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Scenarios & Futures

#ARConf and #Ecomm – Surprisingly Interrelated

May 5, 2010
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Finally I’m getting to my eComm posts and notes. On the third day, AR or Augmented Reality came to eComm America2010 in the form of ARConf.  I know many of the telecom crowd didn’t stick around for day three and I feel they missed out big time. Almost 12 hours long, Lee Dryburgh and team pulled together a [...]

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Are You Ready for the 21st Century? | via @jonhusband #video #scenarios

January 13, 2010

Jon Husband has spoken with me about his work with Michael Cartier and the impression it has made on him. This is a thought provoking video. I’m not sure I’m ready to see any one of these scenarios come into being… although parts of all of them are already here. Still if you need a [...]

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iStore coming to the iPhone – 2012? Amazon’s biggest threat?

December 7, 2009

I’m reading the NYTimes article on Apple’s app store and for anyone that reads me there’s no surprises in it. So lets think more broadly about the real implications and the strategic options. How is the app store evolution challenging Apple or what options is it creating for it? Then what might it mean for [...]

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Supernova 2009 – What’s Next in the Network Age? – begins tomorrow in SF. CU there #sn09

November 30, 2009

Supernova starts tomorrow and I’m planning to attend and do a little blogging while there A few examples of the topics to be covered below.  I know many of the speakers, have done for years and that scares me. On the plus side many of those presenting/talking etc remain on the leading edge (that’s their [...]

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Futures Thinking – @cascio Writes Three Short Articles on How to Think Futures

November 30, 2009

Jamais Cascio (@cascio)a dedicated futurist has written three short articles on Futures Thinking that have appeared in Fast Company. He writes “It’s quite an enjoyable job, as it allows me to indulge my easily-distracted curiosity about the world. If you have read any of my previous posts on scenarios you will see we come from [...]

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Is this really 2015? What would your Scenario be?

November 11, 2009

Just imagine you woke up in 2015. What would you be doing? How would you be interacting with technology? “Nokia – life in 2015″ When I think out six years to 2015 I expect my interactions with technology will be different, I expect we will be describing different types of behaviors. I also find single [...]

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What’s the Mobile Future?

February 18, 2009

What would the lesson for mobile operators be if the world around us collapses economically. What lessons can be learned from other markets? How will users react? What and how should you prepare? I read yet another piece this morning (Jim Kunstler’s Forecast 2009) that captures an outlook similar to my own. We’re in a [...]

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Bankrupt – Nationalize — Plan – Protest

February 17, 2009

I’ve just spent more time reading blogs, catching up on the “we are really screwed views” and know we as a country, economy and people we face incredible challenges. I don’t usually post things like this and particularly two in a row. For frankly I can’t really know the facts. Quite separately yesterday I was [...]

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Social Collapse and Communications?

February 17, 2009

I’ve just been reading the Demetry Orlov’s Feb 13 speech via the Long Now Foundation. He tells a story of the collapse of Russia and poses a similar collapse for the US. He points to the importance of Food, Shelter, Transport and Security.  Stewart Brand’s summary is here. ClubOrlov: Social Collapse Best Practices His summary [...]

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Terrorism in my backyard.

December 1, 2008

I’ve been writing this post in my mind since 26/11 and the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. These attacks hit me at my core and were assault on my values, my friends, my beliefs on how we should work and live together. With messages from @dina and on Twitter it hit my screen instantly. I was soon [...]

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The Future of Money

November 7, 2008

Sometimes reminders and special conversations come out of the blue – unexpectedly. I had one of those Phweet calls today with @transitioner which pointed me back to the work of an old friend Jean Francois Noubel which is perhaps more relevant than ever today. If nothing else just read the description for the conference and [...]

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Open Flow – Finding Meaning in New Connections

May 29, 2008

Next week on Tuesday June 3rd Kevin Werbach is hosting a pre Supernova conference call about the meaning of openness in a networked world. This could be an interesting discussion and pull in quite a wide group of people. Details to obtain the dial in number are below. On Tuesday, June 3rd, from 9am-11am PT [...]

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Take Your Team to India

May 21, 2008

Yesterday I posted this blog Emerging Markets and Mobile Impact on the Supernova2008 ConversationHub and I wanted to share it here too. My interest in doing Market Research into Indian opportunities is not limited to mobile, or technology. Banks, Financial Institutions, Healthcare, Consumer Products etc. It just traces to the size of the opportunity and [...]

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Is iPhone Lust Global?

May 15, 2008

While recently in India, Dina and I explored the iPhone factor. We saw it in the wild (eg. people using them) and talked to 18 to 24 year old leading-edge mobile users in Mumbai. We were both left a little shocked! While focus groups aren’t statistical research and Mumbai is hardly an Apple stronghold; the [...]

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iPod vTouch – September 2008?

May 14, 2008

I’m keep hearing about the technology; WiMax vs 3G vs WiMax, Skype or SIP etc. Andy wrote a post suggesting that Video would be a key component defining what next in IP communications. That’s getting closer to why it might matter. There are comments here, here, here, and here. None of these really tell me [...]

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