Podcast appearances and mentions of Nicholas Negroponte

LONDON, 2023: Evgeny finally meets Nicholas Negroponte, one of the most famous prophets of the digital age and a key figure inspired by Brodey and Johnson. As their conversation unfolds, questions arise: Has Negroponte remained true to their pioneering concepts, or has he ventured into realms they would disapprove of? And what about the MIT Media Lab—does it extend the legacy of the Environmental Ecology Lab, or has it charted its own course?

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Je vais vous parler du Wall Street Journal, de Chat GPT et surtout de vos enfants, ceux à naître et ceux qui sont déjà nés. Le lien entre les trois sujets est extrêmement fort. D'abord, je vous donne un chiffre 90 milliards de dollars. C'est la valorisation aujourd'hui d'Open AI, la maison mère de Chat GPT. Cette boîte était valorisée à 29 milliards de dollars en décembre dernier. Elle a donc triplé de valeur en moins d'un an, alors qu'en 2022, elle perdait encore 500 millions de dollars par année. Ce n'est plus le cas puisqu'avec sa version payante, elle va pouvoir dégager 1 milliard de dollars de chiffre d'affaires en 2023. Et ce n'est que le début. Alors ces chiffres cités par le Wall Street Journal montrent que Microsoft a fait une très belle affaire en entrant dans le capital d'Open AI. Toujours d'après le Wall Street Journal, Microsoft serait donc le plus gros actionnaire de Chat GPT, puisqu'elle aurait 49% du capital de sa maison mère. C'est la raison pour laquelle Microsoft a pu intégrer aussi vite et aussi facilement tous ses outils d'intelligence artificielle dans Word et dans Excel, et même dans son moteur de recherche Bing. Les auditeurs et auditrices qui utilisent la version payante de Chat GPT, environ 20 € par mois, pourront même bientôt converser, parler ou soumettre des images à Chat GPT. Et là, je ne vous parle même pas de ce que sont en train de faire les rivaux comme Google ou Amazon en matière d'intelligence artificielle. Et c'est là justement où j'en viens à nos enfants. L'excellente lettre d'information TT rappelle les défis auxquels devra faire face l'école face à ce tsunami de l'intelligence artificielle qui risque tout simplement de la bousculer pour ne pas dire la rendre inutile. Pour Elon Musk, la messe est dite. C'est lui qui le dit. L'école, c'est ce qu'il y a de pire. Quant au fondateur d'Ali Baba, le Chinois Jack Ma, lui-même ancien prof d'anglais, ajoute que l'éducation de nos enfants, qui vise à la mémorisation maximale de connaissances, elle date de l'ère industrielle. Mots-Clés : Elon Musk, éducation, bande passante, langage, productivité, Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, centre de recherche, nouvelles technologies, omniscience, Internet, capacités, constat, solution, experts, gourous, avenir, piratage, hacking, cerveaux, humains, interfacer, ordinateur, Neuralink, sociétés, voler, hélicoptère, Michel Drucker, télécharger, connaissances, vol, neurones, et hop, piloter, science-fiction, réalité, doute, vidéo, collègues, français, néerlandais, horizons, Bruxelles, Wallonie, budget, coût, enseignement, éducation, indexation salariale, prévisions, budget, microscopique, question, parlementaire, écriture inclusive, théorie du genre, Jacques Chirac, climat. --- La chronique économique d'Amid Faljaoui, tous les jours à 8h30 et à 17h30 sur Classic 21, la radio Rock'n'Pop.

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¿Cómo crear una presentación tipo TED?Muchas personas interesadas en comunicar sus ideas y fortalecer su marca personal se preguntan ¿Cómo crear una presentación tipo TED? En este episodio, Mauricio Salazar, Director de TED x Bogotá nos estrega algunas pistas.Antes de ¿Cómo crear una presentación tipo TED?, la historia…Las charlas TED, ahora ampliamente disponibles en línea, tuvieron un comienzo que difiere significativamente de su actual alcance. En 2006, tan solo un año después del debut de YouTube, el vicepresidente Al Gore presentó una charla TED sobre el cambio climático. Aunque su pasión por el tema no sorprendió, lo que realmente captó la atención fue el formato de video en línea, entonces relativamente nuevo. Este evento, que antes solo estaba al alcance de unos pocos invitados, había tomado una nueva forma global, brindando acceso a científicos, pensadores, ingenieros, diseñadores y artistas de renombre mundial.Los Inicios de las Charlas TED.Aunque ahora las charlas TED están disponibles fácilmente en línea, no siempre fue así. El arquitecto y diseñador estadounidense Richard Saul Wurman tenía la visión de crear una plataforma para el intercambio de ideas en la intersección de la tecnología, el entretenimiento y el diseño. De ahí nace el acrónimo TED.El primer evento TED en 1984, en Monterrey, California, presentó a figuras influyentes de la industria, como Nicholas Negroponte, fundador del Media Lab del MIT,. Ese primer encuentro exploró futuras posibilidades, incluyendo las capacidades de la tecnología de pantalla táctil. Sony también reveló su recién nacido CD. En ese entonces, "la música digital" era un concepto nuevo y emocionante. Este evento, cofundado por Wurman y el diseñador gráfico Harry Marks, sufrió pérdidas financieras y fue suspendido hasta 1990. A partir de entonces, la conferencia TED se convirtió en un evento anual en Monterrey, abriendo su lista de oradores no solo a científicos, ingenieros y diseñadores, sino también a músicos, líderes empresariales y filántropos.El Cambio de RumboEn el año 2000, Chris Anderson, empresario de medios de la Fundación Sapling, sin fines de lucro, adquirió TED, pasando la propiedad a la Fundación TED en 2019. Como curador, Anderson mantuvo la misión original de TED: el intercambio de ideas. Bajo su liderazgo, TED comenzó a compartir charlas selectas en línea, consolidando su presencia y aumentando su reconocimiento con las famosas TED Talks.En 2017, Elon Musk discutió sus motivaciones para colonizar Marte, mientras que Ellen Jorgensen exploró la edición genética CRISPR y sus implicaciones para nuestro futuro en 2016.La Promesa de TEDUna de las características más atractivas de las charlas TED es que se mantienen relevantes a lo largo del tiempo, como las reflexiones de Al Gore sobre el cambio climático.Desde su inicio en 1984 hasta su estado actual, las charlas TED han demostrado ser un vehículo para la innovación y la inspiración, conectando a personas de todo el mundo y trascendiendo fronteras. En una época de desafíos globales, el legado de TED sigue prometiendo soluciones y perspectivas que nos guiarán hacia un futuro más brillante.Nuestro invitado Mauricio Salazar nos contará ¿Cómo crear una presentación tipo TED?Mauricio Salazar trabaja en la búsqueda y co-creación de soluciones que impacten positivamente el futuro de las personas, organizaciones y/o la sociedad, impulsando el cambio de mentalidad, generando nuevas narrativas y visibilizando o empoderando ideas en acción.Es el organizador y curador principal de TEDxBogotá, organización dedicada a identificar y promover ideas de colombianos dignas de ser compartidas. (en el 2019 fue el TEDx más grande del mundo con más de 10mil asistentes al movistar arena y 173mil personas conectadas por tv nacional e internet definiendo el concepto de Resiliencia)Es el Director general de Social-Colectivo laboratorio de co-creación de futuros posibles y la fundación que lleva el mismo nombre, la cual tiene la misión conectar y acelerar el acceso al conocimiento que brinde bienestar y calidad de vida a la humanidad.Hoy tiene 3 obsesiones: Encontrar los caminos que den acceso a mejorar nuestra Salud Mental, el desarrollo de las habilidades necesarias para la vida y como cambiar el cambio climático.Su frase favorita es "el conocimiento nos hace libres, pero solo las conexiones nos dan el poder para actuar."Cómo Crear Una Presentación Tipo TED, TED Talks, Charlas TED, TED x, TEDD x Bogotá, Mauricio Salazar, Hablar En Público, podcast, Podcast Corporativo, Comunicación Organizacional, Recursos Humanos, Desarrollo Profesional, Desarrollo Personal, Comunicación Efectiva, Santiago Ríos, Mil Palabras

