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Time to “Tearn”?
For a number of years, I’ve been pondering how the Snowflake Effect1 could influence learning. For those who are new to this concept of the Snowflake Effect, in essence it’s about the transformation of society from a model of mass production to one of mass personalization. Think of it as ... Read More
Great Thoughts
Here's another posting derived from my ever growing list of items to blog about. This one springs from an article I read in the IEEE Spectrum back in Jan 2007. Did I mention I’m behind in my postings and the list is growing? However on the ... Read More
World Languages: Going Colorblind?
"Maps courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps used with permission" In case you find it as interesting as I did, here is the list (according to www.geographic.org) of the top ten most popular languages in the ... Read More
Designing Your Own Future!
Carrying the rather magnanimous title of “Strategic Futurist”, I try to always clarify that I have no crystal ball, no special powers for prediction of the future (nor any other special powers for that matter!), but I do believe that “The best way to predict the future is to invent ... Read More
Inventing the Future?
I've been a big fan of Jane McGonigal ever since I had the chance to talk with her at the Learning 2007 conference where we were both speakers. One of the many reasons I so like her work is her focus on what is called ... Read More
Serious Play: Are We Humans the Biggest Computer of All?
Would you be interested in a future where the pursuit of fun and enjoyment was one our our major roles in life because it leads to solving extraordinarily large and complex world problems? For example, what if all of us helped to digitize all the content contained in all the ... Read More
The Lego of Gadgets
How could I not like Rafe Neeleman's recent posting on Webware called "Bug Labs: The Lego of Gadgets"?! Here's so many of my favorite themes all wrapped into ... Read More
Musical Snowflakes Continue to Fall All Around Us
The world of music continues to be one of the richest sources of examples for the Snowflake Effect, where mass personalization, mass customization, mass contribution are all available to try. The list of examples continues to grow exponentially. A "Do It Yourself/ Build Your Own" model calls for a radical ... Read More
EOL and the power of MC2: Mass Contribution x Mass Customization
Some of my previous postings have focused on the need to dramatically increase the scale of our discovery of the unknown. I'm finding more examples all of the time that show a trend towards more mass participation and mass contribution by connecting everything and everyone together. The project we recently ... Read More
Frontiers in Service
Recently I was honored with an invitation from Jim Spohrer to attend and present at the Frontiers in Service Conference on Friday, Oct. 5th, 2007 in San Francisco. Jim is the Director of Services Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, and he ... Read More
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