Tag: 2018
Goalposts: Property Investment over the Next Billion Seconds
GOALPOSTS: Property Investment over the Next Billion Seconds INTRODUCTION The seeds of the future are already in the present. William Gibson put this more poetically when he said, “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly…
Read More »Touring 2050
TOURING 2050 A billion seconds is 31 years and 251 days. There’s exactly billion seconds between where we are today and the last day of January 2050. That’s a whole generation. I myself still plan to be here…
Read More »Democratising Technology – The Square Revolution with Jim McKelvey
DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY CITY OF SYDNEY Visiting Entrepreneur Program Lower Town Hall 22 May 2018 18.30 INTRODUCTION Good evening, I’m Mark Pesce, and I’m your MC this evening. I would like to begin by acknowledging the Gadigal of the…
Read More »“The Road Ahead” (audio/slides)
Lecture (or, well, most of it) for the UTS Animal Logic Academy, 17 May 2018. All about the history of virtual reality, and the future of videogrammetry. The slides are available here. The Road Ahead
Read More »Mentorplicity
MENTORPLICITY PART ONE: THE PASSION OF THE MENTOR The year is 2030. That’s less than a billion seconds from now. For most everyone in the workforce – and certainly everyone at the higher end of the workforce –…
Read More »“Managing Multiplicity” (live audio)
Recorded 9 May 2018 at OzWater 2018, Brisbane Convention Centre.
Read More »How to Think like a Futurist
HOW TO THINK LIKE A FUTURIST Good evening — and welcome to the pub. It’s fitting that we’re here tonight, because it’s in a pub that we’ll begin our story. But before that, let’s start with some basics….
Read More »Diigo Bookmarks as of April 2018
Bookmarks Initial reviews pleasantly more positive than expected, esp… Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958) | Open Culture Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs…
Read More »Digital Marketing into Digital Community
DIGITAL MARKETING INTO DIGITAL COMMUNITY: PREPARING PEET’S FUTURES PART ONE: GO ASK ALEXA “Alexa where should I live?”That question, shouted at a little internet-connected microphone, seems more than a bit ridiculous. Why would anyone ever ask a device…
Read More »Now, Next, Never-never
NOW, NEXT, NEVER-NEVER NOW: EVERYBODY KNOWS Fourteen and a half years ago, I landed at Sydney Airport with a few suitcases and a lot of hope. Even before I got to my accommodation, the friend who picked me…
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