Technology Innovation: Future Trends
Futurist Topics - Technology
How future consumers will behave, the impact of the current global crisis, and how combinations of new technologies will fuse together to create a new world. It is easy to focus on clever engineering, or new product developments, and lose sight of what the future will actually be like. The truth is that our future is being shaped by technology or innovation, but will be driven by emotion. How customers feel, how they want to live, what excites them and what worries they have.WIRED Magazine - Welcome to Readers
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Welcome to WIRED UK readers of the feature “See Into The Future”. Join 12 million others as you explore the huge globalchange.com site, and watch hundreds of Futurist videos (1.6 million views). WIRED magazine launched April 2009 featuring Patrick Dixon’s quotes on future trends, first print run of 100,000, aiming for 50,000 regulars. Check out the digital sampler of the first WIRED UK magazine.
Twitter Future - bigger than Facebook?
Futurist Topics - Technology
Twitter could become larger than Facebook in numbers of users multiplied by numbers of messages. President Obama has 336,000 followers, and Twitter was key in his election victory. During the Mumbai terror attacks, Twitter members gave second by second updates, used by the BBC. Twitter is the third largest social networking site after Facebook and MySpace. 7 million accounts by April 2009, increasing by 0.5m a month. Impact on communities, business, marketing, media and government.
Mobile devices - and laptops - trends - FUTURIST Q&A
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Questions to www.twitter.com/patrickdixon on future of mobile computing. Confusion in manufacturers and consumer choices. Mobile phones and web browsers still limited and always will be by screen size and data entry. Expect convergence of features and divergence in device sizes - great variety and most people in management to own and use many devices of varying size and function.Read more: Mobile devices - and laptops - trends - FUTURIST Q&A
Future of Newspapers – advertising and readership
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Crisis in newspaper circulations - deserted by readers and advertisers in favour of online news channels. What is the future of traditional print media? Pressures on newspaper sales in America and Europe compared to huge growth in newspaper circulations in India and some other emerging markets. Impact of online news services and problems monetarising them. Demographic split of newspaper and magazine readers. Crisis in newspaper circulations - deserted by readers and advertisers in favour of online news channels. What is the future of traditional print media? Pressures on newspaper sales in America and Europe compared to huge growth in newspaper circulations in India and some other emerging markets. Impact of online news services and problems monetarising them. Demographic split of newspaper and magazine readers. Impact of online advertising on traditional advertising and marketing budgets. Futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.
How to be Successful on Twitter
Futurist Topics - Technology
What are the secrets of success on Twitter? How can I build up a large number of followers? What is the best way to communicate as an individual or a corporation? How can I use Twitter in marketing or to keep in touch with customers?
Mobile devices - and laptops - trends - FUTURIST Q&A
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Questions to www.twitter.com/patrickdixon on future of mobile computing. Divergence and convergence. Mobile phones and web browsers still limited and always will be by screen size and data entry. Expect convergence of features and divergence in device sizes. Comment by Futurist Patrick Dixon
Questions to www.twitter.com/patrickdixon on future of mobile computing. Divergence and convergence. Mobile phones and web browsers still limited and always will be by screen size and data entry. Expect convergence of features and divergence in device sizes. Comment by Futurist Patrick Dixon
Human brain: fuse with PC chips biodigital brain
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Biodigital brains and rebuilding eyes in people who are blind using adults stem cells. Growing brain cells onto computer chips to extend memory and processing power of human brain. How to fuse brain and computer power together. Brain control of machines, and computers. Remote robotic control by thought alone. RFID devices. Ethical issues in robot engineering using brain tissue. Digital enhancement of human brain function. Innovation, divergence and convergence in mobile phone devices, personal organisers, bandwidth and global positioning systems. Consumer and customer changes. Why benchmarking kills innovation. Lecture by physician and futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon for 2008 Stein Am Rhein leadership summit - facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley - Interview
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Find out how Chad felt after meteoric success of YouTube in just 15 months to become a 200 million downloads a day blockbuster media company, bought by Google for $1.6bn. YouTube is now the world's largest TV station with over 400 million downloads a day. Impact of Web 2.0 online communtiies on marketing, consumer trust and branding. Viral videos - why they work. Lessons for every corporation wanting to be successful online. Google Zeitgeist CEO Summit 2007 - session part of Entertain Me.
