[caption id="attachment_2760" align="alignright" width="288"] Image source: Victor Habbick @ Freedigitalphotos.net.[/caption] In I’m Gonna Pop Some Tags I referred to an article indicating that toy innovation has been sluggish since the recession. But even if the average consumer might not feel the effects of an improving economy...
I just read an article that called our youngest generation the "re-generation" (sorry, can't find the url), alluding to their familiarity with the reduce, reuse, recycle slogan and their attentiveness to environmental causes. I haven't found any hard statistics that actually support the idea that the Homelanders will be more environmentally conscious, but OK, I'll go with the idea that environmentalism is since environmentalism is gradually entering into our psyches over time a sense of urgency and importance might be greater among the young. One thing I learned from judging at the Texas Future Problem Solvers competition this weekend is that the fervent climate change deniers and "drill, baby, drill" knuckleheads are not making inroads into the mindset of the young. From my own experience it does indeed seem as if 'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle' resonate on a much deeper level and are more actionable and instinctive with our the youngest cohorts.
Crowdsourcing is the new outsourcing when it comes to corporate savings. Outsourcing is a way of paying cheaply for services in low cost countries. Crowdsourcing is getting additional savings by engaging vast sources of amateurs and experts anywhere to do it for free - services...
Virtual reality, or immersive video games, are quickly becoming the "who-cares-which-reality" reality. Following what seems to be a new book trend about the beneficial social effect of gaming, authors Jeremy Bailenson and Jim Blasocovich's Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of...
