Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Being creative in She-left-you

Creative Summit is held in the North of Sweden during two days in June. Great minds from all over the world will gather to share, talk and think about how the communication industry will evolve in the future. Will I be seeing you there?

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Urbanized – an amazing story

Cityscape

Over half the world’s pop­u­la­tion now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But not all cit­ies are exper­i­en­cing growth, some are actu­ally shrink­ing.Urb­an­ized is a fas­cin­at­ing doc­u­ment­ary about cit­ies, look­ing at strategies behind urban design of some of the world’s fore­most architects,…

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This is Important!

Clay Shirky at the TED offices, January 2012

Clay Shirky explains the real prob­lem with the SOPA/PIPA bill that the US Con­gress is about to make into a legis­la­tion that threatens to close down the Internet.

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Curiosity killed the cat …Not!

curious_cat

No, curi­os­ity is some­thing good. Today there’s even talk about not killing young children’s curi­os­ity dur­ing their first school years. Amaz­ing if that will hap­pen within reas­on­able time… Per­son­ally, I am devoted to make a liv­ing from my curi­os­ity. People used to say that “I don’t want to die curi­ous”, meaning…

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Stuff that doesn’t work – yet

I just remembered a really inspir­ing talk at Guldäggs­dagarna 2010. This was almost a year ago, but I believe it is still well worth shar­ing. Click image to play video. Faris Yakob was Chief Tech­no­logy Strategist of McCann Erikson in New York, and is today Chief Innov­a­tion Officer at MDC Part­ners....