Jeff DeGraff
Michigan Radio
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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How NASA is responding to increased probability of Armageddon asteroids
The Next Idea One afternoon while waiting for my flight to board, a headline caught my eye: “ Civilization-Destroying Comets Are More Common Than We → Read More
Big Brother is using technology to watch us, but we’re also watching each other
The Next Idea Approximately 70% of all Americans have a smartphone: 24/7 internet access, touch screen apps, and a video camera. A quick glance at any news → Read More
The invisible employment crisis that threatens the auto industry and our economic future
The Next Idea A very strange article in The New York Times caught my eye the other day. It noted that while unemployment has fallen to 4.7%, the lowest in → Read More
Forget net neutrality, regulatory neutrality is what we really need
The Next Idea In the early 1990s, I visited billionaire George Soros’ office in New York City to provide some direction on an investment his firm had made → Read More
Currency innovations like bitcoin could render bank deregulation moot
The Next Idea A few years before the Great Recession, I was an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank. I provided some limited advice on how to stimulate → Read More
Maybe we should build a wall to keep our talented people in
The Next Idea A recent headline in the Financial Times read, “ Vancouver seizes chance to lure Silicon Valley tech talent .” The mayor of Vancouver → Read More
Employment for all Americans is ideal. Protectionist trade policies are not the way to do it.
The Next Idea You may have missed it, but last summer Walmart got into some hot water with the Federal Trade Commission for its"Made in the U.S.A.” → Read More
The world is complex, so why do we let our candidates talk to us like simpletons?
One of my favorite movies from last year was The Big Short. It brilliantly explained many of the complex factors that set in motion the collapse of the → Read More
To both candidates, where exactly will the jobs come from?
The Next Idea So here we are at the end of one of the most odious and vitriolic campaigns in memory. Rather than adding yet more commentary, I’d like to → Read More
For better or worse, technology erodes boundary between personal and professional life
The Next Idea If you listen to the World Economic Forum, we are now in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The WEF calls this “a fusion of technologies that → Read More
It's time to rethink liberal arts education in Michigan
Instead of being the vehicle to join the middle class that it once was, higher education is now an obstacle that actually prevents access to knowledge and → Read More
This is the end of marriage, capitalism and God. Finally!
My fellow boomers might mock millennials, but what if the new generation has the big questions absolutely right? → Read More
How Breakthrough Ideas Become Mainstream
There can be no variation, deviance or innovation if we do not share a nexus, fulcrum or center by which to gauge and navigate a way forward together. → Read More
Walking the Tightrope on the Innovation Bell Curve
There can be no variation, deviance or innovation if we do not share a nexus, fulcrum or center by which to gauge and navigate a way forward together. Perhaps the first step is to find our equilibrium by focusing on the center, regaining our perspective and reaching out to save our best ideas before they slide off the edges. → Read More
What the Most Creative Countries in the World Do
It's time that we loosen our ideology and tighten our strategy for making innovation happen. → Read More
Where do the truly great innovations lie?
The Next Idea Cool, shiny, sleek: These are the qualities we associate with top-shelf innovations. That’s because we’re constantly confronted with magazine → Read More
What the Most Creative Countries in the World Do--and How America Can Learn From Them
How the U.S. can get back on top of the list of the planet's most innovative countries. → Read More
Why Crowdsourcing Has Ruined the Art of Innovation
Forget everything you know about crowdsourced innovation. → Read More
Despite politics, strides made in 2015 to break Michigan's status quo
The Next Idea It’s that time of year to reflect on what worked and what didn’t this past year here in the Great Lakes State, and to give due consideration → Read More
The Graduation Speech I Didn't Give [Infographic]
As we run up to the New Year, I share a little commencement advice to those who hope to graduate or at least advance a grade in the curriculum of life. → Read More