May 2011
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Brand Building: Is ‘Function’ The New ‘Emotion’?:... →
The most successful companies in the world understand that brand and business growth don’t result from the kind of emotion that is manufactured in an advertisement. Instead, these companies channel all of their energy into creating magnificent products that add true, tangible value to people’s lives. Emotion – and the financial commitment it inspires – actually emerges as an organic side-effect...
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Stowe Boyd: Audi Urban Future Initiative →
THE AUDI URBAN FUTURE INITIATIVE IN NEW YORK, 6TH TO 9TH MAY 2011
The results of the Audi Urban Future Award 2010 were first presented parallel to the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2010 in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia within a walk-through architectural environment…
Stowe Boyd - What about the weak ties? →
a cognitive limit of 150±50 close friendships does not diminish the power of Twitter, which is derived from amplifying the power of weak ties, not strong ones.
I agree totally with this discussion about weak vs strong ties concerning the value of Twitter. But since most people still have an “old” interpretation of what a valuable social relation is, this discussion will probably...
Don Tapscott on What We Can Learn From Millennials... →
Don’t supervise — As social networks become the backplane of work, work media will be the default way that workers interact: through social relationships rather than hierarchies or processes. Millennials have embraced Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social tools, and will naturally apply the core elements of those systems to their coordination and communication around work. This means...
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Sarkozy is misinterpreting the Internet revolution...
Mr Sarkozy has now taken the battle of the Internet to the next level of open conflict between governments and the Internet by initiating the e-G8 meeting where he argued:
“The universe you represent is not a parallel universe. Nobody should forget that governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies. To forget this is to risk democratic...
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“But the Internet is changing every institution in society. It enables new...”
– Don Tapscott: G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing (via infoneer-pulse)
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Freight Railroads Are Being Transformed by the... →
smarterplanet:
The digital revolution is coming to freight rail. Major railroads are installing digital communications, global positioning receivers, sensors and computerized controls on their trains and tracks. New systems can gather intelligence on locations, size and speeds of trains and make automated decisions about when the trains should stop or go. Digital cameras and microphones on...
SWoRD - a P2P student paper review system →
SWoRD is a web-based reciprocal peer review system. In less fancy terms, students turn their class papers into SWoRD, which then assigns this paper to five or six peers in the class. The peers grade the paper and give advice for how to improve it. Students revise the paper and turn it back in to SWoRD, which distributes the paper to the same peers for final review. SWoRD determines the accuracy of...
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“Forget preparing for the “black swans,” investor Nassim Taleb’s name for the...”
– It can go wrong? It will go wrong. - The Washington Post
“In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have...”
– The New Geopolitics of Food (via azspot) These are serious impacts that could lead to famine, even war. I’m old enough to remember the Ethiopian famine, and it was horrifying. Famine causes internal conflict and civil war, and sometimes the UN and US have to intervene. Rising prices, I predict, will...
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“China has by far the strongest interest in purchasing tablets, with consumers...”
– A whole generation of Chinese consumers who have only known computing as mobile phones are going straight to tablets. Imagine how free they will be to reimagine computing never having used a keyboard or mouse.
The post-PC world is shaping up to be a very interesting one.
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(via brycedotvc)
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Climate Adaptation: Is "printing" food a good... →
climateadaptation:
Above: liquefied turkey and celery squares being printed at Cornell University. Good to know that Cornell actually does something inside their architecturally gorgeous campus buildings. But printing food?? Looking into the future, I suppose if there’s agricultural collapse, we’ll…
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The stupidity of our copyright laws is finally... →
“Could it be true,” he [Hargreaves] asks, “that laws designed more than three centuries ago with the express purpose of creating economic incentives for innovation by protecting creators’ rights are today obstructing innovation and economic growth? The short answer is: yes.”
“Lobbying,” he writes, “is a feature of all political systems and as a...
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Silicon Valley Guru Steve Blank Welcomes The New... →
The LinkedIn IPO “absolutely” marks the beginning of a bubble — and he thinks it’s going to be great. He likens it to the Netscape IPO in August 1995 that kicked off four years of boom times, but notes that this time VCs actually know how to build real companies with real revenue and profit.
Crazy investors — not geeks — are what makes Silicon Valley unique. Without the “crazy” financiers...
IT'S OFFICIAL: Apple Fanboyism Is A Religion:... →
They compared MRIs of Apple fans’ brains to those of people who call themselves “very religious” and found that Apple and religion light up the same part of the brain. This means that Apple triggers the same feelings and reactions in people as religion.
Youth Without Future (Juventud Sin Futuro), a new... →
vahidmotlagh:
This is just the beginning
Yes, I agree with that analysis that this is just the beginning! The question is to what extent the establishment is able resist it… and by what means. I think it to a large extent depends on how long it takes for the bottom-up youth movement to develop an agenda which can be viewed as a serious political alternative rather than just gathering...
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“Do you wonder why our economy is in such a mess? Do you wonder why the world you...”
– Winning Information Revolutions: : from the Ice Age to the Internet
Copyright policy based largely on "lobbynomics,"... →
infoneer-pulse:
A major new independent report to the UK Prime Minister on his country’s intellectual property laws is out. Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth could hardly make its position clearer: the UK has lost its way when it comes to copyright policy.
Here are just a few of the most telling quotes:
“We urge Government to ensure that in future, policy on...
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Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds →
infoneer-pulse:
When people can learn what others think, the wisdom of crowds may veer towards ignorance.
In a new study of crowd wisdom — the statistical phenomenon by which individual biases cancel each other out, distilling hundreds or thousands of individual guesses into uncannily accurate average answers — researchers told test participants about their peers’ guesses. As a result, their...
“Facebook’s ad revenue hit an impressive $1.86 billion for 2010, and the site may...”
– Google v. Facebook: Following the Money (via mediafuturist)
“We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need are mere clerks who...”
– Seth’s Blog: The future of the library (via infoneer-pulse)
Online Degrees Come of Age in Asia →
infoneer-pulse:
Some universities have long specialized in such distance education, but now more homegrown Asian institutions are seeking to tap the demand for higher education in underserved areas. And as Internet connectivity spreads, more students like Mr. Abdulla are realizing that their education options are no longer bound by geographical constraints — or even by the older model of...
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The Future Freight Flows team at MIT use GBN... →
vahidmotlagh:
The Future Freight Flows team at CTL has developed four future scenarios: Millions of Markets, Global Marketplace, Naftastique!, and One World Order. They were developed over the course of a year through a series of focused expert panel sessions, practitioner acid testing, and industry wide surveys. The key driving forces and critical uncertainties were identified and formed...
“McKinsey says the nation will also need 1.5 million more data-literate managers,...”
– Mining of Raw Data May Bring New Productivity, a Study Says - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse) 