Planning your future strategy? People will be immortal. Consider that.
Ray Kurzweil, a world-renowned scientist and author of The Singularity is Near, thinks the world as we know it will be unrecognizable in 20 years. Our phones do things today that were unimaginable 20 years ago, so why not? What we know about technology and about the body continue to increase, and so, he says, [...]
The Law of Dissatisfaction vs. Gratitude
“The job of advertisers is to create dissatisfaction in its audience. If people are happy with how they look, they are not going to buy cosmetics or diet books; if people are happy with their old twenty-inch tube television they are not going to buy a sixty-inch LCD flat screen TV. If people are happy [...]
Blown Away – where numbers rule, creativity suffers?
OMG. Microsoft’s internal corporate practices are creativity stifflers. Did you read the Vanity Fair article Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant? VF’s editor Kurt Eichenwald interviewed staff and found… “…a management system known as “stack ranking”—a program that forces every unit to declare a certain percentage of [...]
Soap bubble display screens. Imagine. Real. 4-minute video
Fascinating view at what might be coming, from Japan, by way of display screen technology. How might widespread use of this application influence your interactions with various future onscreen realities? Research info here. Source article here. Marci Segal Related articles Soap screen is ‘world’s thinnest’(bbc.co.uk) Display team creates texture-changing bubble screen (w/ Video)(phys.org) 700nm thick [...]
From Information Engine to Knowledge Graph – a quick video on how Google is morphing one step at a time.
“What’s more valuable: your interests or what you want to know? The difference between the Interest Graph and the Knowledge Graph will shape the direction of two major technology companies in the years ahead, and this will in turn impact billions of dollars of marketing spending.” MediaPost’s David Berkowitz. This two-minute video shows what’s coming [...]
This morning’s aha’s.
White crayons. Bottle top tripod. To do tattoo. 3D doodle kit. What’s next, eh? Totally up to you. Off to create something beautiful for our friends at Meridian Credit Union…
Looking for internal innovation? Find out what employees want and craft it from there. Young entrepreneurs speak.
“While more money is usually better, more money doesn’t lead to better performance and results. More money is a motivator, but it’s not the motivator,” writes Julien Gordon on theyec.org blog. Makes sense to me. His message for engagement spans beyond the audience he’s writing for. It includes you. As employees, we often want three things from [...]
Is there a bias against creativity? Repost from CNN
Amanda Enayati STORY HIGHLIGHTS People routinely reject and show bias against creative ideas, Amanda Enayati says Poll of CEOs: Creativity is the single most important leadership trait for success People reject creativity because of uncertainly — but it’s needed to help us through uncertainty Innovator: Build confidence by treating fear of creativity like a phobia [...]
Facilitator or catalyst? Is there a difference when it comes to creativity and innovation?
I learned a facilitator is a ‘guide by the side, not a sage on the stage’ from my college professor and mentor the late Dr. Ruth B. Noller. We didn’t use the word catalyst to describe what we did at the International Center for Studies in Creativity in the 1970′s and ’80′s – no. Facilitator [...]
Ethics and creativity. Related?
A study recently released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reports rich people are more likely to engage in unethical behaviour – cutting off motorists, lying in a negotiation and cheating to win a prize – than are their less wealthy counterparts. Researchers also found those [...]
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