The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (11/2010) 20. March 2010, 12:39

Selected readings online (week 11). Social technologies and social ecosystems, the effects of shared narratives and well-being, the future of sentiment analysis in social media, insights on our ability to perceive time, thoughts about the practices of online research, collective information processing and the existence of super color vision…

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The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (10/2010) 16. March 2010, 12:07

Selected readings online (week 10): do “digital natives” exist?, insights on the emerging “conversational” media ecosystems, the future of mind-machine interfaces, take on the unexpected social media success stories, storytelling and collective narratives as well as some thoughts about brain processes and the unfolding of reality…

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Interviews in Helsingin Sanomat and Taloussanomat 15. March 2010, 10:35

I was recently interviewed for Taloussanomat and Helsingin Sanomat about the effects of social media on the emerging communication ecosystems: how social media affects the way we perceive others and how social media will change communication culture in the future.

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Sitra report and the upcoming article in the Futures journal 4. March 2010, 15:03

“A Social Media Concept and Strategy for Public Leadership and Management Programme”, has now been released as a Sitra report.

My article “FutureSelf: Emerging Digitized Life Patterns and A Personal Future Simulation System”, which focuses on the mapping of personal futures has been accepted to one of the most acknowledged journals of future studies…

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Personal futures and the center of future gravity 23. February 2010, 10:46

Today, future-oriented acts and thoughts are exposed to personal and collective interpretation and analysis in an unprecedented manner through various digital environments and channels. The center of the future gravity becomes visible and detectable through our physical and non-physical multilinear existence…

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