Internet Giants, Data Currency & Iceland and The Financial Crisis

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Internet Giants: Who Owns Who on the Web

This ongoing consolidation has created a vast web of subsidiaries, providing each parent organization with additional insurance in maintaining their position at the top of the digital food chain.

The currency of the future is personal data

The line between data and money is dissolving. It’s too late to avoid a global techno-dystopia, but it’s not too late to demand better from those in power, lest they lose access to what they need to survive—our data.

Iceland Found Another Way to Clean Up a Financial Crisis

Unlike the U.S., the country let its banks fail and bailed out lots of consumers.

The Divides Within, and Between, Urban and Rural America

In fact, parts of rural America are thriving, even as other parts decline; just as parts of urban America continue to lose population and face economic decline as other parts make a comeback.

Hot streak: Finding patterns in creative career breakthroughs

“Around 90 percent of professionals in those industries have at least one hot hand, and some of them have two or even three,” she said.