Shuttered businesses and jobs shipped overseas are a cold reality for the people inhabiting <em>Wrecking Ball</em>.

Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that it will eventually surpass the human mind's ability to keep up with the myriad accelerations one now adjusts to, often on a weekly basis.

Current technology can already process our experiences faster than we can think about them. Whether we welcome it or not, it's unavoidable, and greater digital acceleration will happen.

It's safe to say there's been no other time in the history of the world when so much information on peoples' purchasing habits has been gathered, stored, catalogued, and most importantly... used.

In the same way Orwell wrote about 1948 and titled his novel <em>1984</em>, one can ask whether <em>The Hunger Games</em> is a reflection of our current world or a warning of horrific things to come.

Time is your best buddy, and it's going to lead you to a well-spring of ideas that you've been chasing for a while, or maybe you never knew existed.

In a fragmented, sped-up world, images needed to be broken into their separate parts and pieced back together.

What a grand gesture. The pursuit of happiness -- codified into the founding document of a newly emerging nation. Happiness as an ideal to reach for and maybe not ever attain.

One of the ways people and companies have altered the rules of the online marketplace is by embracing the practice of crowdsourcing creativity, often with questionable results.

If you are alive, engaged, alert, ready with a spark inside -- you're open to the idea of reinvention happening on a global scale. Welcome, we've been expecting you.