Judith Donath is a design thinker for some of the most important theory for how people interact in online spaces, drawing on evolutionary biology, architecture, ethnography, cognitive science. She just might be the voice we need for the multi-media multiscale world we're walking into. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Tsundoku (09:00)The cost of honesty (09:30)theory of mind, MIT Media Lab, and Marvin Minsky (13:00)Roger Schank (13:30)cultural metaphors (14:00)Ocean Vuong (17:15)The Architecture Machine by Nicholas Negroponte (19:30)Bell Labs (20:15)Vienna Circle (20:20)Sociable Media Group (22:40)The Social Machine by Judith Donath (23:05)Fernanda Viégas (35:20)Chat Circles (35:30)Gossip, Grooming, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar (39:00)The Strength of Weak Ties by Mark Granovetter (43:20)Berkman Klein Center (47:00)Signalling Theory (49:00)Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (56:00)The Experimental Novel by Émile Zola (59:00)C Thi Nguyen Origins (59:20)Lightning Round (01:00:30)Book: The Lord of the Rings by JRR TolkienPassion: Crossfit's way of thinking about metricsHeart sing: Street photographyTeju ColeScrewed up: Traditional academiaFind Judith online:Website'Five-Cut Fridays' five-song music playlist series  Judith's playlistFlourishing SalonsLearning Salon AIArtwork Cristina GonzalezMusic swelo

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Mick Ebeling founded Not Impossible, a multiple award-winning social innovation lab and production company, on the premise that nothing is impossible. His mantra of “commit, then figure it out” allows him to convene a disparate team of hackers, doers, makers and thinkers to create devices that better the world by bringing accessibility for all. This unconventional approach brought to life highly acclaimed initiatives -- the EyeWriter, Project Daniel, Don's Voice and most recently Music: Not Impossible -- that brought the ability to draw back to a paraplegic street artist, 3D-printed arms to Sudanese amputees, a ‘voice' to an ALS patient who hadn't spoken in 15 years, and wearables that let deaf and hearing people alike feel music in a “surround body” experience. Ebeling's book, Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done, recounts the life experiences that led to the founding of Not Impossible. Published in a multitude of languages, the book was hailed as “a unique and inspiring tale of brave abandon” by Nicholas Negroponte. Key Takeaways: Staying true to values and ethics is important when facing challenges The company exists to create technology for the sake of humanity Despite difficulties, they have remained committed to their mission An opportunity presented itself and they took it, despite initial hesitation Helping even one person can make a difference and ego should not get in the way To learn more about the company, visit notimpossible.com or their social media channels. Everything we see or touch was once impossible. They helped someone without any agenda and it became Time Magazine's top 50 inventions.  People want clarity and collaboration in advertising. The focus is on telling stories of real people making a difference in the world.   Follow Not Impossible Labs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/notimpossible Follow Mick Ebeling on Twitter: https://twitter.com/notimpossible Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notimpossible/  

What if you could see what was going on in your brain or body with the detail of a high-resolution camera or MRI machine in a simple wearable? Openwater is creating a device that can enable us to see inside our brains or bodies in great detail. In today's episode of The Brand Called You, Mary Lou talks about how she creates bold visions of the future through Openwater. She also talks about how she co-founded One Laptop per Child (OLPC) with Nicholas Negroponte and was the lead inventor and architect of the $100 laptop. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

The Art of... | Talk [08.03.2022] What if machines and works of art would engage us in conversations? »The Art of...« invites you into the world of one of the most brilliant figures of cybernetics in the 20th century - Gordon Pask (1928-1996), the creator of learning machines and cybernetic artworks. Gordon Pask (1928, Derby–1996, London) fascinated his contemporaries not only by his appearance – an Edwardian dandy in a bow tie and cape – but also by his pioneering experiments in the field of adaptive teaching machines. As early as the 1950s, he proved that it was possible to build teaching machines that could adapt to the abilities of human learners. What makes his work unique within cybernetics, however, is its close connection to the arts. Pask was not only a cartoonist, painter, and poet, but also founded a theater company in the early 1950s for which he wrote his own plays and songs. Thus, theaters and music halls became the experimental laboratory for Pask's first cybernetic machines. Among his best-known projects and works are »Musicolour« (1953-1957), the 'moody' light organ, and the »Colloquy of Mobiles« (1968), which he developed for the legendary exhibition »Cybernetic Serendipity« at the ICA London. Often overlooked when considering Pask is the influence of his cybernetic thinking– his »Conversation Theory« – on 20th-century architecture: Pask collaborated on the conception of the »Fun Palace« (1964), the visionary project of architect Cedric Price and theater activist Joan Littlewod, and taught for many years at the Architectural Association in London. It is also too little known that he served as a consultant to Nicholas Negroponte's Architecture Machine Group at MIT, informing its ideas about the relationship between artificial intelligence and design. Titled »The Art of Living in Conversation«, Paul Pangaro, President of the American Society for Cybernetics, and historian of science Andrew Pickering, in conversation with Margit Rosen, explore how Pask's machines and his »Conversation Theory« might change the way we think about living with machines. »The Art of Living in Conversation« belongs to the online conversation series dedicated to artists and theorists related to the ZKM collection and archives.

Un racconto inusuale per Archeologia Informatica per uno speciale estivo tutto da gustare sotto l'ombrellone. Di solito non ci occupiamo della storia “recente” cioè di avvenimenti dopo l'anno 2000, ma in questo caso racconteremo la storia di qualcosa che è stato probabilmente un “unicum” nella storia dell'informatica e che difficilmente potrà ripetersi.Successe infatti all'inizio di questo nuovo millennio che qualcuno si pose la domanda se si potesse migliorare il mondo in maniera fattiva, trasformare l'istruzione per i bambini di tutto il mondo; questo obiettivo doveva essere raggiunto creando e distribuendo dispositivi educativi per i paesi in via di sviluppo e creando software e contenuti per tali dispositivi.Nacque così un'iniziativa senza scopo di lucro chiamata “One Laptop per Child” (O.L.P.C.) cioè “UN COMPUTER (portatile) PER OGNI BAMBINO”, ascolteremo il racconto di questo sogno utopico che vede protagonisti tanti grandi dell'informatica a partire dal fondatore Nicholas Negroponte e grandi aziende come Google, Red Hat, Nortel Networks fino a Microsoft, direttamente dalla voce di un italiano che sin da subito ha abbracciato il progetto e lo ha seguito negli anni: Bernardo “Bernie” Innocenti.Buon Ascolto!

During this episode, we'll cover why ideas worth spreading hold so much power and potential to propel us towards exciting futures as a part of “The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship" series. Join us! Guest Bio- Elaine Powell - Speaker, TEDx and Public Speaking Coach & Award-Winning International Speaker who has also been featured in Forbes. As a curator for TEDx@Croydon she has facilitated over 35 TEDx talks. Elaine Powell has also trained over 25,000 individuals on how to speak powerfully by delivering outstanding presentations and TEDx talks Elaine's Website- https://www.mindspeak.uk/ideas Elaine's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/elainepowelluk/ Forbes Article Link- https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanieburns/2021/11/09/want-to-take-the-tedx-stage-heres-how/?sh=4572ba2c77a2 1984 Ted Video Links (Added to the Show Notes for Podcast Listeners). Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions, in 1984- https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_5_predictions_from_1984 Sony demos the CD at TED in 1984- https://blog.ted.com/happy-30th-birthday-compact-disc-watch-a-demo-from-the-first-ted-in-1984/ Reference Link “The Audacious Project” - https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/the-audacious-project Reference Link "TED Fellows Program"- https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-fellows-program Host Details: Book your Brand Strategy

Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more. Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

En este episodio de Noches de Blogging, titulado ¿Tiene remedio Internet?, José Luis Orihuela @JLori entrevista a Carlos Scolari @cscolari. Emisión original: 1/12/2020 Libros de Carlos Scolari https://modernclicks.wordpress.com/textos/ Un avance del libro "Cultura Snack" https://hipermediaciones.com/2020/10/22/cultura-snack-lo-bueno-si-breve/ El documental de ficción "El dilema de las redes" https://www.netflix.com/es/title/81254224 La serie "Black Mirror" https://www.netflix.com/es/title/70264888 El libro "La era del capitalismo de la vigilancia" de Shoshana Zuboff https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-la-era-del-capitalismo-de-la-vigilancia/311701 La actualización del Manifiesto Cluetrain: "Nuevas claves" https://newclues.cluetrain.com/ El "Manifiesto de la comunicación no hostil" (PDF) https://paroleostili.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SPAGNOLO_A4_verticale.pdf El libro "Being Digital" de Nicholas Negroponte https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/120521/being-digital-by-nicholas-negroponte/ Los proyectos "Solid" e "Inrupt" impulsados por Tim Berners-Lee https://solidproject.org/ https://inrupt.com/ La plataforma china de videos "Bilibili" https://www.bilibili.com/ Las nuevas interfaces https://hipermediaciones.com/2020/08/08/las-nuevas-interfaces-pospandemia/ El libro "Internet, la imprenta del siglo XXI" https://amzn.to/3fXXl6t La película interactiva "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" https://www.netflix.com/es/title/80988062 Mapa de los Homenajes a Maradona en Twitter https://twitter.com/TwitterLatAm/status/1331661101524717575

