New video: the Future of Technology in a Digital Society (Systematic Forum Paris, June 2012)

This video below is one of my favorite presentations (if I may say so, myself); it just went live on my Youtube channel and on my Blip.tv video feed (use this one to download the whole thing or just subscribe to it on iTunes).

This is the complete recording of my intervention (another fancy term for... presentation) at the 7th SYSTEMATIC PARIS-REGION conference in Paris on June 20, 2012, on the topic of The Future of Technology in a Digital Society. You can download the PDF with the slides, here.  Topics include the future of media, OTT, advertising, business models, search vs social, the coming telemedia era and much more.  Thanks to Systematic for making this available!

Efficiency shouldn't come at the expense of humanity

"So by all means, encourage your people to embrace technology, get great at business analytics, and otherwise ramp up the efficiency of everything they do. But just make sure all their efficiency doesn't come at the expense of their humanity. Small gestures can send big signals about who we are, what we care about, and why people should want to affiliate with us. It's harder (and more important) to be kind than clever"

Bill Taylor writes this at Harvard Business Review, and it really resonated with me. Technology tends to make us more efficient - but are we more human or less, when technology is exponentially improving? 

 

Followers versus leaders

... On the topic of social media :)

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made me think: It's More Important to Be Kind than Clever - Bill Taylor - Harvard Business Review

It's More Important to Be Kind than Clever - Bill Taylor - Harvard Business ReviewInteresting story below, and the bottom line: efficiency should never be more important than humanity. But: can marketing on a large scale truly be genuine?

http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor/2012/08/its_more_important_to_be_kind.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date

The story, as told in AdWeek, goes like this: Brandon Cook, from Wilton, New Hampshire, was visiting his grandmother in the hospital. Terribly ill with cancer, she complained to her grandson that she desperately wanted a bowl of soup, and that the hospital’s soup was inedible (she used saltier language). If only she could get a bowl of her favorite clam chowder from Panera Bread! Trouble was, Panera only sells clam chowder on Friday. So Brandon called the nearby Panera and talked to store manager Suzanne Fortier. Not only did Sue make clam chowder specially for Brandon’s grandmother, she included a box of cookies as a gift from the staff.

It was a small act of kindness that would not normally make headlines. Except that Brandon told the story on his Facebook page, and Brandon’s mother, Gail Cook, retold the story on Panera’s fan page. The rest, as they say, is social-media history. Gail’s post generated 500,000 (and counting) “likes” and more than 22,000 comments on Panera’s Facebook page. Panera, meanwhile, got something that no amount of traditional advertising can buy — a genuine sense of affiliation and appreciation from customers around the world.

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Free webinar on September 4, 2012: Future of Television: Social, Mobile, Over-the-top...? (Stowe Boyd and Gerd Leonhard)

Please join me for this unique event (there is no charge except for your attention:)

The Future of Television: Social, Mobile, Over-the-top? With Stowe Boyd and Gerd Leonhard (The Futures Agency) on Sep 4, 2012 5:00 PM CEST

Social web strategist, speaker and blogger Stowe Boyd and futurist, speaker & author Gerd Leonhard are delighted to present this 60-minute, free webinar based on a white paper jointly developed by Stowe Boyd and TheFuturesAgency entitled 'social TV and the second screen'.

You can read more about here  (and download it via the link or directly, here )

"The overlap of social media and TV represents a huge opportunity for those that truly understand and internalize, embrace and partake in these changes, and that welcome this dawning networked, interdependent and many-to-many society"

Stowe and Gerd will briefly present some select slides and updates on the topic of the future of television (10-15 minutes each), followed by a Q&A session with the participants.

The emphasis of this event is on allowing plenty of time for questions and discussion; both via chat as well as via audio (upon individual invitation only).

THIS EVENT IS LIMITED TO 100 PARTICIPANTS. Please sign up early and be sure to show up at least 30 minute prior to the starting time to avoid disappointment.

Stowe and Gerd are both members of The Futures Agency network and often work together holding seminars and think-tank events for media and technology companies, around the globe see http://www.thefuturesagency.com/about

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

See you there:)

 

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Just watched this video and recommend it: William Gibson: The New Cyber/Reality

The man who coined the term "cyberspace," science fiction writer and futurist William Gibson joins The Agenda to discuss the new cyber-reality and where the human race might be headed next.

