and challenges facing the additive manufacturing sector.
Nov. 12, 2019
Alex Gladstein - Gladstein recognizes that blockchain technology by itself is really just a mechanism for control and surveillance of financial data. He believes, from a human rights perspective, that the real value of blockchains comes from decentralization, which is essential to democracy.