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It’s the time of year for New Year’s resolutions, and for those of you who always mean to make and share pictures and video… but never quite get around to it… here are some quick tips to help you keep your media organized and sharable through the next year. 1. Always Have a Camera With Continue Reading →

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. –George Orwell If I told you that an estimated one-third of all deaths in hospitals were caused by the treatments themselves, would that shock you? The term is called “iatrogenisis,” which is derived from Greek and means “brought forth from the healer.” Continue Reading →

We have become addicted to catastrophes and end of days predictions. We have become, in a word from Gary Alexander: Apocaholics. In a 2007 web essay, Alexander began a long list on Armageddon- that-never-were with the following preamble: Hi, I’m Gary and I’m a recovering Apocaholic. I am currently Apocalypse free for nearly 18 years. Continue Reading →

On December 21, 2012, the world did not end. The end of the Mayan calendar did not bring about the apocalypse as the internet (and a surprisingly large number of people) predicted. The Earth did not collide with Nibiru (aka Planet X), nor did we experience a massive solar flare thrown at us by the Continue Reading →

What made this year of television notable, one way or another, notable for me? Let’s count a few of the ways… Best ongoing broadcast TV series: Modern Family (ABC) Everything about this comedy gets smarter, more inventive and truer to life season after season. The comedy standard-setter and breaker for this still young century. Honorable mention: The Good Continue Reading →

How do we prepare ourselves and our children for a future where we are surrounded by ever-increasing intelligent machines? What skills will we need in a future where computers do tasks originally performed by people? There are two skills that computers will have a really hard time mastering in the next few decades. By understanding Continue Reading →

Let’s look back at Alec Baldwin playing apologetic American Airlines Capt. Steve Rogers on Saturday Night Live one week after getting kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to stop playing Words With Friends: Seth Myers: “But, Capt. Rogers, don’t phones interfere with the plane’s communication system?” Baldwin chuckles in a Southern accent: “Oh, Continue Reading →

I hope we can all agree that throwing technology at children will not make them smarter. Let’s start there, because we are throwing a lot of technology at kids these days. Computers have made their way into many classrooms. Shockingly (and sadly), not all classrooms and educators, schools and parents stay up to date. Tablets Continue Reading →

“…risk management is about fragility, not naive interpretation of past data. If Fannie Mae is sitting on a barrel of dynamite I would not use past statistical data for my current analysis. Risks are in the fragility.” – Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan  “Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is Continue Reading →

We have left the Information Age and entered the Shift Age. This new age is an era of transformation unparalleled in terms of the amount of change that will occur in the next 20-30 years. I have been writing and speaking about the Shift Age since 2007, and my first book of that name was Continue Reading →