Seen at many blogs and feeds during the last week. Of all, i like most the post of MG Siegler of Techcrunch. MG Siegler writes: The demo I saw a couple years ago was stunning, but it was still just a video. Apparently, at TED, the audience got to see it in action. NYT’s Bits [...]
Archive for February, 2010
iPAD what’s next ? Oblong !
Posted in Augmented Reality, Desktop, global brain, Robots, Singularity, Uncategorized, Vizualizations on February 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Flyfire swarm for U2 ?
Posted in Enjoy, User Interface, Vizualizations on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Found via Singularity Hub. Re-think big screens. Really big screens in the sky. Think swarms. MIT’s Flyfire project uses a swarm of miniature helicopters with embedded LED lights to act as ’smart pixels’ as they fly through the air. Acting in concert they will be able to form complex three dimensional shapes – digital displays [...]
No more collateral damage
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Education, Generation-M, Innovation, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Worldviews on February 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There was this week a really interesting article in Trends Magazine about “The Blue Economy”, about a guy called Gunter Pauli, and his ZERI foundation. I started googling this stuff, and was amazed about what i found. Apparently, Gunter Pauli is busy doing what he does for quite some time, as can be seen in [...]
Thought experiment: who am i really ?
Posted in Books, Generation-M, Identity, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Worldviews on February 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
About a year ago, I did my “coming-out” of the Leading by Being program. That program led to the start of this blog in April 2009. Leading by Being is in essence a deep search for yourself and how you function in groups and in the world in general. It’s trying to answer the question [...]
Innovation Traumas
Posted in Banks, Books, Corporate Values, Innotribe, Innovation, Think Tank on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting blog post from James Gardner in Bankersvision a couple of days ago. Formerly Head of Innovation and CIO of Investment at Lloyds Banking Group in London, James Gardner is now Chief Technology Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK Government. James has also written “Innovation and the Future Proof Bank”, [...]
Great to Good: new value kit
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Transhumanism, Worldviews on February 13, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Umair Hague did it again. He just published the Great to Good Manifesto. He starts with “Pepsi‘s great at producing something that’s bad for you (sugar water)”. And goes on by stating that “Do no evil” ”Don’t do evil” is not the same as “Doing Good”. Umair’s blog is in essence about an Ethical Re-Boot. We [...]
Hotel Mama
Posted in Enjoy, Identity, Personal Values on February 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This blog post is a little tribute to my wife Mieke. The picture above are home baked muffins. This is how i get treated during my 6 weeks stay home after my broken foot accident. I am now 100% dependent on her. As walking on crutches usually requires using both hands, i can not help [...]
Digital Identity Weavers
Posted in global brain, Identity, Leading by Being, Mash-ups, Personal Values, Privacy, Semantic Web, Virtual world, WebTrends on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have a job where i regularly meet fascinating people. I recently had the opportunity to chat with Gary Thompson from CLOUD, Inc. CLOUD Inc. is the Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, a non-profit organization that has filed for 501(c)(6) status with the IRS and is open to people, companies, and other [...]
Innotribe.com: a Lift-Off in perspective
Posted in Banks, Innotribe, Innovation on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today our team launched www.innotribe.com ! Different announcements on swift.com and on swiftcommunity.net here. This is an important lift-off. At first sight, it may look like the launch of yet another tool or process. But this is much more. It is part of an overall Innovation Architecture based on the principles of Open Innovation. In [...]
