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...Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. But for all that Asian input, animated films inevitably "feel" Western. That's because the Western studios dominate the creative process, typically providing the story concept, script, character design and voice tracks, while the labor-intensive postproduction work is farmed out to Asia. Now, serial entrepreneur Richard Branson and a team of fellow pioneers say they're determined to "reverse the funnel" and produce world-beating Indian comic heroes for the digital age via the newly established Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation. "We will be tapping into the great mythic storytelling in India to create...
...this week's cover story, TIME editors assembled a panel of four thinkers-Mark Cuban, an Internet entrepreneur who also owns a basketball team, Andres Martinez, the editor of the Los Angeles Times opinion pages; Steven Johnson, an expert in technology and popular culture; and Caitlin Flanagan, a mother who writes about the American family-to talk about the trends that will shape our future...
...assembled an eclectic group of thinkers to identify the trends that will shape our future. It included an Internet entrepreneur who owns a basketball team, a mother who writes about the American family, a specialist in popular culture and an Op-Ed editor at a large city newspaper. We heard a fascinating conversation about how video games are making kids smarter, how consumers are turning into inventors and why some of us are taking longer showers. Listen to most of that discussion at TIME.com Here are some excerpts...
CUBAN: As an entrepreneur, I only hope that I have to compete against companies that are sexist because they're gonna fail...
...three percent of the world’s people have been in charge,” Drayton said. “The richest 20 percent of the world’s population control over 80 percent of the world income.” Drayton said that the reason social entrepreneurs are so important is because there is a need for new solutions to deal with the inequality problem. “Nothing is more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur,” he said. In his talk, Drayton stressed that society needs...