Smart gadgets that help users in their daily lives need three things to succeed. Nine months ago, Google paid $3.2 billion for a little company called Nest. To put that sum in perspective: $3.2 billion is roughly equivalent to the GDP of the British Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Greenland...
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. —William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003 In America, we love personalization: personal computers, personal trainers, and more recently, personalized medicine. Because we especially prize individuality, the ground is fertile for developing services that cater to individualized...
Educational achievement depends on a “growth” mindset and not a “fixed” mindset, and neuroscience tells us that hard work is a fundamental driver of achievement. American fourth and eighth graders’ national math scores are in. The numbers are sobering: 8th graders’ scores improved by three points and 4th graders’ scores...
