At What's Now: San Francisco, Plethora Co-Founder Nick Pinkston discussed his sweeping vision for his company and for the future of capitalism.
The opposite of play isn't work, it's depression, according to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, who's referencing the work of pioneering psychologist Brian Sutton-Smith. Sutton-Smith studied the psychology of play for five decades.
Fred is a Baby Boomer mayor who's pretty sure he's got things figured out. Wife and 2.5 kids, big house in the suburbs, steady full-time job. When the sharing economy comes along, he doesn't quite know what to make of it.
World-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal hopes that her latest project, which launches on October 10th, will harness Pokemon Go's ability to create super-empowered hopeful individuals and bring these benefits into the political sphere.
Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and author of the recent book The Sharing Economy, believes crowd-based capitalism could replace managerial capitalism in the next 10-20 years. Sundararajan believes crowd-based capitalism is an inherently superior model, one that uses resources more efficiently, which tends to result...
American cities have plenty of jobs and nowhere near enough housing. Do city officials stand a chance of keeping Millennials residents around?
Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, believes we should rethink the world using today’s technology. “Let’s stop optimizing for the short-term. Let’s start optimizing for the long-term, and think about how to make the society we want,” O’Reilly says.
At our third gathering of What's Now: San Francisco, hosted in partnership with Capgemini, Saul Griffith presented a never-before-seen map of U.S. energy flow, and extolled the virtues of monster truck rallies over Burning Man.
Mayor Nutter believes that city officials should first and foremost remain open to the possibility of disruptive companies that can provide new or better services to their constituents. While he admits there is no one-size-fits-all method to regulating and taxing the sharing economy, Mayor Nutter believes that it will continue...
At the second edition of our new series What's Now: San Francisco, WIRED Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly quizzed the crowd about artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and data tracking.