(a 5 minute talk, with an optional page of text - no more than one page, followed by 10 minutes of discussion)
| December 10, 2007 | | Valerie Casey IDEO | | Crowdsourcing and Design. Crowdsourcing has recently entered the cultural vernacular as the buzzword for democratic product development. Crowdsourcing, the phenomenon of corporations creating goods, services, and experiences in close cooperation with consumers, has turned product development into an open-source platform and allowed companies to tap into the intellectual capital of amateurs. In exchange, end-users have a direct say in what actually gets produced, manufactured, developed, designed, serviced, or processed. Crowdsourcing takes advantage of online social networks, makes the networked consumer part of the product design process, and offers companies a way to uncover consumer insights and perspectives more vast and varied than those gathered in focus groups or contextual inquiry. At first glance, crowdsourcing seems diametrically opposed to the concept of outsourcing product design to design experts. Questions arise: are the masses trespassing on the expertise of designers, and what is the effect on the end-user experience? Looking at how this trend has evolved on the web, Valerie Casey of IDEO argues that this access to the innovation potential of amateurs will play a pivotal role in the design process of the future. Here, she discusses the ways in which end-users will benefit from the tension and challenge of amateurs’ input, in tandem with experts’ insight. |
| November 12, 2007 | | Sue Thomas, DeMontfor University | | Transliteracy: crossing divides Transliteracy involves the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. To date, the concept has largely been developed by Professor Sue Thomas and her colleagues at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, England, but it is an open source idea ripe for expansion. This talk discusses examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography and asks whether transliteracy could provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. http://www.transliteracy.com BIO Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her most recent book is the non-fiction travelogue of cyberspace 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004). Other publications include the novels 'Correspondence' (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1992) and 'Water' (1994); an edited anthology 'Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women' (1994), and 'Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders' (1995). She has published extensively in both print and online, and has initiated numerous online writing projects including The Noon Quilt, now an iconic image of the early days of the web. She founded the trAce Online Writing Centre in 1995 where she was Artistic Director until going to De Montfort in January 2005. She is Programme Leader of the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, which she teaches with Kate Pullinger, and leads the Production and Research in Transliteracy group (PART). Her research interests include transliteracy, collaborative media, and psychogeography. She is currently writing The Wild Surmise, a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world. http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/ |
| October 2007 | | Break | | No FutureCommons event |
| September 24, 2007 | | Andrea Saveri and Matt Chwierut, IFTF | | The Future of Learning Agents** Andrea and Matt will present the Map of Future Forces Affecting Education that they prepared for the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and lead a discussion in its implications for future roles and processes that support teaching and learning. How will the role of "teacher" evolve in the open economy? How will forces of change shape the teaching and learning enviornment to spawn new learner relationships and interactions? What are the implications for preparing "teachers" for this emerging environment? www.kwfdn.org/map |
| August 27, 2007 | | Bob Johansen Distinguished Fellow, IFTF | | Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. Bob will discuss his new book about developing the capacity for foresight and how organizations can drive strategy to manage ongoing dilemmas in a more sustainable and effective way. Books will be available for attendees (especially those who rsvp!) |
| July 30, 2007 | | Open Mobile Ecosystem Mike Liebhold and Andrea Saveri | | Mike and Andrea will talk about the possibilities for an open mobile ecosystem, current industry dynamics that are affecting innovation in mobile applications and services, and the social dilemmas that frame industry and innovation challenges. |
| June 2007 | | | No event |
| May 21, 2007 | | Jessica Margolin Margolin Consulting | | Jessica Margolin will lead us in a session on intangible assets, mapping alternative capitals, and the implications for organizations and their business models. SR-1064_TYF07_06_Finance.pdf |
| April, 2007 | | No event | | |
| March 26, 2007 | Jay Weber and Tony Parisi from Media Machines | Media Machines founders Tony Parisi and Jay Weber present their vision for Virtual Worlds 2.0: the 3D Metaverse running on the Web. Tony and Jay will demonstrate Media Machines' Flux - a next-generation technology platform that delivers immersive 3D experiences fully integrated with the Web, running in a standard browser and based on open technologies. |
| February 26, 2007 | Rod Falcon and the Health Horizons team: New Media and Health stories | Rod Falcon, co-director of IFTF's health horizon program will share with us his program's new map of Global Health and Innovation. Rod is an insightful researcher and has done very exciting research looking at personal health ecologies in the context of the expanding health economy. |
