thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Sometimes, you need to be useless to create something useful. --- https://ideateandexecute.com

unlike in craps, you need to investigate your failures prior to handing the dice to the next shooter.

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to get your people to ideate, you need to unstick their brains from the problems of today. you need them to travel to the "land of make believe" --- https://ideateandexecute.com https://ideateandexecute.com/interview-request/

Lucy Turner is a human rights advocate and author with 14 years of experience working with the United Nations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Pacific, and HQ (Geneva and New York). Lucy has a strong track record of designing and delivering innovative peacebuilding and development initiatives, driven by data and strategic partnerships engaging government, civil society, and the private sector. Her published research and policy work has led to changes in international law and practice on the rule of law, gender, governance, and peacebuilding. She enjoys working with people in major global corporations, civil society organizations, and communities to share stories and statistics of positive change. An award-winning writer and sought-after speaker, Lucy’s work has been featured at the World Data Forum, Edinburgh International Science Festival, International Storytelling Festival, UN High-Level Political Forum, UN General Assembly, and numerous global conferences. She may be contacted at [email protected]. --- https://lucyturner.org https://ideateandexecute.com https://ideateandexecute.com/interview-request/

how to persuade? use both storytelling and data, not just data. we used to transfer all of our information between humans using stories, but since the advent of technology, we are leaning more and more on data. instead of using data, we need to combine story and data for a compelling vision.  --- http://ideateandexecute.comGet Interviewed: https://ideateandexecute.com/interview-request/

Watching Stange New Worlds reminded me of the original vision of the future that Gene Roddenberry built. You know, the one where despite all of the technology, we all just get along. We all put aside our petty squabbles and do what's right for the human race. We all need to work to uplift ourselves into the future.  --- http://ideateandexecute.comGet Interviewed: https://ideateandexecute.com/interview-request/

it's the same old story - people-to-people social media always gets eclipsed by big media. instead of constantly creating new social media to restart the p2p connection, social networks should help people drive the relationships. --- http://ideateandexecute.com

to innovate, we need to free our minds. will any state be bold enough to create innovation zones that lift local laws and restrictions? --- http://ideateandexecute.com

The free web is hurting our personal privacy and our access to truth.  And because a healthy democracy depends on an informed citizenry, that's hurting the body politic. But if we're not willing to pay for email, search, entertainment, and facts, somebody else will.  It doesn't have to be this way.    - Web pioneers tried to invent new payment methods.  - Google’s founders were dead set against advertising.  - Advertising technology was an unintended accident of code.  Yet here we are today, suffering from an ad-funded web. Why?  Because we've insisted that “Information wants to be free,” and we're willing to trade our personal data to get it.  Which means we're not the customer. We're the product.  My new book looks at the history of our transactional relationship with information, from newspapers to radio, from broadcast TV to the web’s search for viable business models. He reveals how the ad-tech industry enabled “free” as the default model for technology products like search and email and media products like news and entertainment.  And how it's now fracturing society and the body politic.  Free Is Bad offers more than just a critique, but optimism for a future where we control our online destinies. It profiles exciting, new, people-first businesses already trying to build a better future.  It also offers a step-by-step guide to improving our privacy and the quality of information we consume today.  Helping us to be the customer and not the product.  Because Free Is Bad. --- http://freeisbad.comhttps:/ideateandexecute.com

we humans have been running from risk for far too long - if we really want to innovate and grow, we need to start taking risks again. --- http://ideateandexecute.com