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.
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
Futurist Topics - Technology
Session unrehearsed - genuine reflection of personal videoconferencing (1999).
Virtual People - Human Resources
Futurist Topics - Technology
"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
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- Electricity cables to connect online - Video
- LBC Bodytalk - Video
- Interpreters - computers instead of people?
- Five Minutes to Video Streaming - Video
- Cost of Year 2000 Computer Bugs - ARCHIVE
- Virtual Reality
- Internet voice phone - ARCHIVE 1997
- Telephone Revolution and Networking - ARCHIVE 1997
- Smart watches - speech recognition - ARCHIVE 1997
- I've got a computer under my skin - Injectable technology
- Radiation Scare from Mobile Phones - VIDEO
- How to Beat PC Viruses
- Internet Statistics - ARCHIVE 1997
- Internet Archive Data 1997
- Why the digital society isn't working
- E-commerce / E-business - ARCHIVE 2002
- Future of Technology
- The Future of Science - VIDEO
- Future of Telecom Industry
- Digital Consumers and Business - VIDEO
- Spam: curse of the digital age?
- Videoconferencing - ARCHIVE
- Video-streaming - Archive
- Digital Consumers and Business - VIDEO
