Animoto Security Predictions:

Check out my first Animoto Video on Security Predictions from Symantec. It's good education for everyone and it only lasts 30 seconds. (With some great music. )

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Gab Cast THIS!

Check out my latest pod cast below. Its a great review of what this blog is all about!

Gabcast! CS 855 #1 - Blogpost!

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Futuring... the past, present and the future, maybe?

So this post here is to spark some conversation in the my Futuring and Innovation course. I was surffing to find the end of then Internet (nope I still haven’t found it), and I found this article from the GREAT ‘Wired Magazine’:


“Where’s the Future? Will Ferrell’s Tour of Tech That Never Took”

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_future_ferrell/all/1

Half way through the article I found this very interesting graph:

What We’ve Lost
The people, places, and things that were once the future—but vanished.

The thing that caught my eye! “Futurists” (I’m assuming this is the profession of) Has a dot on this graph, and Second Life! Both of these are located in the “Good Riddance” and “Boring” section. So my thought for everyone out there is: Have we really lost these great tools and were they really all that bad? The spark of new ideas from futurists and the first 3 dimentional web interface with customizable content, were great and if they are gone I’m sad to see them leave.

Cool Web 2.0 Tool #2

If you ever wanted to make your own webpage for professional or personal use, and never had the time to learn HTML or the many facets of PHP, CGI, FLASH etc…?!? Well then check out this great new Web 2.0 tool. The whole site is desing to allow drag and drop web site creation. It’s so simple I’m almost regretting all those hours I spent programming flash elements, java scripts and HTML for http://www.explorerstreasures.com/

My thought of the week:

Alexander Christakis's 'How People Harness their Collective Wisdom and Power to Construct the Future in Co-Laboratories of Democracy' uses what he describes as an SDP approach to a handful of case studies. The one that caught my attention was his 'Master Plan For New Product: Context for Drug Development'. The SDP approach utilizes key members of the project team to make decisions concerning the planning stages of the project.

The SDP approach allows managers to complete weeks of work in few workshops over a period of days. It also provided clinical information for health care practitioners and patients early in the process.