All over the tech websites last week: Google previewing their Chrome OS and releasing it’s code to the open source community.
Planning, pre-viewing and releasing an OS is a big thing. Especially if everybody is looking at you as the provider of THE cloud OS.
It stroke me that some of the comments are so diverging. Some [...]
Archive for the ‘Generation-M’ Category
Google Chrome: who is right and who is wrong?
Posted in Android, Cloud, Desktop, Generation-M, Think Tank, WebTrends on November 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Web Wide World
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Semantic Web, Singularity, Think Tank, Transhumanism on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The web is transforming society”
“Web Squared: how the web transforms the world”
“Web Wide World” transforming “World Wide Web”
Several very interesting publications and postings over the last couple of weeks, all confirming that something very profound is happening with our core systems, our core values, and how the collective intelligence of the web [...]
No Belgian University in WW Top-100
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Transhumanism on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Academic Ranking of World Universities just got published.
Not a single Belgian University in the Top-100. Leuven comes in at 102 and Ghent at 106.
I found this resource via Eric Drexler’s blog, which was focusing on Asian Universities.
The “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (ARWU) is widely regarded as the best objective, international measure of [...]
Google and Finance 2.0
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Google Wave, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Think Tank on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Umair Haque has written an Open Letter to Google titled “Can Google take on Wall Street – and Win ?”
It starts with: “Dear Google,…”
and goes on with:
Every day, you handle more searches than the NYSE handles trades — and that difference, I’m guessing, is about to hit an order of magnitude more. Every day, [...]
Re-Inventing Wall Street: Finance 2.0
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Money, Think Tank on October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When Umair Hague posts something on his blog, i always take some extra quality time to read.
Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that helps investors, entrepreneurs, and firms experiment with, craft, and drive radical management, business model, and strategic innovation.
Always sharp, and always in [...]
The Power of Choice
Posted in Cloud, Crowdsourcing, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Think Tank on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great post on the confused of calcutta.
How consumerization of IT now really starts hitting the enterprise. Quite obvious, and i am sure you too use more and more external tools like Google Docs, iPhone Apps, Drop-It and other company external services to get your job done.
The article however is on something more profound that is [...]
Peter Thiel and the Singularity
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Singularity, Think Tank on October 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I am just back from the Singularity Summit that took place in NY during the week-end of 3-4 Oct 2009.
I will make a separate report on the rest of the event, but i was completely blown away by the 30 min speech by Peter Thiel and following panel discussion with Venture Capitalists.
Peter Thiel [...]
The age of the unthinkable
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Transhumanism on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some weeks ago, i had the opportunity to listen to a fantastic speech by Joshua Cooper Ramo, writer of the book “The Age of the Unthinkable: why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what we can do about it”.
This is the sort of guy that when he takes the stage, you immediately know [...]
How Bill Gates destroyed the universe
Posted in Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Robots, Singularity, Think Tank, global brain on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Singularity Summit is coming on 3-4 Oct 2009 in NYC. See the impressive list of speakers here.
One of the speakers is Ben Goertzel, who will speak about “Pathways to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence: Virtual Pets, Robot Children, Artificial Bioscientists, and Beyond”.
When talking about Robot Children, i would not be surprised if he used [...]
