Residents of Merrill, Wisconsin are continuing to talk with, and listen to, and increasingly work with each other. As described in our prior April blog post about the “Building Merrill Together” discussion program, these growing citizen-based activities in Merrill...
Residents of Merrill, Wisconsin are talking and listening—a lot these days about a wide variety of community and regional concerns. The monthly community discussion program entitled “Building Merrill Together” began this February and will continue for a series of...
Last fall, IF co-sponsored and facilitated a successful 2-session discussion program in Merrill, Wisconsin. The discussions, hosted by the T.B. Scott Free Library in Merrill were entitled "Constructing the Future of Greater Merrill," and they were part of IF's...
Breaking News: The Interactivity Foundation (IF) has published a new discussion guide. Tomorrow's News: the Future of Journalism and Our News Media is now available on the IF website. Like all IF discussion guides, Tomorrow's News is designed to encourage...
Beginning late last spring, the Interactivity Foundation has been working with a few public libraries in Wisconsin to develop a pilot program to initiate and support community-based discussions. Under this pilot program, we have now facilitated four separate...
Today's NYTimes included a story about a Wisconsin man challenging his sentence because it was based in significant part on a proprietary computer program, an algorithm, used by the Wisconsin courts. http://nyti.ms/28MR24E The story also discusses other law...
In partnership with a few, select local libraries in Wisconsin, the Interactivity Foundation is developing a pilot program to support community-based discussions. Under this initiative, the Foundation will work with participating libraries to— plan and facilitate...
Today's Sunday Review in the New York Times included an interesting article on the idea of a universal basic income: It's Payback Time for Women. Many of the issues in this article connect to ideas suggested in both our Future of Employment and Rewarding Work...
Throughout 2014, the National Geographic magazine published a series of full length articles and shorter pieces on The Future of Food. You can view a listing of the articles that were published in the magazine's print edition--and links to the full articles--on...
For well over 30 years now, we've been told that the solution to all that ails us is yet another tax cut--primarily for business and the top earners, which will eventually trickle down to everyone else and lift all our boats. We've also been told that the solution...