Rodrigo Arboleda Rodrigo Arboleda is a senior executive with 50 years of experience in the fields of Architecture, International Business Development, Education and Technology, Civic and Philanthropic endeavors. After graduating from MIT as an architect in 1965, he became an award-winning architect in his native Medellin, Colombia, as well as the honorary president of the Colombian Society of Architects. As an entrepreneur he entered into several businesses both in Colombia and later in the U.S., ranging from developing a fresh-cut flowers farm for export and later in the transportation and distribution of flowers and other perishables and regular cargo both in ocean vessels and airplanes. In addition to these businesses, Rodrigo managed the expansion of Ogden Corporation, in the fields of airport management, the development of venues in which entertainment and sport events took place in Latin America and in Spain. He was the first president of 33 of Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 33 airports as well as the construction of the Rural Society's Fair and Exhibit grounds in Buenos Aires, and the Isla Mágica's theme park in Seville, Spain. For more than 33 years, he promoted the use of technology in education with his friend and classmate Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Media Lab at MIT, in Colombia and later as the worldwide CEO of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. He managed the logistics, implementation, training and deployment of the latest versions of the emblematic XO Laptop, and managed the delivery of many of the three million laptops in developing nations. He served in the BOD of Save the Children Foundation and is currently in the board of several philanthropic institutions. In addition, his current areas of endeavor are related to the impact on education of cheap mobile devices, the promotion of free internet access for children in remote areas of the world and the idea of coding-to-learn, areas of endeavor acquired while at the helm of OLPC. Screen Heat Miami Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Robert Thurman, Ph.D. is the retired professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University as well as cofounder and president of Tibet House which is dedicated to the service of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet. He's been a close friend of the Dalai Lama for over 50 years and is a passionate activist for the rights of the Tibetan people. He is a skilled translator of Buddhist texts and an inspiring writer of many popular Buddhist books, including: Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet (graphic novel co-creator) (Tibet House 2016), Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier (co-author Sharon Salzberg) (Hay House 2013) and Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life. (Hay House 2021)Interview Date: 8/20/2021  Tags: Robert Thurman, enlightened, enlightenment, awakened, inter-being, freedom from suffering, eightfold path, critical wisdom, Nicholas Negroponte, conversation, perception, relative truth, deep listening, dark matter, fake absolutes, the Buddha, Buddhism, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Education

It's the goal of today's guest to make the impossible, not impossible. Mick Ebeling believes that we can overcome any obstacle; with engineering, technology, willpower the right people and a lot of elbow grease.  Mick is the founder of Not Impossible, an award-winning social innovation lab and production company that was founded on the principle of technology for the sake of humanity. Not Impossible takes on the challenge of an individual in need, they find a solution and then scales it to help people everywhere. Mick's resumé of awards recognition for his innovative work is too long to list. Chances are if there's an award for innovation, he's won it.   I'm pretty sure if there was a photo of someone next to the words innovator and positive changemaker in the dictionary, you would find Mick. He embodies those words in every way possible, and to say you will be inspired by his story and his work is an understatement.   Questions Film and tv producer by trade  Origin story of Not impossible labs Eye writer- 2010 best innovations by time Project Daniel   ENGINEERS HACKERS ENTREPRENEURS TECHNOLOGISTS STORYTELLERS ARTISTS   Tackling the world's Absurdities  Help one, help many  Takes on challenges of an individual in need, finds a solution and then scales it to help people everywhere.    Open source   COVID...Current projects- Food insecurity/hunger  Mobile technology to give people access to food- Bento Data driven, frictionless Solution is already in our hands 96% have access to a mobile phone   Hunger not impossible  Vaccine not-impossible (1 in 5 kids don't have access to vaccines, 1.5 million die every year from a vaccine preventable death)- too hard to get to the health center, partnership wth pzier Project Cody- (CODI) Music-not impossible, music for the deaf and heard of hearing  Build not impossible-mobile maker space, engineering principles, etc.  (Yida, refugee camp)   The Not Impossible Awards recognize people and companies committed to creating technology for the sake of humanity. These teams transform people's lives by addressing human absurdities and fixing design flaws in the world around us. To that end, they create never-been-built solutions that respect people's humanity, enable their independence, and enrich their experience in the world.   The Not Impossible Foundation is a corporate foundation (501c3) that supports the efforts of others that are doing their part to make the impossible, not impossible.   About Mick Recently named by Fortune Magazine as one of the Top 50 World's Greatest Leaders , a recipient of the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award and listed as one of the world's most influential creative people by The Creativity 50's, Mick Ebeling has sparked a movement of pragmatic, inspirational innovation. As a career producer and filmmaker and now founder and CEO of Not Impossible, Ebeling harvests the power of technology and story to change the world. Ebeling founded Not Impossible, a multiple award-winning social innovation lab and production company, on the premise that nothing is impossible. His mantra of "commit, then figure it out" allows him to convene a disparate team of hackers, doers, makers and thinkers to create devices that better the world by bringing accessibility for all. Working with a wide array of Fortune 500 companies, Ebeling not only pushes the bar on innovation, he also shares the emotionally resonating story of doing so. Ebeling's book, Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done, recounts the life experiences that led to the founding of Not Impossible. Published in a multitude of languages, the book was hailed as "a unique and inspiring tale of brave abandon" by Nicholas Negroponte. Named one of Wired's 'Agents of Change', a two-time SXSW innovation of the year award winner, a two-time Tribeca Disruptor innovation winner, a fellow with The Nantucket Project, and recipient of every major creative and advertising award, Ebeling is on a mission to provide "Technology for the Sake of Humanity."

L' avvocato Marisa Marraffino si è occupata di cyber crime e delle prime querele legate all'utilizzo dei social network, nonché dei primi casi giudiziari legati alla tutela della proprietà intellettuale su Twitter e Facebook. E' autrice di numerosi libri fra cui "Come non perdere il lavoro, la faccia e l'amore al tempo di Facebook", (Cantagalli editore) e "Il bullismo spiegato a genitori e insegnanti" (Laurana editore) e collabora con Il Sole 24 Ore.Sapersi difendersi dalle insidie di un uso esagerato e sprovveduto della Rete è importante e le "regole" esistono anche qui come nel mondo degli investimenti se non si vuole essere stritolati.Una conversazione a tutto campo sul cyber crime e il diritto della Rete (dal ransomware al diritto all'oblio, dai reati di diffamazione sui social alle truffe online) ora che tutti stiamo diventando "esseri digitali" come aveva preconizzato Nicholas Negroponte.

Continua la 2^ stagione di Pensieri Balenghi – video lezioni in pillole di Digital Marketing – ora anche in podcast su Spreaker.N.B. 1^ Stagione disponibile in video su YouTube e Facebook (link in calce…)#PensieriBalenghi - Puntata 108 (Nicholas Negroponte e la Storia del Digitale) - Le nuove video lezioni in pillole, ogni Mercoledì alle 11.00.Tra i personaggi che hanno fatto la storia del Digitale, Nicholas Negroponte ha posto le basi per progettare sistemi di interfaccia uomo/macchina.Per la rubrica libri, la recensione del suo «Essere Digitali» (https://amzn.to/3uen6pG), pietra miliare della letteratura sul mondo digitale. Indispensabile per comprendere l'evoluzione dell'AI e l'importanza del Web Design.Riprendiamo alla grande anche con gli eventi ormai Phygitalhttps://www.facebook.com/DigitalFoodMarketing/events/– – –APPROFONDIMENTI DI EPISODIO:- Il libro recensito «Essere Digitali»: https://amzn.to/3uen6pG)- Elenco Eventi Food e Accoglienza: https://bit.ly/CnR-Food-Events– – –*******************************************************************************NEW* DIGITAL FOOD MARKETING – CORSO “ONLINE” su UDEMYhttps://bit.ly/DFMLab_Udemy*******************************************************************************NEW* DIGITAL FOOD MARKETING – CORSO BASE “ONLINE”https://welevel.academy/course/cc-6ZsYUynzE******************************************************************************✦ IL MIO BLOG: https://www.comunicazionenellaristorazione.it✦ IL MIO NUOVO LIBRO: https://digitalfoodbook.com✦ CORSI DIGITAL MARKETING [DFMLab Academy]: https://www.eventbrite.it/o/dfmlab-digital-food-marketing-lab-20089403285✦ COLLANA DMT [by HOEPLI]: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalMarketingTurismo/[ Video ]✦ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8SvKJ_eURYrZKqIwnzJ5_gMxtqhShQs5✦ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MuseComunicazione/videos/[ Podcast ]✦ TELEGRAM: https://t.me/PensieriBalenghi✦ SPREAKER: https://www.spreaker.com/show/pensieri-balenghi✦ APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pensieri-balenghi/id1521869769

