David Bank is director of the Civic Ventures Institute, a think tank affiliated with Civic Ventures, a national non-profit based in San Francisco.
Civic Ventures' many projects are focused on the proposition that the aging of American society presents an unprecedented opportunity for personal and social renewal, as the largest generation in history puts their talents and experience toward solving society's most pressing problems. With the Baby Boom generation reaching what has been traditional retirement age, the most scarce resource -- time -- is becoming abundant.
Age of Innovation will chronicle the new wave of social innovation as people in the second half of their lives combine their time and talents with passion and purpose, for the benefit not only of themselves, but of people both younger and older.
Bank, a longtime journalist, was most recently a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covered software and philanthropy. He is the author of "Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft," which was named one of the Best Business Books of 2001 by the Harvard Business Review. For more information, see www.breakingwindows.net.
Previously, he was a staff writer at the San Jose Mercury News and the Los Angeles Daily News. His magazine articles have appeared in Newsweek, Mother Jones, Wired and Out. He was a 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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