What’s the Metaverse?
Here’s more on the Metaverse: from Matthew Ball (again) on the BBC’s Beyond Today. The first half of the program has some good stuff on… Read More »What’s the Metaverse?
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Tim Sweeney on open platforms and the metaverse (2017)
I feel especially as we’re building up these platforms towards the metaverse, if these platforms are locked down and controlled by these proprietary companies then… Read More »Tim Sweeney on open platforms and the metaverse (2017)
Worth Reading: Matthew Ball on videogame business models (Fortnite)
Thanks to Kevin Kelly for pointing this out this excellent article on REDEF by Matthew Ball. It’s interesting to learn about what Epic Games is… Read More »Worth Reading: Matthew Ball on videogame business models (Fortnite)
Resources: Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation
Clayton Christensen’s The Innovators Dilemma is a business classic, providing a framework for understanding how technological or business model innovations (or more usually, both) allow… Read More »Resources: Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation
Zen Hae on cross-pollination, imitation and innovation in Indonesian Peranakan literature
The pattern of hybridity, imitation and innovation we talk about under the label “combinatorial innovation” isn’t limited to cars and computers – it’s central to… Read More »Zen Hae on cross-pollination, imitation and innovation in Indonesian Peranakan literature
Marks and Spencer as disruptive innovators
Marks and Spencer have been a mainstay of British retail for more than 100 years, so it’s hard to imagine them as disruptive innovators –… Read More »Marks and Spencer as disruptive innovators
Recommendation: Matthew O. Jackson on The Human Network
If you’re interested in how ideas, behaviours or prosperity spread through groups of people, this is talk at Google is worth a watch. Recommend.
Resource: Seth Godin on Systems Thinking
Akimbo Season 4 Episode 20 (July 10, 2019) – Systems Thinking This is a great episode of riffs on how systems create – and constrain… Read More »Resource: Seth Godin on Systems Thinking
Seeds (2): bikes, planes and automobiles
Many of the seeds of the automobile industry came from bicycle manufacturers (I touched on this in Use, Copy, Repair, Make), and on a visit… Read More »Seeds (2): bikes, planes and automobiles
Typo (4): (no) Standard English
[The task of documenting all the words in the English lanuguage] no longer seems finite. Lexicographers are accepting the languages boundlessness. They know by heart… Read More »Typo (4): (no) Standard English