MediaFuturist: Gadgets

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July 28, 2012

Pretty amazing short movie about Augmented Reality Future Scenarios

... a lot of pretty amazing scenes in here, blurring the bounder between science fiction and reality. Sorta like a Cory Doctorow novel, one can't help wondering whether this is the future of already reality.

Nice job by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo.

Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.

Jul 28, 2012 6:20:57 PM | Augmented Reality, Future Watch, Futurism, Futurists, Gadgets, Made me think, Must-watch, Trends, Videos I Like

October 25, 2011

The impact of the iPod (Mashable), me: "genius of fake-control model"

Amy-Mae Elliott interviewed my for this nice Mashable piece the other day. Here are some good snippets from me and from others that were interviewed:

Leander Kahney, editor of Cult of Mac and author of The Cult of iPod, sees the iPod’s primary impact in terms of the “connected device. “Gadgets are no longer stand-alone products,” Kahney says, “they connect to a range of software and online services. Think Internet TVs, stereos like Sonos, handheld gaming devices, GPS bike computers, in-car stereos, high-end watches, Internet radios, even printers — the list goes on and on — and the iPod was the first to do that...."

...Wikström says one could argue that iTunes has been more a hindrance to the industry than a help. Despite the billions of sales using the platform, the music industry has still suffered over the past decade. Did the dominant iTunes business model blind the industry to alternatives? “iTunes prolonged the industry’s dependence on the old model, and made them believe that it actually might be possible just to shift from CD to MP3, just as they had done in the past when they moved from vinyl to tape to CD,” says Wikström. “This is just speculation, but perhaps the most important impact on the music industry is that iTunes delayed the shift from a retail model based on control to what we now start to see emerge as various kinds of cloud-based retail models, such as Spotify and its peers.”

Futurist Gerd Leonhard, author of The Future of Content and co-author of The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution also sees iTunes playing a part in the decline of the music industry. “The genius of the iPod was (and still is, with the iPhone) that, while the music industry actually believed that it had found a good (i.e., closed and controlled) way to extract money from otherwise freeloading consumers, the iTunes/iPod/iPhone ecosystem became the dominant hardware solution for the consumption of free music.” |itunes / control image added by Gerd, source unknown |

Oct 25, 2011 3:59:07 PM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Apple, Bottom Lines, Consumer Insights, Content 2.0, Digital Music, Future of Music, Gadgets, iPad, iPhone, Monetizing Content

February 09, 2011

New video: my talk at MidemNet Academy 2011 on Innovation: music industry learnings from other industries

This is a good one - loads of information in here, and pretty well recorded. More details and PDF with all slides, here. Enjoy and spread the word. Subscribe to my video RSS feed, here, if you want (download all videos directly to iTunes, watch on your iPod etc).

Feb 9, 2011 11:45:01 AM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Advertising Trends, Attention Economy, Augmented Reality, Best of Gerd, Branding, Broadband Culture, Convergence, Cool Tools, Crossmedia, Crowdsourcing, Data is the new Oil, Decentralization, Devices, Digital Music, Events, Future of Advertising, Future of Agencies, Future of Books, Future of Broadcasting, Future of Media, Future of Money, Future of PR & Communications, Future of Selling, Future of TV, Futurism, Gadgets, Innovation, Inspiring, Interesting, Lifestreaming, Link Economy, Mobile Advertising, Music Like Water, MY PRESENTATIONS, My videos, Networked Society, Open Network Economy, Open Source, Openness Issues, Privacy, Sharism, Shopping2.0, Social Commerce, Social Networks, Telepresence, Trust, TV, VIDEO BLOG, Videos I Like

June 04, 2010

Amazing video: what a small child does with the iPad: it's a playing tool!

There is so much to be learned from this video - be sure to watch it. Clearly, the iPad (and hopefully, many other cool tablets that will follow in its wake now) is an altogether different way of 'computing'. GUI becomes NUI (natural user interface), at last. Finger-sweeping on a touch screen, and literally playing with the screen and the interface and the apps - definitely not a work tool as much as a reading + watching + consumption ++ playing tool. And yes, agreed, the iPad is a walled garden, it is Control in a very shameless form - and it still rocks. Confusing, maybe, but not enough to disregard or destroy or even. ...blend it.

Jun 4, 2010 2:48:26 PM | Apple, Content 2.0, Cool Tools, Future of Content, Gadgets, Inspiring, iPad, Magazine 2.0, Mobility, TeleMedia, Videos I Like

December 08, 2009

Will this be the way we read magazines in the near future? Videos: SI.com & Wired tablet versions

I have a hunch it may well be... check it out. This is amazing stuff - the only limit is our time, and attention;)

Dec 8, 2009 6:14:00 PM | Apple, Content 2.0, Cool Tools, Devices, Future of Content, Future of Journalism, Future of Media, Future of Reading, Gadgets, Link Economy, Mobility

October 10, 2009

Future of Media & ICT: presentation at Bilisim Zervisi 2009 (Istanbul)

I always enjoy coming to Istanbul and was delighted to be invited to do a keynote speech at this year's Bilisim Zervisi, the Turkish CeBit / CES equivalent. Some of the topics I covered include the top trends in media (fixed to mobile, top-down to social, consumers to users, physical to digital, one-way to interactive etc), the future of eBooks (and the new, international Amazon Kindle), why the solution for digital piracy is in the business model not in technology, the convergence of media, telecom, advertising, social networking, content & media, why telecoms and mobile operators must get involved with content and advertising. A Turkish review of my speech is here (no idea what it says, though).

The Future of Media & ICT (Bilisim Zervis 2009)

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Oct 10, 2009 11:23:27 AM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Broadband Culture, Consumer Insights, Content 2.0, Future of Books, Future of Journalism, Future of Media, Gadgets, MY PRESENTATIONS, Print & Newspapers, Social Media, Telecom2.0, Trends

October 08, 2009

I just ordered the new 'International' Kindle eReader: the reading revolution has started!

Amazon rocks, once again. Jeff Bezos made a deal with AT&T for 3G roaming so now I can get my books pretty much anywhere in the world, anytime; and without worrying about my iPhone's battery;). The new 'Kindle wireless reading device' looks set to deliver what I have wanted for five years: access to a large library of books, wirelessly, and (hopefully) at a much lower price, at my fingertips. Plus newspapers, blogs, Wikipedia... I shall report when I have tested it, but in the meantime, below is a quick summary where I see things going in terms of the business model and pricing, for eBooks (and yes, there will be a blog post on this topic very soon).