Over half the world’s pop­u­la­tion now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But not all cit­ies are exper­i­en­cing growth, some are actu­ally shrink­ing.Urb­an­ized is a fas­cin­at­ing doc­u­ment­ary about cit­ies, look­ing at strategies behind urban design of some of the world’s fore­most archi­tects, plan­ners, poli­cy­makers, build­ers, and thinkers. […]

Oh yes, Kodak missed the oppor­tun­ity to prosper from their innov­a­tions in digital ima­ging and the digital cam­era. So how come they didn’t see what was com­ing? I guess they were stuck in their old busi­ness model of mak­ing film that had made them a for­tune. When you’re feel­ing com­fort­able with the old and the old still brings in some money, it seems impossible to look up and get a grasp of the long view. At least not without tak­ing help from a out­sider that isn’t trapped in the present.

An amaz­ing look into the future when we can print any object at home.

Our ways of learn­ing are chan­ging, but it seems that not every­one is aware. Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown describe in their new book A New Cul­ture of Learn­ing: Cul­tiv­at­ing the Ima­gin­a­tion for a World of Con­stant Change, how a new type of learn­ing takes place without books, teach­ers and classrooms.