Technology Made Personal
Check out this cool Google search ad. Love how it makes technology feel “personal” and such an integral part of our life. Tags: Google, Inspiring, Technology, Technology
One Laptop per Child, two years on
Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project. About Nicholas Negroponte: A pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, Negroponte [...]
Next 5,000 Days of the Web
Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days? About Kevin Kelly: Perhaps there is no one better to contemplate the meaning of cultural change — bad? good? too slow? too [...]
Yes, You Can Innovate Like Google
The words “Google” and “Innovation” have been used numerous times in the last few years… and all of us undoubtedly admire “The Google Way”, their talent acquisition, management and retention strategies etc. However, we usually shy away from adoting a subset of those ideas, with the usual answer - “we’re different”. In this video, Tom Davenport describes how Google uses chaos to quickly [...]
How to be a social provocateur
As per Josh Bernoff, “Companies are like organisms with immune systems. If you’re a change agent, you’re the antigen. Your company wants to reject you, and it’s got lots of systems to block that – accounting systems, legal systems, management hierarchies, policies and procedures. Social applications and their champions run afoul of this all the [...]
