Archive for 2009

A short story about a long journey

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Here I am chatting away to David Cushman, talking about the things that are important to me and what I think should be important to anyone interested in creating meaningful communications in today's world of No Straight Lines.Looks like the ...

Hot media = heat is energy in motion

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Someone asked me today how I would describe hot media.Heat is defined as energy in motion, and I describe hot media as media which enables us to make media and communication, dynamic and participatory.This in fact is the antithesis of ...

Mobile and the survelliance society

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Stephen Fry, talked about the survelliance society in one of his podgrams as being a better phraseology to describe our CCTV cultre. Shortening it to SS.I have written a number of papers (The black gold of the 21st Century and ...

When technology succeeds it becomes invisible

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009I often make the point when I am addressing an audience that when technology really succeeds it becomes invisible. Observing that most people in the room are writing with pens and paper - I point to their paper notepads and ...

Deschooling business schools

Saturday, January 17th, 2009Most of the world is not well served by the structures or assumptions of financial capitalism. If we could lift our eyes from the financial chaos, we would see that the world is at the start of a huge technological ...

Pro-Ams or craftsmen and craftswomen for the 21st Century?

Saturday, January 17th, 2009They call them Pro-Ams - I call them the craftsmen and craftswomen of the 21st CenturySo it is no surprise that we get a story like this one A galaxy of helpful peopleWhich tells the tale of Dr Chris Lintott ...

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