the challenges of the connected future are less technical and more legislative, political and philsophical. The shift from a generation that started out un-connected to one that is growing up connected will result in conflicts, disruption and eventually the redrawing of our societal expectations. The human race has experienced these shifts before — just not at the speed and scale of this shift. March 20, 2013 at 01:01PM

In the future, will anyone want to do a manual search or surf the web when their electronic agent can simply do the work for them? To help answer that question, it is important to remember a guiding principle I have shared over the years: To see the future, think both/and!! February 09, 2013 at 11:07AM

“Ray Kurzweil’s vision of the “singularity” — when nanobots make humans immortal and computer progress is so fast that the future becomes profoundly unknowable — is a bad idea. That’s the perhaps surprisingly contrary opinion of Joichi Ito, who as a high-tech investor and director of the MIT Media Lab might be expected to be a natural ally. The lab, after all, aims to be at the center of today’s technology revolution”
Gerd adds: I totally agree with Joi on this issue - watch the video!
February 09, 2013 at 11:11AM