Companies to Watch: IBM & SAP
In a time of monumental change it’s important to look at how the big player’s are adapting. Their moves are typically the most heavily researched and financed attempts at divining the underlying...
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The Revolution is Being Twittered – Tehran is Connected
Image by .faramarz. “The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through twitter.” So opens the #iranelection cyber war guide for beginners...
View ArticleLocal, Regional, National, Global: A View of Current World Trends
[The following is an unedited, stream-of-thought for a Sunday afternoon, summing up in fairly broad strokes many of the trends in socioeconomics and geopolitics that I'm currently tracking. This is a...
View ArticleBios Asserts Itself Through Human Systems
[This is a rough outline I'm working with to frame a forthcoming article series...] The Industrial Revolution emerged from a mechanistic world view and a scientific method that focused on isolated,...
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The Evolution of Sharing
I have an article up at Shareable.net. Here’s an excerpt from the intro: Sharing isn’t unique to humans but we seem to do it a lot more than any other mammals. Some combination of intrinsic altruism,...
View ArticleExcerpts From WEF Global Risks 2011 Report
In the lead up to it’s big annual event in Davos, the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network has published its Global Risks 2011 report. Here are some of the top-level highlights, taken verbatim...
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On Human Networks & Living Biosystems
Increasingly, we live in a world defined by flat networks. Folks like Clay Shirky, Ben Hammersley, and others have observed in great detail how the design patterns of the internet are challenging and...
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Governance Failures & Economic Disparity: WEF Global Risks Report 2011
The Global Risks Report 2011 from the World Economic Forum highlights two primary megatrends with the potential to inject significant disruption into global systems. From the report: Two risks are...
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Top Post Round-Up: OWS, Ubicomp, Hyperconnectivity, & Transhumanity
I’ve just returned from a very interesting workshop in Washington, D.C. about fast-moving change, asymmetric threats to security, and finding signals within the wall of noise thrown up by big data....
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Coherency in Contradiction
Coherency in Contradiction is the main research project I’ve been working on as a Research Fellow at the Deloitte Center for the Edge as part of the 2013 Shift Index. It’s just been published at...
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