Future Digital Broadcasting, Media and BBC
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Google Zeitgeist CEO summit 2007 - Mark Thompson, Director General BBC in session chaired by Dr Patrick Dixon, looking at BBC online future. Future of traditional TV and radio broadcasting, new channels, digital distribution, video on demand, cable and satellite broadcasting. Public broadcastors and competition with private media companies - falling advertising revenues. Future BBC online strategy and impact on other media companies - state subsidies and unfair competition? Future of schedules and programme commissioning.
Virtual Management
Futurist Topics - Technology
"Virtual Management means faster decisions" - Video
- Virtual Management is about managing people at a distance using technology.
- Virtual Management can produce travel cost reductions of up to 50%.
- Virtual Management is a high risk strategy unless corporations are committed.
- Virtual Management means maintaining close working relationships with colleagues in many locations
Virtual Teams - Global Leadership
Futurist Topics - Technology
"Virtual Teams" - Belgacom ICT Event 2007
Old team management models are: "if in doubt, go travel to sort it out". But this is highly inneficient in a ralidly growing global organisation. Many corporations are at the limit of what they can manage without huge structural changes, unless they develop a different way of working altogether. Virtual Teams are about managing people at a distance using technology. The office of the future.
New Technology, Consumer Lifestyles, Business Strategy
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"Future is about emotion - not just technology" - video 2007.
The impact of next-generation technology on personal and business life. How RFID and other innovation is driving a new wave of change. Good and bad use of technology. Winners and losers for the future. Interview with Patrick Dixon on Monday, May 16, 2005 - before keynote speech for IBS - see slides and video
Read more: New Technology, Consumer Lifestyles, Business Strategy
Technophobic CEOs
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"How technology companies fail executives" - ICT 2007
CEOs of the world's largest companies are struggling to keep pace with the impact of digital technology and many are being left behind, placing their corporations at risk in the medium to longer term. Their own senior teams also lack basic IT skills and understanding, without which they cannot steer their corporations into the next millennium. Despite this, corporations are failing to address the problem.
This report was featured in The Times 14 December 1998.
Web TV - ARCHIVE 1997
Futurist Topics - Technology
Hong Kong Telecom said recently it could spend up to $10 billion over 10 years on its interactive television service. A soft launch is scheduled for July, while the full scale launch is scheduled for October. Hong Kong Telecom said it has already invested $200 million in the venture. The service would offer video-on-demand, home shopping and home banking and allow customers to use normal phone lines to send and receive information to the TV screens. The Strategis Group study says, "Internet subscriptions revenue in Asia/Pacific region is forecast to grow from $2.9 billion in 1996 to nearly $14 billion by 2001". Source: Interactive Video News, Vol.5 Issue 6
Archive material 1997 - historical interest.
WAP - Truth after Hype - Video
Futurist Topics - Technology
WAP was supposed to change the world for mobile users. Discover the reality.
Speech Recognition - 100 words per minute - Video
Futurist Topics - Technology
Video - 100 words per minute - watch video of demo using Dragon NaturallySpeaking live with no editing. As an author, I have used speech recognition to help write books and have also used it for e-mail. The biggest limitation is still processor speed. Having said that, it always catches up in the end and does produce text amazingly quickly if you learn to speek clearly.Read more: Speech Recognition - 100 words per minute - Video
Videolinking - live demo - Video
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Session unrehearsed - genuine reflection of personal videoconferencing (1999).
Virtual People - Human Resources
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"Practical values in virtual working" - Video.
Most new technology applications fail to achieve what was promised because of very simple human factors. Interview 4 April 2000
Cyberlife - At Home And Work
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Convergence and Divergence - Future Trends . MTN Conference 2007.
Life in 2010 - Home and Work
Press cyber-interview - Dr Patrick Dixon 28 January 2000
Old-style Videoconferencing is Dead - Video
Futurist Topics - Technology
Videoconferencing is a practical solution for virtual board meetings and team discussions. In fact it's the only solution for distance co-operation, with shared documents on screen and other features.
Article written in 1999 (many issues still current in 2008).
