Internet Society (ISOC) Future Internet Scenarios What Will The Internet Look Like In 10 Years? The Internet Society engaged in a scenario planning exercise to reveal plausible courses of events that could impact the health of the Internet in the future. While obviously not intended to be a definitive overview of the landscape or all potential issues, we believe the results are interesting and, we hope, thought-provoking. We are sharing them in the hope that they will inspire thought about possibilities for the future development of the Internet, and involvement in helping to make that happen in the best possible way.
48. How Renaissance People Think Do you think like a polymath? Here's a quick test: If you cringed as you read the question and thought to yourself " ", then you're on the polymath path. According to psychologist Seymour Epstein's cognitive-experiential self-theory, humans have two parallel but interacting modes of information processing. Spanning the width and breadth of the Geek dream Geek Media Round-Up: July 31, 2013 Jul 31 2013 0 Comments 271 views Comics Read the rest of this entry » » » Geek Media Round-Up: July 24, 2013 Jul 24 2013 0 Comments 165 views Lessons Lost « All of us are smarter than any of us… Image accredited with thanks to Paul Sapiano on Flickr Following on from my last post comparing operational effectiveness with knowledge effectiveness, I’m reminded of the “Choke Model” from my BP days. The choke model was a way of modelling production losses at every stage in the process, for example during the refining of crude oil to produce the raw materials and refined products which customers want to buy. Starting with 100%, every step in the process was analysed, and the biggest “chokes” were identified and targeted for improvement. There is a belief in BP that the total of all of these small percentage production losses across all of its refineries was the equivalent to having a brand new refinery lying dormant!
41_TharkishSriGaneshMierraSriVarrsha_KualaLumpur_1624new Food is a central part of our lives and yet we tend to take it for granted. Though there’s a growing awareness about the harm of eating processed foods, awareness hasn’t led to widespread change: obesity rates are climbing and since corn syrup came along, the incidence of diabetes has tripled. For the first time in many generations, life expectancy has decreased in America and the main culprit is empty calories – processed, packaged foods promoted to us in big budget commercials. Sensing a sea change in attitude about diet and the physical effects of junk food, fast food companies have begun investing heavily in foreign markets where public awareness isn’t as keen. Berners-Lee warns ISPs on net neutrality The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned internet service providers (ISPs) that plans for a "two-speed" internet go against the principles that have let the net grow so rapidly in the past two decades. "Best practices should also include the neutrality of the net," Berners-Lee told a round table in Westminster on Wednesday morning, convened by the communications minister Ed Vaizey. Content companies, represented by Facebook, Skype, the BBC and Yahoo, squared up to ISPs, with input from consumer representatives including the Open Rights Group, the Consumers' Association and the communications regulator Ofcom. Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group, who was representing consumer interests at the meeting, said afterwards that he was concerned about the direction the debate was going: "The potential for something going terribly wrong is absolutely there.
13. Six Clues to Character Seconds after Tamara was ushered into his office, Michael knew she was right for the creative staff of the advertising team he ran. Within a year, they were not only a productive duo professionally, they were dating. She soon jumped to another agency largely so they could live together openly. A year later, they were married and enacting their plan to start a boutique agency together. Business grew comfortably although not spectacularly—until the recession hit. Top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites Here are the top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast."*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | Facebook3 - eBizMBA Rank | 900,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 3 - Compete Rank | 3 - Quantcast Rank | 2 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017. The Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites | eBizMBA 2 | Twitter12 - eBizMBA Rank | 310,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 19 - Compete Rank | 8 - Quantcast Rank | 8 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017. The Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites | eBizMBA
Knowledge Management in 2012? Probably Dead I saw it coming in 2011. But no one believed me. I guess it's difficult to turn your back on something that you fervently believe in. At this point, I feel like Harry Markopolos who had been telling people that there was something wrong with Bernie Madoff — before the truth came to light. I know I'd probably receive hate emails and death threats for saying it. But the truth has to be surfaced. Media Lab: The Cognitive Limit of Organizations This is a slide that I got from Cesar Hidalgo. He used this slide to explain a concept that I think is key to the way we think about how the Media Lab is evolving. The vertical axis of this slide represents the total stock of information in the world. The horizontal axis represents time. In the early days, life was simple.
12. How Your Greatest Insecurities Reveal Your Deepest Gifts In my decades of practice as a psychotherapist, this is the insight that has inspired me most: Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts. I've found that the very qualities we're most ashamed of, the ones we keep trying to reshape or hide, are in fact the key to finding real love. I call them core gifts. How To Publish Your Favourite Bookmarks To Twitter The more I talk to people about how they use Twitter the more I find that nobody really uses Twitter in the same way. Today Matthew Lang (follow him at @matthewlang) shares with us the way that he shares bookmarks with his Twitter followers. You’ve found a great article on the web, you bookmark it for yourself but you want to share it quickly with your followers on Twitter? Copying the url to a url shortening service and posting it on Twitter seems like too many steps.
5 New Online Tools for Creative Project Management There are literally hundreds of online apps for taking notes, managing tasks, collaborating with others or capturing contact data. We've seen Sharepoint, Basecamp, and ZOHO mature and give birth to Solo, Rule, Projecturf and many others. All have innovated in one area or another, and offered us an improved design and user experience. But all of them seem to fall short of perfect. Either they become too expensive or complicated, or lack simple features like attachment thumbnails or access levels.