"The Blip", False Patterns, And How Startups Are The Future of Work
I spend a lot of time thinking about the future–both mine, and that of the world as a whole–and one of the things that has been on my mind is the need for us to do things differently. A recent longform piece in New York focused on the theory that the seeming inexorable economic progress […]
The Mobile Gold Rush Has Just Begun
Mary Meeker is one of the few folks who was a leading figure during the first dot com boom who is still playing a similar role. (Contrast her with Mark Andreesen, who back then was the wunderkind behind Netscape, and today is an elder statesman and VC) That’s actually a good thing, because she continues […]
The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology
While attending HP’s Discover event (disclosure – HP covered some of my expenses for attending the event) in Frankfurt in December I was invited to take part in an interview alongside fellow Antipodean Paul Muller. The interview started off with Paul Muller explaining what he does in terms of looking at the macro trends impacting […]
Required Reading – The Promise of the Internet of Things
“In the near future, I expect nothing short of an open, global fabric of highly intelligent machines that connect, communicate and cooperate with us. This Industrial Internet is not about a world run by robots, it is about combining the world’s best technologies to solve our biggest challenges.”
BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future
A while ago over on GigaOm, Matt McLarty of Layer 7 Technologies wrote an awesome post about the rise of Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. For those who haven’t spent much time thinking about the term, BYOD describes the new paradigm where individuals within an organization supply their own devices (mobile,
Friday Video: On The Brink Of A Networked Society
It is Friday and we need some food for thought for the weekend. Here is an interesting video which we thought might be interesting to CloudAve readers. Thanks to Reuven Cohen for the link
Video: Future According To Microsoft
Today Microsoft released a concept video about how they see the future of productivity is going to be. We would like to share the video with our readers. I am not sure what timeline they are talking about but I will expect most of what is shown to be available in 3-5 years. Some of […]
It’s The Information, Stupid
Marc Andreessen (who is both richer and smarter than I’ll ever be) recently caused a stir with his Wall Street Journal op ed, “Why Software Is Eating The World.” Marc is a good writer, and it’s a good editorial that helps explain the increasing importance of software. But I can’t help but feel that he’s […]
IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow in Prague
Recap of the IDC BI Roadshow session in Prague, the Czech Republic, including some interesting BI data nuggets
Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be
One of the research projects I am working on is how schools, business and people align themselves to develop the skills needed for the workers we need today, and going into tomorrow. Like most forward projecting projects, the data gets fuzzier as you move deeper into the future, but there are some interesting aspects of […]
Business Intelligence Iceland: Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik
Download my Business Intelligence Presentations from the Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland
What Connectivity Will $20/Month Buy In 2020?
Ten years ago, I paid $20 per month for dialup Internet access on my desktop computer. Today, I pay $20 for broadband access on a handheld computer that fits in my pocket, has enough battery power to last all day, and is vastly more powerful than my old tower. What do you think personal computing […]
Shift Happens! revisited
Way back in August 2006 a teacher called Karl Fisch at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, USA created an 8 minute PowerPoint presentation with some music. It aimed to highlight the rate of change of the world we live in, and remixed content from David Warlick, Thomas Friedman, Ian Jukes, Ray Kurzweil and others. […]
Epic 2014 by GoogleZon – 2507 by Microsoft
When Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson created Epic 2014, it was fun ( I blogged it ) – we were still a convenient 10 years away. But now that the vision of our life in the Googlezon is only 5 years away.. hm.. it’s a little too close for comfort. Nevertheless, here’s the updated version,Epic […]
SAP Business ByDesign, No News?
Last week I was at the SAP TechEd Berlin and in all the press conferences/presentations there was no mention of Business By Design. During the press conference with Leo Apotheker the Co-CEO of SAP when a reporter asked about BBD he referred back to their announcements in June. As I walked the exhibition hall however, […]
