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What age are we in?
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The question of what age we are in?, is important for us as marketers because it helps us understand our macro environment and informs our strategy and our decisions about the future.
There can be no doubt that we are seeing a transition at the moment – and I’m not talking about from capitalism to socialism, but rather something less tangible and equally pervasive. This change, I think, is from an age of objects into an age of ideas. Be it an iPod, a Blackberry or an iPhone, we as a society have come to depend on our objects, but the trend toward ‘one box solutions’ and centralising our PDAs, mobile phones, e-mail and music devices shows a longing to free ourselves of the objects, devices, countless power cables and the increasingly cluttered assortment of gadgetry churned out over the years. The inevitable movement towards cloud computing shows the urge of our society to become less dependent on material objects in favour of something more powerful and less immediately tangible. It is in this very transition from physical to ideological that we can see the beginnings of a permanent change.
Tags: answers in marketing, increased complexity, information age, ipv6
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Ecolism: Spiritual Entrepreneurship
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Tags: Capitalism, ecolism, Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, social entrepreneurship, spiritual entrepreneurship
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Lifecycle of Democracy
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Tags: Artificial intelligence, Barack Obama, collective intelligence, DARPA, lifecycle of democracy, renewable energy, United States
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Women think differently
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
I was looking through the Clean Tech group on LinkedIn and found a cool article from Sami Shiro talking about a recent law in Norway passed that mandates 40% of all executive boards be women. He went on to discuss how this new way of thinking could help us with our sustainability dilemma. By creating a holistic goal if you will, you force/allow the companies to figure out their own way to get there. Sami gave the two examples of businesses and homes becoming carbon neutral by 2020 and 75% of water usage recycled by 2015. Non-compliance would have strict consequences such as mandating homes/businesses to buy appropriate technology to reach the target after a set period of time. In the case of the Norway boards, if they don’t reach their goal in 2 years, the company will be shut down!
I found this fascinating… is our world starting to wake up? Is the man’s way of thinking becoming outdated
and even under-evolved? Very linear, physical, territorial, power obsessed… and yet now we’ve reach the edge, we’ve maxed out our world. There’s no more land to take over, nothing left to conquer, nowhere else for people to live, and no more resources to fight over other than oil (and this will be the last hoorah). Something has to change, and it starts with our thinking. I’ve been doing a lot of GT’ing about how that can happen, and the best thing I’ve come up with is a swift shift in global power from male to female.
Tags: Brain, Clean technology, female thinking, Holism, holistic, jill bolte taylor, sustainability, TED, thinking
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The Global Brain
Monday, November 17th, 2008
An amazing presentation by Peter Russell. I didn’t know who he was until I recently checked out the LOHAS website Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability. People should start paying attention to this stuff… it can expand your way of thinking, helping you better understand yourself and better connect with the world. A way of thinking and being that brings peace into your life. People like Eckhart Tolle and Al Gore are other advocates of a coming spiritual renaissance in which we realize collectively that the crisis facing humanity is one of consciousness. And the coming years are going to bring about a transcendence that the world has never seen. Nova from Radar Networks writes some awesome stuff about this as well. Here’s an article he wrote on How to Build the Global Mind.
Tags: About, Al Gore, Eckhart Tolle, global brain, global mind, Peter Russell, spiritual renaissance, sustainability
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