November 2009
38 posts
Futures Thinking: Scanning the World | Open The...
In Futures Thinking: The Basics, I offered up an overview of how to engage in a foresight exercise. In Futures Thinking: Asking the Question, I explored in more detail the process of setting up a futures exercise, and how to figure out what you’re trying to figure out. In this entry in the occasional series, we’ll take a look at gathering useful data. via fastcompany.com Jamais...
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Volvo IT Department Gets Banned From Wikipedia For...
According to the Channel Register, someone in the Volvo IT Department wrote a number of racist remarks in articles about two Pakistani cricket players: Wasim Akram and Inzamam-ul-Haq. The IP Address, 192.138.116.230, maps back to the Volvo IT Department.
via readwriteweb.com
This is a really good example of the conflict between individuals and their actions on one hand and the ownership...
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Will social software change public services?
http://bit.ly/7icWs1 This is an article that ask right question! And the answer is without doubt ‘yes!’. And the reason is because social software, or new communication technology is on its way to fundamentally change how humanity organize itself. It starts to organize that which haven’t been organized yet. And then the new emergent structures will 1) compete for how efficient...
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Can the IT department survive Web 2.0? -...
CIO in hot water Hinssen recounts the story of a recent lunch he had with a CIO from a large Belgian company. During the meal, the CIO received an angry call from his CEO who had e-mailed a presentation from home to his Google Mail address (it was too big for the corporate inbox). “The CEO was having a problem accessing his Gmail account at work and the CIO had to tell him access had...
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SixthSense technology = Augmented Reality 2.0?
via ted.com Everybody must see this mindblowing presentation of the innovative Sixth Sense user interface technology. This is already what I would call Augmented Reality 2.0 or Augmentation^2. It gives a hint to where ICT is taking us. And in the Q&A after the presentation Pranav tell us that he will release this technology as Open Source in December of this year! Posted via web ...
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McLuhan's Tetrad - a useful tool for strategic...
via cleavefast.wordpress.com Interesting model, which I haven’t seen before. Looks really useful! Read more in the post at CleaveFast blog. Posted via web from futuramb’s posterous | Comment »
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iCarte Turns the iPhone Into an RFID Reader -...
A chip embedded in the iCarte turns your iPhone into a portable electronic wallet, able to process contactless payments. It can also transmit any information it receives directly to enterprise databases using Wi-Fi or 3G network connections, so that orders and purchases can be automatically input into your company’s home server.
via nytimes.com
Here comes another important piece of the puzzle for...
Michael Wesch presentation: The Machine is...
via youtube.com A really interesting presentation by the anthropologist Michael Wesch who is here using Youtube to talk about how we are changing in the networked and individualized media society. Found through the writing by @klang in the article: Vem tänker på skolan och biblioteket? Posted via web from futuramb’s posterous | Comment »
PHD Comics: Buzzwords - academic humor?
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TIBCO CEO sees predictive computing as the next...
Everyone has the same servers and IT equipment and ERP applications. Competitive distinction, and innovation, will be expressed through the predictive rules and business processes developed within companies. via siliconvalleywatcher.com To me this is about using all available data (internal AND external) to create end evaluate scenarios of how the future might unfold in order to take the right...
McKinsey are slow and conservative, but they have...
Why, then, don’t people routinely create robust sets of scenarios, create contingency plans for each of them, watch to see which scenario is emerging, and live by it? Scenarios are in fact harder than they look—harder to conceptualize, harder to build, and uncomfortably rich in shortcomings. A good one takes time to build, and so a whole set takes a correspondingly larger investment of time and...
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“At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and...”
– Why You Can’t Use Personal Technology at the Office - WSJ.com
What will the IT-departments do? Keep the control by force or start to withdraw??
Listening to Dennis Pamlin talking about 8...
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Andrew Hessel - Introduction to Synthetic Biology...
via youtube.com An introductory lecture about into how biology and informatics is merging into synthetic biology. (via plausiblefutures blog) Posted via web from futuramb’s posterous | Comment »
The dangers with the security theater
Security is both a feeling and a reality. The propensity for security theater comes from the interplay between the public and its leaders. When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn’t truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn’t make any sense. via...
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Report: Harvard libraries must share →
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Even Harvard can’t have it all. Already cut from the budget of the world’s wealthiest university: hot breakfasts for most students and cookies during faculty meetings. Could library holdings be next?
Challenging financial times means Harvard has to learn to share, not horde, knowledge, says a new report about the largest university library in the world.
The problem? Journals have...
Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash...
Enlarge This Image Ruby Washington/The New York Times Erica Bohrer has used earnings from selling her lesson plans to buy books for students and to help with her mortgage payments. via nytimes.com The Internet is both a social, a practical but also a commercial forum. Is there really a problem when teachers sell their own developed material to other teachers on the net? It is just a...
Martin Börjesson talks at Stora Styrelsedagen i...
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How Twitter is Changing the Face of Media →
Interesting and relatively short writing about how the communication landscape change with Twitter:
Shared media: Not yours but our media
Power of the crowd: People pick the news
Multiple streams: No one kind of content rules
Personal: Connections to people, not just content
Interactive: Responding, Not Just Consuming
(via @gleonard)
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (via infoneernet)
British Government: We Want Access to Your Every... →
chrbutler:
The British government has decided to go ahead with its plans under what it calls the Intercept Modernisation Programme to force every telecommunication company and Internet service provider to keep a record of all of its customers’ personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the web sites they have visited, according to the London Telegraph...
“The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who...”
– Alvin Toffler (via chrbutler)
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List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples -... →
A really good list of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing initiatives and examples. Worth a look if you try to understand what this new emergent way of organizing value creation really is!
“This need to reduce spending coupled with technologies that enable effective...”
– Adding Value and Making More Money With Effective Collaboration Tools | Microgeist
Click to download a free Forrester/Adobe research report about the future of collaboration in which you can read in the executive summary:
As collaboration grows in importance for knowledge work, the tools must...
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Novelties - How an Engineer Turned a Cellphone... →
There have been a number of research projects around diagnostics on mobile phones for a while. But when they are starting to reach the US$10 level it will be really interesting for the global fight against diseases.
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The Goods May Be Virtual, but the Profit Is Real -... →
A business that have existed for quite a number of years seems to be more and more mainstream. Here is an NYT article about virtual goods.
It is interesting to think of virtual things as non-existant and with no real value, but in the article is ending with a interesting testimony which might highlight at least a couple of other values:
Some game fans claim that in some cases, virtual goods can...
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Bank of England says financiers are fuelling an... →
The banking sector must be overhauled as profoundly as in the wake of the Great Depression or financiers will “game the state” over and over again, the head of the Bank of England’s financial stability arm has warned.
This is exactly what will (continue to) happen if the financial system is allowed use the society as their parachute when they fail. The fundamental learning...
100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner |... →
Here are some great tools that you can use to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
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Bookless Libraries? →
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When does a library cease to be a library?
What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries, as a gathering of technologists here at the 2009 Educause Conference pondered the evolution of one of higher education’s oldest institutions.
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