October 2009
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WatchJohn Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer | Video on TED.com
An optimistic talk about a number of consumer value trends that signals that people are changing in the right direction:
Status shift from having things towards having liquidity
Shift towards ethics and fair play
Durable living - life is a marathon and not a sprint
Communities are becoming more important part of our lives and...
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Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Just one degree of... →
It is no secret that personalized communication technologies cause increased transparency on many levels.
This blog post in Smart Mobs tells a couple of stories suggesting that this transparency has taken another important step when theorists on both the counter terrorist side and terrorist side starts to communicate person to person over the Internet.
I take this as a clear sign that the...
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Three sneezes and you are out | Net Effect →
Drastic changes like catastrophes are always having second order effects. H1N1 does as well, and this might be one that few would have predicted:
Adults working from home, children accessing video files and playing games online and families logging on for information about the illness would overwhelm residential Internet networks that were never built to have a majority of users on the Web at the...
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Cody Brown - A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why... →
Really interesting (and long) article about the development of news media!
It’s easy to look at mass layoffs at some of the most important news institutions we’ve ever had and make a point that our culture no longer values the production of news, but, when we have 120,000 new blogs created each day, I think the point is precisely the opposite. News is important. It’s so important that leaving it...
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Newspapers Across the Country Show Steep Declines... →
On a comparable basis, ABC reported that for the 379 newspapers filing with the organization, average daily circulation plunged 10.6% to 30,395,652 — one of the most severe drops in overall circulation. Sunday circulation for 562 reporting newspapers was down 7.4% to 40,012,253.
There are several reasons as to why circulation keeps dropping, aside from former readers who have kicked the...
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Virtual consumption: the thesis | Virtual Economy... →
A PhD thesis in the growing issue of consumption of virtual goods. Seen from the perspective that our economies are shifting towards producing and consuming experiences instead of products and services this trend isn’t hard to explain.
- People buy virtual goods for the same reasons as they buy material goods. In online spaces, virtual goods can function as markers of status, elements of...
“If you give someone a fish, you feed them for a day - but if you teach someone...”
– Paul Romer
What’s your place in the brave new future? - Times... →
An interview with Paul Saffo where he (again) states that the nation state is coming to it’s end.
“The nation state had a nice run but it’s coming to an end,” he said. “Globalisation made people think of themselves as global citizens, and that’s been furthered by air travel and cyberspace. [But] people look for meaning in the community.” In the past that community was the nation state but...
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Dilbert and pandemics productivity decrease
Yes, a pandemic might influence productivity, but how much is that compared to other things?
management driven reporting frenzy
too many pan organizational quality, productivity and reorg projects at the same time
the disconnect between top, mid and low level management reality - breakdown of top-down management model
pan organizational communication congestion
commonality driven IT...
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Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British... →
Britain is the probably the country where surveillance first will “hit the fan”. This is another article with yet another story.
But the intrusions visited on Jenny Paton, a 40-year-old mother of three, were startling just the same. Suspecting Ms. Paton of falsifying her address to get her daughter into the neighborhood school, local officials here began a covert surveillance...
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3 What's Next for 21st Century Cities? -... →
Interesting image and additions to WFS Outlook 2010 from a Future of Cities perspective by @urbanverse (if you follow the link).
“WASHINGTON — Shockingly poor financial management at General Motors and Chrysler...”
– The Associated Press: Auto task force shocked by state of GM, Chrysler
(via @mitchbetts)
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The Economics of Cloud Computing Analyzed |... →
What will happen to the rest of the IT market if cloud computing would be the way out of the IT department swamp where most Government organizations reside today? Open source was a promising way, but seems to be going pretty slow. What about cloud computing?
Bo Rothstein: Reflektioner angående ekonomipriset... →
Intressant inlägg om Ellinor Ostroms nobelpris av Bo Rothstein på Ekonomistas blog. Han drar dessutom Ostroms resultat som kritik längre än till “Tragedy of the Commons” och går rakt mot Hobbes, vilket jag gärna sympatiserar med. Jag har själv ofta kommit till Hobbes idéer som en av de stora “misstagen” i västvärldens utveckling. Läsvärt!
