Posts Tagged ‘future’

Nick Carr on SaaS …

Yesterday evening I was catching up with some boomarked videos, here’s another one worth pointing out: Nick Carr “discussing the business implications of on-demand software with guys from Accenture, Deloitte, Business Objects and Bluewolf”: The discussion revolves around on how IT is deployed and used, where Carr highlights that there is a shift going on […]

Six Rules for Accurate Effective Forecasting

Paul Saffo has the cover of the latest issue of Harvard Business Review, with an essay on “Six Rules for Accurate Effective Forecasting“. Moreover here’s the mp3 of HBR’s ideacast, where Cathy Olofson talks with (veteran Silicon Valley-based forecaster, they call him) Paul Saffo about his article. One of many memorable quote from the article […]

Nutzung kollektiver Intelligenz

Vermutlich das 101te Interview mit Tim O’Reilly, dieses mal von der Deutschen Welle: “Es geht um die Nutzung kollektiver Intelligenz”. Einerseits eher für Einsteiger, andererseits auch für Visionäre geeignet (erinnert sich eigentlich noch jemand an Helmut Schmidts Aphorismus?), die bei Begriffen wie “künstliche Intelligenz” oder “weltweites elektronisches Gehirn” wohlige Schauer bekommen.

Everything is Miscellaneous … The Power of the Digital Disorder

More on Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger at IT Conversations (mp3): In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines a number of topics to illustrate this change. He […]

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon …

… die ernsthafte Würdigung in der FAZ, die vielen Gründe warum Ingenieure und Technologen u.a. Gravity’s Rainbow so faszinierend finden – und natürlich die ehrenvolle Aufnahme in den Pop-Olymp:

Future …

The Future is Already Here, it’s Just Unevenly Distributed. William Gibson

Future of Music – Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution

David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard bring on this excerpt from their book “The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution” … read on at themusic.com.au