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Is a cashless society closer than most realize?

Is a cashless society closer than most realize?

In North America, it's easy to see that we're heading towards a world that is driven by digital commerce. Many people order a good chunk of their daily supplies and impulse purchases online. Apps make buying things even out in the real world much easier than cash. Then, there's the credit and debit card trend that doesn't seem to be declining. Cash, for all intents and purposes, is dying.

Michio Hasai
Video is evolving

Video is evolving

Videography used to be a highly specialized field that required special equipment and training. It took multiple members of a team, each with highly...

Brian Wallace
How Social Media Will Play Its Biggest Political Role Ever for the Presidency

How Social Media Will Play Its Biggest Political Role Ever for the Presidency

It's easy to say that social media is going to be a bigger player in this Presidential election than ever before. It's really only been prominent in two of them and it only played for one side in 2008. In 2016, the importance of social media for determining the next President isn't just going to be bigger. It's going to be (as candidate Donald Trump would say), "Yoooooooge."

Carl Durrek
Direct mail isn’t dead

Direct mail isn’t dead

With digital technology expanding more and more into every aspect of our lives, it’s easy to feel that the new way of doing things will always be better...

Brian Wallace
Your top five social media mysteries solved

Your top five social media mysteries solved

Being in the social media game has some definite advantages, and some absolute disadvantages. The advantages include getting to write for a living, obtaining and recalling odd knowledge about a multitude of different subjects, and having the inside track on what’s happening in the social media universe. The disadvantages are almost the exact same items as the advantages, as I’m constantly forced to detail exactly what I do for a living and I’m also expected to know the definition of everything regarding social media, which brings me to the top five social media mysteries, or the words that you don’t understand.

Lauren Galli
Programming in the Andes. A Toptal Engineer’s Search for Adventure

Programming in the Andes. A Toptal Engineer’s Search for Adventure

The story of Andrew Korzhuev’s upbringing is, at least by this American’s accounts, a fascinating one. To hear him describe the circumstances and community into which he was born almost sounds like he’s setting the scene for the origin flashback of a great comic book supergenius action hero, but to him, it was just life.

Drew Hendricks
How mobile advertising is changing the game

How mobile advertising is changing the game

Since cell phones were released in 2006, mobile advertising has grown to a $64 billion a year industry. It’s projected that in just a couple of years, over half of all advertising dollars spent will be spent on mobile advertising. Considering less than $1 billion was spent on mobile advertising in 2006, that’s a pretty rapid growth rate.

Brian Wallace
Five seconds

Five seconds

Five seconds isn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things. We microwave our leftovers for longer than five seconds. It takes more time than five seconds to melt an ice cube or butter, most faucets don’t run hot water in less than five seconds, and almost everything we do in our daily lives takes longer. However, studies have shown that five seconds could mean the difference between life and death on the roads, as it is said that the average person guilty of texting and driving has only taken their eyes off the road for five seconds.

Michio Hasai
Mitsubishi’s perfection of the infotainment system

Mitsubishi’s perfection of the infotainment system

If you think back to what car interiors used to look like, it’s simply amazing how far we’ve come. New cars more closely resemble the interior display of a spaceship than a car. Before the dawn of computer technology and touch screens, cars took on a straight forward interior appearance that didn’t offer all that much to be excited about. Simply put? That was then, and this is now.

Lauren Galli