The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (43) 25. October 2009, 20:34

Selected readings (week 43) including e.g. the questionable ownership of a conversation, micro labels and new layers of information, the dangers of conceptual determinism, how visualizing reveals new aspects into thoughts, the future of news media (uniting collaborative filtering and professional editing), human behavior and the future technology, how the visualization process can become social, the relationship of trust, awareness and personal data as well as the predictability of irrational human behavior…

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The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (42) 19. October 2009, 11:09

Selected readings (week 42) including e.g. insights on the emerging field of neuroanthropology, the qualities of filtered realities (AR), the logical leaps in the design/business thinking, philosophical depths of non-existent futures, the current developments in the “open science”, a glimpse to the existing digital tribes and the networks of (actualized) change, the importance of right questions in qualitative research/design and the effects of collectively shared cognitive patterns…

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The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (41) 12. October 2009, 15:17

Selected readings (week 41) including e.g. a vision of the (future) city as a complex interaction system, the benefits of self-organizing digital ecosystems, a glance to the essentials of social design, insights on the need for behavioral economics and experimental policies, ponderings about the questionable exploitation of social networking sites, the new possibilities for 3-D virtual worlds and the changing(?) value chain of digital content.

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The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (40) 5. October 2009, 17:34

Selected readings (week 40) including e.g. the implications of localized digital information, how to recognize a true social media expert, Chinese language and the future of the search engines and indexes, insights on the social sector in 2010, the practical utilization of “mobile” clouds, a brief glance on the basics of the semantic web and the future of text-based data analysis…

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The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (39) 28. September 2009, 11:25

Selected readings (week 38) including e.g. the dynamics of digital social experiences, the interconnectedness of innovation processes and digital evolution, insights on the effects of continuously expiring/vanishing digital traces, the ambiguous utilization of personal data, the use of social media as a tool for cultural diplomacy, reflections on the empirical basis of free will and the limits of (even virtual) longer-term economical growth…

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