Digital technology empowers and it destroys. As the legacy silos entrench themselves and become more polar in their approach the silos start to crumble. It happens in business and more of that later. As is incredibly visible right now, it happens in politics. Sometimes those silos are not really about the leader or the policy [...]
Adam Mansbach is a marketing genius. Actually Adam Mansbach is an author – and an extremely successful author as of a couple of weeks ago. He writes novels, but has not been the huge success that every author yearns for. At least until now. He recently wrote a children’s bed time story book. It is [...]
Pretty much everyone that I meet has a pet project that they want to take to market, or knows someone who has one. But almost invariably when the discussion turns to what needs to be done, the person at the center of the play – the entrepreneur if you will – has a misconception about [...]
Depending on your point of view, it would appear that Government Departments are either very good or very bad at cooking the books. (Although possibly they didnt forsee independant analysis of the data….) For the last few days I have been researching for an article that I am writing on Perceptric. There are various [...]
In 1993, I wrote a paper entitled, How Ubiquitous Free Communication will Alter the Status Quo. I noted that because of electronic chat rooms [Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve] as more women became enamoured of the connectivity options available to them via a ubiquitous global network, that the divorce rate would rise dramatically. I [...]
The following is a quote from an essay written in the 1500’s by Etienne de Boetie. The perspective from now is not dissimilar when you think about it, is it? We are lulled into quietude by entertainments provided on all fronts, and when we are given back some small amount of what is [...]
The following is about a person and a topic I have written about before… I think that the people, and the time in history are an interesting metaphor for what is happening now politically, economically, and societally. The Story Of A Refugee Have you ever heard of Peter Drucker? He was arguably the [...]
If you use Facebook you would know that there is a meme that is traveling around it to swap your photo for a photo of a “doppelganger” – someone famous that you look like. It's pretty cool. Suddenly you see pictures of movie stars next to your friend's name and you realize how much they [...]
I listen to a lot of science on podcasts one way or another. There are the obvious programs from the ABC and BBC. But there are a lot of other radio programs that then get podcast that feature information that is science related – mainly from the BBC as far as my listening habits are [...]
Prologue Has anyone noticed how cheap Home Media players are becoming? The latest price is $35.00 (hard-disk separate.) Available on Ebay. Those chaps over in Hollywood must be a religious bunch, every Blockbuster film release is these days accompanied with the prayer shawls (being ironed) the yamulkas being brushed and the nails being [...]