Ideas

What's on our radar.

Fishing lure

Meeting the ransomware challenge

5 Questions for Timothy Gallo and Allan Liska: Insights on common ransomware delivery methods and how to find balance between minimizing attack risks and maximizing productivity.

Results of the United States presidential election, 2012.

Data and Democracy

This report explores how political data science helps to drive everything from overall strategy and messaging to individual voter contacts and advertising.

Tim O'Reilly, James Manyika, and Reid Hoffman at Next:Economy 2016.

Highlights from Next:Economy 2016

At Next:Economy 2016, business leaders, policy makers, and technologists charted a course from the economy we experience today to an economy that brings prosperity to all.

Seaside town

Is it time for a universal basic income?

Natalie Foster of the Aspen Institute hosts a conversation with Andy Stern, author of Raising the Floor, and Elizabeth Rhodes, who is heading up Y Combinator’s new universal basic income experiments.

Tools on bench

Building efficient marketplaces for services

Liquid marketplaces are a big part of the future of work, and Thumbtack founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta has gone after an often invisible sector that is essential to the functioning of modern society.

Literate and illiterate world population, 1800 to 2014

Our world in data

Graphs and maps from Max Roser’s Our World in Data have become a fixture on social media and in thoughtful conversations around the world. Roser reminds us that if we play our cards right, the future is still bright.

Treetops

Creating a culture of learning

Tim O’Reilly, Laura Baldwin, and Jake Schwartz discuss advances in just-in-time corporate education and how companies and their staffs can keep up with the pace of change.

Looking up from a bridge

Real-World Maintainable Software

Abraham Marín-Pérez explains how 10 coding guidelines can work in a real-life environment, considering the typical issues, together with the hidden traps that programmers can fall into when trying to apply them.

Sky reflection.

Hadoop in the cloud: A Nielsen use case

Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly and Nielsen Global CTO James Powell discuss the dynamics of Hadoop in the cloud, what to consider at the start of the journey, and how to implement a solution that delivers flexibility and meets enterprise requirements.

Eye exam (no. 2).

Connected eyes

Will machine learning give us better eyesight? Joseph Sirosh offers a surprising story about how machine learning, population data, and the cloud are coming together to reimagine eye care in India.