Occupation: Professor Birth: 1954
I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is….
Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions..
Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket..
I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really ….
The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse….
This new economy that's just emerged has a new central economic actor. It's not the worker, the person who produces, nor the person who consumes, the….
Hipness is the only asset that matters..
We've become more and more interrupt-driven. If you have six tasks to do in an hour, you can't just take 60 minutes and divide and have 10 minutes pe….
I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right down the h….
I think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is to be completely open and completel….
People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around….
My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new busi….
Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day..
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box..
We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Pr….
Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old thing more ef….
As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or ….
More information and more communications foster world peace and understanding. But connecting extremist nut cases together on the Web - whatever flav….
You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead..
I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making t….