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    <title>Endless Innovation | Big Think</title>
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&lt;p class="p1"&gt;Through stories and examples of companies experimenting with innovation, explore how Charles Darwin's ideas on natural selection and the "survival of the fittest" apply to business in the digital age. Endless Innovation is written by Dominic Basulto, a digital thinker at Electric Artists in New York City and a contributor to The Washington Post's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://wapo.st/pYUDu1" target="_blank"&gt;Ideas@Innovations blog&lt;/a&gt;. He is working on a new book called "Endless Innovation, Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful" and may be contacted at:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="mailto:basulto@gmail.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;basulto@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Meet the Digital Trust Fund Kids</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 21:58:02 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Now there’s one more thing that parents can give their children to ensure their future success in life – a <a href="http://www.socialmediacommando.com/branding/how-to-establish-a-digital-trust-fund-for-your-children">digital trust fund</a>. Yep, that’s right, it's no longer enough for well-to-do parents to set up financial trust funds for their kids and <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-07-19/news/rich-little-poor-kids/">hand off personal fortunes at the age of 18</a>, they now ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/meet-the-digital-trust-fund-kids'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>Machine Beauty and Our Bionic Future</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 16:23:01 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ A <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/9/3008979/paralyzed-woman-bionic-suit-marathon">paralyzed woman completing the London Marathon using a bionic exoskeleton suit</a>. A <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/the-brain-computer-interface-that-let-a-paralyzed-patient-drink-a-cup-of-coffee/257275/">quadriplegic woman using a brain-computer interface to move objects in 3D space</a>. Men and women <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/health/losing-more-to-gain-more-amputees-once-unthinkable-choice.html?pagewanted=all">opting to amputate entire limbs in order to replace them with a new generation of “beautiful” prosthetics</a>. Welcome to ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/machine-beauty-and-our-bionic-future'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>Facebook Unlike and Internet Schadenfreude</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:02:05 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ “Facebook is worth $100 billion, but all I got was this lousy status  update.” That just about sums up the type of public sentiment that has  been inundating the Internet over the past few weeks. Facebook’s  much-anticipated $100 billion IPO is almost ready to hit the market  after a circus-like ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/facebook-unlike-and-internet-schadenfreude'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Cleanweb: Green Energy Meets Moore's Law</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:43:38 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ By embracing new Web and mobile technologies, green energy companies are creating <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40013/">a new Cleanweb movement</a> in which formerly expensive alternative energy sources - such as solar  power - are suddenly accessible to the masses at a significantly lower  price point. Think of the <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40013/">Cleanweb</a> as what ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/the-cleanweb-green-energy-meets-moores-law'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Internet's Battle For Our Digital Souls</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:05:51 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-self-disclosure-study-20120508,0,7870124.story">social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are “brain candy”</a> for Internet users. Every status update, every tweet, every pin is a  micro-jolt delivered squarely to the pleasure ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/the-internets-battle-for-our-digital-souls'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>Is That a Drone In Your Backyard?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 10:53:03 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ We are rapidly turning into a nation of drone enthusiasts. According to a recent Freedom of Information Act request from the <a href="https://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> (EFF), <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304331204577354331959335276.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_News_BlogsModule">there are now 63 drone launch locations scattered around the United States</a>.  These range from those controlled by academic research labs ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/is-that-a-drone-in-your-backyard'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>How to Build the 100-Year Company</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 21:08:36 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ The 100-year company is the rarest of all organizations in Corporate  America – a company that has somehow managed to survive the ebbs and  flows of multiple business cycles, the appearance of radically  disruptive technologies and the changing tastes of entirely different  generations. While very ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/how-to-build-the-100-year-company'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Robotic Future is Fast, Cheap and Out of Control</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:09:08 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ The robotic future is here, and it looks nothing like we thought   it would. Instead of humanoid, highly-intelligent robots that  do our  bidding, the future is increasingly one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics">robotic swarms</a>, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/robots-swarm-the-stage-at-ted.ars">robotic quadrotors</a>, and <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1834349/whos-next-grasp-laboratory?partner=gnews">tiny robots no larger than insects that perform surgery</a>.  The robotics ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/the-robotic-future-is-fast-cheap-and-out-of-control'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>Think Green, Drink Brown: Recycled Water</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:08:36 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ <em>Slate</em> recently highlighted <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/04/17/the_hot_sauce_treadmill.html">the fastest-growing industries in the USA</a> - everything from hot sauce to self-tanning products to 3D printers to  generic pharmaceuticals. Here's one industry they missed: the recycled  water industry. Within the next decade, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/science/earth/despite-yuck-factor-treated-wastewater-used-for-drinking.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=4&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">people living in U.S. cities such as Los</a> ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/think-green-drink-brown-recycled-water'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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      <title>Mobile is So Money: The Future of the Internet</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:11:56 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[ Across Silicon Valley, companies like Google and Facebook are waking up and realizing that <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-jig-is-up-time-to-get-past-facebook-and-invent-a-new-future/256046/">the future of the Internet</a> is no longer taking place on the desktop or laptop - it is taking place  on the tablet and smartphone. As a result, there has been a huge land  grab in 2012 to control the future ...<br><br><a href='http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/mobile-is-so-money-the-future-of-the-internet'>Read More</a>]]>
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      <dc:creator>Dominic Basulto</dc:creator>
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