Educational institutions have the reputation of being slow-moving behemoths, but this label is undeserved. According to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the educational sector worldwide is more innovative than it gets credit for. United States institutions, in particular, are beginning to focus more seriously on innovation. One of the key innovations that can […]

Platforms are proliferating. What began as easily parseable tasks, such as coding and data entry, has now moved up the complexity spectrum to include creative challenges: design, video, campaign concepts and more. However, most platforms are open to public view and merely request a social media account to log in. That may be fine on […]

About two years ago, one of my friends mentioned Catarse, a new Brazilian crowdfunding platform that lets people raise money for creative projects. Later that week, my supervisor Professor Mauro Rebelo, who has a long history within science communication, coincidentally told me he thought crowdfunding might be an interesting way to fund our research — investigating the […]

This is a sneak peak of a four-part series by author and TED speaker Tim Urban. If you enjoy reading please supprt Tim at Patreon. I’m fascinated by those rare people in history who manage to dramatically change the world during their short time here, and I’ve always liked to study those people and read […]

“With the advent of the Internet, the idea that the organization needs to monopolize people, ideas, and assets has been turned upside down.” Professor Karim Lakhani started studying the world of crowdsourcing years ago, when he wanted to determine what motivated people to contribute to open source software projects. Since then, he has expanded his […]

In the barren plains of Quay Valley, CA — between Los Angeles and San Francisco — a revolutionary transportation system is breaking ground. Quay is the site for the 5-mile test track of Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation technology proposed by Tesla and PayPal Founder Elon Musk. Dubbed the fifth mode of transportation, after boats, trains, […]

Karl-Heinz Land stellt sich in diesem Beitrag als Digital Darwinist, Evangelist und Gründer der Agentur für digitale Transformation Neuland kritisch folgenden Thesen: Die Digitalisierung gefährdet fast die Hälfte aller Jobs in Deutschland Die „Dematerialisierung“ lässt Wertschöpfungsketten verschwinden Vollbeschäftigung als Ideal hat ausgedient – diskutieren wir darüber Die Digitalisierung erfasst alle Bereiche unseres Lebens. Und sie stellt die Gesellschaft […]