Are we thinking about the right things?

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That blob above is a map of SXSW 2012 panel topics. You can see a full screen version here that allows you to zoom in and poke around in greater detail. Matt Biddulph is the smart guy behind the graphic.

The annual interactive, music and film fest in Austin has become a pretty big deal to folks that like to gaze into their own navels, but it is also an important gauge of where were are going as a culture.

Here’s a big question for you. What do we need to be thinking more about as a society and what is occupying too much of our precious time?