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Visualizing the Future #11: Rolling the Dice and the Power of Chance
Whether it's a roll of the dice, flip of a coin or an ace on the river, the concept of "Chance" is more central to the "Future" than any other. In Greek mythology, Zeus, Hades and Poseidon divided...
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Visualizing the Future #12: Ponzi Schemes or Financial Progress?
Tonight's post involves some sleight of hand. If you've ever watch a shell game or 3 card monty, you know that being told you're going to be tricked doesn't help at all. You're still the shill and...
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Visualizing the Future #13: Is the Internet Becoming a Global Brain?
Let's begin today with a backwards glance. We're just over halfway through the 23 part series; so far we've covered quite bit of ground. Here's a quick graphic review: Today's topic is a fun one, but...
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Visualizing the Future #14: What's Ray Kurzweil Smoking?
Depending on who you ask, Ray Kurzweil is either a genius or a madman. I believe both.He's a prolific inventor, futurist and the leading proponent of the idea of the Technological Singularity. Often...
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Visualizing the Future #15: "What Happens Next?"
I said in the last post that this post would be a continuation of my thoughts on the Singularity. I've changed my mind for a few reasons:The topic has humbled me. When I signed up to do a series of 23...
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Visualizing the Future #16: Stories: Beginning, Middle and End
I finished the last post by asking for readers' help figuring out how to complete the journey that began here. Many thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate how thoughtful and considered it...
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Sunday Night Thoughts from Visualizing the Future
I've taken a few days to pause and catch my breath after the exhausting pace of the first 16 posts in this series. Tomorrow night we'll begin again, but for tonight I thought I'd just share some of...
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We're there! Announcing the New York IPG Media Lab
Almost 1 year ago, I joined IPG to build an Emerging Media Lab in New York City. IPG Mediabrands' challenge was that with the evolution brought by digital media, planning had become more and more...
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Visualizing the Future #17: Amusing Ourselves to Death?
I grew up in a house where TV was banned. Sugar cereal and candy were frowned upon, but television, especially Saturday morning cartoons, was the ultimate forbidden fruit. Prohibition rarely works...
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Visualizing the Future #18: What If? Second Lives and Alternate Realities
Nothing is more inspiring than the idea that anything is possible. This open-endedness is what makes the Future beautiful; its inherent uncertainty mixed with perfection - a screen on which to...
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An Internet Without Islands
What Second Life taught me about metaphors, friendship and the future of digital societiesThere comes a time in the growth of every online society when its citizens start to question the metaphor. In...
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Visualizing the Future #13: Is the Internet Becoming a Global Brain?
Let's begin today with a backwards glance. We're just over halfway through the 23 part series; so far we've covered quite bit of ground. Here's a quick graphic review: Today's topic is a fun one, but...
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Visualizing the Future #14: What's Ray Kurzweil Smoking?
Depending on who you ask, Ray Kurzweil is either a genius or a madman. I believe both.He's a prolific inventor, futurist and the leading proponent of the idea of the Technological Singularity. Often...
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Visualizing the Future #15: "What Happens Next?"
I said in the last post that this post would be a continuation of my thoughts on the Singularity. I've changed my mind for a few reasons:The topic has humbled me. When I signed up to do a series of 23...
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Visualizing the Future #16: Stories: Beginning, Middle and End
I finished the last post by asking for readers' help figuring out how to complete the journey that began here. Many thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate how thoughtful and considered it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Night Thoughts from Visualizing the Future
I've taken a few days to pause and catch my breath after the exhausting pace of the first 16 posts in this series. Tomorrow night we'll begin again, but for tonight I thought I'd just share some of...
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We're there! Announcing the New York IPG Media Lab
Almost 1 year ago, I joined IPG to build an Emerging Media Lab in New York City. IPG Mediabrands' challenge was that with the evolution brought by digital media, planning had become more and more...
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Visualizing the Future #17: Amusing Ourselves to Death?
I grew up in a house where TV was banned. Sugar cereal and candy were frowned upon, but television, especially Saturday morning cartoons, was the ultimate forbidden fruit. Prohibition rarely works...
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Visualizing the Future #18: What If? Second Lives and Alternate Realities
Nothing is more inspiring than the idea that anything is possible. This open-endedness is what makes the Future beautiful; its inherent uncertainty mixed with perfection - a screen on which to...
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