Jeremy Rifkin videos: the empathic civilization, and the third industrial revolution. Must watch!

I have been busy reading Jeremy Rifkin's amazing book The Third Industrial Revolution as well as his other writings (check out his Huffington Post pieces), and wanted to share some of his key videos and resources with you.

His current, and maybe most important topic is the coming convergence of Internet technology and digital communications with energy and environmental issues - the idea of an Internet of Energy. Because of my recent expansion into what I call GreenFutures this concept has really struck a chord with me.

Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work.

Here is a video of his recent appearance on the Charlie Rose show:

 

Jeremy Rifkin, 'The Third Industrial Revolution' "How lateral power is transforming energy, the economy, and the world." Charlie Rose 06.01.12 [1080p] http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/7302

At a recent RSA event in London:

 

Join Jeremy Rifkin as he describes how the five-pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses and millions of jobs, and usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power, that will impact the way we conduct business, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life.

RSA Animate video

 

 

Related articles

• Must-read: Jeremy Rifkin: Energy-sharing is the new internet (Wired UK) (mediafuturist.com)
• "How would that translate into wider change? We take internet technology and transform the power grid..." (greenfuturist.com)
• "Today, internet technology and renewable energies are about to merge to create a powerful..." (greenfuturist.com)
• "To appreciate how economically disruptive the TIR is, consider the changes over the past 20 years...." (greenfuturist.com)
• "Should we be more worried about not having enough, or not having the right kind of energy? Energies..." (greenfuturist.com)
• "This is a different planet in key respects than the one Carson was writing about. The fingerprints..." (greenfuturist.com)
• "Great economic revolutions happen", he says, "when new energy regimes emerge that facilitate more..." (greenfuturist.com)

Video of 2010 Zuck Interview: some very interesting Facebook context

I just ran across this video in a very well-written Atlantic.com piece called the Ballad of Mark Zuckerberg, here. This is a must-read and must-watch.

"Zuckerberg, Jeff Jarvis has declared, "sees Facebook as a next step in the net's evolutionary scale toward humanity." And so the young CEO has become a kind of evangelist for the future he is helping to create. "To get people to this point where there's more openness -- that's a big challenge," he told David Kirkpatrick. "But I think we'll do it. I just think it will take time."

Related articles

• EPICENTER: Mark Zuckerberg's Letter to Investors: 'The Hacker Way' (blogrunner.com)
• Viral Video: Farewell to the No-IPO Mark Zuckerberg (allthingsd.com)
• Facebook's Filing: The Highlights (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
• "Facebook has a bright future," as long as it can stay "human and open," contends Gerd Leonhard,..." (futureof.biz)
• About Facebook - and their upcoming IPO (io9 piece and nice infographic) (mediafuturist.com)
• New video: the Future of Content, my Keynote at Colombia 3.0 (SPANISH) (mediafuturist.com)
• Mobile advertising must be content-based (review of my talk at MMA Forum in Sao Paulo (mediafuturist.com)

Announcing my new Kindle book "The Future of Content"

Today is a very big day for me. My new Kindle book "The Future of Content" just went online at Amazon, and is already gaining a lot of traction. You can view a very short video greeting about the book on my GerdTube channel (Youtube:) 

Of course I would be very happy if you would consider buying the book for yourself (only $3.90, Kindle-only) but beyond that it would be really great if you could help me spread the word via rating and / or 'liking' the book on the Amazon.com page, tweeting about it or just forwarding this mail to some friends that may be interested.

As you probably know, I have published my last 3 books as free pdfs (which are quite popular) but really wanted to try something new with this book; after all reading on the Kindle is a much better experience than reading a PDF, and thus is, to quote Kevin Kelly, one of those "New Generatives" :)

"The future of content" will also be available in dead-tree-versions aka print, via my Lulu store, soon - please stay tuned.    Happy reading!

