2015: Its Mobile

Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow from Neo Labels on Vimeo.

Cliff Kuang may sum it up best at the end of the post, "The future somehow doesn't feel like the future anymore, because the present is just changing too damn quickly."  Great point, especially during these exponential times, but there are still some pretty staggering numbers that certainly illustrate mass change in the not so distant future.  Most specifically, access - for example, it is estimated that 20 homes in 2015 will have the same amount of traffic (through game consoles, TV, teleconference, ect.) as all broadband traffic in 1995!

If you are into numbers, infographics and nerding out on the implications of the digital world, "Digital Life: Today and Tomorrow," created by NeoLabels, with a script by Inés Leopoldo of Mitsue Venture is a great way to spend 7:37 minutes.  The full video is featured above.

Thanks to Fast Company's CoDesign for the original post.

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Infographic: Greater Food Culture

Ever wanted to see all of the renowned food personalities in one place?   Well, now you can!  Thanks to HartmanSalt for creating this Subway inspired interactive Infographic.  While it is a bit confusing and could draw a few more connections (for instance, shouldn't John Mackey be tied to more than just "local"?) overall the graphic is a great snapshot of the food culture's movers and shakers.  Check out the full interactive version here.





via HartmanSalt

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Posted in: Conscious Biz,Culture

As Twitter Matures, what's on the Horizon?

In the first of two posts by Peter Yared at VentureBeat, he asserts that "as Twitter becomes the go-to source of information for news, celebrities and more, it’s differentiated from Facebook, which is very focused on what your friends are posting."  Based on this insight, he goes on to suggest a few opportunities for the microblogging platform in upcoming years.  You can read the inspired full post here.

In short, below are the (mostly interface) advancements he suggests:

• Integrate a dynamic news view
• Offer news streams for events and locations -
• Show photos, videos and other media inline
• Develop inline comment threads
• Improve search
• Develop more Twitter widgets for websites  

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Posted in: Social Tech

A Look into the Future of Education

"How might the mission of a university change in the 21st Century?"  Three professors at Harvard Business School asked themselves this very question 6 years ago.

"Their eventual answer: Throw open the doors to older adults—and give them the tools to help change the world."

More specifically, they developed the Advanced Leadership Initiative almost three years ago, addressing what they term the "Third Stage" of education.  The program gives late-career professionals, think CEO level, access to just about all of the school's resources for the year of their fellowship with only one caveat -- they must develop a "social purpose project" addressing significant societal banes, such as education, health and the environment.

The initiative, truly of the 21st century, embraces open-source methodology, requires the discipline of a self-starter and hopes to spread to schools across the country.  How inspired!!

You can check out the full article on WSJ here, but one other interesting snapshot we thought to include is this simple bar graph created by Met Life/Civic Ventures illustrating the percent breakdown of those considering an "encore career."

 

So, what would be yours?

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Posted in: Conscious Biz

Food For Thought

Good Medicine Magazine published an enlightening infographic illustrating why the cost of some food items are more expensive than others.  Its a wonder why these two Federally influenced initiatives are flipped and no wonder why health advocates such as Robin O'Brien and Jamie Oliver are driving cultural acupuncture around the topic.

In related news, the Sisters of St. Francis in Philadelphia are bringing heat to McDonald's, asking their board of directors to issue a report "assessing the company's policy responses to public concerns regarding linkages of fast food to childhood obesity, diet-related diseases and other impacts on children's health."  They aren't stopping there either, with support of Corporate Accountability International, full page ads in some of the Nation's biggest media outlets issue an open letter to McDonald's CEO imploring him to "stop marketing junk food to children."  AdAge covers the move in more detail here.

Thanks to Maria Popova for bringing the graphic to our attention.

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Posted in: Conscious Biz,Culture,Food

IFT: Top 10 Food Trends

According to IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) the weak economy is still driving many of American's eating habits.  A full list of the trends can be found in a recent post to their site.  While they are all interesting and worth the read, we can't help but notice the 6% increase in "three meals per day" mostly attributed to breakfast growth.  It will be interesting to know if breakfast sales at restaurants are seeing enough benefit to offset operating costs as most people (73%) are keeping it at the kitchen table.

Photo Credit: Flickr user doc18
Article found via @jambutter

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Posted in: Culture,Demographics

Tweet On!

Ever wondered what happens to those 140 characters after you press enter?  Madras Geek has created this inspiring little infographic to help shed some light.  Enjoy!

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Posted in: Culture,Social Tech