The digital age has made it easier to connect with a mass audience, but it’s also more of a challenge to truly persuade people to believe in your mission.
For example, how do you influence your employees and promote enthusiasm throughout the company when you don’t have as much direct contact with individuals because of technology?
Mention Dale Carnegie or his best-selling book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, to your colleagues and you're likely to encounter cringes and knowing, semi-sarcastic smiles.
Perhaps it's the general ambience that surrounds Carnegie today, evoking images of Babbittry, good-natured guffaws and glad-handing, the perpetual American boosterism, that provokes these reactions.
Truly! There is absolutely no age cut-off for learning a new technology. I mean, if a four-year-old can operate an iPad, there is absolutely no reason why that infant's grandmother or grandfather shouldn't be able to as well. After all, most if not all of our grandparents have used a typewriter at one point or another. And that's already a step above the kind of hands-on life experience a pre-schooler is working with.
A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights the history of photo manipulation before the advent of photoshop.
Man’s obsession with space goes back before records began, and the great unknown of the universe continues to inspire and baffle us today. Space offers artists a huge amount of inspiration to draw from, and space themed art often crosses over genres such as sci-fi, landscapes and fantasy.
Often digital artists mix our existing knowledge and data gathered about space with their imaginative conceptions of the unknown. These can range from elaborate nebulas to full space-age environments and cities. The possibilities truly do extend beyond our everyday world and often lead to some absolutely stunning artworks.
Often space age digital art will play on the epic scale of space, presenting enormous planets, conceptions of infinite size (such as never-ending spatial horizons) and other objects of epic proportions. Lighting is also key in space. Due to the dark nature of the majority of the universe, sharp, intense light effects appear all the more impressive, painting beautiful colors across a blackened backdrop.
Doctors say that healthy habits will help get you to age 85, but how to live beyond that remains a medical mystery. We interviewed people in their 100s to find out how they did it.
Communication is a pretty universal trait among creatures in the animal kingdom. Dogs bark, cats meow, birds chirp and dolphins click. But human beings can write, talk, tweet, text, BBM, Face Time, e-mail, call and more. Do we overdo it or what?
Some of these newer technologies have replaced older forms of communication — we miss you, carrier pigeon — but the medium isn’t the most important thing. The fact that we’re able to transmit and receive messages is.
In an effort to examine and explore the far-reaching world of human communications, moo.com has assembled a history of human communications through the ages. The infographic starts with cave paintings and ends with Twitter. There’s a whole lot of good stuff in between tweets and cave paintings, so check out the full infographic below.
You might have suspected for a while now that smartphone owners tend to be young-ish, with some disposable income.
A new Nielsen survey confirms that this is the case, with a couple of exceptions. Of 20,000 U.S. mobile phone owners Nielsen surveyed last month, 48 percent said they owned a smartphone, with the 25-to-34 age group making up the largest proportion of smartphone owners, at 66 percent.
