When companies accept the power of community and let go of a little control, they learn that open source broadens the range of ideas and talent that can contribute to any corporate software project, with often stunningly effective results. More
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Bio & Life Sciences Healthcare
As We Wait For a Vaccine, Scientists Eye Antibodies
Antibody-based therapies may pave the way out of pandemic lockdown regardless of how soon a vaccine is available. ‘The science has been really blazing fast,’ says one expert. More
Golden Gate Bridge Fatigue, and Other Tales From the Brave New World of Online Events
It’s only been 6 weeks since most large gatherings and events were canceled. Many of us are quickly finding out that, when done right, online events and conferences can be a lot less expensive and remain effective in surprising ways. More
Inspired at CES, Seattle Teenagers Tackle Tech to Diagnose Covid-19
At ages 15 and 16 respectively, Sage Khanuja and Nikolas Ioannou were among five winners of Young Innovators to Watch award at CES in January. Their project, Spria, was a low-cost 3D-printed device that could, when administered with a mobile app survey, detect early signs of COPD. Now, they’re developing a smartphone-based technology to offer clinical-quality testing to assess lung capacity just with a phone alone. More
Antibody Tests Could Release Us from Lockdown (But Don’t Expect Immunity Passports)
Antibody testing for COVID-19 is touted as the path to pulling countries out of lockdown, but results so far have been unreliable. A public health expert explains how we can improve test accuracy, how tests should be used, and whether immunity certificates are in our future. More
Arts & Culture Media & Marketing Resilience
Yes There is Still Good News, and It’s Amplified Online
A new type of high-tech busking is emerging, and a big canvas that is both isolated and worldwide is taking root. Raskin explains and puts your FOMO at ease with her calendar-based compendium of live, virtual events. More
Retail Experts on a Strategy for This Weird New World
One thing that has indisputably changed in this weird, altered world we’re all now in is how we shop. We brought together two experts on those changes and how to understand them. More
Community Insights Healthcare Media & Marketing
Andreessen Says “It’s time to build”: We Need Advertising to Help Us Get There
This past weekend, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published “It’s time to build”, a short essay calling for fixing what he sees at the root of America’s poor preparation and handling of the coronavirus pandemic and creating an even greater country. More
Government Healthcare Inclusion
We’re Rip Van Winkled–What Happens When We Wake?
The idea of sleeping through a defining moment of American history resonates. What will it look like when we walk out of this world-wide pause and find ourselves in a world transformed? More
Tobaccowala: The Covid Moment as Great Reinvention
“Unlike other crises, this is a global, simultaneous political, financial, and humanitarian crisis…this will move all of us to rethink everything, which is why I call it the Great Reinvention,” said Rishad Tobaccowala, a long-time Publicis senior strategist and widely-followed futurist, during a powerful conversation in a CDX digital roundtable recently. More
Artificial Intelligence Healthcare
AI-Driven Woebot Wants to Ease Your COVID Fears
Tuned with fresh coronavirus content, the Woebot app is ready to help you cope with pandemic anxiety (and, perhaps unlike your friends and family, will never tell you to just shut up already). More
Rita McGrath on How Business Should Act Now
We are entering new and uncharted territory for business. How can companies manage through such a disastrous “inflection point”? What does this moment mean for corporate digital transformation? Few have a more informed and nuanced understanding of such questions than Rita McGrath. More
Security & Privacy Tech & Society The Future of Work
A Boomer Zoomer Talks to Zoom’s Chief Product Officer
Oded Gal is Chief Product Officer at Zoom. Raskin spoke with him the morning after her family’s Zoom Passover Seder and right after a morning Zoom gym class. More
Welcome to The Great Reset
We surpassed the unemployment of The Great Recession. In two weeks. For our economy and our society, we need to flatten The Slump. More
Community Insights Learning Tech & Society
The Covid Shock Jolts Digital Learning to Life
As Covid-19 spread, more than 1.4 billion students worldwide suddenly found themselves booted out of the classroom. That began a scramble to create or adopt a makeshift curriculum that could be delivered online. More
Let’s Also Flatten the Curve on Another Virus
Even as the world fights Covid-19, another kind of virus is making that harder--willful disinformation, often planted by governments like Russia. Fake news about Covid is rampant. More
Officials Respond Slowly to Deadly Virus, Quickly to IP Concerns
Bickering about intellectual property rights is interfering with a concerted global response to a dangerous new infectious disease. Middle East respiratory syndrome is a coronavirus that first emerged in that region last April and has a greater than 50 percent mortality rate. At least 54 people in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Italy, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom, have now contracted the infectious disease known as MERS-CoV, according to the World Health Organization. Thirty cases have been fatal. More
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