My absolute #1 Book recommendation from 2009 is “The Age of the Unthinkable” from Joshua Cooper Ramo.
The essence of the book is that to be able to cope with the new game future, one has to change his worldview and look at the whole and not only the pieces.
Below is a good – completely unrelated video – that gives you an aha experience on changing your (world) views.
Nothing is what it seems to be…
Enjoy.
As mentioned many times before, Huge McLeod’s book “Ignore Everybody” is an absolute recommendation.
The whole book started from a blog, the gapingvoid.com
Here are some recent tapas, that give you a feel of Hugh’s work. Not exactly marry christmas poetry, but that’s the point.
All drawings from Gapingvoid by Hugh MacLeod
Great video on how e-Magazines may look like in 2010 when the iTablet gets released.
I recently bought myself a Kindle, and i am VERY disappointed. 259 USD is a lot of money for a device you can only read Amazon books on. And it does not even have a zoom for it’s “built-in” Adobe reader.
For 259 USD, you get a netbook these days.
Does anybody know what the device is used in this video ?
UPDATE: Appkle iTablet planned for Jan 2010 ? Can’t wait.
http://venturebeat.com/2009/12/23/apple-tablet-january/
Enjoy at Real 3D Mandelbulb.
Great article in NYT. You can find full article here.
The article is so inspiring. Anything is possible when you let yourself inspire by your dreams.
The next break came when Dr. Friedman was talking about the LightSail to a group of potential donors. A man — “a very modest dear person,” in Ms. Druyan’s words — asked about the cost of the missions and then committed to paying for two of them, and perhaps a third, if all went well.
After the talk, the man, who does not wish his identity to be known, according to the society, came up and asked for the society’s bank routing number. Within days the money was in its bank account.
My dream is to get our Think Tank on Long Term Future kicked-off in 2010. In the next 2 weeks, i will be speaking on this Think Tank to a group of potential interested captains of industry.
My purpose is “To Inspire Others to Dream”.
Via Nova Spivacks Twitter account: “See this video of flight in U2 to 70,000 feet. I went to nearly 90,000 in 1999. This gives a good feel for it. http://bit.ly/14WdGJ”
Space flights will be quite ordinary in 2025. That’s a little more than 15 years from now. I may still live then.
For our think tank long term future.
Life is full of synchronicities. This week we had a meeting with the Innovation team of Cisco to learn from each other how we stimulate innovation in our organizations and ecosystems.
I was surprised how much Cisco is “looking” more and more like Microsoft. Not from product side, but from the way on how they look at introducing new technologies into their enterprise customer base, trying to cross the chasm with dedicated sales specialists and consultants, looking for the next 1-10B $ business, etc, etc
Now i discover by coincidence (my morning reading in Google Reader) the following video about the future of shopping. It could have been part of Microsoft’s 2019 Future videos. It also shows what happens if one of the big boys starts to mingle in the augmented reality debate big time.
There are 2 more videos that i found via on YouTube:
And
At the end of the videos, there is a link to Cisco’s website. The video seems to be part of a campaign to announce some live on-line 20 Oct 2009 “Experience events”
Sound interesting to me. I copied the registration details below:
Americas – Tues., Oct. 20, 11:00 PDT (18:00 GMT)
Europe – Tues., Oct. 20, 14:00 CET (12:00 GMT)
Asia Pacific – Wed., Oct 21, 13:30 Beijing (5:30 GMT)
Just had a really lazy sunday morning brunch served in an a-typical techno fashion.
Fun found via Josh Spear’s Today and Tomorrow.
Link to the video here.
The comments (in dutch) are also funny: “it’s a strict-continental breakfast”, or “it’s all about solving problems, not about delivering a fantastic breakfast”.
This is a really good example where my boss would say: “Looks like toys for boys, Peter. But what business problem are you trying to solve ?
After all these weeks of technology extravaganza, time for some relaxation with a piece of music: “Doorways” by Dan Bull.
For those who like visualizations or have a role as Chief Executive Officer of Happiness, this will make your day 🙂
“Using a single sheet of paper and a bolex camera, Michel drew images a line at a time and photographed the progression so that when played back, the images looked like they were drawing themselves.”
Found via http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/09/28/dan-bull-safe/
Enjoy. Inspires to dream…
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