Futurist, and speaker. My vision is at the crossroads of technology and society as defined by their coevolution. There are times when things change fast, and this is one of them. To be able and act from the position where the perspective on this change is accessible is a true privilege.
"What is the question that I should be asking?" is my motto. Meta-analyses, and meta-rules are the tools of the trade when going breadth first is an advantage. The new renaissance is also about cutting across the limits of deep specialization. Tolerating high levels of pressure, and frequent mistakes, accelerating cycles of invention and innovation build the new worlds ahead of us.
October 27, 2008
At the start of a new technology there are a lot of factors determining its success, or hindering its diffusion. The availability of the right development tools, or of a good documentation, for example. Also, somewhat less evidently, it is not always easy to immediately adopt the right mindset, the open attitude that lets creative coders, and hardware hackers imagine future applications that people will want to use, [...]