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Your office will probably never be as cool as Pinterest's--but it still has something to teach you about fostering creativity within your ranks.

Third space concept inversed to mean in-office refuges, an effect of what Bob Fox, publisher of the industry magazine Workspace Design, calls the Google philosophy to "give its employees a city."

What might the office building of today look like, or be used for, tomorrow?

Acres of unused space in conventional office buildings may be transformed into hotel rooms, classrooms, theaters or retail uses, architects and urban planners say.   And museums? Exhibition spaces? Pop-up?

moveable furniture...small spaces for thinking...areas that promote collaboration...lighting...silents...plants

Mico, a pair of headphones that play music that matches the mood of the person wearing them. The found says one of the first things he does when he gets to the office is 'think about the future.'

Libraries providing need community services - will museums step up to these new challenges in the same way?

"Science and technology have progressed to the point where what we build is only constrained by the limits of our own imaginations." Justin Rattner - Intel Chief Technology Officer

Many businesses can be run successfully from anywhere in the world, using modern collaboration software and teleconferencing, but other businesses may need "an environment where people interact in person, and startups are a great example of that.

This kind of "third space" is really a workplace that is not home and not a coffee shop.  Alternative workspaces that draw people out of the homes and give them more and better access to workplace amenities can help people be more productive and create community.

Case involves a woman who got a ticket for driving while wearing her Google Glasses. Officer said it was the same as if she had a video/TV screen on in the front of her car.

The environments in which we work also are changing.

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.

Futures thinking applied to the design of office furniture!

Artists are euologizing the end of the US Postal Service. Are they at the cutting edge, seeing the demise of a key cultural institution? Or have they assumed a future that may not happen?

being exposed to too much complaining can actually make you dumb.