Human nature is not like a machine
Friday, October 14th, 2011John Stuart Mill writing in On Liberty in 1859 said "man (humanity) is not built like a machine, that should be set to do the work exactly proscribed to him but should be seen more like a tree, that can ... Ratings:
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Grow VC opens API for developers for a truly open crowdfunding ecosystem
Thursday, October 13th, 2011The guys at GrowVC seem to be on a wave of constant iteration and development, constantly pushing the boundaries of how venture funding is going to look like, and be like.Grow VC Chairman and Co-founder Jouko Ahvenainen said to me ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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A suitable placement: Juveniles In Justice
Friday, October 7th, 2011In 1990 or thereabouts I met a guy called Richard Ross (American) in Vienna. He was part of a photographic show that a friend of mine had curated called Reinventing the American Dream. At the time I had no idea ... Ratings:
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The success and failure of startups
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011In my forthcoming project No Straight Lines I argue that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of an industrialised world, in fact we are now faced with a trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, tensions and ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Grow venture community democratising start-up funding
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Today GrowVC (for whom I work as Head of Vision), announces some interesting developments to their platform.These are:New visual outlook and improved usability It is free to create and publish investor and start-up profile Members can invest 100% of the micro-investment membership ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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I+we=why? people or machines?
Thursday, July 7th, 2011A thought provoking film All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is a three part BBC documentary series[1] by filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Trap and The Power of Nightmares.Wikipedia writesIn this episode Curtis ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Assets & Access in the intention economy
Friday, June 17th, 2011My keynote that I gave at the Mobile Marketing Association conference this morning. Thank you Michael and Rebecca for [1] inviting me [2] looking after me so well.The presentation dealt with this idea: That mobile communications does not have to ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Dynamics of dense crowds
Monday, May 2nd, 2011Interesting article in The Economist on how crowds self organise -Existing models of crowd behaviour treat moving masses of humanity as though they were fluids. This works, up to a point. But it often fails to predict the changes that ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The democratisation of financial capital
Friday, April 22nd, 2011FaultlinesWhich business, which industry, which NGO or political organization, democratic or otherwise has not been touched by the impact of our most recent communications revolution? In a breath it seems, businesses defined by their socialness, community, and peer to peer ... Ratings:
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The rise and fall of information empires
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011In his review of Tim Wu's recent book, The Master Switch John Naughton asks at the outset, "At the heart of this fascinating book is one of the central questions of our age – rendered more urgent by recent events ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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