Archives for the 'Into the Future' Category
Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung
An interesting article about change has been published by Knowledge@Wharton.
The example of the cell phone industry is worth reading. It talks about how Nokia surprised Motorola, and how Samsung surprised Nokia.
Michael Tchong TrendShow
Interesting video about trends with trendspotter Michael Tchong.
More About the Growth of the Middle Class
Knowledge at Wharton published an interesting article about the growth of the middle class in the world, which will be very strong in China and India.
Impressive Video about the Consumption Society
Here is “The Story of Stuff”: an excellent video about the consumption society and about how we are destroying our planet. It criticizes specially the United States.
At least the end is kind of positive because it mentions some “green” trends taking place…
The Adaptation of Music Stores to the Times of Internet
An interesting article in Business Week talks about this adaptation, with the example of Other Music.
Inteview with Don Tapscott
A very interesting conversation with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics.
Some of the topics covered:
The relationship between technology and business.
“The Perfect Storm”: The changes in technology (Internet), demographics, society, and economics.
The paradigm shifts.
Music should be a service, not a good.
The power of mass collaboration.
Opening the boundaries of the companies.
Google is a digital conglomerate with software, advertising, […]
An interview with Kevin Roberts
An interview with Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, has been published by Knowledge at Wharton.
Kevin provides very interesting concepts. For example:
Brands were invented to charge premiums.
The power has switched from the big companies (such as P&G) to big retailers (such as Walmart) to the consumer.
There are three things that we think make a […]
Great article about Freeconomics
A great article about businesses that are free has been published by Wired. One of the most remarkable concepts is that free is very different from charging one cent.
The story about Gillette is very interesting too.
Other authors that have talked about the free economy are the writers of Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism.
The Middle Class is Growing
With the growth of China and India, the middle class is growing in the world. One of the consequences of this growth is the increasing price of food and other products. This great article explains this phenomenon with more details.
The Declination of the CD
An interesting article published in The Economist talks about the transformation of the music industry. It says that “In America, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the volume of physical albums sold dropped by 19% in 2007 from the year before—faster than anyone had expected. For the first half of 2007, sales of music on CD and […]
The Future Of Software
According to this article from Knowledge at Wharton, the future of software is much related to the Internet.
Particularly, this seems to be a great challenge for Microsoft, the king of off line software.
On the one hand, Google has its own Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, already online (Google Docs).
On the other hand, there are others threats […]
Thomas Friedman And The Energy Crisis
Pop!Tech defines itself as a network of remarkable people, extraordinary conferences, powerful ideas & innovative projects that are changing the world.
At their website you can watch and listen to many conferences.
In this post we want to talk about the conference of Thomas Friedman, the author of “The World is Flat”.
In this conference, Friedman talks about […]
