Archive for April, 2009

Consumed, nickel and dimed in the land that is their land

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 There is no room at the mall. The hope and expectation was that this mass consumption would be the way to deliver many long-sought American goals of greater equality, more democracy, if all Americans prospered and were on a similar footing ...

More pirate stuff

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 More for the indoor pirates Capitalism brought us energy, light, water and sanitation etc., it released us from natures hegemony over us. But the sad thing is that the industrial revolution, mass media and mass consumption meant that companies in the end ...

Transformation and the communications revolution

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 This is an edited speech that I gave in Paris which was part of the Nokia Siemens Transformation conference series. Transformation, what is transformation? I asked, my response... Transformation represents change and change is the means, by which the future enters ...

Fearing and understanding

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 I found this today as I was walking into the British Library Marie Curie was the author of that sound bite It appealed to me Especially when I think what could have happened if more work had gone into trying to understand the ...