RFID - 100 billion wireless tagging devices
Futurist Topics - Technology
100 billion new computers the size of a grain of sand - video.
Wal-Mart races ahead with Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs): electronic barcodes for manufacturing, distribution and retail - major concerns about data leakage, privacy and civil rights. 10 billion wireless electronic tags are about to impact manufacturing, distribution and retailing now that Walmart, Tesco and Pentagon are requiring future suppliers to tag products - raising sensitive questions about privacy, civil liberties and human rights.
Lectures by Videoconference - Video
Futurist Topics - Technology
Why videolinks can be better than being there in person. Limits to globalisation with current management models. World-class remote lecturing.Dr Patrick Dixon - Videoconferences - Video explanation followed by studio tour and demoDo social networks kill “real” relationships?
Futurist Topics - Technology
Do social networks damages "normal social relationships"? Impact of virtual communication on social gatherings. FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Bebo, YouTube are mainly communities of people who know each other. Why many people are physically present but mentally and emotionally absent. Influence of social networks on partner selection and family life.
Virtual relationships, video, videoconferencing, Skype, dating and Second Life. How relationships are changing in the online world.Convergence or Divergence - Innovation Video
Futurist Topics - Technology
"All innovation is about doing things differently - improving people's lives"
Telecom companies become media houses. Food retailers become banks. Computers become phones and video stores. While we will see convergence in products and services on price, features and quality, we will also see huge new investment in diversity.
Everyone is talking about convergence, yet few corporations fully understand the real threats and opportunities.
Electricity cables to connect online - Video
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Using mains power cable to connect to the webLBC Bodytalk - Video
Futurist Topics - Technology
Dr Patrick Dixon ran a three hour Web TV link from the LBC studio (ITN London) with regular slices of the programme streaming from this site, callers joining Dr Dixon on the show by videolink from their PCs and sending e-mails. Three times as many sent e-mail questions and comments to the show as phoned in. This is the face of interactive radio.
Interpreters - computers instead of people?
Futurist Topics - Technology
Language translation and speech recognition End to using human interpreters at conferences?Five Minutes to Video Streaming - Video
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Video interview with Dr. Patrick Dixon about videostreaming.
Cost of Year 2000 Computer Bugs - ARCHIVE
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Archive for historic interest:
The Year 2000 problem is gathering pace. By mid 1998, systems around the world were already beginning to fail - for example, operations were cancelled for sick people in Britain because the computer system declared that vital supplies were out of stock. They were just out of date - or rather the computer thought they were. With expiry dates in the next millennium, the computer decided they were at least 100 years old.
Virtual Reality
Futurist Topics - Technology
People tend to think of body suits and head gear when you talk about virtual reality. However, huge strides have been made in much simpler systems.
Internet voice phone - ARCHIVE 1997
Futurist Topics - Technology
More than 500,000 people have already made telephone calls on the Internet, using microphones and loudspeakers installed as part of multimedia. Sound quality is variable and set-up can be hard. It is best for use on a pre-arranged basis.
Archive for historical interest Nov 1997
Telephone Revolution and Networking - ARCHIVE 1997
Futurist Topics - Technology
Telecoms: It is all accelerating - making the doubling of computer power every 18 months look like solid lumps of unchanging rock. Take a mobile phone working in 2000 at 9.6k per sec. In less than two years they will be offering up to 2,000k per sec. That's a mega-jump!
Archive from Nov 1997 - for historic interest.
Read more: Telephone Revolution and Networking - ARCHIVE 1997
Smart watches - speech recognition - ARCHIVE 1997
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Nokia 9000 Series and Speech Recognition.
ARCHIVE PAGE 1997 FOR INTEREST
Read more: Smart watches - speech recognition - ARCHIVE 1997
I've got a computer under my skin - Injectable technology
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RFID tagging products - video 2007
On the desk in front of me is a needle – the same size as for blood transfusions. I have just tipped out of it a tiny glass container, no bigger than a grain of rice. Inside is an injectable computer: a chip, power generator, transmitter and receiver. It’s a complete mobile communication system. My wife bought it for me for £25 but she’s worried about electromagnetic radiation and being married to a bionic man. (Feature article by Dr Patrick Dixon published in The Times - Interface Section 30/12/98). The office really gets under your skin - Mobile communication takes leap into the unknown.
