Rearticulating identity and community in a global society
The convergence of participatory media culture, diverse diasporic movements (the formation of dispersed populations that share common roots and identity), and frameworks for creating new commons (bottom-up means of managing shared resources) set the stage for re-articulating identity and community in a global society.
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Experimenting at the intersection of environment and performance
Advances in neuroscience are revealing new understanding of the brain, its plasticity, and its responsiveness to the environment.
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An extremely visible world demands new sensemaking
Information proliferation will continue, exacerbating the burden on families, learners, educators, and decision-makers to make sense of vast amounts of data.
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Creating flexibility and innovation amid system failures
System shocks and disruptions in the arenas of energy, finance, climate, and health care are key forces of destabilization in this century.
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Personal fabrication technologies and open-source principles democratize production and design
New forms of bottom-up social networking and economic coordination, along with advances in small-scale, community-based fabrication and design, transform local economies in the next decade, enabling productive flexibility that will help cushion against economic instability.
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