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In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of obscurity“Our society is changing from consumers to creators.”
What the hell is the Conversation Economy, part 1Jesus loved conversations. And dinosaurs. Man would I like to have a beer with that dude.
How the morons in 2012 should have tried to save humanity instead of the retarded crap they did insteadPredictably, one guy sees it all coming and tries to do the right thing. He fails horribly. Here’s what he should have done instead.
How user experience design will kill the technology gapAs technology improves, so does its user interface.
TV? Is that you? Weird running into you here. Uh… well, this is awkward.I’m sure there’s someone still out there for you. Someone who appreciates you, who doesn’t mind limited news viewpoints and endless reality programming. There will always be people who enjoy being in a near-comatose state for hours at a time.
The power of individuals (or at least individual billionaires)
Governments all over the world, broke and bogged down by wars and their own poorly educated citizens, are seeming less and less capable of solving the major issues facing our world. Why? Governments are the ultimate anti-individual. No one person in government can get a law passed by themselves. (In most governments.) Don’t get me wrong, that’s a good thing, but I think we’re entering an era where governments aren’t the ones we have to – or should – depend on to get things done. Things like slowing climate change. That’s up to you, me, and apparently George Soros.
Why now? This. This user interface that lets two random nobodies with a tiny bit of free time contribute to a global conversation. (Granted we’re only getting about 30 hits a day so far – but in four hemispheres!)
The Internet is the UI that allows billions of people to function with the efficiency of a tribe. And it only functions on an individual level – in fact the more individuals, the better.
It’s the anti-government.
"Suck my hard drive, capitalism!"
(BTW we’re not anarchists. I’ve just always wanted to use the symbol someplace where it actually seemed relevant.)