Yotube gets a face lift 0
Youtube has surprised us during the last weeks with several new developments in its service like upgrades, new functionalities and system improvements.
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Top scientific discovery of past decade 0
Here’s my list of what I think influenced or impacted the drive of science in the last ten years. Most of these discoveries will change our life completely in the next decade in ways we couldn’t imagine ten years ago.
2020: we didn´t stop climate change 0
During Copenhagen climate world forum Greenpeace developed a strong communicational campaign trying to create consciousness about climate change and push world leaders to take real actions against this phenomenon.
The campaign, displayed within Copenhagen airport, shows several world leaders like Obama, Merkel, and Brown among others by the year 2020 apologizing for not been able to stop the climate change at the right time. The message given by the aging politicians is clear : “ I´m sorry. We could have stopped catastrophic climate change…we didn´t.” The campaign call to action invites them to act now and change the future.
Top Ten worst Tech Predictions for 2009 1
Predicting the future is always a rather challenging task. There is one thing about predicting the future….it is so hard to predict.
Mike Elgan makes a great top ten list with the worst predictions by technology pundits for this 2009. Most of them where too vague considering the existing trends happening at the end of this year.
Check the top ten list below
Social 3.0: Ambient Intelligence 0
Sharing small pieces of information about your daily life is a key feature of today’s social networking features. From Facebook to Twitter, answering the question about what are you doing is the most important activity done by roughly 500 Million social networkers.
But in the future technology will enable your status updates and other social information to be generated automatically from the enviroment.
8 trends about 2020 elderly 0
Aging is one of the most striking mega trends changing our society in the next decade. Over the next ten years, aging and how we respond to it will increasingly affect society. The number of 65+ year olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020.
An aging population will have several implications to the society, workforce market and new technologies that will emerge.
But is also interesting to notice that elderly of tomorrow will behave different as elderly of today. Fresher, more technologically savvy, better educated seniors and a big need for elderly involvement in employment and society in general, could change the way will look aging.
How to make your ideas to stay 1
Why sometimes is so difficult to make our ideas to stay?
For anyone working in a competitive environment, with fierce competition, making ideas to stick is a critical success factor for their business or careers. But how can you achieve that Wow Factor. What makes an idea remarkable? How people can increase their likehood of success?
Educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath did a great job in their book “Made to stick : why some ideas survive and others die” by revealing the anatomy of ideas that stick and explaining simple ways to make ideas stickier.
Take a look to the six principles for making your ideas to stick!
