Definitely, and specifically Big Data is the new oil.
(via FORA.tv - Data is the New Oil: From Privacy to Publicy)
“Mark is worried that if he doesn’t create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms.”
Layar - Ford Fiesta Promoted in India with Layar (by layarmobile)
Augmented Reality in Advertising - cool:)
very fitting cartoon
A great talk here from a senior UX designer at Microsoft talking about how networks are becoming (and perhaps have always been) the default structure for how we understand and navigate the complexity of the modern world
Post by Neil Perkin, Futures Agency associate
Posted by
Only Dead Fish
Perhaps one of the defining characteristics of effective organisations in the new networked age - the smart combination of distributed and destination thinking
Post by Futures Agency associate Neil Perkin
Posted by
Only Dead Fish
“What is important is providing the conditions through which people can achieve happiness as they understand it.”
“We have all of the technologies that we need to solve all of the world’s problems. What we lack is the political will.”
I am looking forward to working this week with collaborators Kate McCallum and Ron James as we record interviews for our Visions from the Edge project, still in formation stages. We’ll be at the Future In Review conference all week. With luck we’ll be sharing some great interview material shortly after, with the likes of the in-house futurist at Ford, film makers, entrepreneurs, global thought leaders.
Posted by
Glen Hiemstra, Founder of Futurist.com
“Nations thrive when they develop “inclusive” political and economic institutions, and they fail when those institutions become “extractive” and concentrate power and opportunity in the hands of only a few.”
