July 18, 2012

Watch this: Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod





http://www.ted.com Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com

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Article: How Google products go from creepy to cool (great example of how privacy perception has changed) Interesting story, below, illustrating how privacy perception has changed.How Google products go from creepy to cool http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57470750-83/how-google-products-go-from-creepy-to-cool/ On April 1, 2004, Google announced its new and capacious Gmail service and said it would serve up contextual ads, a move so radical that people initially thought it was an April Fool’s joke. It wasn’t. At the time, more than 30 civil liberties groups urged Google to suspend Gmail, arguing that targeting people with ads in their e-mail was setting a dangerous precedent and letting the “proverbial genie out of the bottle” for privacy abuse. California Sen. Liz Figueroa drafted a bill aimed at restricting this use of Gmail (later dropped), privacy groups asked the California Attorney General to investigate whether Google was violating wiretapping laws, and one Google critic created the “Gmail is too creepy” site. Fast-forward eight years — 425 million Gmail people are using the service, and contextual ads are regularly ignored in e-mails on Yahoo and other free e-mail services. It’s not that people are now apathetic about, for example, seeing a Viagra ad when they are asking someone for a date. It’s that people do not seem to feel threatened by the notion that Google’s all-seeing computers are eyeballing the messages and serving up ads. We see the ads everyday in our e-mails, next to our Web searches, and on the most popular sites — they have become part of the accepted Internet landscape. (via Instapaper) Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and CEO http://www.mediafuturist.com http://www.thefuturesagency.com http://www.futuristgerd.com More links;) http://about.me/mediafuturist
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Update: PDFs, audio and video from July 17, 2012 webinar on the Future of Media (Futurists Gerd Leonhard and Ross Dawson) | Media Futures with Gerd and Ross Today’s webinar was a really fun event; great questions from the audience (roughly 50 people were online), and nice interactions using the pretty cool GoToMeeting tools (no video, tho:). Gerd’s PDF is available for download here (20 MB high res), and Ross’s PDF is here. Both are provided under creative commons attribution non-commercial license. Download the audio version (70 minutes, 22 MB). The Future of Media, Mobile, Social, Cloud... and Paid? With Futurists Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard 7-19-12 2.12 PM copy Find out more about Ross Dawson: http://rossdawson.com/ https://twitter.com/#!/rossdawson http://www.youtube.com/user/rossdaht2/videos Find out more about Gerd Leonhard http://www.mediafuturist.com/ https://twitter.com/#!/gleonhard http://www.youtube.com/gleonhard via www.gerdandross.com UPDATE: the video has arrived

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