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As we move away from the power structures and ways of thinking that governed the twentieth century we are seeing a desperate rearguard action from the power elites who ruled that time.
Dying Dinosaur Industries in their Death Throes
A good example of this is the film and music industries, [...]
As we come up to the year 2012 many prognosticators are predicting the end of the world. I suspect that this will not come to pass.
But I do think that we are seeing the end of the world as we’ve come to know it during the latter years of [...]
No, I’m not talking about social media. This is about real life. And I think that Gandhi summed up a lot of what the #Occupy movement is on about in his note on the Seven social sins.
“Politics without principles
Wealth without work
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The old style company, that is the company circa 1880-2000, had firm boundaries and fixed hierarchies in order to function efficiently. But with the advent of digital technology and the consumer social computing revolution there is a seismic shift in how technology is used within companies. There are also significant [...]
Friction is one of the more important concepts in the world. Many things are either made possible or impeded by friction.
Strike a match and the friction creates a flame. Yet that same kind of friction stops other things from flowing smoothly.
Perhaps the best description of the challenges that [...]
Steve Hopkins was telling me recently about an interesting law firm he’d come across in San Francisco – it’s called Robot. Where lawyer and junior partner Tim Hwang and his senior partners, Apollo Cluster and “Daria” XR-1029, work to merge legal and technical systems.
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Tonia Ries has just published an article titled Privacy Fail: Klout Has Gone Too Far, which outlines how Klout is indexing social networks and creating/measuring user profiles, even if they have never registered with Klout.
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Don Tapscott is a thinker I’ve followed for a long time. This recent interview is worth watching.
It’s time for a new approach that embraces hyperconnectivity and the digital revolution.
It always delights me when friends get to meet interesting people. Thus I was pleased to see that Valerie Khoo, founder of the Sydney Writers’ Centre, recently had a visit from Robert Kiyosaki.
Free people offering their labour in exchange for monetary reward has been fundamental concept for western society. Since the mid-nineteenth century we have not really used forced labour for production. But two examples in recent times make me wonder if that assumption still holds true:
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