Vicky Warren joins me to discuss the pursuit of unity in the church. In this age when we’re exposed to so many voices and opinions, she urges us, first, to pray, then to lay down our rights, to seek peace in knowing who the Lord is, and to ask for reconciliation with Him. Her words are gentle and kind, yet strong and authoritative. I pray you are refreshed by her time on the podcast today! A little bit about the guest: CEO of MissionNext, Vicky Warren and her husband have actively served in the local church for over 30 years. Vicky spent 33 years working in innovative and creative environments from multimillion dollar technology deployments, alliances with technical luminaries such as Steve Jobs, Nicholas Negroponte’s MIT media lab, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and The Walt Disney Studios to entrepreneurial startup businesses. Her primary focus in these organizations included leadership and business development, strategic planning, research and development, innovation and creativity. Now she is committed full time to using these experiences to serve along church planters in Asia and Africa to extend the reach of the Gospel through Pioneer Business Planting. Her passion for Pioneer Business Planting has led her to focusing on mobilizing the body of Christ to this endeavor worldwide through speaking, teaching, equipping, and advocacy of viable and profitable business for God’s glory. Support the podcast through Patreon Join our mailing list Check out our website Resources: MissionNext Vicky is reading Safely Home by Randy Alcorn, Hastening: No Place Left by Steve Smith, and The Three Investigators by Alfred Hitchcock. She is being refreshed by walking in the forest near her home, talking to the Lord, and watching the cows graze. Noteworthy quotes: “If you can keep your eyes open and you can watch and you can see in the midst of the sorrow, and the loss, and the difficulties, God is working. ” - 11:21 “It really is about listening to the Lord, being obedient-- even when you’re not quite sure what it is He’s calling you to- and following His direction.” - 15:51 “Do we recognize and understand that He is God?” - 20:46 “Really, as a peacemaker, our call is to reconcile people to God” - 29:51 “If you have it memorized, if you know God’s Word, no one can take that away from you.” - 41:38 Questions for consideration: In what ways does fear of man overpower the fear of the Lord in your life? Will you pray and ask the Lord to help you to lay down your rights? Would you ask the Holy Spirit to help you speak out in love? Where do you attempt to find your peace apart from the Lord? Would you ask the Lord for true peace through reconciliation to Him? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/waterwithlemon/support

