Impact3 Movement Builders On How To Create Engaged CitizensThe founders of Purpose, Voto Latino, and PopVox weigh in on how to get more people involved in creating change.
ImpactFor The Price Of Two iPads, This Machine Can Sequence An Entire Human GenomeIf you want to take advantage of the latest plummeting price of genetic sequencing, it will be because of the Ion Proton. How did scientists find a way to get such a cheap window into our DNA?
ImpactOccupy Wall Street’s Philosopher-In-Residence On The Future Of The MovementShen Tong–a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests–is now helping OWS work through its own growing pains. What’s next? Tong spoke to Co.Exist about the need to move beyond protests, and what happens next.
ImpactThis Article Was Not Written By A ComputerBut could it have been? Narrative Science, a company whose algorithm turns data into narrative (and a Chicago Innovation Award winner), is being used more and more to write simple stories quicker and more cheaply than humans. Will robot newspapers cover the the robot revolution?
ImpactA Maintenance-Free Bike To Give Africans Some MobilityBuffalo bicycles–a winner of a recent Chicago Innovation Award–won’t break down for five years, and fit almost anyone: kids going to school, entrepreneurs to bring goods to markets, and health care workers who visit patients on their bikes. It’s a two-wheeled piece of social change.
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