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The Next Wave of Creative Destruction in Media is Underway
February 10th, 2009
The New Electronic Democracy
January 27th, 2009
It is clear that one of the reasons that Barack Obama won the Presidency is his campaign utilized the Internet in all aspects and in new ways. The Obama campaign of 2008 introduced and defined success with this latest transformative medium. The campaign’s use of all aspects of interactivity will be the definition and measurement of success for the next 8-16 years.
Now that Obama is President and comes into office with a mandate for change in a time of incredible challenges it will be interesting to see how the campaign mastery of the Internet is deployed to the process of …
The Financial Crisis – Part Two
September 30th, 2008
The current financial crisis is part of a larger realignment going on in the world. There is a new Age that is beginning and with it comes a new restructuring of many facets of human life. We are now entering the Shift Age, which is the global stage of human evolution. This means that many aspects of humanity, certainly economics are being reorganized from the way they were during the Information Age and the earlier Industrial Age.
All year, in this column and in speeches given around the country, I have stated that the economic downturn we are going through must …
Convergence and Connectivity in the Home
September 1st, 2008
Last week the Internationale Funkausstellung was held in Berlin. This is the largest consumer electronics convention in Europe, equaling and perhaps surpassing the CES show that occurs every January in Las Vegas. One of the central themes behind major new product launches was the Internet and the central role it is now beginning to play in the wirelessly networked home.
This has been something that has interested me for years and a subject about which I have written here and here in this blog. As recently as five years ago, the topic of convergence was a speculative, hot …