Marina Gorbis, author of The Nature Of The Future: Dispatches From The Socialstructed World, argues we are moving away from the depersonalized world of institutional production toward a new economy built on social connections and rewards–a process she calls socialstructing.
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A vision of the mobile future
Anywhere, anytime on-demand More than ever today, our mobile devices are becoming human. They are tailored to our lives and empowering us with new opportunities to connect and learn. Here’s a look at a vision of mobile devices in the year 2020.
Eight brilliant people talk about the future of online education
Online education will have an enormous transformative impact on billions of people around the world. The single most important technological development of the millennium is the advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs). The first reason it is so important is the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. [...]
Trust the Process
The process of creating art can take less than an hour or go well into extra innings, extending across years as the artist returns to a work that isn’t complete. Da Vinci’s beguiling Mona Lisa was a work in progress when he died. Raymond Alvarez: Professionals and students alike may wonder what interest an artist/writer has in [...]
Up Close Social Shower Curtain
Surprise! I’m in the shower but still a social menace. If you’re the kind of person who’s always on Facebook, what could possibly be funnier than a shower curtain that looks like a Facebook Page? A lot of things! But still, this Facebook shower curtain even has a little window for you to pose as [...]
Megathread adds new relevance to people’s interests and information
The goal of Megathread™ is to create a society based on the value of people and information. Megathread’s proprietary software integrates with online discussions, forums, social networks, blogs and content publishing platforms to identify people, discussions and communities with the most credible information and relevant interests. Megathread™ is the only application that recognizes authenticity and [...]
Cloud Dome shines light on your nether regions
Get perfect product photos every time with the Nimbus Dome by Cloud Dome. Cloud Dome produces a revolutionary line of photography products, each one specifically designed to make you a better and faster product photographer. Cloud Dome recently won the Consumer Product of the Year Award and was one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor [...]
Free your hands to jam with Air Turn
AirTurn manufactures wireless controllers for iPads, Mac & PC computers, and Android tablets. With an AirTurn, musicians can turn pages hands free or remotely control audio files. Speakers and broadcasters can control teleprompter apps wirelessly. The possibilities are endless. AirTurn is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on [...]
Let tugo provide a safe haven for your coffee when travelling.
Save on drink spillage with tugo. The tugo is a drink holder for rolling luggage that suspends between the extended handles of the rolling luggage allowing for easy traversing of concourses while in the airport or busy transportation hubs. The tugo is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct [...]
Goose Guardian
Scare unwanted animals away with the Goose Guardian. Goose Guardian is a wildlife deterrent that utilizes a patent-pending image-based object recognition system to detect the presence of specific species and triggers a hazing device to scare the animals away. Applications in development for the object recognition system include a deer/elk detector for highway traffic safety [...]


