Angelo Carusone of Media Matters spearheaded advertiser boycotts against Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly. Can he take down Hannity? (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Austin Russell’s startup, Luminar, is aiming to get high-res lidar laser scanners cheap enough to enable self-driving subcompacts. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Alarmed by Trump’s win, students at one predominantly black and Latino school are teaching adults a few things about social-media activism. (Read more on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Patrick Soon-Shiong, who was tapped by Vice President Joe Biden to assist the National Cancer Moonshot, recently met with the President-elect. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan explore dark sides of AI and humanity in series that reboots the 1973 film about a robotic theme park gone haywire. (Read more about Westworld on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, the cofounder and CEO of CloudFlare, an Internet edge service provider (more on what that means later), describes a grand vision of sweeping changes in the Internet infrastructure market, with much of it sliding over to Amazon.… Read the rest
[Fast Company] The best ground view of Occupy Wall Street comes from a former skateboard videographer and a one-time Realtor, aka Tim Pool and Henry Ferry of The Other 99. With little more than mobile phones they’ve offered a perspective that the mainstream media can’t match.… Read the rest
[Fast Company] Student debt reformer Alan Collinge has brought a clear set of demands–and little patience for general assembly dickering–to Occupy Wall Street. He belongs to a large–but not unified–contingent of pragmatic policy wonks in the movement. [Read the rest of One Tent-Dwelling Wall Street Occupier’s Quest For Something Concrete]… Read the rest
[Fast Company] A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical? Fast Company goes inside the Sept. 17 OccupyWallStreet demonstration in New York (and follows reactions online) to find out. [Read the rest on Fast Company]… Read the rest
The farmers and ranchers of the Dakotas are ahead of environmentalists on preserving the prairie and fighting global warming.
The first night of my visit to North Dakota Brad Crabtree fed me a hearty steak dinner-courtesy of a steer he’d recently sent to the butcher.… Read the rest