Gerd Leonhard
(Media Futurist and CEO of The Futures Agency),
Basel /  Switzerland
http://twitter.com/#!/gleonhard
My public Amazon / Kindle profile
(sharing all my book highlights there)

 

Update October 25 2011: this nice review may be helpful:

Increases brain power for content creators, October 25, 2011

By 

Suzanna Stinnett

This review is from: The Future of Content (Kindle Edition)

"I challenge you to expand your brain and read this book. What Gerd Leonhard is always doing is informing the global brain (or the collective brain) in ways that help us all get where we're trying to go. He builds the buildings in front of us.

This collection points toward several compelling answers for content creators. As a writer who is already swimming in the changing currents of "content," I found it intensely informative.  Leonhard shores up my courage to continue embracing a digital world without DRM, and ebook prices "for the masses." He makes the all-important concept of curation crystal clear. If you are providing any kind of content in print or on the web, it's relevant. If you want to stay on the front edge of content creation and publishing, it's basic. I'm making this book mandatory reading for my epublishing circles"

Amazon Kindle German Store
Amazon Kindle French Store
Amazon Kindle UK Store

ABOUT "THE FUTURE OF CONTENT"
Futurist Gerd Leonhard has been writing about the future of content i.e. music, film, TV, books, newspapers, games etc, since 1998. He has published 4 books on this topic, 2 of them on music (The Future of Music, with David Kusek, and Music 2.0). For the past 10 years Leonhard has been deeply involved with many clients in various sectors of the content industry, in something like 17 countries, and it’s been a great experience, he says. “I have learned a lot, I have listened a lot, I have talked even more (most likely:) and I think I have grown to really understand the issues that face the content industries - and the creators, themselves - in the switch from physical to digital media.”

This Kindle book is a highly curated collection of the most important essays and blog posts Leonhard has written on this topic, and even though some of it was written as far back as 2007 - “I believe it still holds water years later. I have tried to only include the pieces that have real teeth. Please note that the original date of each piece is shown here in order to allow for contextual orientation.” Leonhard’s intent to publish this via the amazing Amazon Kindle platform, exclusively, and at a very low price, is to make these ideas and concepts as widely available as possible while still trying to be an example of what digital, paperless distribution can look like, going forward.

Related articles

• "A free Kindle could be just the beginning of an explosion of book-like content from Amazon and..." (futureof.biz)
• The Future of Digital - Eco NOT Ego (futureof.biz)
• The End of Control & The Future of Content: Gerd Leonhard Authors@Google (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
• Mobile advertising must be content-based (review of my talk at MMA Forum in Sao Paulo (mediafuturist.com)
• Future of Connected Television Gerd Leonhard @ MIPCOM Digital Minds 2011 (slideshare.net)
• Meet me in Geneva on October 26th: Visions of a Networked Future at ITU Telecom World (mediafuturist.com)
• Gerd Leonhard: New video: "Friction is Fiction" explained (mediafuturist.com)

The video of my presentation at the Google Think-Travel event in Sydney: the consumer of tomorrow

This is a brand-new and very nicely produced video - a big thank-you to Google Australia for making it available so quickly. If you are in the travel business, do make sure to watch this video, and check out the other speakers and their presentations, as well. Enjoy, RT, Google + this :)))

Related articles

• Futurist Gerd Leonhard at Google Tech Talk London: The Future of Media, Advertising and Communications (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
• The End of Control & The Future of Content: Gerd Leonhard Authors@Google (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
• Announcing GerdTube, a new video series. Today: Free & Freemium (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of Broadcasting Futurist Gerd Leonhard @ NPOX Dutch Broadcasting Convention 08 PART 1 (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
• Context is King by Media Futurist Gerd Leonhard (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
• Music 2.0: the future. My presentation at Telkom Unlimited Music event in Jakarta. (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of Broadcasting Futurist Gerd Leonhard @ NPOX Dutch Broadcasting Convention 08 PART 2 (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
• Mobile Content Futures & Broadband Culture - A narrated slideshow by Futurist Gerd Leonhard (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)
• Compensation not Control - the Future of Music! Gerd Leonhard's Keynote at MidemNet 2009 (gerdleonhard.typepad.com)

