The World According To 9 Year Olds

If you want to see the future, look at how childhood has changed rather than technology. the video below where 9-year-old children answer some questions about how they see the world. Questions include: identifying the most famous celebrities, their first computer interactions, and their fears. If nothing else, it will make you feel a bit older than you currently are.

Source: PSFK
http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/video-the-world-according-to-9-year-olds.html

The Good Enough Revolution

Wired examines a trend within the marketplace that they refer to as the “Good Enough Revolution” and/or the “MP3 Effect,” a change in consumer priorities that favors ease of use, availability and price over quality. As in all paradigm shifts, this one is uniquely suited to the times, given our increasingly plugged in lives, where immediacy and output are king, in combination with the collapse of the economy that sees people across the board spending less. Under this thinking products and services are designed to reach the widest audience – ignoring the hardcore users and experts whose needs are different – with bare bones functionality that can accomplish A to B, and at a price that virtually anyone can afford.

Sources:
http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/is-the-good-enough-revolution-really-okay.html

Disorganized Organization

How will organizations of the future look like? New technologies, such as internet, social networks, mobile phones and all those technologies that are still to spring up have brought up to reality the concept of ubiquity. Along with that, some really though question are emerging: do we still need structured organizations to organize our world and lives? For instance: why can´t everybody contract everything all the time in open markets?

Have at look Clay Shirky´s speech at The World Bank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80PE1h9OuA

New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans

Revealing your favorite sitcom spoilers, BAD, Google-stalking before a first date ,BAD, knowing what makes a good viral video GOOD... In a world where Twitter, Facebook and MSN are the new daily-lives touch-points, nice behavior is not about holding the fork properly and greeting your girlfriend´s parents nicely, every new realm of life has its rules, are you evolved enough to grasp them?

Wired
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/17-08/by_index?mbid=wir_newsltr#

Corporate Disappointment = Freedom

One of the first good outcomes of the current finacial crisis is the increase in the entrepreneurship spirit among those who were laid-off. 22% of American workers who were laid off from full-time jobs in the last year found new jobs with small businesses. Another 59% would be interested in working for a small business, and 29% are considering starting one of their own. The potential for job growth isn't the only reason. 56% said that a "family-like" work environment appealed to them, and 48% felt they could make more of a difference in a small company.

http://www.lemonademovie.com/

http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?id=pr517&sd=8%2f13%2f2009&ed=12%2f31%2f2009&siteid=cbpr&sc_cmp1=cb_pr517&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=857d44717f584a0ead8c4c94dc51319c-303813857-w2-6

The New, Faster Face of Innovation

Call it innovation on steroids. Or innovation at warp speed. Or just the innovation of rapid innovation. But the essential point remains: Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds—and prices—that were unimaginable even a decade ago. They can stick features on Web sites and tell within hours how customers respond. They can see results from in-store promotions, or efforts to boost process productivity, almost as quickly. The result? Innovation initiatives that used to take months and megabucks to coordinate and launch can often be started in seconds for cents.

Sloan Management Review
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/business-insight/articles/2009/3/5131/the-new-faster-face-of-innovation/

Freeconomics

The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster. Which is to say, the trend lines that determine the cost of doing business online all point the same way: to zero.

Chris Anderson - Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all