This is my first post about the Lift Conference (LIFT08) in Geneva last week. It was really an amazing conference, maybe the best conference I have ever attended. Thanks to everyone who participated in the organization of it! At the first workshop day of LIFT08 I attended a workshop arranged by Dave Brown about how [...]
Posts under ‘Future’
The Big (Bad) Picture! How ready are we??
Today Jamais Cascio wrote a post about The Big Picture where he paints a picture of the 6 main drivers behind the major development of the next 20 years. I am really looking forward to following posts in the issue. Climate Chaos Resource Collapse Catalytic Innovation Ubiquitous Transparency New Models of Development The Rise of [...]
[LINKSOUP 2008-01-30]
To increase the value of this blog I might copy the idea of catching what I find valueble and comment very briefly on it once in a while. Lets see how it goes. Future of massmedia An interesting and though provoking post by Michael Arrington pointing back to what is happening with mass media’s role. [...]
Volvo IT blocks sites mentioning “social software”
When I was at Volvo IT (my former employer until 2000) for a meeting today, it became sadly clear that Volvo IT have entered further down the path of radical ignorance. I’ve heard about their strange firewall filters before stopping people from visiting web pages containing the phrases “IP telephony”, “sex” and “”games”. Apparently the [...]
Scenario planning vs trend spotting
Yesterday I got a newsletter from Spira Rekrytering (newsletter), founded by a friend of mine. Interestingly enough it contained short piece of advice from Magnus Lindqvist, a consultant in business intelligence and trend spotting. Förr i tiden, när organisationer hade långa och tröga beslutsprocesser (vilket, tyvärr, fortfarande vissa har) så var scenarioanalysen verktyget man arbetade [...]
What have I changed my mind about?
The Edge have this year an interesting question as it’s Annual Edge question: What have you changed your mind about? Why? I happened to stumble upon Kevin Kelly’s contribution on Technium, his blog. He changed his mind about the possibilities and powers of mass collaboration and uses Wikipedia as an example. I was a bit [...]
Consumers in a connected world
I have now and then been involved in discussions about changing consumer behavior during the years. When at Volvo we recognized that Internet provided a price transparency which threatened the margins. The story were that people first went to shopping for a car, but when they had decided which car they wanted they asked their [...]
What is it with Canada and the future?
A couple of weeks ago I noted an increasing pattern on Google Trends when it came to Canada and searches for the word future. This trend seems to continue even this year and peeks more than before… And it seems to be unique to Canada! I guess it is some kind of cultural phenomenon. Are [...]
Accelerating economic shift towards the BRICs?
Are things starting to go faster when it comes to the economic shift from the western economies towards the new BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) or is it just a temporary dip? Frances Cairncross, economist and journalist summarized the current situation concerning the BRICs real good when she for one program took over [...]
The famous Jamai Calisco (?) on Metaverse
Hmmm… A joke, a failure to spell it out right or just an urge to stay out of huge web traffic?!? David Sibbet, founder of Grove Consultants, shares his own notes of and a link to a video of a Jamais Cascio’s lectures on the Metaverse simultaneously at Stanford and Second Life November 27th. Since [...]
