A few years ago I started the process of buying a second home in a warm part of the United States. Living in Chicago, I wanted to find a place that, through the years would be where I would spend an increasing amount of time during the winter months. The first step in this process […]
Regular readers know that I believe that America and the world passed a tipping point last year regarding Global Warming. I have written about it here and here. Every week I continue to see evidence that verifies this viewpoint. Two weeks ago I shared with you my conversation with an executive at GM who not […]
Recently I have been thinking about the cultural process whereby something that initially is perceived as dangerous to society ultimately becomes a part of the cultural mainstream. New is often perceived as threatening. Its newness is not understood, so if it can’t be understood and fit into the status quo then it must be bad. […]
It was great to meet with a number of the top executives at GM prior to the Chicago Auto Show to learn about the Chevrolet Volt, the company commitment to developing battery technology and to really find out how committed this company is and will be in the area of cleaner automobiles. However there is […]
As mentioned in my prior post, I had the opportunity to meet one on one with top management at General Motors prior to the opening of the Chicago Auto Show, which is the largest auto show in North America. I am writing several posts about this experience for two reasons. First, I learned a lot […]
[Note to readers: This blog was one of a select few blogs to be invited by General Motors to a behind the scenes opportunity at the current Chicago Auto Show to meet and interview top management. As far as GM knew or I could discern, they were the only major auto company to reach out […]
In my post on predictions for 2007, I made a specific prediction that the current Internet 2.0 boom would continue and that eyeballs, dollars and influence would migrate from old media to the Internet. Now this isn’t crystal ball stuff. Media and advertising professionals live this reality every day. Just look at your own life. […]
In a recent post, I again touched on the theme of reaching a tipping point in consciousness regarding Global Warming. In that post, I mentioned early speculation about the up coming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Well, the other day, evidently after a lot of last minute back and forth on language […]
As most of you know, Moore’s law is named for Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel. In the mid 1960s he predicted that transistor computing power would double every 24 months. Ultimately, the popular translation of this hypothesis, and subsequent predictions he made, was that in the development of computers, the power of the computer […]
In an earlier post, I wrote that the cell phone was a transformative technology. The cell phone, the personal computer, and the Internet are the three most transformative technologies of the last twenty years, as they have altered the fundamental concepts of time and space as it relates to human communication. The interesting current phenomenon […]