Tim Berners-Lee video: 1991: type in ‘hypertext’ and feel the power of the links
Image via Wikipedia Tim Berner's Lee, the co-inventor of the Internet (CERN, August 1991), with a brief statement on how it all got started – a nice reminder;) Related articles by Zemanta Tech Weekly:...
View ArticleWhy Spotify won’t solve the structural problems of the music industry (video...
Fellow Futurist and Keynote Speaker Monty Metzger recorded this video while we were both attending the Monaco Media Forum in November 2009. Some bottom lines: Giving fair and reasonable permission is a...
View ArticleThe Future of TV and Social Media (video from MIPTV, April 2010)
A couple of interesting morsels in this talk: the flat-out convergence of TV and the Web – and what it really means. And here is the Blip.Tv version Share This:
View ArticleNew Video: Gerd Leonhard, Media Futurist, at ictQATAR Connected Event
This is a very nicely produced video (and the speaker isn’t half bad either;). The slideshow is embedded below. Future of Media: Gerd Leonhard @ICTQatar ConnectedSpeakers Event View more presentations...
View ArticleAll creative work is derivative (video +)
Check out this really cool video by Nina Paley, setting forth the exact same thought that I expressed at TedXNewStreet in London last year (slides / post, video) in my talk on The Future of Copyright...
View ArticleSome of my best interviews and related media coverage of my work (PDFs)
Epoca Brazil, on Facebook (Portuguese) April 2011: Download Epoca Brazil Gerd HSM Magazine, Brazil (Portuguese) June 2010: Download HSM gerd eComm conference / blog interview on Telemedia (Sept...
View ArticleGreat video by Tiffany Shlain: connected Creativity (MIPTV)
Can't wait to see her new movie. "Honoured by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is an award-winning filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards and co-founded the...
View ArticleRevolucion – a new kind of chess game
This seems to be the what we see around the world, these days, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. Great illustration, below. Food for thought. Source. Share This:
View Article2020Plus: Social Futurist’s Twelve Trends for 2012
De-Gadgetisation – 2012 will see a drive to recalibrate our reliance on digital communications. New studies will emerge showing the impact of Absent Presence and Constant Partial Attention, which...
View ArticleInequality is a major issue for 2012
…exemplified in this picture taken from one of the largest favelas in Rio de Janeiro. The trend towards the rich getting richer and the poor remaining poor while the middle class does whatever it takes...
View ArticleThomas Friedman video on ‘that used to be us’: must-watch for everyone in the...
A lot of really great insights here on what is going wrong in America, from technology to education to innovation. I don't agree with all of it but his talk (and the book "That used to be us") is...
View ArticleBarcelona to Get Contactless Payments (but …)
My Comment: the biggest problem with this is privacy – how can I be sure that my payments don't end up getting tracked by 'the wrong people'…? Read Cory Doctorow's cool and very scary novel "little...
View ArticleWhy The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA (via Steve Blank)
Good read and nice list of examples Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA « Steve Blank "The Movie Industry and Technology Progress. The music and movie business has been...
View ArticleAbout Creating Shared Value (via HBR)
Below, some very interesting thoughts on shared values. Food for thought. Creating Shared Value – Harvard Business Review "Business and society have been pitted against each other for too long. That is...
View ArticleRead this: The SOPA Debate Ignores How Much Copyright Protection We Already...
There are many good points in this really excellently researched piece – pretty embarrassing for the 'land of the free' I might add. Quite worrisome, in fact. Enough, Already: The SOPA Debate Ignores...
View ArticleNice video: Drivelapse USA – 5 Minute Roadtrip Around America
If you have spend any time traveling in the US, and love 'the road' or road-movies this is for you! Nice sound-track, too (see below). The California / San Francisco footage is particularly nice imho....
View ArticleBehind I.B.M.’s Big Predictions – NYTimes.com (automated mobile language...
Imagine what this will do to education, marketing and content / media… Eta: 3-5 years. Behind I.B.M.'s Big Predictions – NYTimes.com – Powerful mobile devices, capable of precise language translation,...
View ArticleThe industrial age has finally run out of gas (Don Tapscott)
So true – Don hits the nail on the head: read this interview at Forbes.com. I blogged this before but it's crucial. “Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated...
View ArticleThe wealth of information (silos versus ecosystems): we need another Adam Smith
Just found this really interesting and thoughtful piece via DataMotive (high-lights, and some links added by me) "Adam Smith makes a strong and eloquent argument why these silo’s are erroneously seen...
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