Video and PDF: keynote at Norway Media Days 2011: Data is the new Oil

This is an important topic, I think - let me know how you like it.  Topics: why data is the new Oil, why most content will be paid for by 'attention', the radical convergence of media and what it means, the total redefinition of 'consumer', going from 'the network' to 'The Networked' etc.  Download the low-res PDF: Download Data Oil Gerd Leonhard Bergen Public LOW RES

Related articles

• Some of my best interviews and related media coverage of my work (PDFs) (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of Media: video of my presentation at Media Future Week in Almere (NL) (mediafuturist.com)
• Short video: announcing my keynote at Consumers International Congress in Hong Kong (May 5, 2011) (mediafuturist.com)

Data is the new Oil: paying with attention is the future of media

View more presentations from Gerd Leonhard

Tim Berners-Lee on Open Data (Ted.com video) - great examples here

This is a must-watch video if you want some good examples on how open data systems have real impact on business, society and politics.

Related articles

• Must watch video via Ted: Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the "mesh" (mediafuturist.com)
• New video: TedXWarwick: Friction is Fiction (the future of business) (mediafuturist.com)
• Alexander Howard: Tim Berners-Lee Says WikiLeaks Is Not Open Government Data (huffingtonpost.com)
• 3 new resources for data journalists (onlinejournalismblog.com)

New video: TedXWarwick: Friction is Fiction (the future of business)

18 minutes can be quite short, I think; I always feel a bit rushed as a consequence. But either way, I would love to get your feedback on what you think about this  fast-paced presentation; so please leave your comments below or email me.  To make this a bit easier, here is the PDF (18MB) of my slides: TedXWarwick Gerd Leonhard PDF. Provided under the usual creative commons attribution non-commercial license, just like all my other slideshows and videos. Most other TedXWarwick can be found here. You can download my book "Friction is Fiction" here (free and hopefully 'friction-less' PDF), or buy a dead-tree version here.

 

Related articles

• My New Year's gift for you: free PDFs of my last 3 books: Music 2.0, The End of Control, Friction is Fiction (mediafuturist.com)
• Must watch video via Ted: Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the "mesh" (mediafuturist.com)
• Monetizing music in a networked society (presentation at Berklee alumni event in Nashville) (mediafuturist.com)
• Jack Myers: TED 2011: An Idea Worth Spreading (huffingtonpost.com)
• The future of business: review of my talk at FPA business solutions conference (mediafuturist.com)
• Data is the new Oil: video interview with me, via AMEInfo (Dubai) (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of Media: video of my talk at ICTQatar (mediafuturist.com)
• The Networked Society: a quick overview (Ericsson event at Mobile World Congress 2011) (mediafuturist.com)
• New video: 11-minute summary: The Networked Society (presentation at Ericsson event, Mobile World Congress 2011) (mediafuturist.com)

New video: my talk at MidemNet Academy 2011 on Innovation: music industry learnings from other industries

This is a good one - loads of information in here, and pretty well recorded. More details and PDF with all slides, here. Enjoy and spread the word. Subscribe to my video RSS feed, here, if you want (download all videos directly to iTunes, watch on your iPod etc).

 

Related articles

• 2010 brings further decline in U.S. recorded music sales, time to face it: access will indeed replace copies. (mediafuturist.com)
• Three bits of bad news for the music business. And it's not improving (guardian.co.uk)

Egosystems become Ecosystems: the future of media, marketing and business (my presentation at DoLectures 2010)

Blogging this aboard a train from Wales to London; on my way back from one of the most amazing events I have attended in a long time: DoLectures in Cardigan, Wales (UK); see more details at their blog, here. I was invited to speak on one of my key topics: the switch from EGOsystems to ECOsystems - here is the PDF, below. Video to follow shortly.

