-
-
My latest book
Category Archives: Digital culture
The future of publishing..or just a passing fad?
Read all about it right here…..an interesting article by Alexandra Alter in the Wall Street Journal (made all the more interesting if you’re at all interested in the use of iPads in schools, but more on this issue a little … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Digital culture, Publishing
Leave a comment
The Seven Sides of Cyber (Part 1)
This topic is a huge, and rapidly evolving, so I’d like to restrict myself to a small area. But before I do this I’d like to add a bit of context and discuss the area of forecasting and prediction. In … Continue reading
Posted in Digital culture, Predictions
Leave a comment
Things we know for sure
Here’s a book some folks may be interested in (if you liked Future Minds or Alone Together you may like this…). The Tyranny of Email: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox by John Freeman BTW, just been thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Digital culture
Leave a comment
Indoor Play
According to Play England, only 20% of children in the UK frequently play outside near their homes. A generation ago the figure was over 70%. 33% of current kids have never climbed a tree or built a den and 10% … Continue reading
Posted in Digital culture
Leave a comment
Burning Man
The week-long desert festival known as Burning Man might seem like an odd place for Silicon Valley types and assorted artists and free-spirits to unwind, especially since cell-phones won’t work, the internet is more or less unavailable (sometimes due to … Continue reading
Posted in Digital culture, Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Zombies…
Here’s a little taste of the next What’s Next report out soon…. You may not have noticed this but we are becoming increasingly fascinated with the undead. Over the past few years, TV shows and computer games about Zombies have … Continue reading
Posted in Digital culture, Fear & anxiety, Internet
Leave a comment
Reputation management
Just back from Paris (I love saying that). I think I may have fallen in love – no, with the city, although…anyway, get yourself over there. So what’s up? Well I’m doing something for Telstra at the London Business School … Continue reading
Posted in Digital culture, Work
Leave a comment
Amount of information now being produced
Killer statistic: Every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. – Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google. Question is, of course, what are we going to do with all this information?
Posted in Digital culture, Stats
3 Comments
Google anomaly
This is interesting. Why would Google pay somewhere between $100 million and $200 million for Zagat, the restaurant guide? Why didn’t they just crowd source their own reviews or aggregate other peoples’ content rather than buying a company that still … Continue reading
Posted in Digital culture
2 Comments
