There's money to be made in the future. It's Liz Crawford's job to help big corporations figure out how to prepare for possible futures.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Olivia Laing talks about her book, "The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking."
Steven Johnson talks about his new book, "Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age."
Sophy Burnham tells one of the stories from her "Book of Angels." This one's about two "businessmen" who appear just in time to stop a runaway wheelchair.
Tim Friend has written a book about Archaea - a kind of microbe that doesn't fit into any of the traditional categories of life.
Susan Krieger not completely blind, but her vision is bad enough to make her legally blind. She recently got a guide dog, Teela, who is now her constant companion.
Russell Simmons has been called the godfather of hip hop. He tells Steve Paulson he got his start selling street drugs as a teenager.
There's a great urbanization afoot in China. The government plans to move more than 100 million people into cities by 2020. But there's an old divide between rural and urban citizens. What happens when they become neighbors?
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