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
Futurist Topics - Technology
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
Futurist Topics - Technology
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.
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Future of Newspapers – advertising and readership
Futurist Topics - Technology
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
Futurist Topics - Technology
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
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Human brain: fuse with PC chips biodigital brain
Futurist Topics - Technology
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
Futurist Topics - Technology
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
Futurist Topics - Technology
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
Futurist Topics - Technology
"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
Futurist Topics - Technology
"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.
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