In this episode of The IoT Unicorn Podcast, independent civic engineer and former Chief Xbox Officer at Microsoft, Robbie Bach, discusses teamwork and leadership in the tech space. Download Transcript Here 00:00 Pete Bernard: Welcome to the IoT unicorn podcast. This is Pete Bernard from Microsoft. And this podcast is for anyone interested in the long-term technology trends in the IoT space and the journey from here to there. So let's get started.   [music]   00:23 PB: On this episode of the IoT unicorn, I chat with Robbie Bach, former Microsoft executive. He was there for about 22 years, he was the chief Xbox officer and drove that program for a long, long time. We talk about Xbox, Xbox Revisited the new book he wrote, we also talk about some other projects like Zoom and Microsoft Kin or what we call Project Pink, and just in general leadership principles and techniques for leading through ambiguity with a ton of technology, especially in the IoT space. So great Robbie, thanks a lot for taking the time to join us here on the IoT unicorn. First off, kind of disclaimer, the topics typically are IoT-oriented, [chuckle] but we're gonna take a little diversion today, but I think it's still gonna be germane and... So anyway, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to join us.   01:20 Robbie Bach: Happy to do it.   01:22 PB: Good, good. I don't know if there's a phone ringing there or something...   01:24 RB: Yeah, that's mine. [chuckle] We can start over if you like, that's a phone that I have no control over, it's actually the house phone ringing in my office.   01:34 PB: Oh, okay. That's alright. Don't worry about it we'll... It's part of a sincere authentic nature of the conversation, [chuckle] but I think one of the things... And I read your book, Xbox Revisited, which is cool, and I thought for today, one of the things that I thought was really germane was just talking about technology and leadership, or just leadership in general, and it was really fascinating to kinda read through your journey with leadership and the pluses and minuses and what you've learned about it. And I think in the IoT space, we're sort of like awash in technology. Before we started recording, I was explaining how I was futzing with my system and just too many pieces of tech, and a lot of companies, they have a tons of technology, there's no shortage, now we got 5G and LPWA and all these AI. But how do you take that ambiguous technologies swamp and actually provide some kind of leadership and guidance and structure or framework around thinking about things, so you can get things done and you can get organizations, especially big organizations, you can imagine, moving in the right direction. And I thought there was a lot in your book around Xbox Revisited that resonated with probably what a lot of companies are thinking about today, is like how do we navigate through some of the tech?   03:01 RB: The thing I always respond... I talk a lot about innovation, and I talk somewhat about that in Xbox Revisited, but I do a lot of it in the public speaking I do. And I talk about creativity and how do you come up with new ideas, and technology ends up being third on my list of things not first. And the things that come first are ironically, business model, because it turns out a huge portion of innovation actually happens in business models, and the second thing is experience and sort of how people interact with the technology, and then comes technology. And when something is technically lead, maybe it has a good sustainable business model and maybe it has a good experience, but maybe it doesn't, and that's why the first person to market with the technology doesn't always win. And my experience has been that a sustainable business with a great customer experience will beat somebody who has a great technology without a good experience, and so we tend to focus on those first two, first.   04:14 PB: Yeah, so when you... Probably you were going through this with the Xbox, was like, talking about the purpose, principles and priorities. I think I got that right?   04:27 RB: Yeah.   04:28 PB: So you manifested that with Xbox, are there other example you've seen where companies have been able to snap to a framework like that and get them moving in the right direction?   04:37 RB: Well, think about... One of the other companies I work with, is a company called Sonos, and they're really a great company, and they have amazing technology, they've got one of the best IP portfolios in the industry, they've done some very cool tech things, but they do not lead with technology, they absolutely don't. They lead with the experience, if you have somebody who has a Sonos system, they don't talk about the cool networking architecture that it has or how it makes sure to sync audio on a big TV screen and do surround sound easily. They talk about, "Oh God, it was so easy to set up and the music played and it sounded great." That's all experience-focused work. And it's super powerful, and they have their own business model which is fairly traditional, but when you think about somebody like Spotify and the access you get to the world's music and the experience you have in accessing that music, and they have a business model, which I think is challenging, but it's subscription-based, so that's been an innovation over the last 10 years or so, and those are the types of things people end up migrating to. And there are people in the world who have, there's higher-end sound systems than Sonos for sure, they love their sound quality, but if you wanna spend money, you can get higher-end sound systems, but they're hard to use, difficult to set up, and Sonos has this incredibly simple model and it just works.   06:13 PB: Yeah, one of the frameworks we've been using is the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework, I think you're familiar with that, but that's another way of really titrating down to what are the outcomes you want to accomplish, and then how do you get those jobs done?   06:26 RB: Well, in particular, if the jobs done reflect back on customer issues, to me, so much of what happens in the IoT space has to be, "Okay, what problem are we trying to solve? And if we're trying to solve a customer problem, okay, I get that." And so let's focus on solving the customer problem. Well, like turning on lights, not actually a customer problem, right?   06:54 PB: Right. [chuckle]   06:54 RB: Unless you wanna turn on the light. Now, if you say, "Oh, customers want controlled settings and they wanna make... " There's other issues with lighting that customers can relate to and wanna fix. Okay. Great, let's get after those. Customers knew how to set their heat, it turns out, but now solve some other issues around heating that were actually real customer problem. And so if the jobs done relate to customers, I'm all in.   07:22 PB: Right, right. Yeah, no it's true. At the end of the day, if you cannot solve a customer problem. I thought what actually was interesting in your book, they had a couple of things that caught my eye. First of all, I didn't realize you were a tennis player.   07:33 RB: Right.   07:34 PB: So, I'm a tennis player.   07:35 RB: Oh, cool.   07:36 PB: But you were in the top 50 in the US, so you'd probably kick my butt, but I thought that was cool. Are you still playing tennis by the way?   07:45 RB: I play a little bit of tennis, I don't play as much. I have a shoulder that has hit about 300 and too many serves.   07:53 PB: Okay. Yeah. That's a tough one.   07:54 RB: So I'm trying to avoid shoulder surgery. If I really wanted to keep playing competitively, I would have to have some work done.   08:00 PB: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, no, I was good. Actually, I got back into it, kind of a funny anecdote. I'd played for a long time back in the... When I was a kid, back in the '80s, and took a long time off and got back into it a few years ago and actually stepped on to the court at the pro club here. And I had my Donnay racket with me and the pro is like, "They went out of business like 10 years ago." So the first thing was, "You need to get your gear in shape." And so I learned a lot. But yeah, I play a few times a week, that was fun. That's good.   08:35 RB: I had the same experience I went to... I had some mid-size rackets, which were old and I went to upgrade them, which was fine, and then I went to go get them strung, and the guy asked me what tension I wanted them strung at and I was, "Oh, I don't know, 58 pounds." He said, "Well, is that for the horizontal strings or the vertical strings?" I was like, "Oh, well, that's a new idea." And, "Dude, what kind of strings do you want?" Oh, different for horizontal and vertical strings, I mean, these are all new ideas when you had a small face Donnay, none of that mattered. Now with these big surfaces. Again, the thing we're talking about, the technology, the solution you're solving is tennis players can keep the ball on the strings for a long time. And that would be a lot of control.   09:18 PB: I know. It's amazing I mean, how the sport's evolved, but like many things. The other thing that kinda popped out, I love this phrase, seagull management. Maybe you can talk a little bit about seagull management, that is something I will use over and over again, but can you give me like a...   09:35 RB: Yeah, look, I think there's lots of people who as leaders think their job is to dive in, evaluate something, poop on it and then leave, and so those are the seagulls. And in fact, as a manager, your job is actually quite different than that. Your job is to put a framework in place, to work with your employees to establish the set of priorities and things that they're gonna focus on, and they'll come back to you and say, "Hey, here's how it's going." And you'll give them ideas and thoughts on how to improve or make progress and answer questions, and, oh by the way, facilitate solutions where you can actually help. But the idea in your job is to sort of occasionally fly in and spot check their work, and then tell them they're doing the wrong thing. It's just not super helpful, and by the way, you have no context, you don't know what's going on, and it's the way a lot of... There's a lot of seagulls in the tech space. It's a problem.   10:46 PB: Yeah, definitely resonated for me. I think another thing that toward later in the book, is you take some of the lessons around Xbox and leadership into more of the civic area, which I guess is a super trimming it today, since it's the day before Election Day.   11:04 RB: That's right.   11:04 PB: But that's a whole other podcast, we won't get into it. About leadership, and I totally subscribe to this too, I think at Microsoft, just like other companies, leadership is not for just for people in power. Leadership is for everybody to sort of be a leader in their own space and about what they're passionate about.   11:23 RB: Well, look, I think whenever I address a room of people, let's say there's 50 people in the room, it's easy for me to say to everybody, "Look, there's 50 leaders in this room. Now, you each have a different leadership superpower, you each have a different leadership skill, and the question for you is, are you self-aware enough to understand what that leadership skill is? And are you capable then of figuring out how to apply it in the environment?" And you can be a leader by being part of the team, you think about a prototypical football team or a soccer team, and you'd say, "Okay, well, who's the leader?" Well, in particular, in football you'd say, "Well, maybe the quarterback." Maybe, but there's leaders who, amongst the wide receivers, there's leaders... The center is the leader of the offense of line, I think that's the middle line backer, sort of the quarterback and the defense, but the safety actually has to manage the secondary. Everybody has to play their role in those things. And so you're challenged regardless of what your role is on a team, is to find how your leadership superpower applies to what the people you're working with need to get done. And I think sometimes people think of themselves as being sort of, "Okay, I'm tagging along, I have a manager, he or she's gonna tell me what to do, and I just do it and keep going." And I don't subscribe to that at all.   12:48 PB: Right. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I've encountered folks like that and I've inherited diverse teams at Microsoft, and inevitably there's somebody that's been there and they've been turning the crank for 20 years on this thing, and I'm always... I remember talking to one person at Microsoft, he'd been there a long time, and I said, "So what level are you? And they were like, "I'm not quite sure." and I'm like, "Are you not even aware of where you're at here?" I mean, so disconnected. Now, interestingly, I worked with this person and within a couple of years, a couple of years of work, they got into a different role, they actually did get promoted, they started to sort of... But I think sometimes we get into this mode where we're just turning the crank. We kinda just lost touch with the fact that we have the ability to be leaders, even if you're an IC and you're doing this thing that seems like a small part of a bigger thing, but you can still be a leader.   13:44 RB: I get asked a lot of times from people, "So when should I do something new? When should I take a new job or leave a company or change organizations?" Or whatever it is. And two of the things that are key on my list of that are: A, are you learning? And B, you really enjoy working with the people around you? Both require real engagement, real awareness, you can't come in and mail it in if you're doing both of those things. And so to me... And then the third thing, which is maybe even more important than the first two in someways is, are you passionate about what you're doing? A combination of being passionate, learning, and enjoying the people you're working with, that defines a great job. And if you can't say yes to all three of those, or you can't say yes to at least two of them, you gotta be thinking, "Hmm, why am I here?"   14:37 PB: Yeah. I think most people that ask like, "Well, should I be doing something different?" They've probably already made up their mind that they should be doing something different, they're looking for some maybe external validation to make that leap.   14:48 RB: Yeah, maybe. Although, I will tell you there's a lot of people early in career, and I think this is a generational thing, I don't like to categorize people in certain generations, but younger workers today think about mobility and changing jobs more frequently than my generation did for sure. And they're trying to find this balance between recognizing that they need to learn and grow, and have some track record with, "Oh my gosh, there's an opportunity in some place else." And in the tech space right now, there's opportunities everywhere. And even in the midst of a recession and a pandemic, there's opportunities everywhere, and some people are constantly looking around, "Oh, am I missing something?" And then giving people the confidence to say, "Hey, if you're passionate, you like the people you work with, and your learning, switching job is not gonna be a big thing for you." If you're missing some of those things, well then, yeah, you should be looking at some of those other things. And so your job doesn't have like an expiration date. Your job should have a natural point in which it becomes time for you to do something.   16:00 PB: Yeah. Yeah. I hear you. My dad used to say, "Don't get comfortable." That was his advice. It's like once you start getting comfortable...   16:04 RB: Another Broadway, I get asked a lot, "Well, why did you leave Microsoft?" or "Do you miss it?" And my comment to people is, "Look, I loved... " I didn't love every day at Microsoft, I can't say that. I was there for 22 and a half, and I've had a bad day. But, I say probably I loved every week or month at Microsoft. And yet, I left at a time when I felt like I wasn't learning as much as I wanted to, I had some people issues, and I had other things that I was passionate about. And so I tell people, "I don't miss Microsoft. I've never looked back, I love the company." I think I got 110% out of the experience, but I kinda... I feel like I left at the right time and that could be different for everybody.   16:54 PB: So let me switch gears a little bit on you, so one of the things, and which we have an interesting connection on that I'd like to talk about. One of your experiences at Microsoft is... I was part of the Project Pink Group.   17:06 RB: Yeah.   17:06 PB: Remember that?   17:07 RB: I do.   17:08 PB: And in fact, I think I presented the pitch deck to you off of my laptop back in 2010 or something like that. We were with Ross and...   17:17 RB: You're gonna laugh, if you give me a chance, can I walk away from the screen for a second?   17:22 PB: Sure. Sure, go ahead. Okay.   17:24 RB: This look familiar? Holding up a kiln.   17:28 PB: Nice. Nice. Mint in Box. Mint in Box.   17:34 RB: [chuckle] I have both of them in my office, on my shelf.   17:39 PB: Awesome. Good to hear. Good to hear. Now, that was an experience when you talk about challenging experience, great people to work with, learn a lot of new things. So I am kinda rewinding a little bit back to that experience, what was, from your perspective, interestingly, I know what it was from my perspective, kind of going through that pro... I spent three years on the project. So cradle to grave literally, plug it in, to unplug it, [chuckle] but from your perspective, where did Project Pink fit in to all the stuff that was going on back then 'cause it was a little bit of a maelstrom.   18:14 RB: Yeah. Well I think Pink fit in in a couple of different ways. So Pink was really the first effort to create what, for lack of a better phrase, I'll call a Microsoft phone. And the idea was centered on a really good concept, which is, if you're gonna create these, given our podcast today, I'll call IoT devices, if you're gonna create these devices, they happen at the intersection of hardware and software and service. Those three things have to meld together in a seamless customer experience. And Microsoft, because we didn't do hardware, and we were just starting to do services, would provide software for those experiences and then hope they worked. And unfortunately, what we were discovering in multiple categories is that that wasn't working. The companies who would pick up our firmware or our operating system work or whatever, would inevitably screw it up in the integration with their software and service and produce mediocre devices.   19:13 RB: And our friends down at Cupertino, were getting really good at producing integrated devices that had really nice software, great hardware and a little less on the service at the time, but the service was provided by carriers, and so suddenly we're in this space where Windows Mobile and subsequently, Windows Phone is trying to find its way in the phone space, and the people who we're providing software to are producing mediocre phones. And it was one example, the first of an effort for us to do an integrated experience, and leveraging off some of the work we'd done with Xbox and a little bit, frankly, the work we did with Zune, while we produce integrated experiences. And I talk about Zune a lot, I talk about Pink less because it has less public visibility, but to talk about both of them as having many elements of success and then critical elements of failure, and you have to try to learn from that and then can continue to grow forward.   20:20 PB: Yeah, no, I thought actually too, it was a big service for you. At the time we were trying to do a cloud-powered phone basically, right? If you remember that, it was like a digital twin of the phone in the cloud, and all your stuff was there, and then the phone was just this kind of end point that connected to the cloud that reflected the state of your... From which should be connected to all these social services and whatever, so I love the idea, I mean the idea I feel like we're still executing on the deal with Azure to be honest with you, with digital twins and everything else. We were probably about 10 years ahead of the tech at the time, of course...   20:52 RB: I would say two things. And I think this is really important as you think about consumer and IoT, right? Timing is everything. And in a way, Pink was a project that was both before its time and after its time. When we spec-ed Pink in the beginning, it was timely, social media was catching on on phones, people were starting to use them more aggressively for the beginnings of photo sharing and video sharing and those kinds of things. Still mostly email and text messaging, but things were different. The market was probably the take-off for the pace.   21:35 PB: It like 2007, 2008.   21:36 RB: Unfortunately, for a lot of different reasons, Pink ended up being about 12-18 months late in terms of actually delivering a product to the market, and in that 12-18 months, the market moved. And suddenly you didn't want a special purpose social media device, suddenly every device needed to be a social media device and that left the niche market and that left Pink in a very small niche market, and so in essence, it was too late. Now to your point about replicating everything in the cloud, we were a little early, things... That was starting to happen, you couldn't even talk about the cloud in 2008, people didn't know what you were talking about, and then still timing with these IoT devices is a powerful thing and sort of evolving to match to where the market is, and you wanna be on the cutting edge, but not so far out that you get your head knocked off, and that's a tricky thing, and sometimes we've gotten it right, and sometimes we've gotten it wrong.   22:38 PB: Yeah, yeah. Well, it's like Nicholas Negroponte and Being Digital, it's an old book, I think it's from the '80s, maybe it's the '90s, but he said... One of his quotes was, "We tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short run and underestimate it in the long run." So we get... We just totally imagine everything's gonna change tomorrow about this tech and of course it doesn't...   23:00 RB: Microsoft started it's auto initiative in 1990, so...   23:05 PB: Oh yeah, I used to drive a Ford Flex, by the way, and I have a V1.   23:09 RB: You think about, it's not that anybody miss out the opportunity.   23:16 PB: Yeah, no, I know that's... I guess getting back to leadership topic, how do we provide that leadership internally in our teams, and when you talk about the purpose, principles and priorities, actually, one of the interesting things there too, I wanted to talk about. I really love the part where you talked about leaving things undone, I actually just had a discussion with my team last week about, can we articulate things that we're not going to do? It was kind of an odd email because you always wanna talk about, "Oh, things are gonna get done," but let's be clear about what we're not doing, or I would say de-prioritizing, but maybe you can speak to that, and how important...   23:55 RB: Well, I think human nature is, do more. So if you ask somebody who works for you and say, "Hey, tell me your priorities." You'll inevitably get a list of between five and 10 things. That just sort of the human nature, and people will buy it themselves to more rather than less, that's just fact, but if somebody asks me for priorities, telling them I'm gonna do more must be better, right? And the truth is, the human capacity, our brains don't subdivide tasks that well, and so we only have the ability to do... I always pick five, but four or five things, well, at any given point in time, and even that I think requires real energy and real effort. And so the idea that somebody's gonna do seven things, I just go, "No, you're not going to. So tell me the two things you're gonna leave undone, tell me the two things you're just not gonna focus on, and tell me the five things... " 'Cause the problem is, if I give you seven and allow you to have seven, you'll try to do seven and maybe you'll do two or three pretty well. The rest all get done well unfortunately numbers one, two and three might be the ones that get undone, in the list, until...   25:08 PB: Yeah, exactly.   25:11 RB: And so just getting people to... And sometimes the best way to get people to prioritize is to get them to decide what they're not gonna do. And the experience I've had with people is when they do that, and they ultimately accept that it's okay, there's this giant sigh of relief. Thank God you took that off my plate.   25:33 PB: Yeah. Yeah [chuckle]   25:34 RB: Now, I actually have enough time to do what I know needs to be done.   25:39 PB: Xbox Revisited, so that's the book, I do encourage it, I did read it, it is really good. The other book, by the way, I have been reading, sort of interest versus, I guess you put this one down to read yours, but was the new Andrew Cuomo book, I don't know if you've seen that.   25:52 RB: I have not.   25:52 PB: But it's another... Yeah, and I picked it up. It was about his leadership lessons through this COVID crisis and yeah, and it's really fascinating 'cause he goes it day by day and imbues it with his leadership style and lessons learned and things. So I try to always go through a book, I'm always working on a book, and I went through a whole run of dystopian science fiction, which was a mistake 'cause it was very depressing and then I decide to lighten up, and now I'm looking at leadership books, 'cause that feels a little better right now at this point in time, but no, I really appreciated the book and I thought it was really insightful. So, is there any kind of, I guess, topics or thoughts that we have not gotten to yet that you would like to communicate?   26:41 RB: No, I think... Here's the one thing, when I think about IoT, so this won't be a leadership thing, this is an IoT-specific thing. When I think about IoT, I think a lot of people think about the grand unification of life, and they think somehow there's gonna be like a central nervous system for all IoT devices, and I'm gonna have a control panel that's gonna manage my IoT life. I fundamentally am not a believer in that. I am a believer in the fact that people think about systems in their life separately, and they think about their heating system as their heating system, and their music system as their music system, and their alarm system as their alarm system, and they don't think their home has a system. And so thinking about, again, when we come back to experience, thinking about how if you're experience lead, that's the way people experience. So I have... Yeah, it means I have a bunch of apps on my phone. I have a whole folder on my iPhone that's called The House, and it has a bunch of apps.   27:54 PB: Right. It's got like 30 apps in there. [chuckle]   27:55 RB: Yeah, I have a few less than that, but each of them are a little different. But, I know that Sonos is my music system and Nest manages my cameras and heat, and actually I have a Nest Stand where it goes it turns up, and it works. I have an app for automatic water shut off that detects leaks in our house, right? I don't need that to be integrated with anything else. And so I think there is in our tech minds, there's this, "Hey, let's unify because we can." And instead, we should think the way the human mind thinks, which is, "No, I have compartments. I have ways in which I think about things, let my tools think that way with me." And I would hope that the folks who have IoT in their future would think that.   28:49 PB: Yeah, no, and I think it goes back to the meeting customers where they're at, really thinking about what their problems are, what their experience is as a plant operator or healthcare worker and what they're trying to get done and making sure the tech fits into them, and so they don't have to fit into the tech. Cool. Well, Robbie, thanks a lot again for the time and appreciate the book and maybe I'll see you on a tennis court sometime.   29:16 RB: [chuckle] That's great, I appreciate you taking the time.   29:18 PB: Alright, thanks Robbie. Alright.   29:20 RB: Hey, cheers, take care.   29:21 PB: Bye-bye.   [music]   29:22 PB: This is Pete Bernard, you've been listening to the IoT unicorn podcast, and thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for the next episode. And feel free to give us some feedback at the IoT unicorn at microsoft.com. Thank you.   [music]

