Category: trends
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From Linear to Organic
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" Clay Shirky I saw Sir Ken Robinson speak last year in London. It was without exception the best talk I've ever been to. Witty, erudite, fun, insightful and hugely compelling. A version of it has just been posted as a TED talk…
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A Story About The Semantic Web
This is a fascinating 15 minute documentary on the semantic web, notable for its stellar interviewees including Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Chris Dixon, David Weinberger, and Nova Spivack. Despite the massive potential behind the huge surfeit of data on the web, we still have to work hard to properly integrate and interpret it. The promise…
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Convergence
I'm giving a keynote at a YouTube event this week and as part of the prep for it I've been thinking about interfaces, prompted in part by John's excellent reviews of the iPad as TV, only more so. The launch of the iPad has already been pretty successful. Carl Howe asserted that, at less than…
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The Digital Universe
So this morning I read some quite astounding figures about the growth of digital content and data. Research by technology consultancy IDC estimates that the 'digital universe' grew by 62% last year to 800,000 petabytes (a petabyte is a million gigabytes). To put that into context, according to The Guardian that's enough to fill 75Bn…
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Podcast On Agility
Agile is rapidly becoming something of a fixation of mine. This week I got together with the estimable Johnnie Moore and Robert Paterson to record a podcast on agile planning and agility in business. How and why many companies need to change in order to operate effectively in the networked world. As Johnnie says, it's…
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The Quiet Revolution
"We have to stop putting sand where we need oil, sugar where we need petrol." JP Rangaswami Let's face it, the recession has been a wake up call for many businesses. If it hasn't, it should've been. The key challenge for many organisations of-course is to understand how much of the damage that has been…
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3D Printing A Whole Building
I find the whole idea of 3D printing rather intriguing. Not least because along with free and openly available design software and affordable technology it has the potential to redefine manufacturing. Projects like Arduino, the open-source electronics prototyping platform, and Makerbot, the first sub $1000 dollar 3D printer that can produce plastic parts from digital…