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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
The Road Ahead
A group discussion on what trends will most shape our lives in the future. Participants include the usual suspects - Tim O'Reilly, Esther Dyson, Moby, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Dery, Clay Shirky, David Brooks - but it's still interesting. Some excepts (out of context):TIME Magazine - The Road Ahead
We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.
[...] MOBY: I know a guy in Barcelona who has started a company to develop algorithms to determine whether a song is going to be a hit. It analyzes music to figure it out--and they're selling it to the record companies, and it's quite effective. If you expand on that, there's no reason you couldn't have your own personal search engine that understands your taste and can instantly analyze music based on a whole bunch of different, very subjective criteria to determine whether you might like it. [...]
[...] GLADWELL: One of the big trends in American society is the transformation of the evangelical movement and the rise of a more mature, sophisticated, culturally open evangelical church. Ten years from now, I don't think we're going to have the kinds of arguments about religion that we have today. [...]
[...] DERY: The democratization of available avenues of possibility is always phrased in market-friendly terms. It's about purchasing power--the cornucopia of options available to those who can stuff their shopping carts and proceed to checkout. How many options were available to those who were marooned in New Orleans? [...]
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Sunday, October 16, 2005
Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
In short: A self-absorbed and rather shallow attempt to claim the invention of a new metaphysics around a repackaging of Buddhism, New Age emotionalism, and a variety of radical change philosophies from the 1970s onward. [More...]
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Design Outsourcing May Be Big--Think India.
Just as Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind was making us comfortable that design and creative skills were our protection against globalization, along comes Bruce Nussbaum in BusinessWeek with this on design firms in India. Guess the right-brain revolution isn't gonna be televised.
Design outsourcing may be big--think India.
Design outsourcing is probably one of the big things to happen over the horizon. U.S. corporations might want to take a look at a number of Indian design consultancies that appear to do great work. India's National Institute of Design graduates hundreds of highly trained designers a year. India has a vast manufacturing infrastructure in place--something US and European and Japanese companies are discovering. And design firms such as Elephant Design and Lopez do good work. Outsourcing design to India is going to be big.
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