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Why the Tablet Changes Everything
For Strauss Zelnick, the tablet computer represents a kind of Singularity - a convergence of media and productivity into a single, highly portable, optimally viewable platform.
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The Impact of Tablets on Search
More than other devices, the tablet can know enough about you to understand the context around your queries and give you better answers when you search.
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Welcome to The Floating University: Big Think Launches E-Learning Platform
It is the premise of the course that there are precious few important ideas relevant beyond their specific disciplines, but that it is these very ideas that are the foundation of a modern education.
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What Makes Something Go Viral? Babies and Biebers, Not Ballyhoos
Viral content is defined by authenticity, humor and controversy; NYU Stern Business School professor Scott Galloway wrote an email to a student that hit the trifecta. He now uses the experience as a digital media strategy lesson.
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Media & Internet
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Think Tank
Is Kim Jong-un Dead?
about 21 hours ago
On China's microblogging site Weibo, rumors of Kim Jong-un's death surfaced earlier today when bloggers posted that he was assassinated in Beijing. Media outlets have yet to issue any official reports, but the rumors have spread to Twitter and they are ripe for punny jokes. Gawker was one of the ... Read More
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Floating University
FU Asks: Should the Government Fund the Arts?
about 22 hours ago
Welcome to a new feature on the Floating University blog, FU Asks, where we open up the academic debate on our e-learning platform to the Big Think community. This week we're featuring a discussion prompt from Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and conductor of the American Symphony ... Read More
Latest Ideas
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Is Kim Jong-un Dead?
about 21 hours ago
On China's microblogging site Weibo, rumors of Kim Jong-un's death surfaced earlier today when bloggers posted that he was assassinated in Beijing. Media outlets have yet to issue any official reports, but the rumors have spread to Twitter and they are ripe for punny jokes. Gawker was one of the ... Read More
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FU Asks: Should the Government Fund the Arts?
about 22 hours ago
Welcome to a new feature on the Floating University blog, FU Asks, where we open up the academic debate on our e-learning platform to the Big Think community. This week we're featuring a discussion prompt from Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and conductor of the American Symphony ... Read More
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Life's Too Short: How to Read the Right Books
8 days ago
Let’s say you’re in the top fifth percentile of avid readers, tearing through a book a week on average. With such literary gusto raising your sails, you might feel like the entire world is an open book to browse at your leisure. But in actuality, you will hardly scratch the surface of available ... Read More
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Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer to Reality
10 days ago
As Dr. Michio Kaku has been predicting for years, we are inching ever closer to producing virtual reality contact lenses that will add a layer of interactive, rich information over our mundane visual landscape. The newest innovation comes from a joint venture between DARPA (Defense Advanced ... Read More
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Twitter – A Wiser Way to Censor?
11 days ago
On Thursday, Twitter posted a new censorship policy, stating that it will now have the ability to “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” This is a change from Twitter’s previous policy of removing posts globally if it ... Read More
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Moving a Cemetery: How to Drag Higher Education into the 21 Century
16 days ago
Our university system is bloated, inefficient, too expensive, and increasingly out-of-sync with a digital society and global economy. Dr. Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard, is on a mission to change the way we think about higher education. In his new ... Read More
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Better Than Free: You Don't Need an MBA to Invent a New Business Model
16 days ago
You don't need an MBA to come up with a groundbreaking business plan, says Lynda Weinman, co-founder of lynda.com. Read More
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Better Than Free: How Lynda.com Made a Pay Wall Pay
16 days ago
Lynda Weinman, co-founder of Lynda.com, explains how she broke all the rules and made it to the top. Read More
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Julian Assange To Host Talk Show On Russia Today
16 days ago
Julian Assange: Establishment outsider. Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Talk show host? Apparently so. The Australian founder of controversial website WikiLeaks will be at the helm of "The World Tomorrow," a series comprised of 10 interviews with "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries," to ... Read More
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