Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Science Fiction as a predictor (again)
From this interview in Wired comes a great quote from Ridley Scott about the influence of the seminal film, Blade Runner Wired: Blade Runner was prescient in many ways, anticipating globalization, genetic engineering, biometric security. How do you gauge the movie’s influence? Scott: Enormous. One of the top architects in the world told me he [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Mesh networks
Back in 2005, Technology Review editor Jason Pontin was looking for ideas for his next column. I suggested that he look at mesh networks, which he did. Now the latest issue of TR has the TR35 – the top innovators under 35 – has a great profile on twenty five year old Sanjit Biswas of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Emerging Technology,Fringe scanning / peripheral vision by Roger Dennis
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
The game of saving
On a trip to London a while back I had a coffee with Matt Webb. One of the things I mentally bookmarked was a reference he made to a Nintendo game which featured paying off the mortgage. He was referring to Animal Crossing. I’ve finally had the time to do some research on this and [...]
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
The speed of a meme (interactive experiment)
I’ve started an experiment to try and measure the speed of a meme. You can read more about it here. And if you want to link to it too, that would be great. Just remember to link to the most recent blog posting the site (and not on this site).
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Open innovation in virtual worlds
From the BBC comes this fascinating piece about a company that has developed a way for anyone to start their own virtual world in a few minutes. Spearheaded by Ralph Koster, who, if my memory serves me correctly, cut his teeth on developing Star Wars Online, the development is a a classic disruptive innovation. Rather [...]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Innovation at a Country Level -rebranding
Over at NZ Edge, Kevin Roberts (of Saatchi fame) comments on a recent article in Monocle magazine about branding countries. Being a New Zealander it resonated with me – and struck me as innovation at one of the highest levels – that involving a nation.
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Retrospective out of office
Fiji. Past two weeks. Loved it.
