1. Take a break from technology. Sure, living in a connected world has its perks, but there's the flip side, too. We're often not present in the moment, because we're lost in screens. Try a mini-tech detox: can you switch off your phone during dinner time? Maybe for 24 hours during the weekend? Try a few variations to see which one gives you the biggest boost and works best with your life. 2. Detox your vocabulary. As the saying goes: Watch … [Read more...]
How Do You Deal With Technology and Your Teenager?
As parents, it’s nothing like how we thought it was going to be, and we’ve expressed concern for years about not receiving a “how to” manual. The hardest job in the world, and no formal training to be had. How can that be? The little training we did get came from our own parents. We learned how to communicate, how to show love, how to express emotions, how to follow through goals, and how to be a person, in general, by existing in our own … [Read more...]
Is Milan’s Bosco Verticale the Future of Sustainable Architecture?
The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is the world’s tallest example of living architecture, with two towers lifting hundreds of trees above Milan’s streets. One of the architects Stefano Boeri describes the two buildings, due to be opened this year, as a ‘model of vertical densification of nature within the city’. Measuring at 110 and 76 meters high respectively, the two structures will hold 900 trees between them. That is equivalent to 10,000 … [Read more...]
Is Power Matrix The Real Deal?
Leading global engineering and technology services company Siemens has developed a new game called Power Matrix, aimed at raising awareness and teaching people about new forms of energy. The free game is not only for experts or gamers but targets anyone who is interested in energy and sustainable resources. Starting with a rural territory where your future city is about to develop, the goal is to provide it with a sustainable power supply through … [Read more...]
12 Trends – Now and Future – of an Open World
In my previous article, Towards an Open Future, I discussed the two type of systems that operate in the world: Open systems and closed systems. The hope for the future lies in open systems, and that is where the potential for the success of the brewing Quantum Revolution also lies. In that article, I said how closed systems are rigid and mechanistic, and continue doing the same thing and operating in the same way, even if the approach has proven … [Read more...]