Remember the bit in “Alien” where Ripley makes her last stand against the invading space creature, staring it down with …
An Important (Non-Political) Lesson from Brexit
Great Britain’s vote this week to leave the European Union (AKA: Brexit; short for “Britain Exit”) has sparked a vigorous …
Got Mesh? Big Business Ideas For The Future
The mesh, coming soon to a device near you, won’t just change your technology experiences. Actually, it’s not just coming …
Symphony of Disruption and Disintermediation
In prior blogs about Schumpeter’s Gale, you explored how the winds of technological change and creative destruction are picking up …
New Fintech or Another App? That’s the Last Thing You Need
Let’s face it. The only two things we really need to know about people – and for that matter, companies …
Privacy & Communications: It’s Not Just Do-or-Die
It’s an extreme worst-case scenario: In a tug-of-war between individual privacy and government oversight, privacy wins and dozens of people …
Even Bright Companies Get the Blues
As the global technological revolution accelerates, a wave of creative destruction is overtaking the infrastructures of many of the world’s …
Blockchain Is Not the Next Big Thing
It is amazing to watch all the influencer wannabes circle like vultures, trying to monetize Blockchain. It is never clear …
The Mesh: A Future of Trust, Reputation & Freedom
The mesh is coming, sooner than you might think. The mesh will be a ubiquitous network of interconnected devices that …
Will The New Planetary Datastream Blow You To Tatters?
In an earlier blog I covered the rapid approach of gale-force change, in the form of a planet-wide mesh of …
The Global Mesh and Why Your Business Needs to Care About It
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be an early adopter. If you purchased one of the first cellular telephones, for example, …
Integrating Your Business’ Technology
Are your technologies like islands in the stream of information? How well do they work together when the stream turns into a torrent? Do your legacy e-mail, CRM, and accounting systems cooperate effortlessly …
Are You Ready for the Global Mesh?
We are on the verge of a new world: a radically decentralized, more highly interconnected world. A global society that …
Disruptive Technology: What SEO can teach the CEO
How vulnerable is your business to disruptive technology? I will bet you a Betamax videotape that you aren’t paying enough …
Disruptive Technology: Missing the Point
Here is a great article written by Bruce Schneier CTO, Resilient Systems, Inc. The content is intriguing but based upon …