Over the past month I've been fortunate to work with some very capable senior leaders in organisations facing the amorphous challenge of "digital transformation". At first I struggled to nail this jelly to the wall. I had to account for why, if the change is driven by computers and the internet, the solutions so often … Continue reading Gotta catch ‘em all, or, a story about digital transformation in four movements
Tag: change
Technology enables variation
HT to Emma Bearman for tweeting me this Imperica article on Cedric Price. It's so important to see change as a thing people demand of technology, not, as often framed, the other way round. "Technology enables variation" - that's basically what I meant in appropriating John Ruskin's term "changeful."
“That even space travel is now a reality”
And now for today's news from the Department of Serendipity. Quote Investigator digs diligently, delightfully and with positive results into the provenance of William Gibson's lumpily doled-out future|present. But the bit that stands out for me is Ralph Thomas' 1967 criticism of Marshall McLuhan... McLuhan suffers also from a mixed-up time sense. He believes the … Continue reading “That even space travel is now a reality”
Video: Five minutes on the pace of change
Presentation at Bettakultcha's Hallowe'en event, the day the human population hit seven billion... Original post: http://matt.me63.com/2011/09/16/the-pace-of-change/
The pace of change
It has become a commonplace of our culture that we live in a time of accelerating change. Take this extract from Stephanie Rieger and Bryan Rieger’s dConstruct presentation. Slides 52-56... It took radio 40 years to reach a market penetration of 50 million... by comparison we only had 10 years to 'adapt' to television... while … Continue reading The pace of change
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