Ostroms pris kan betyda att saker...
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Technology Review: Blogs: Information Processing:... →
Could the limits to surveillance society lie in limitations of electric power for performing analysis of the huge amount of data gathered?
Instead, what the agency needs most, Aid says, is more power. But the type of power to which he is referring is the kind that comes from electrical substations, not statutes. “As strange as it may sound,” he writes, “one of the most urgent...
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Small Banks Fail at Growing Rate, Straining... →
The recession isn’t over yet…
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Modern life is rubbish | SMLXL - Engagement... →
An interesting post about the increasingly impossible situation in modern day organizations. A situation which signals about the increasing desperation of the old factory style model and how it literally kills people - the modern men and women of the 21th century:
On September 11, 2009, a French woman who worked for France Telecom sent an email to her father, in that email she wrote, I can’t take...
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“History cannot be used to reliably predict the future, and data-driven...”
– An Important History Lesson - Forbes.com
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Will California become America's first failed... →
Interesting read!
If one of the world’s most commercially successful states would fail it might have a significant effect on how countries and states understand the risk of failing. Even the apparent risk of failing, might have a fast forward effect on the political agendas around the globe.
Study: 54 Percent of Companies Ban Social... →
infoneernet:
California-based staffing company Robert Half Technology hired an independent research firm to conduct phone interviews with more than 1,400 company chief information officers at companies with more than 100 employees.
Of those polled, 54 percent said that social networking of any kind, be it Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace, was completely banned. About 19 percent allowed...
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Africa’s Smart Mob fastest-growing →
“I don’t think the development being done now for mobile phones is going to stop,” Mr. Gossier said, “but I think we’ll see a whole new generation of applications coming out of Africa, including mobile applications that utilize the Web.” …
This is another signal for the rapidly emerging bottom up innovation which is under way. It is really popular to look at Africa since it is probably...
“Trends aren’t transmitted hierarchically, as they used to be. They’re now...”
– Martin Raymond, co-founder of The Future Laboratory, in an interview with the Independent (via delayprocrastinate) (via somethingchanged) (via wearethedigitalkids) (via infoneernet)
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The Future of Health Care Is Social | Fast Company →
A really interesting input to discussion about the future of health from frog design.
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Open Health Map of Disruptive Innovation and... →
Interesting IFTF project trying to apply the open innovation principles to the global health economy! As usual IFTF have created a beautiful map to look upon (in PDF).
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New York man accused of using Twitter to direct... →
Another example of how the power of individuals will cause strange situations. A world where just one insignificant person with just a mobile phone can be held responsible of organizing a riot is a very different world. It is a world which needs different rules, values and institutions.
It is a world with a choice for the future: either continue to repress individuals by using the old rules and...
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The First 6 Macro Trends of the 21st Century |... →
An interesting list of macro trends to think about: Corporate Technology in the hands of Citizens
Physical is increasingly Virtual
It’s about Distribution not Destination
Mass Niche not Mass Groups
Broadcast Control is now Self Scheduled
C2C is more powerful than B2C Communication
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I Didn't Sin—It Was My Brain | Memory,... →
Our knowledge about how the brain works is exploding due to e g the development of fMRI technology. But what will happen when we can explain most of our behavior by looking into the brain? And realize that we in fact are unable to control a large part of the behavior we have??
Will that knowledge really have an impact on anything or will be just another scientific truth that will add more...
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Envisioning the Future at Ford - Ford's top 10... →
To me these kinds trend lists are not very interesting in themselves, but rather as a signal on how Ford in this case are perceiving the world.
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WatchWe will be here – Map of the future - | DensityDesign | Communication Design & Complexity
Interesting map of the future generated from a 6 weeks game of Superstruct.
(via @FutureSavvy)
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Patty Seybold on new emerging textbook replacement →
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How GE Is Disrupting Itself - HBR.org →
GE is using its global reach to let the leafs of the organization actually be innovative in order to tap local capabilities and advantages and use the post western globalization as strategic advantage.
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