Business Impact February 2012 The Youth Effect

How technology is changing business

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Too Young to Fail

17-year-old Laura Deming doesn't drive and can't vote. Is now her chance to change the world?

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Digital natives are the young people who grew up with the Web. Now they’re disrupting it. This month, Business Impact explores the expectations and challenges of “generation tech”—the twentysomethings who are putting their own twist on the ways that technology gets turned into products. From Internet protests to crowdsourced capital and do-it-yourself biologists working at home, young people are throwing today’s technology business models and institutions into question.

Innovation without Age Limits

Young stars dominate the technology headlines. But outside the Internet, research shows, innovators are actually getting older as complexity rises.

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Letting Hackers Compete, Facebook Eyes New Talent
February 8
Disrupting Venture Capital: Q&A With Naval Ravikant
February 10
Aaron Swartz Hacks the Attention Economy
February 13
Digital Natives Take Aim at Big Energy
February 15
In Biology, Some Go it Alone
February 17
A Very Young CEO
February 20
The Mentor Shortage
February 22
Energy's New Wave Hits the Rocks
February 27
The Fear Factor: Microsoft researcher danah boyd
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January 2012 Topic | The Connected Vehicle

The cars we drive are about to change, and so are the ways we commute and do business. In this month’s Business Impact we look at the arrival of communication technologies that are linking motor vehicles to the information grid. From mobility apps to electric cars and vehicle automation, the connected automobile is rewriting the rules of the automobile industry and creating the chance to reorganize our transportation infrastructure.

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December 2011
The Business of Games
November 2011
Business in the Cloud
October 2011
The Era of E-Medicine
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The Future of the Office
August 2011
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