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Strategic Foresight

Will You Pay $9.99 for the iPhone 4.0 upgrade? I bet you will

January 4, 2010

Since the first iPod Touch Apple has been charging Touch users for upgrades. $4.95 to get it to the latest 3.1 software. See Apple – iPod touch – Get great new features with the 3.1 software. My guess is it is now time to charge all the millions of iPhone users for the next generation [...]

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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 [...]

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Gartner – From Wow to Shallow Thinking on Mobile Futures

November 20, 2009

First seen by me in ConsumerReports on my iPhone! Gartner has produced a list to suggest where is mobile going “Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012” I’ve cut down the details – left some of their comments and added some of my own thoughts. There are a few additional predictions [...]

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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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Smoke Signals – Is it time to burn our telephone numbers?

November 6, 2009

Just for fun…
The Chinese, Greeks, Romans and American Indians all used “smoke” to communicate complex messages. Todayʼs smoke signals may just be Twitter or another micro- blogging service. What implications does this have for mobile communications and escalating the conversation? For sender and receiver? How are our signaling patterns changing?
A new type of signal is [...]

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Mark Rolston Thinking Beyond the Handset #eComm

October 28, 2009

Mark Rolston – Chief Creative Officer, FrogDesign. Thinking Beyond the Handset.
1. The first phone phenomena. The handset has gone from being a device to a window to a software and network experience. The object has lost it’s functional identity. So it can now be anything you want it to be. So now you can [...]

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Jame Enck – On the Good News (Reality Check) #ecomm

October 28, 2009

James Enck. What are the main themes over the next 30 to 40 years?

The Bad News: Today we have stressed national budgets, traumatized consumers. High corporate dept rates, and the recovery rate is 1/2 the historical average. (Glad there is some realism here!) The recovery is about doing things differently. The future will not [...]

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Martin Geddes on Ideas at #eComm

October 28, 2009

“Today we’ve got missed calls, tomorrow the phone will tell you why you should call back.” Martin Geddes, Head of Strategy, BT Design says in his keynote address at Ecomm Europe09, that he will present some ideas (his own). The era of minutes in telephony is gone. Goodbye minutes, hello moments. When a global [...]

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What could Apple see in Twitter? Are Tweets – MobileMe 3.0 Notifications? Is Apple really David?

May 7, 2009

I keep reading Apple + Twitter stories and no-one seems to have a clue why it might be a good idea… or a very bad idea… or simply unnecessary. What almost no one does… is tell me a story of why it might be a good idea. This is a crude little thought experiment. An [...]

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Bluetooth Keyboards for iPhone 3.0 Still Speculation – Is there a market?

March 19, 2009

One of the iPhone 3.0 features I’m most interested in is where the Bluetooth functionality they are unlocking is going to go. (Some think not that important.) My iPhone 3.0 now plays music on my car stereo! That’s huge from my perspective. Yet I have some yearning for the capability to use it with other [...]

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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 time [...]

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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 points [...]

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