September 2011
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“Instead, the human story goes somewhat like this “sitting in caves, coming up...”
– Albert Wenger, in his talk opening the Turing Festival (via fred-wilson)
Wenger is completely right. The internet is the largest, most expensive, and most complex human artifact ever created, and is setting the context for the greatest explosion of creativity and innovation, ever.
(via stoweboyd)
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Mashable: How Phones Are Changing Healthcare In... →
Read about four projects/initiatives that use mobile phones to support health care in Africa:
Praekelt Foundation
Health eVillages
mHealth Alliance
Medic Mobile
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Major Publishers Join Indiana U. Project That... →
infoneer-pulse:
A game-changing e-textbook project at Indiana University—in which the university requires certain students to purchase e-textbooks and negotiates unusually low prices by promising publishers large numbers of sales—now has the participation of major textbook publishers, and university officials plan to expand the effort.
Today McGraw-Hill Higher Education announced that it has...
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Toyota aims for quake-proof supply chain | Reuters →
We can talk about scenario planning in order to see, understand and manage uncertainty on a longer term planning level but when it comes running the daily business the result of the process i e how we design companies and structures will be the crucial point for the future.
I am again talking about the need to redesign society and businesses and build resilient and shock-managing, rather than...
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The Associated Press: Driverless car navigates... →
Another example of research with driverless cars - this time researchers from Free University in Berlin.
BERLIN (AP) — It can talk, see, drive and no longer needs a human being to control it by remote. The car of the future — completely computer-controlled — is on the streets of Berlin.
All summer, researchers from the city’s Free University have been testing the automobile around the...
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The Eight Pillars of Innovation | Think Quarterly... →
I wonder why Susan Wojcicki is picking the word “innovation” in the head line when it could replaced by e g “success”? Could it be that innovation is the holy graal of success these days…? ;-)
Interesting read though… Click and read more about the pillars:
Have a mission that matters
Think big but start small
Strive for continual innovation, not instant...
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I.T. Departments Lose Their Clout Over Phone... →
infoneer-pulse:
Corporate I.T. departments once passed judgment on every kind of technology used in the workplace. Employees had little choice of laptops and mobile phones. But today, because of a gradual loosening in company policies, employees have far greater say.
A survey published on Thursday by Forrester Research shed more light on the phenomenon by showing, for example, that 48 percent...
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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done...”
– Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (1909-2005)
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NHS told to abandon delayed IT project | Society |... →
An ambitious multibillion pound programme to create a computerised patient record system across the entire NHS is being scrapped, ministers have decided.
The £12.7bn National Programme for IT is being ended after years of delays, technical difficulties, contractual disputes and rising costs.
Another failed huge top-down IT-project… which in turn will turn the eyes towards a smaller...
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EIA projects world energy use to increase 53... →
emergentfutures:
Some key findings:
China and India lead the growth in world demand for energy in the future. The economies of China and India were among those least affected by the worldwide recession. They continue to lead world economic growth and energy demand growth in the Reference case. In 2008, China and India combined accounted for 21 percent of total world energy consumption. With...
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Censors kill off China’s ‘Super Girl’ - FT.com →
Super Girl, China’s version of Pop Idol, is to be dropped from television schedules in spite of attracting 400m viewers at its peak, following government pressure on a programme that some officials saw as subversive because the audience voting too closely represented Western-style democracy.
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WatchNiall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity | Video on TED.com
Even if you don’t agree with everything Niall Ferguson says, I think it is important to listen to this talk since it provide a structure to discussing the challenges for both Westerners and “Resterners”.
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How Jay Parkinson's $1,500 Start-up Changed Health... →
This is a wonderful example of a doctor whose business is reversing the increasing complexity in society, and in this case health care, by using available cheap technology to open a single doctor practice. Just like the old times, but using new tools.
With $1,500, he set up a house-call-only practice in his Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood, serving only two zip codes. He created a website...
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Amazon Kindle Library Lending Program Launches... →
infoneer-pulse:
As reported earlier this year, Amazon and digital content distribution service OverDrive are teaming up to bring Kindle library lending to thousands of public libraries across the U.S. That partnership, rumored to be launching this month, has apparently now gone live in select locations.
According to postings on Amazon’s Kindle Forum, some users are already seeing this option...
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Stowe Boyd: Google+ Is Worse Than A Ghost Town,... →
stoweboyd:
The verdict is rolling in. Commentator after commentator is ruling Google+ a failed experiment.
Dan Reimold, Google+ Social Media Upstart ‘Worse Than a Ghost Town’
Google+ is dead. At worst, in the coming months, it will literally fade away to nothing or exist as Internet plankton. At best,…
Why Have People Stopped Posting on Google+? →
So young, so promising. It was in its prime, and stood to reap the rewards of all of Facebook’s flaws—and in a weird twist, made Facebook copy Google+ for some of its newest “changes.”
But the fact of the matter is, public posts on Google+ have decreased 41 percent since the social networking service launched a few months ago. Even Larry Page, you know – Google’s CEO – last updated one...
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iPad-enabled students get performance boost, says... →
In one study, students who annotated text on their iPads scored 25% higher on questions regarding information transfer than their paper-based peers. In a separate project covering iPad usage patterns, two researchers studying ACU’s first all-digital class discovered that the iPad promotes “learning moments” and helps students make more efficient use of their time. Grad students working in an...
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“Productivity is for machines. If you can measure it, robots should do it.”
– Kevin Kelly (via stoweboyd)
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Democratising OpenCourseWare →
OpenCourseWare - putting texts and videos of educational lectures online for anyone to download, use and often build on - is a great idea. But it’s still a case of knowledge being handed down from on high by the university priesthood. What about if anyone could upload lectures they have attended?
(from “Open…” by Glyn Moody)
“Indonesian digital consumers use their mobile-handset connections to meet a...”
– Digital Media in Indonesia - Digital Media Asia (via mediafuturist)
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Stowe Boyd: iPhone5 Case Tells A Lot →
The important reason to read this might be the addition of Stowe Boyd:
So, the next market that Apple plans to destabilize is retail purchasing: credit cards, point of sales systems, back office financial processing, and everything connected to that.
This is an interesting claim and since Apple have more pieces of this puzzle in place than most of the other players this is definitely not...
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Robot Revolution in the Global Financial Markets →
vahidmotlagh:
UK Government’s Foresight panel: “While unlikely, it is not impossible that human traders will simply no longer be required at all in some market roles,” notes Foresight. “The simple fact is that we humans are made from hardware that is just too bandwidth-limited, and too slow, to compete with coming waves of computer technology.” As a consequence, the number of front-line...
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Copenhagen's novel problem: too many cyclists |... →
stoweboyd:
A high-quality problem, but they really need to widen the bike lanes.
This is a problem that will spread to all major cities in the not too far future…
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Degrees of Debt — Utne Reader →
A revealing article about the soon-to-burst educational bubble.
The Project on Student Debt estimates that the average college senior in 2009 graduated with $24,000 in outstanding loans. In August 2010, student loans surpassed credit cards as the nation’s single largest source of debt, edging ever closer to $1 trillion. Yet for all the moralizing about American consumer debt by both political...
