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Climate Change as Terrorist Threat

By Steve Song, on January 21st, 2009

Harvard professor of psychology Dan Gilbert gave an inspired talk at Pop!Tech this year in which he asks the question “Why haven’t we rallied our collective power to solve global warning?” In it, he argues that global warming is not the kind of threat that humans are programmed to respond to. Like the boiling frog [...] [...]

The Birthday Innovation or Why Blog?

By Steve Song, on December 23rd, 2008

I think there is a compelling reason why everyone ought to blog/tweet/social network or leave some sort of digital trail. As Seth Godin puts it, the word blog is irrelevant, what’s important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones) will have [...] [...]

Digital Native Uprising

By Steve Song, on November 21st, 2008

There was a bit of a buzz in the news this week about Don Tapscott’s new book “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World“. If you’re a bit of a podcast addict like me, there’s an audio interview with the author on the always-interesting CBC radio show Spark. The thesis of [...] [...]