On October 11 Thomas L. Friedman, author of widely selling books like The Lexus and the Olive Tree, The World Is Flat and Hot, Flat, and Crowded as well as a NY Times columnist wrote a massively referred and tweeted column by the name Something’s Happening Here, which he started off by: When you see spontaneous social protests [...]
Posts under ‘Driving forces’
Toyota takes the resilience path
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 [...]
Why knowledge is destroyed with fall of civilizations
It is a bit weird that it is much more easy to write things in the unstructured and undemanding link stream i e my Tumblr feed, than to write things here. I will try to change that… For some time I have been thinking about the role of destruction in change processes. That lead me [...]
Don Tapscott on Internet and end of recession
Don Tapscott, is stating the paradigmatic effect of Internet on the whole society in this short and radical movie. He states that: The web is creating a global infrastructure for collaboration (which leads to disruption and confusion) As a result, all of our institutions have come to the end of their life-cycle The current recession [...]
Neoteny and the status of humanity
Sometimes a single word can spark a whole new set of thoughts. That is what the term neoteny did to me in the beginning of the summer. So, you don’t know what neoteny is? Neither did I until an acquaintance explained the term to me when talking about dogs and how they have evolved in [...]
Have you seen “Did You Know 3.0″?
A pretty good way of asking: Where are technology taking us? via YouTube – 2008 Latest Edition – Did You Know 3.0 – From Meeting in Rome this Year. Technorati Tags: future, technology, video
Automotive industry and the future of mobility
What about the future of the automotive industry? It doesn’t look good from an American (or Swedish) horizon, but where is all this going and how are we going to transport ourselves tomorrow?? Yesterday I held a speech at a local conference of entrepreneurship. As usual I talked about scenario planning and it’s virtues of [...]
The future of Internet – the next 5000 days
Kevin Kelly say something like this in the speech: “The Internet’s development is really amazing, but strangely enough, we are not amazed?” Do we really understand what is going on? The last time I wrote about Kevin Kelly in this forum was when he had been writing an interesting article in Wired about the future [...]
Evolution of science porn and the declining relevance of science
Today scientific knowledge is more popular among the public than ever. It is only underscored with the success of the vast number of magazines popularizing science and the growing numbers of public science fairs popping up everywhere (e g here in Göteborg the science fair Vetenskapsfestivalen occured last week). The increased educational levels, indisputable leaps [...]
