futuramb: futuristgerd: (via The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything - By Banksy) This sign speaks for itself about the current state of humanity and where we are heading in the future… What does this indicate? I think we _do_ want to be sold stuff….otherwise why would we spend so much time thinking about buying …

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Facebook is the living dead: the most popular, least relevant social network where teenagers and adults alike gather out of fear of missing out on things that don’t even make them happy. Amanda Hess, Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They’re Not Logging Off Hess cites new Pew Study, Teens, Social Media, and Privacy by Mary Madden, Amanda …

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pewinternet: The mobile phone saga visualized: This chart says it all. For the first time, more than half of all U.S. adults own a smartphone.  More new smartphone data: http://pewrsr.ch/11hzgIA Implications….

futuristgerd: While traditional media continue their difficult decline, a cadre of the most innovative reporters, from Afghanistan to the Amazon, are quietly transforming journalism by harnessing the power of open data. Working in collaboration with civil society groups and governments, they are applying new digital tools to increasingly available data troves to tell stories via …

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Another great slide from Jasper, head of National Business Incubator Association

Another great one from @dugsong.

Great slide from @dugsong at #iedc spring conference. #annarbor

thenextweb: Need some inspiration today? Read this… @MattNavarraUK There you go.

Tweet from Bruce Katz (@bruce_katz)

Per the last post: what’s the implications for rural places? This is a long term trend. Clear-eyed and without rhetoric, how do we enable sustainable futures for the people who love in rural places? Bruce Katz (@bruce_katz) tweeted at 0:10 PM on Wed, Jun 05, 2013: Rural America, 15% of US population spread across 72% …

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