In this installment of the Future Grind podcast host Ryan O'Shea speaks with Jane Metcalfe, the serial entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of WIRED, which she first published in 1993. Jane is now the Founder & CEO of NEO.LIFE, a digital media company seeking to do for the neobiological revolution what WIRED did for the digital revolution. They accomplish this by exploring topics such as neuroscience, genetic engineering, synthetic biology, the microbiome, longevity, & much more. Jane has also been the president of TCHO, a producer of high end chocolates, & has made investments in numerous tech & media projects. This episode covers the genesis of WIRED, including how they were able to assemble an incredible early team consisting of Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte, John Battelle, & more, the similarities & differences between the digital revolution & current neobiological revolution, NEO.LIFE's recently announced book, & much more. This episode is brought to you by the Smart Manufacturing Experience, an event focused on additive manufacturing & 3D printing, artificial intelligence, augmented & virtual reality, automation & robotics, cybersecurity, data analytics, industrial IoT & workforce transformation. Don't miss your chance to be part of the Smart Manufacturing Experience, June 2nd through 4th, 2020 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! Visit bit.ly/smx20 to become an experience partner. Show Notes: https://futuregrind.org Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-grind-podcast-science-technology-business-politics/id1020231514 Support: https://futuregrind.org/support Follow along - Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ryan0Shea Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryan_0shea/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RyanOSheaOfficial/  If you have any questions or are interested in supporting or sponsoring Future Grind, you can reach us at hello@futuregrind.org.