Read more: I've got a computer under my skin - Injectable technology
Radiation Scare from Mobile Phones - VIDEO
Futurist Topics - Technology
"Growing evidence that mobile phone radiation affects living tissues - health risks?"
Video comment by Dr Patrick Dixon on research showing possible health risks from heavy exposure to mobile phone radiation. Risks probably very small in normal use.
How to Beat PC Viruses
Futurist Topics - Technology
Yet another mutant of the infamous love bug is now unleashed, even more dangerous than the one before. This one changes it's name each time it is opened, and then resends to everyone in an Outlook address book, before severely damaging your hard disk.
How to beat viruses in e-mail - By Dr Patrick Dixon, Global Change Ltd
Internet Statistics - ARCHIVE 1997
Futurist Topics - Technology
Archive for interest: 1997. People often tell me that only computer nerds and "sad people" use the net. How wrong they are.Internet Archive Data 1997
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Why the digital society isn't working
Futurist Topics - Technology
"Unreliable technology" - Video 2007.
Technology may be changing us but we need to change the technology. Even the simplest things bring the whole digital society crashing down around us. 1995 Archive article for historical interest - many of these urgent issues remain.
E-commerce / E-business - ARCHIVE 2002
Futurist Topics - Technology
The Hidden Wave - Is it all over or just entering a new phase?
"Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you."
Three big ebusiness mistakes - but the greatest one is yet to come....
1996: "the net is irrelevant"
1999: "we're late - spend all we can"
2001-3: "we always said the net was fundamentally over-hyped"
Future of Technology
Futurist Topics - Technology
A series of article archives pointing to today's future. BlueRay disks. Millipede Nanodrives. Microelectromechanical Systems. Images the size of a Molecule. Machines controlled by Thought.
News that is going to change our world. The Future is Now.
The Future of Science - VIDEO
Futurist Topics - Technology
Recent news of a new kind of world - how scientists will slow down or stop ageing in humans.
Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon on science of ageing, health care, life expectancy, medical advances, pensions, retirement, lifestyles and government policy.
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Future of Telecom Industry
Futurist Topics - Technology
Belgacom ICT 2007 - "Future Telecom"
The impact of broadband - greatest techno jump since launch of personal computers? How broadband will change society at every level.
Press release at launch of BT Openworld 14 October 2000 in London - keynote speech.
Digital Consumers and Business - VIDEO
Futurist Topics - Technology
"Consumers are leaving most corporations behind - the future is about emotion"
Seminar for Dimension Data (2007) on how consumers and companies want something different from software companies. How their needs are changing - videolinks to audiences in 3 remote sites. Trends: winners and losers and secrets of success.
Spam: curse of the digital age?
Futurist Topics - Technology
If you include email containing viruses and junk mail, spam now makes up to 40% of all email traffic worldwide on a busy day. What is spam? Why we are vulnerable. What we can do. Spam is a major challenge, costing organisations and individuals many billions of dollars a year in lost productivity. The web-enabled world is at risk if current spamming trends continue with up to 50% growth in spam volumes every few months.
Videoconferencing - ARCHIVE
Futurist Topics - Technology
By 2001, the videoconferencing market will reach $5 billion with by far the greatest growth in the desktop segment from about $300 million in 1996 to $3 billion in 2001. Source: Teleconferencing Markets and Strategies: From Novelty to Necessity. Archive material 1997 - historical interest.Video-streaming - Archive
Futurist Topics - Technology
CNNfn.com is now offering live, on demand web video to complement CNN financial news' broadcasts using Web Theatre 2 technology from Vxtreme Inc. Currently, streaming video and audio from two companies is available: Digital Jam and Business Unusual. By the end of the second quarter, the network's entire line-up will be broadcast on the web.Archive material 1997 - historical interest.
Digital Consumers and Business - VIDEO
Futurist Topics - Technology
"Consumers are leaving most corporations behind - the future is about emotion"
Seminar for Dimension Data on how consumers and companies want something different from software companies. How their needs are changing - videolinks to audiences in 3 remote sites. Trends: winners and losers and secrets of success.
