The case of growth hacking in rural China, the future of jobs and an emerging pandemic of grief
The future is uncertain, but there are always early signals of change that are worth paying attention to now that may unfold into more significant trends.
Farmers in rural China are using technology in surprising ways to connect themselves to the modern world and amplify their impact.
These lessons might hold vital clues for other disconnected communities as to how they might be able to better leverage their assets and skills in an increasingly remote working world.
Clive Thompson
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report is out and makes for some interesting reading.
Content producers and brand creators are definitely in favour - along with the usual suspects in the realm of tech.
Why do we have a varying experience of time?
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel presented some important new insights into what stretches and compresses our experience of time.
They demonstrated that the perception of time is wedded to our brain’s constantly updated expectations about what will happen next. So it is intrinsically linked to our perception of the future.
Jordana Cepelewicz
What's really missing from the ongoing and continuous dialogue around covid-19 is the fact that families are losing loved ones to this illness - a lot of people are dying. That means that a lot of families are dealing with grief.
What are the long-term consequences of a year where the primary emotion around the world was grief and loss?
Gabrielle Birkner and Rebecca Soffer, cofounders of Modern Loss