As the Washington Editor-at-Large at The Atlantic, Editor-at-Large at Quartz, and publisher of the political blog The Washington Note, Steve Clemons has built a career around the delicate exchange between policy, politics, and media. We connected with Steve at the 2014 ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL to get his take on information overload, the power of storytelling to initiate listening, and Read more …
Cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman has devoted his work as Scientific Director of The Imagination Institute and a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center to come to a fuller understanding of how we develop and assign value to imagination, creativity, and intelligence. We connected with Scott at the 2014 ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL to get his take on information overload, Read more …
Matthew Bishop, U.S. Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist and author of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World (among many other books), has explored in-depth the potential for philanthropic problem solving within the convergence of social and business interests. We connected with Matthew at the 2014 ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL to get his take on Read more …
As the Co-Founder and CEO of Mic, Chris Altchek has leveraged new means of content creation to develop a digital media company dedicated to providing high-quality news coverage to young people. We connected with Altchek at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival to get his take on how technological advances and big data capabilities will transform the ways we produce Read more …
Digital media has radically transformed the field of journalism. Breaking news often comes in the form of a Tweet, and stories unfold with the momentum of real-time, crowd-sourced input that can lend as much dramatic tension to the tradeoffs between speed and validity as the substance of the story itself. Inevitably, our means of storytelling will continue Read more …