| January 22, 2007 | Lonny Brooks | Lonny Brooks will discuss the ethnographic research on IFTF that he did between 1998 and 2002. I'd like to focus the discussion around the more general issues of how organizations approach thinking and communicating about the future. Lonny focuses on IFTF's sense of performance. Here is a copy of his paper: Play at Work |
| December 11, 2006 | Betsy Power | Betsy Power will share with us an amazing effort that she is a part of with the Natural Capital Institute. WISER - World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility - is an emerging sustainability knowledge and collaboration commons, an infrastructure, that has real promise to catalyze and aggregate all the good work out there by people and organizations developing new financial, economic, and social tools for creating more socially just and environmentally sound business and organizational practices. |
| November 20, 2006 | Neil Goldberg | Work Club - IFTF report on Cybernomads |
| October 30, 2006 | Fred Turner | Fred has a new book out: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism - 45 page PDF - Graphic Recording of the discussion after Fred's talk |
| September 25 2006 | Tirza and Chris of ifPeople | We are planning on inviting Chris Johnson and his wife/partner Tirza Hollenhorst. They started a company called ifPeople in Atlanta, that does “Fair Source” IT development for mission-driven companies. In other words, they do fair-trade outsourcing of IT (mainly in Argentina) to build knowledge and relationship management networks for (mainly) non-profits here in the US. Notes on ifPeople |
| August 2006 | Alex and Eric of TrustMojo and an Open Space on the future of FC | Alex and Eric presented an overview of their insights on online trust. |
| July 2006 | Where's Wiki | Created and ran a pervasive game in Palo Alto |
| June 2006 | IFTF 2006 Map of the Decade | IFTF staff share the recently released 2006 MOTD on Flickr. Future Commons small groups add annotations to the map and discuss as a group. |
| April 2006 | Microinfrastructure event | We will examine microinfrastructure projects concerning finance, housing, insurance. |
| March 2006 | Future Commons Forecast | We generated a list of forecasts and then focused in on filling in the details of about a dozen. Bob Johansen shares his foresight to insight to action process. |
| February 2006 | Scarcity vs Abundance | The FC will host a salon discussion on the dynamics and assumptions of scarcity and abundance and their implications for economic and social models. What does it mean to shift from a model of scarcity to abundance? What are the implications of push vs pull business models? What kinds of mental and social processes do individuals experience in frameworks of scarcity and abundance? These are some of the questions we'll discuss. John Hagel will attend and share some of his thoughts from a business perspective. And we've invited Lillian Rubin, an artist and social-psychologist to share her thoughts about how individuals cope with these assumptions andmental frameworks. |
| January 2006 | Ten Year Forecast Launch | We will present the launch of the Future Commons Ten Year Forecast program. We want to invite you to join IFTF in an open forecasting adventure that will result in a collectively developed public Ten Year Forecast of our global future. The process will be guided by Kathi Vian, IFTF's director of our flagship Ten Year Forecast program, and supported by various IFTF staff, but the articulation and visioning or trends, issues, and strategies will come from our growing Future Commons community. This is an opportunity for IFTF to share its forecasting techniques more broadly, and learn others from the community, to grow a rich public resource about our global future. Future Commons Forecast |
| December 2005 | Celebrate! | We'll celebrate the holiday season and 7 months of the Future Commons! We're preparing a rough wall mural of our conversations on the Google Groups discussion list so we can see what we've been talking about for the past 7 months. It is an interesting collection of ideas and may inspire us to think of what we want to do in 2006. We'll do some quick introductions, eat, drink, and buzz. I hear that Santa, or one of his elves, may be dropping by with some treats. Here is the chocolate tasting key from Chocolate Dividends. |
| November 2005 | Life in Context | IFTF will share research and highlights from its recent Technology Horizons workshop. We'll share our framework for thinking about the emergent context aware world and discuss what it may look like in two domains -- play in context as the next generation of gaming, and bodies in context or the emergence of the transhuman. Details to come soon. Please mark your calendar. Email Andrea if you would like to help out in the planning. |
| September 2005 | Rudy Rucker and Theories of Everything | Rudy Rucker, Novelist and Mathematician, his paper on gnarly computation Here's the podcast of Rudy's presentation from his site. In the second half of the session, Jerry led a discusion on Theories of Everything |
| August 2005 | Open Space Exercises | Howard outlines the idea behind Microuniversity. Howard teaches about the importance of coffeehouses in political and intellectual history. Podcast - The Economist essay on coffeehouses - Tom Standage, tech editor for the Economist has written several books including "A History of the World in Six Glasses" which has an extended version of the discussion of coffee houses that Howard discussed. Tom's blog, FAQ about the book |
| July 2005 | Microuniversity | Micro-University Tapings (Eileen Clegg - Shape as a universal language, Lyn Jeffrey, Jason Li), Wiki Demo: Ross Mayfield, Mark Petrakis, Marina and Alex: Key questions that are arising from their 10/20/50 year out science and tech forecasts, Podcasts Intro |
| June 2005 | Open Space Breakouts | Enhancing IFTF Maps |
| May 2005 | Kickoff event at IFTF | Introduction to the Future Commons concept; Organum demo and play with Greg Niemeyer. |
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