Egosystem to Ecosystem: Gerd Leonhard at DoLectures 2010

View more presentations from Gerd Leonhard.

 

Related articles by Zemanta

• The Future of Media: Presentation at Estacio de Sa / Telezoom event in Rio de Janeiro (mediafuturist.com)
• INMA Ideas magazine feature: "The future of content in a connected economy" (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of Film: My Talk at the Neuchatel International Film Festival (slides, video, audio) (mediafuturist.com)
• MusicNetwork Interview on the Music Business "The Future of the Future" (mediafuturist.com)

Check out my daily Twitter 'Paper' created by Paper.li

Very cool tool - simple and useful. Paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag. A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7 !

Related articles by Zemanta

• How to make your Paper.li newspaper rock #paper.li (holykaw.alltop.com)
• Guardian Technology links curated via Paper.li (mattmcalister.com)

The Future of Business in the Open Economy (video of my presentation at the Fundacao Dom Cabral, Brazil)

This is a rather lengthy (but worth it, I hope:) 90 minute+ video of my June 23, 2010 presentation on "New Insights: The Future of Business - trends, future scenarios and key insights" at the Fundacao Dom Cabral (FDC) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The PDF with the slides can be downloaded via this link (30MB PDF); as usual all material is creative-commons-licensed (attribution required / non-commercial). Topics include: broadband culture and mobility, social media, the link economy, the culture of participation, open economy paradigms, cloud computing futures, the network vs the networked, selling 2.0, privacy and much more.  You can download the FDC's STC program description here.

Here is the official event description: "The pace of change is constantly accelerating, everywhere and across most industries, whether it's in technology, communications, marketing, media, manufacturing, services or consumer goods. Disruption is becoming the norm rather than the exception. B2B relationships are deeply effected, as well, with new and often challenging standards of openness, transparency, collaboration and inter-connectivity quickly emerging. The future is likely to require hyper-collaboration rather than (just) competition, non-linear thinking, crowd-sourced innovation, and circular business model innovation"   

Enjoy and spread the word!

Related articles by Zemanta

• Some great pictures from my session at Roda Viva / TV Cultura in Brazil (mediafuturist.com)
• Announcing my appointment as Visiting Professor at the Fundaco Dom Cabral (Brazil), one of the world's leading business schools (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of Business: Slideshow on the changing Frameworks of the Open Economy (FDC Brazil) (mediafuturist.com)
• Complete video and audio from my appearance on Roda Viva / TV Cultura (Brazil), April 2010 (mediafuturist.com)
• Free Culture vs. Proprietary Culture on Intellectual Property Rights (greenbananablog.org)

The Future of Media: Presentation at Estacio de Sa / Telezoom event in Rio de Janeiro

Wow - this was a marathon presentation on The Future of Media, in Rio de Janeiro, today (pictures  of me at Corcovado to follow ;); 2 hours + on pretty much any topic related to the Future of Media: access versus ownership, egosystem to ecosystem, control vs trust, content flat rates, advertising 2.0, privacy, data is the new oil... and much more. There is a lot of good stuff in here, if I may say so myself;) Hopefully you'll agree. We will probably have a video available soon, as well, so... stay tuned.  If you are interested in what else I have been doing in Brazil, more talks and videos are here (in particular the Roda Viva video). You can download the PDF via slideshare, below, or just use this low-res PDF version: Download Future of Media Estacio Rio Public LOW

The Future of Media: Lecture at Estacio de Sa in Rio de Janeiro June 26 2010

View more presentations from Gerd Leonhard.

