Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

GSK and the exporting of mental illness

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010After writing about Naomi Klein yesterday and the superbranding of politics. I came across a thought piece in New Scientist called Invasion of the mind snatchers by Ethan Watters.His story is one that around the world in different cultures, we ...

Was the promise made good for society through 2.0?

Friday, January 15th, 2010Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist — he popularized the term “virtual reality” — wonders if the Web’s structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” is ...

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently.Digital natives vs. digital ...

The cardboard futures as furniture

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Proudly calling itself “the world’s first fully-specified mass production workstation made entirely of cardboard”, this is the Paperweight Desk, from British company Cardboard Future Ltd.“We are aware that cardboard furniture has enjoyed a mixed press over the last fifty ...

The chief culture officer

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010In conversation with Henry Jenkins recently about my forthcoming No Straight Lines book, Henry mentioned Grant McCracken. So I went to check him out and was pleasantly surprised to find his book the Chief Culture Officer.And Henry writes about Grants ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film)The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...

Patrick Holden discusses food security @ Do Lectures

Thursday, January 7th, 2010Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows. He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales ...

Crystal knuckle dusters

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010[caption id="attachment_4946" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="This would be awesome even if it wasn't titled "I'm going to realign your chakras, mother******." "][/caption] The caption to this piece reads, (Via My Love For You.)And what has that got to do with anything? Nothin' ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago.The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

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