The Social Age

Sometimes the nightly news is hard to take. I feel the same about the RSS headlines on my daily startpage. On any given day, there’s bad news from some combination of Iraq, Darfur, Gaza, Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan. But amongst the bad, there are stories of hope. Just today, the US and Iran agreed […]

I recently had lunch with Bill Clinton. And despite the fact that there were 400 other people there, and I was at a table center-back instead of center-front, I think we had a pretty great time.
Clinton was in Boston to deliver the keynote address at a gathering called “The Looming Crisis: Can we Act in […]

Ever since I started writing about The Social Age, it seems like every corner I turn, every article I read, every radio show I listen to, is addressing, in some way, and issue indicating that The Social Age is upon us. Today was no different.

Today Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank, announced that it will direct […]

I’m a big fan of network news. What can I say? I’m old fashioned. I miss Tom Brokaw, but Brian Williams has done an amazing job at making the news more engaging, more palatable, more accessible.
From time to time, NBC Nightly News does a series of reports that really make you wish that more people […]

Jonas Salk is famous for developing the first polio vaccine. He is celebrated for purposefully NOT patenting it (”can you patent the sun?”, he was known to say) so that the world could benefit from his discovery.
He had these words to say about the evolution of humanity and the dawning of a new age:

“The most […]