En el programa de hoy Leonardo Daimiel Pérez de Madrid en su sección” Pensar y sentir” nos hace reflexionar acerca de la evolución tecnología y de la tecnología relacionada con las causas sociales, a través de una de declaraciones de Nicholas Negroponte, que, como saben, es un arquitecto estadounidense gran ponente sobre técnicas de estrategia empresarial, negocios y liderazgo. ¡No se lo pierdan! En la entrevista de la semana hemos hablado con Carlos Iglesias, con él hemos visto casos de extirpación forzosa de órganos que están teniendo lugar en China hoy en día, y hemos hablado también acerca de la persecución religiosa en dicho país. Luis Antequera nos trae en la sección “Hoy no es un día cualquiera” las efemérides del día. Los niños en la sección “preguntas sencillas a conceptos complejos” nos inquieren en relación a si el ser humano es más inteligente por casualidad o nos infieren también acerca de la cultura de la innovación y de los tejidos. Aprendemos mucho con ellos. Por último Javier Ángel Ramírez Masferrer ha explicado qué es lo que en la telefonía moderna se entiende como 5G. Tecnología que va a producir un profundo cambio de paradigma. ¡Adelante!

Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab Founder, author of Being Digital, and one of the very first users of the internet discusses the many accurate predictions he made in his book two decades ago (6:07), future technology like learning by taking a pill (19:38), virtual reality in 1967 (21:07), the birth of the internet (26:05), his friendship with Steve Jobs, (37:26) including literally the first iPhone (42:30), plus the Apple CEO's failures too (39:27), artificial intelligence (55:46), cryptocurrency (1:08:00), clean energy (1:10:32), space travel (1:12:26) and the immense value he sees in WHOOP outside of athletics (57:38).Support the show (http://whoop.com)

De acuerdo con Nicholas Negroponte: el mundo ya ha cambiado y eso es irreversible. Hoy ya debemos estar ciertos de que no está compuesto por átomos, sino por bits, es decir por información. Vivimos una era de supercomunicaciones digitales y de superinformación; y hoy nos hallamos en el punto de partida de una revolución de tan enormes alcances, que sólo estamos empezando a atisbar. Por lo tanto, el mundo del futuro será digital. Ser digital es cambiar la materia por la energía. Una gran parte de los elementos que hoy nos rodean son susceptibles de ser digitalizados. Esto implica un cambio de mentalidad para aprovechar lo que la tecnología pone a nuestra disposición. Digital es un término asociado a la tecnología, y actualmente lo hemos extendido hacia todas aquellas interacciones que tiene el ser humano con las computadoras o cualquier artificio tecnológico similar: teléfonos inteligentes, tabletas, inclusive videojuegos y un extenso etcétera, capaz de ofrecer respuestas inteligentes ante algún evento dentro de un repertorio previamente configurado. De este modo, lo digital comprende hoy un mundo enteramente tecnológico. La vida cotidiana ha sido “simplificada” significativamente desde la aplicación de la tecnología digital. Digital –por lo tanto– ya es un término de la vida cotidiana, la sociedad ha aceptado mecanismos para vivir en él, tanto lo simple como lo complejo hoy es digital, y transitamos cotidianamente en este nuevo ámbito: gran parte de nuestra existencia se ha trasladado al mundo on-line, tanto que parece que aquello que era ciencia ficción, hoy es realidad. En esta ocasión conversaremos con el Dr. Jorge Alberto Hidalgo Toledo, quien es Doctor en Comunicación Aplicada por la Universidad Anáhuac. Presidente del Consejo Nacional para la Enseñanza e Investigación de las Ciencias de la Comunicación. Vicepresidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores de la Comunicación. Además Coordinador Académico de Posgrados de la Facultad de Comunicación e Investigador del Centro de Investigación para la Comunicación Aplicada CICA. Coautor de la siguientes publicaciones: Medios y mediaciones e la cultura digital (2018); Signo vital: comunicación estratégica en la promoción de la salud (2011); y Comunicación Masiva en Hispanoamérica: Cultura y literatura mediática (2005

Visionary technology futurist and the driving force behind One Laptop per Child. Nicholas Negroponte is one of the foremost futurists of our time with a distinguished history of valuable insights on innovation, technology and their impact on business that few can match. Professor Negroponte was the first to predict and describe how digitalization would affect every industry in every part of the world. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being Digital. He is the founding chairman of MIT's Media Lab, one of the world's leading interdisciplinary research centers. Today Negroponte is the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, a project to bring durable, affordable and innovative computers to children worldwide. Join us for an intriguing conversation with a world class futurist.