Just watched this video and recommend it: Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

http://www.ted.com Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com

Just watched this video and recommend it: Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data

http://www.ted.com 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tednews Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives https://www.facebook.com/TED

Just watched this video and recommend it: PDF12 | Yochai Benkler | SOPA/PIPA: A Case Study in Networked Discourse and Activism

Personal Democracy Forum 2012 | June 11-12 | NYC "The Internet's New Political Power" http://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/nyc/2012 The world's leading conference exploring and analyzing technology's impact on politics and government returned to the NYU Skirball Center June 11-12, 2012, with hundreds of individuals in attendance interested in how technology is changing politics, governance and society. The full conference schedule: http://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/nyc/2012/program A complete list of the more than 120 speakers: http://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/nyc/2012/speakers A detailed description of the main theme and plenary program: http://techpresident.com/news/22206/pdf12-sharing-more-details-main-conference-program

Just watched this video and recommend it: John Hagel on trust-based relationships

John Hagel of the Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses why trust-based relationships are the key to success for twenty-first century businesses in this video from The Economist's Human Potential summit on September 14-15th 2011 in New York City.

Just watched this video and recommend it: What is big data?

The Economist asked thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and people on the streets of New York City: what is big data? This video aired at our Ideas Economy: Information 2012 event in San Francisco, California on June 5th-6th 2012.

Just watched this video and recommend it: From Ego to Eco: Futurist and Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard at EcoSummit 2012

Futurist and Keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard at EcoSummit 2012 in Berlin (http://ecosummit.net/) speaking on "the journey from Ego to Eco", see the slideshow here: http://www.slideshare.net/gleonhard/from-ego-to-eco-the-future-of-energy-ecosummit-2012-berlin More on the Ego To Eco topic can be found at http://www.gerd.fm/egotoeco Original post via EcoSummit and http://youtu.be/SA6css-UfpY Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Basel / Switzerland CEO www.thefuturesagency.com NEW: you can now download most of my videos by simply subscribing to this iTunes video feed (via Blip.tv) http://gerd.fm/itunesfeed *** audio-only versions are now available here: http://gerd.fm/gerdaudiofeed or on the web at http://www.futuretalks.com Gerd's free mobile apps: http://road.ie/futurist The Future of Business blog http://www.futureof.biz/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gleonhard More links: http://about.me/mediafuturist Search all my sites: http://gerd.fm/searchgerd

Article: Marketing Is Dead. Now What? - Forbes (good piece on movement marketing)

Made me think... Good read.Marketing Is Dead. Now What? - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2012/08/13/marketing-is-dead-now-what/

Traditional marketing may be dead, but the new possibilities of peer influence-based, community-oriented marketing, hold much greater promise for creating sustained growth through authentic customer relationships.” 

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Good piece by film makers Michael Moore and Oliver Stone: WikiLeaks and the Global Future of Free Speech - NYTimes.com

This is a great piece in the NYT, see below. Regardless of what you think of Assange or Wikileaks, the point below is correct.WikiLeaks and the Global Future of Free Speech - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/wikileaks-and-the-global-future-of-free-speech.html?_r=1

If Mr. Assange is extradited to the United States, the consequences will reverberate for years around the world. Mr. Assange is not an American citizen, and none of his actions have taken place on American soil. If the United States can prosecute a journalist in these circumstances, the governments of Russia or China could, by the same logic, demand that foreign reporters anywhere on earth be extradited for violating their laws. The setting of such a precedent should deeply concern everyone, admirers of WikiLeaks or not.

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Article: 13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious » via Journalism Lab

13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious » Nieman Journalism LabThis quote below really struck me as true ...

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/08/13-ways-of-looking-at-medium-the-new-bloggingsharingdiscovery-platform-from-ev-and-obvious/

Personal publishing is like voting. In theory, it’s the very definition of empowerment. In reality, it’s an excellent way for your personal shout to be cancelled out by someone else’s shout.

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