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It is better to know some of the questions rather than all of the answers. Crossroads, collaborative consumption and the new pioneers. A recent study lamented that 58% of the younger generation would prefer to give up their sense of smell rather than their mobile phone. The decades ahead will...

This is a transcript of a commencement address Nipun Mehta delivered at The Harker School, May 2013. He is the founder of ServiceSpace.org a nonprofit that works at the intersection of gift-economy, technology and volunteerism. Today, I’m here with some good news and bad news. I’ll give you the good first. You...

 Mobile data traffic  will reach the following milestones within the next five years.      Monthly global mobile data traffic will surpass 10 exabytes in 2017.? The number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population in 2013.? The average mobile connection speed will surpass 1 Mbps in 2014.? Due...

 I read recently that by 2020 all of our data will have migrated online, and that there won’t be any phone companies providing a phone service. The point is made that all we will need is bandwidth, fibre optic bandwidth at fixed locations and rolling bandwidth when we are on...

  If you’re like most people, you spend every morning sitting in traffic on your way to work in a high-rise building in or near the city alongside colleagues who, much of the time, are away from their desks in meetings, at lunch or traveling for business. Get ready for...