Cognitive Cities, 10 Years Later
10 years ago exactly, a group of us gathered in Berlin for Cognitive Cities Conference, a 2011 event around the implications of smart cities that I was involved…
Category: connected world
On Controlling “Your Data”
For years now, we’ve discussed variations of the question “who owns my data?” And alas, we didn’t get very far, for several reasons: The most economic value of…
Changes on the ThingsCon board of directors
Over at ThingsCon, I’m stepping down from my seat on the board of directors. Below, I’m including the official blog post announcement from ThingsCon. But first I’d like…
New remote meeting timing etiquette: Start on the hour, cap it at 45 mins
If you read this, chances are you spend a significant amount of your day in meetings — these days, likely video meetings. During the first lockdown, it seemed like…
VR events, brand collabs, breaking physics, socially distant live events
After reading Monique van Dusseldorp’s most excellent new newsletter on the future of (hybrid) events, I re-watched this Travis Scott x Fortnite video from April 2020. At the…
Better Social Networks
We’ve been seeing regulators around the world taking a strong stance against Big Tech. From China blocking one of the world’s largest IPOs to the anti-trust moves against…
In praise of inefficiencies
I’m reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, which is all about climate change. In it, the author riffs a bit on the role of efficiencies and…