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how do we rethink data / output measures here?  Futures artificat? 

Increasingly people will have access to data about their lifestyles that will shape their behavior Issues of health and wellness will be seen less as an interruption into everyday life and instead a normal part of it

Bureau of Labor data on eldercare, labor and leisure hours

High-tech sizing machines scan customers and offer a list of recommended clothing, eliminating returns and providing manufacturers with real-world data

It it shocking to see stats that say Califonia has 11,000 full-time and 28,000 part time employees n the Arts & Cultural Sector, but more than 155,000 volunteers and interns. No wonder there are no jobs -- people are willing to work in museums and cultural orgs for free. What do we do for our fellow professionals?

Improve the procurement process Increase transparency Encourage citizen engagement Use government data for social good Don't overreach Lofty goals for government, but what if museums were to try to achieve the same or similar goals?

Businesses-as-schools has the potential to (further) disrupt the higher education and adult learning market. As companies edge into a role as teacher, how will they balance their own interests and the social goals of mass education?

Data showing that teenagers who came of age during the great recession have a greater sense of compassion.

a glass storage medium that could potentially outlive humankind...an everlasting medium that consists of self-assembled nanostructures within fused quartz..wow!

Social robots are simpler to interact with than humans, can repeat games with infinite patience and record the data for further study. Applications with Alzheimer patients too?

This map shows the location of every independent coffee shop in Brooklyn and the walking-shed community associated with it. Independent coffee shops are positive markers of a living community. They function as social spaces, urban offices, and places to see the world go by. Communities are often formed by having spaces in which people can have casual interactions, and local and walkable coffee shops create those conditions, not only in the coffee shop themselves, but on the sidewalks around them. We use maps to know where these coffee shop communities exist and where, by placing new coffee shops, we can help form them. We applied two steps to generate the data displayed by the map. First, we used the Google Places API to locate all coffee shops in a given city. Second, for each point in the map we queried the walking route and distance to its nearest coffee shop using the Google Distance Matrix API. In the final map the colored areas represent a region which is walkable to a specific coffee shop (within one kilometer or 0.7 miles). The intensity of color at each point indicates its distance from its corresponding coffee shop.

Could empathy in society be enhanced by technology? Could machines sense our emotions better than our friends and family can and broadcast that data to them?

The conversation on social entrepreneurship continues (I especially loved the reference to those Super Bowl commercials that touted their company's commitment to the greater social good. What will this all mean for the current non-profit world?