Related articles by Zemanta

• The Future of News, Publishing and Media: Monetizing Content (INMA Wordl Congress) (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of Music: mobile, social... paid? (slideshare.net)
• A must watch: full-length video of my talk on the Future of Communications and Social Media at NBS Brazil (also: live on Roda Viva TV Monday 4/26) (mediafuturist.com)
• Complete video and audio from my appearance on Roda Viva / TV Cultura (Brazil), April 2010 (mediafuturist.com)
• Immediate Media Futures (Presentation at Guardian Changing Media Summit 3/18 2010) (slideshare.net)
• Social Media and the Future of Football (Slideshow) (mediafuturist.com)

The Future of Marketing in a Broadband Culture (presentation at FoDM London)

Here is the PDF from today's presentation at EConsultancy's Digital Marketing event in London: low resolution / quick download version (use slideshare to get the high resolution download, 25MB):   Download Future of Marketing in a Broadband Culture FoDM LowRes Gerd Leonhard

The Future of Marketing in a Broadband Culture (FoDM Conference London)

View more presentations from Gerd Leonhard.

Related articles by Zemanta

• A must watch: full-length video of my talk on the Future of Communications and Social Media at NBS Brazil (also: live on Roda Viva TV Monday 4/26) (mediafuturist.com)
• The Future of News, Publishing and Media: Monetizing Content (INMA Wordl Congress) (mediafuturist.com)

Google TV is coming (comments and video): total Web & TV convergence is imminent. TV in the Cloud?

Everyone: this is a biggie. Check out this video below and the announcement on the Google blog. Here are some quotes from the blog, and some comments from my end:

• "Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet. With Google Chrome built in, you can access all of your favorite  websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up your TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the web..."  My comment: this is the total web-tv convergence, at last, and this development should certainly scare the wits out of most major TV Networks. The gloves are off, guys! So far it has been quite hard to have TV-like, living-room centric experiences using the web; obviously this is just about to change. And the advertising-dollars will migrate along with our viewing (or rather, engagement -) habits! Friction will soon be Fiction, indeed. Welcome to Media as a Service (MaaS); Content in the Cloud: TeleMedia here we come.
• "Because Google TV is built on open platforms like Android and Google Chrome, these features are just a fraction of what Google TV can do. In our announcement today at Google I/O, we challenged web developers to start coming up with the next great web and Android apps designed specifically for the TV experience. Developers can start optimizing their websites for Google TV today" My comment: Google is betting on OPEN SYSTEMS to win this game, which imho is totally the right move. Yes, there is some room and argument for closed systems (Apple, PS3 etc) but almost all major successes will be fueled by open technologies, interfaces and platforms, i.e. networked and interdependent ecosystems. Going forward future, it's win-win-win-win or nothing (sound familiar?)
• "We’re working together with Sony and Logitech to put Google TV inside of televisions, Blu-ray players and companion boxes. These devices will go on sale this fall, and will be available at Best Buy stores nationwide"  My comment: very smart move by Sony - they missed the boat on digital music, and on ebooks (at least to some extent, I'd say), so this is their chance to catch up.

Mashable has a good summary of the key 'what it means' points, here.

Related articles by Zemanta

• About bloody time, Google TV is finally here [video] (last100.com)
• What You Need to Know About Google TV (mashable.com)
• Google launches Google TV (boingboing.net)

The Future of Business: My 14 Key Memes (Video and Slideshow)

Fresh from the video-baking oven here in Switzerland (yes, unfortunately I had to cancel my speaking engagement in Helsinki - the Volcano thing got in the way;) here are 14 key memes that I think will impact the Future of Business: Web-Native by Default, Mobile First, From Network to Networked, the global Shift to Open Platforms, from Control to Trust, from EgoSystem to ECOSystems, from Walled Gardens to Jungles, the ubiquitous Shift to the Cloud, from monetizing Friction to monetizing Engagement, from GUI to NUI, from Yes | No to Maybe, from Linear Logic to Fuzzy Logic, the Shift to new Qualifications (Education 2.0) and the growing emphasis on Foresight. Enjoy. Spread the word.  Want more videos? Go to Gerdtube (or just download all of them, via iTunes)

The Future of Business: 14 Key Memes

View more presentations from Gerd Leonhard.