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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

In 2009, it felt like the world was ending. In 2009 I started my blog, Digital Tonto, which turned my life in a new direction. The incredible cynicism and incompetence of Yanukovych’s rule stoked a desire to change direction. I was still living in Ukraine then and the financial crisis hit there especially hard. We can too.

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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Inventory challenges aren’t new. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

Here are three reasons why the current poverty fighting model needs to change. This needs to change. This happened to me in 2009 when I co-founded the nonprofit organization, Poverty Stops Here (PSH). But Ford’s affordable Model T car changed all that. It’s time we changed our paradigm. It’s simply, not bad.

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Neuroplasticity, and how your brain is able to continue developing as you grow older

Idea to Value

This is the brain’s ability to continue changing its internal structure, the connections between neurons and neuronal networks, and sometimes even the size of various brain regions, all based on the activity of the brain. But most changes in the brain happen on a much smaller scale.

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Innovation and the rapidly changing world of photography

Jeffrey Phillips

We've reached a couple of interesting milestones in a very short period of time, and it behooves us to pay attention to the changes in what has been an important industry - photography. This of course follows on Kodak's decision to stop manufacturing film for most cameras, which occurred in 2009.

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The 4C model of Creativity

Idea to Value

Is it possible to be creative, even if you are not a genius changing the world? Eminent Creativity (Big-C) : People whose new ideas impact the world and who are seen as figureheads of creativity who changed their domain. Yes, of course. But how do you compare the creativity of a child, to someone who is a professional?

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IDEA 2009 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Download Making Virtual Worlds: Games and the Human for a Digital Age (IDEA 2009 Presentation) View more documents from tmmalaby. But don’t get too comfortable, b/c the future is about to change…again! What has changed in the last year and what are next year’s trends? Co-founder of Razorfish, Inc.,

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