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Local Motors: a business model of our times

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009[caption id="attachment_4729" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline"][/caption]Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source, one on open source mobility ...

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009[caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption]Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

Apple design: interface without interference

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Lessons for brands and media of the 21st Century

Friday, November 6th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="FantaLife Beach"][/caption]Getting out of the ad spot into the fabric of peoples lives, requires some rethinking on communication, and the panacea is not "social media". Henry Jenkins in his 8 part investigation into what he and ...

The no straight lines of authentic value in the networked society [2]

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4547" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Industrial society is exhausted by its resistance to the networked society"][/caption]Carlota Perez in Technological Revolution and Financial Capital : the dynamics of bubbles and golden ages, mourns the fact that as a new economy takes hold, ...

Big business big schimzness – SME’s create new wealth

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Excuse me for pointing this out but 80% of the GDP of this country comes from SME’S, even though big media likes to focus on ‘big business’, and ‘big things’. The reality is that the engine room of growth in ...

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009So says Theo Jansen And to watch his extraordinary structures move you understand this is a man that does not take a linear approach to life.Yesterday, was quite an amazing day for me. Lunch with Livio and Lee @ Headshift ...

Commonwealth in the networked economy [1]

Sunday, September 27th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4469" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="PL8xUi8OEnxtz0ytu4Vtz5GQo1_500"][/caption]the defining challenge of the twenty-first century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet. That common fate will require new forms of global cooperation, a fundamental point ...

FAIYATORIKKUBOBU rocket bike

Saturday, September 12th, 2009Got a million yen for the jet powered bike via Treehugger.FAIYATORIKKUBOBU, ???????????  (pronounced as Fire Truck Bob) is a bicycle fitted with a TABINJETTOENJIN (Turbine Jet Engine) that allows you KERUZU (cruise) in HAIPA (hyper) speed!Commuting will never be same ...

Interface without interference

Sunday, August 30th, 2009What makes the Dyson vacuum cleaner, or the Apple iPhone, or indeed the mini car all belong to the same category? Because these were all about innovation focused on the end user experience. I have also included the first ever ...

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