Global Guerillas & Resilient Communities
I really want to encourage people to keep an eye on the writing’s of John Robb, both over at his blog, Global Guerrillas, and in his ground-breaking and extremely relevant book, Brave New War. His...
View ArticleInnovation for the Human Animal – or Why Your Business Plan is Probably a...
Most product opportunities are ephemeral, rising off the whims and fads of the social world. Likewise, most products and services cater to temporary needs, momentary desires, and passing fads. There...
View ArticleE-Tech 2009 Twitter Round-up
Here’s a selection of my tweets from the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference this past week. These are the ones I think grab the juicy nuggets from the speaker’s presentations. [In temporal order...
View ArticleGavin Starks: Your Energy ID & Why You Should Care [E-Tech 2009 Notes]
These are my rough notes from last week’s E-Tech talk by Gavin Starks of AMEE: We are hitting peaks and resource limitations. 5 potential futures: 1) Technology innovation; Salvation through technology...
View ArticleBecker, Muller: End of Obsolescence: Engineering the Post-Consumer Economy...
Here are my rough notes from the ETech 09 talk by Lane Becker and Thor Muller of Get Satisfaction. The End of Obsolescence: Engineering the Post-Consumer Economy System of Consumerism: Economists think...
View ArticleCompanies 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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Stop Anthropogenic Warming: Design Human Behavior
I followed COP15 pretty closely and, though I was hopeful, I didn’t really expect any major consensus among the G20. The differentials between the cooling western arc of history and that of the...
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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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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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Cities of the Future, Built By Drones, Bacteria, & 3D Printers
I have a new article up on Fast Company about programatic matter, synthetic biology, robotic swarming, and the future possibilities of architecture. As complex ecosystems, cities are confronting...
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