Entries tagged with: Twitter

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Crime and Punishment

Co.Exist has put up a short video from my discussion at their recent Innovation Uncensored event in NYC. In this video, I talk about why thinking about misuses of technologies is a good way of discovering the unexpected implications of...

Posted on May 28, 2013 12:28 PM

Getting It (Almost) Right

Ask any reputable modern futurist to make a prediction, and you'll nearly always get the same general reply: futurists don't make predictions, we talk about scenarios, implications, and forecasts -- structured narratives about future possibilities that make clear the uncertainty...

Posted on May 14, 2013 2:54 PM

#War

What's the hashtag for terror? For propaganda? I've been talking about the role of social media as a possible enabler of political violence for years. In my June 2009 talk at Mobile Monday in Amsterdam, I argued that Twitter and...

Posted on November 15, 2012 11:56 AM

Future is Now, Part 58

It's always a bit unsettling when reality has the temerity to confirm a speculative scenario. It's rarely a 100% match; more typically, it's a parallel event that reinforces the underlying logic of said forecast. Better still, this one, as it...

Posted on September 5, 2012 1:07 PM

Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

Bear with me -- this is going to get twisted. I've been paying quite a bit of attention to the use of deception as a tactical method, from real-world griefing to deception as a means of protecting privacy. I'm particularly...

Posted on August 29, 2012 11:39 AM

The Future is a Virus (my Swedish Twitter University "talk")

Not literally, of course. But if we think about the future as something that infects us, we gain a new perspective on our world. Human civilization has a weak immune system when it comes to futures. We can sometimes recognize...

Posted on December 12, 2011 12:33 PM

Swedish Twitter University

On Monday, December 12, I'll be doing a session of Swedish Twitter University. #STU06 - Jamais Cascio: “The Foresight Immune System” If accurate predictions are impossible — and they are — why should we think about the future? In 25...

Posted on December 7, 2011 2:54 PM

Soylent Twitter talk

My talk from Social Business Edge is embedded below (Flash required). About a minute of set-up, but then I get going. No slides. Some nice phrases pop up here: "continuous partial attention means continuous partial empathy" is probably my favorite....

Posted on April 29, 2010 11:52 AM

Resilience Fail (updated)

Quick question: where does this URL go to? http://tinyurl.com/ya8p9vg How about this one? http://bit.ly/DkXOW Would you have guessed that the first goes to a Computerworld article about business-appropriate avatars, and the second goes to the previous post on Open the...

Posted on November 2, 2009 2:40 PM

New FC: #cleanse

My new Fast Company article went live this morning, "The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution." It looks at some of the less-savory implications of the heroic use of Twitter in Iran. Consider, for a moment, what we're seeing happening...

Posted on June 18, 2009 10:28 AM

Technology as Political Catalyst

It's become almost a cliché to observe that the Internet is changing the face of electoral politics at the national scale. The use of the web for fundraising (and to observe fundraising) is an obvious example, but for me a...

Posted on July 17, 2007 4:18 PM

Twit

So on the suggestion of Stowe Boyd, I've gone ahead and signed up for Twitter. I've added a small module on the right bar here showing my most recent Twitter post. I haven't been hooked up to anyone's network yet,...

Posted on April 5, 2007 4:16 PM

Augmented Fluid Intelligence

Can we survive the multitasking era? Okay, multitasking is hardly up there with global warming, pandemic disease and asteroid strikes as a civilization threat, but it's becoming increasingly clear that multitasking reduces overall effectiveness and accuracy. Yet we're forced to...

Posted on April 1, 2007 10:39 AM

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