Gerd is a leading Futurist & Humanist, a global Keynote Speaker, the Author of ‘Technology vs Humanity’ and a Film-Maker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in London, and the CEO of The Futures Agency in Zürich / Switzerland. “Embrace technology but don’t become it” is his credo.
Of all the social networks competing for our online persona and social graph, Twitter is special. The culture and self-governing rules of engagement shaped by the “me” in social media, create a personalized experience that looks and feels less like a “social” network and instead, creates an empowering information exchange. Twitter is at the heart of the Web’s evolving egosystem and its archetype is powerful and quite understated. For better or worse, Twitter introduces the notion of notion of popularity,...
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Venture capital database CB Insights is releasing a new report today on the state of the VC industry and investments in 2012. For the year, $28.3 billion was invested by venture capital firms in 3,267 deals. However, it's interesting to note that while Seed VC funding hit highs during the year, overall investment fell from 2011’s $30+ billion level. And VC funding actually dipped for the 2nd consecutive quarter in Q4 2012.
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Lego is making great customer service look like child's play.Last year, there was the heartwarming story from Massachusetts about the 11-year-old boy to whom Lego sent a discontinued set for which he'd scrimped and saved for two years.Now, here's a similar story of goodwill from Britain. It began when 7-year-old Luka Apps spent his Christmas money on a Lego Ninjago Ultra Sonic Raider set—but then lost the Jay ZX ninja figure on a shopping trip with his father.Luka decided to write a letter to Lego:
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Mike Del Ponte co-founded Soma, which raised more than $100,000 on Kickstarter using virtual assistants and free apps. I first met Mike Del Ponte two years ago when he was running marketing at Bran…