For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architects are a part of the historic foundations of what we call the Internet and now AI. In her new book, Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT, 2017), Carnegie Mellon associate professor Molly Wright Steenson, considers four of these designers: Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte, to examine how they included elements of interactivity in their projects. In so doing she illuminates how their work influences today’s technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architects are a part of the historic foundations of what we call the Internet and now AI. In her new book, Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT, 2017), Carnegie Mellon associate professor Molly Wright Steenson, considers four of these designers: Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte, to examine how they included elements of interactivity in their projects. In so doing she illuminates how their work influences today’s technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architects are a part of the historic foundations of what we call the Internet and now AI. In her new book, Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT, 2017), Carnegie Mellon associate professor Molly Wright Steenson, considers four of these designers: Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte, to examine how they included elements of interactivity in their projects. In so doing she illuminates how their work influences today’s technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architects are a part of the historic foundations of what we call the Internet and now AI. In her new book, Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT, 2017), Carnegie Mellon associate professor Molly Wright Steenson, considers four of these designers: Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte, to examine how they included elements of interactivity in their projects. In so doing she illuminates how their work influences today’s technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For most people the field of architecture is not what they think about when discussing artificial intelligence as we describe it today. Yet, architects are a part of the historic foundations of what we call the Internet and now AI. In her new book, Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (MIT, 2017), Carnegie Mellon associate professor Molly Wright Steenson, considers four of these designers: Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte, to examine how they included elements of interactivity in their projects. In so doing she illuminates how their work influences today’s technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So...Cybernetics. I was describing the ideas behind this episode to a friend and he was like "cybernetics is about steering?" And yep, it is. Check out the show notes for some essential links on cybernetics, *and* an essential diagram to help follow along with this episode.   The idea is this: You have goals and I have goals. If we're in conversation, the way we find a shared goal is through probing, experimentation, alignment on means, revision of the goals, mistakes...and recursion. The recursive process of seeing a goal, aiming for it, seeing the "error" or gap and then moving to close the gap...that's cybernetics. And the principles of cybernetics really are a way to think about everything. Or, rather...anything that has a purpose, goals, intention. So, orgs that need to shift business models, teams that need to tighten timelines...getting your friends to pick a restaurant for next week...So, everything that really matters! If need people to agree on things before they can happen, you need cybernetics. And if you're good at getting people to agree, you're a solid cyberneticist. Or, in my language, an ace conversation designer. In my journey through conversation design during this year of the podcast, Dr. Paul Pangaro has been a rich guide and mentor, one of the people who sees the diverse ways that conversations shape the world, how systems can have purposes and goals....and in true conversational style, I've certainly been altered by his ideas. Paul is a professor and chair of the interaction design MFA at Detroit's College of Creative Arts. He got his BS from MIT, where he wound up getting hired by Nicholas Negroponte into a program that evolved into the MIT Media Lab. He then went on to get a PhD in Cybernetics in the UK and came into contact with Gordon Pask, a cybernetics and conversation design visionary, whose work Paul is still evolving and processing. The application of cybernetics to conversation has been a mind blower for me. It's helped me think about how to structure longer projects, to design teams, to form powerful framing questions. That ability to frame a question in an invitational or motivating way, making it seem solvable without giving the solution...it's an amazing superpower to be able to kickstart an amazing conversation. But asking that question designs the conversation,  sets the stage for what comes next...and so I'm always cautious in my conversation designs to control for writing solo before group conversation flows...because whoever speaks first sets the stage for whatever comes next...they speak in response to what's been spoken already. We talk about three big conversations design concepts that are worth paying attention to: how to think about group composition and cadence, the conversation with yourself, in the past (time travel!) and the relationship between goals and play. The group conversation. Do we have the right people in the room? Do we have enough diversity to answer the question at hand? Can we design a cadence of interaction that allows us to shift the question and the composition of the team in a responsive way? In Cybernetics, a system that wants to influence another system has to be at least as complex. Is your team more complicated that the problem you're solving? Good! But...who gets to frame the group and the cadence? How do we invite people into the group conversation? Who has the power to give permission? The conversation between myself now and myself in the past through writing. I'm a fan of pen and ink...because as we write, we watch the ink flow and see our thoughts as they were moments ago as we move into the future. The act of sketching or writing allows us to witness our thoughts as they were and converse with them. Crazy right? How established, shared goals allow us to play together, even become one. If we're dancing, a "form" helps us know our roles and goals. Are we dancing the Tango or a Waltz? Knowing this makes it possible to better respond to stimulus from our partners. I think that's why Agile/Design Thinking/Lean are so popular. With Parkinson's Law of ever expanding work, there seem to be no rules anymore. We've broken partner dancing (starting with the twist) and now we never know what to do on the dance floor. Some of us crave for a throwback time, the swing era, the mystery of the tango...where we knew what to do, where there was more clarity. Agile, Scrum, Design Thinking...they are a dance form that makes it clearer what the roles and goals are. They're a game we can play if we know the rules and have a shared vocabulary. When we share goals, the line between us blurs, or dissolves. We live in "amity"...or you can draw a box around us and call us a system with a shared purpose: to dance! So...this is the last episode of season one. It's been a year, 22 episodes, hours and hours of conversations in real time and many times that in listening and editing and writing about them. I've learned a ton and had a blast. I'm taking the holidays off and am working on season two! Stay tuned and enjoy the show.     Show notes and links: Paul on the web More on Pask Martin Buber (I and thou) Requisite Variety: On Paul's Site and Elsewhere Alex Bavelas Ambiguity experiments - people start to break down when there's too much of it, blaming each other...it's exceeding our bandwidth (or requisite variety) The Self Talk NYTimes article: When people repeated their tasks to themselves, they did it better, if it was a clear task. Also check out the Conversation Within Your Head. Heinz von Foerster: If you desire to see, learn how to act The Dhatupata: There's a lot less online about this than I thought there would be! The author is here, but deeper info is not. hmmm...  

For many years companies have been keenly focused on driving revenue and continually improving their established value streams to stay relevant. Companies used to be around for decades with little impact from technology and a steep ramp up cycle that protected them from competitors. Over the last few years the rapid advancement of technology has turned everything on its head. Companies can become irrelevant over night and startups pop up every day that challenge companies that are still moving slow and are held back by old tech and old strategies. This new digital world is creating disruption through out industries everyday. So, what does Digital Transformation mean? A quick search on Google will return plenty of articles containing the terms digital transformation or some version of it. But, are we all defining it the same way? I have found that while the term is quite popular and companies have even allocated resources to transformation or disruption, each company I talk to has a different definition of what they mean and often within the same company or team there is disagreement. Is it digital transformation a strategy? Is it only relevant to startups? Does it apply to an industry or a vertical? Is it a new name for enterprise improvement? Is it about enabling innovation? Is it adopting new technology? Is it all these things? But, are these the questions we should be asking? Are we asking the right questions? Would it be more accurate to ask if digital transformation is real? Or is this just semantics at this point? I sit down with Strategy and Innovation Director William Oellerman and talk about what Digital Transformation means and how that applies to so many things around us. SHOW NOTES Follow William on LinkedIn Williams Blog BEING DIGITAL by Nicholas Negroponte

Seth Godin, Faith Salie and Nicholas Negroponte are the panelists. The marketing guru, comedian and MIT Media Lab founder pull back the curtain on dreams, religious rules, and ovulation — among other great mysteries. Bouree Lam of "The Atlantic" is fact-checker.

Seth Godin, Faith Salie, and Nicholas Negroponte are the panelists. The marketing guru, comedian, and MIT Media Lab founder pull back the curtain on dreams, religious rules, and ovulation — among other great mysteries. Bouree Lam of "The Atlantic" is fact-checker.

http://www.entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Steve-Burns1.jpg ()One of the most important tasks architects should be doing to improve the success of their firms is to develop strong business systems that will allow them to quickly perform the routine everyday tasks of running a busy architecture firm. The quickest and maybe the most effective way to do this is to leverage the power of software developed to perform these tasks with ease and efficiency. Steven Burns is an architect who saw a need for such an application. He set out to create a software package that managed most every aspect of running his own small firm. Several years later, his software became his business and that business was eventually acquired by BQE Software, where today Steven is the Chief Creative Officer. Please Review The Podcast on iTunes I've wanted to talk to Steven for a while now about, ArchiOffice, the software he developed, to learn more about how it works and how it can help us small firm Entrepreneur Architects build better businesses. I thought it would also be interesting to chat with Steven to learn how he moved from being an architect to a full time software developer and how he felt about making that move. I know there are many architects out there that have passion for something other than architecture and have too much fear or guilt to pursue their true purpose. I thank Steven for sharing his story with us and for sharing a few details about ArchiOffice. Are you running ArchiOffice in your firm? Are you using another package to manage your business systems? I'd love to know how software is helping YOUR firm succeed. Please leave a comment below and share your thoughts. Topics Referenced in This Episode http://www.entrearchitect.com/2013/02/17/entrepreneur-architect-academy-007-1-how-to-become-the-richest-architect-you-know-part-1-of-3/ (Financial Management for Small Firms) (Entrepreneur Architect Academy Podcast Series) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard GSD Skidmore Owens and Merrill (S.O.M.) http://www.bbaworld.com (Burns and Beyerl Architects) Developing software for small firm architects http://www.bqe.com/default_ao.asp (ArchiOffice Software) BQE Software Connections leading to success Decision to leave architecture for software development full time How software can help small firm architects succeed Transitions from manual business systems to software systems Web-based software vs Cloud-based software Dropbox Evernote http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=Nicholas Negroponte&linkCode=ur2&tag=entrearchitect-20&url=search-alias%3Daps (Nicholas Negroponte)” target=”_blank”>Nicholas Negroponte The death of the fax machine https://www.hipchat.com (HipChat) The future death of email The post https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/ea028-business-software-small-firm-architects-steven-burns-faia-podcast/ (EA028: Business Software for Small Firm Architects with Steven Burns, FAIA [Podcast]) appeared first on https://entrearchitect.com (EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects).

It’s far easier to predict the future when you are helping make and distribute it. Nicholas Negroponte exemplifies this with his notable accomplishments, including co-founding the MIT Media Lab, being the first investor in WIRED magazine, and co-founding the One Laptop Per Child program. His 01995 book Being Digital gave a glimpse into the world we now occupy--complete with wireless, touch screens, ebooks and personalized news. In this talk, “Beyond Digital”, Negroponte will once again give us a glimpse of the possibilities that lie ahead.

Visionary technology futurist and the driving force behind One Laptop per Child. Nicholas Negroponte is one of the foremost futurists of our time with a distinguished history of valuable insights on innovation, technology and their impact on business that few can match. Professor Negroponte was the first to predict and describe how digitalization would affect every industry in every part of the world. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being Digital. He is the founding chairman of MIT's Media Lab, one of the world's leading interdisciplinary research centers. Today Negroponte is the driving force behind One Laptop per Child, a project to bring durable, affordable and innovative computers to children worldwide. Join us for an intriguing conversation with a world class futurist.

Blogger and trendwatcher Vincent Everts showed up at the Bloghaus on opening night without his Segway, but sporting a “One Laptop Per Child” OLPC “XO”. The machine, developed by Nicholas Negroponte’s nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, and touted as “rugged, durable, and child-friendly, inside and out,” was not so friendly to Everts in this […]