via ▶ Charting culture – YouTube. ... Read more

Good Interview with Chris Anderson on Why Community-Driven Companies Will Always Win
Good input by Chris Anderson, former Wired Editor. I think one of the lessons we’re learning from the smartphone era is the importance of platforms....
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Jul 2014

▶ Jeremy Rifkin on the Fall of Capitalism and the Internet of Things – YouTube
via ▶ Jeremy Rifkin on the Fall of Capitalism and the Internet of Things – YouTube. Jeremy is simply brilliant ... Read more
30
Jul 2014
The New York Times Is a Great Company in a Terrible Business
This morning, the New York Times announced higher circulation revenue, huge gains in digital subscribers, and the continued erosion of its print advertising business. If the...
30
Jul 2014

10 useful futurist terms and memes: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s favourite neologisms
10 Futurist terms and memes that everyone should know about PDF download 3MB: Gerd's 10 useful futurist terms and memes Read more in my new book...
28
Jul 2014
Emotion in marketing: How our brains decide which content is shareable
This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog and has been republished with permission. Every day it seems like we feel hundreds of different emotions...
28
Jul 2014

▶ Business, rewritten by software (interesting video by CA Technologies) – ‘software is eating the world’
A very timely video by CA technologies (which, btw, is a client of mine, see CA Expo Australia August 25-29), showing how just about everything...
28
Jul 2014
Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the World, and Humankind Must Adapt
In a post entitled “Machine Learning: Bane or Blessing for Mankind?,” I noted that the renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking along with his colleagues Stuart...
24
Jul 2014

A big myth about connectivity in the developing world, busted (via QZ.com)
Almost everyone on earth has a mobile phone, if you believe the mobile industry’s data on active mobile connections. Just take a look at the...
24
Jul 2014
Meet Ray, the self-driving forklift that is parking cars at a German airport
Travelers at Dusseldorf Airport in Germany don’t even have to park their cars anymore. Last week the airport begin a using self-driving robot that resembles...
24
Jul 2014
Big Data’s Effect on Organ Transplant Wait Lists
Of 28,594 organs transplanted in 2013, you haven’t heard about most. The stories of a few might go viral thanks to social media, but the...
24
Jul 2014

▶Good video by Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like? – YouTube
▶ Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like? – YouTube. Great talk by Andrew McAfee ... Read more
24
Jul 2014
▶ THE FUTURE OF THE MIND by Michio Kaku – YouTube
▶ THE FUTURE OF THE MIND by Michio Kaku – YouTube. Must watch video. Dr. Kaku is quite amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XsXXD8iEyU ... Read more
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Jul 2014

▶ JIBO: The World’s First Family Robot – YouTube (I don’t know whether to laugh or cry watching this)
▶ JIBO: The World's First Family Robot – YouTube. This is a pretty amazing video – we are making giant leaps in society in this...
22
Jul 2014
The Internet, Then and Now … (Comic) via Re/code
The Internet, Then and Now … (Comic) | Re/code. There is a lot of truth in this one:) ... Read more
22
Jul 2014
Short video in German: Digitale Transformation: ist euer Business ‘digital zerbrechbar’?
via my German blog: Video: digitale Transformation: ist euer Business ‘digital zerbrechbar’? | Der Futurist. ... Read more
21
Jul 2014

Powerful Video via MIT Media Lab CityHome: What if 200 ft2 could be 3x larger?
Huge changes ahead for architects, constructions companies and real estate planners…. via MIT Media Lab CityHome: What if 200 ft2 could be 3x larger?...
21
Jul 2014

Interview on Big Data: blessing and curse (Migros-Magazin Switzerland, in German)
Big Data – Fluch und Segen zugleich. Computer sind heute in der Lage, riesige Datenmengen auszuwerten. So lassen sich Vorhersagen treffen und Verbrechen, Krankheiten oder...