COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

Will California lead the nation in legalizing pot?   A few years ago, this question would have seemed absurd, even unthinkable. As recently as 2007, federal agents in full body armor and automatic weapons raided Hollywood pot dispensaries.  This action took place within the context of chronic Orange Level Terror Alerts, so the population was [...]

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There’s a group of smart entrepreneurs and businessmen in town that I respect quite a lot.  They recently had a big discussion about the value of coaching.  Not professional sports coaching, but career coaching. Most of the guys responded in a predictable fashion:  they were snide and dismissive about the concept of life coaching.   The [...]

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Call it the Success Paradox.   When an organization reaches a new stage of growth, it may experience cataclysmic internal turmoil. The Success Paradox happens to startup ventures that lack a cohesive management structure:  when the company makes a growth leap, say, from 25 to 50 employees, or from 100 to 200 employees, the shift [...]

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Bold speculation from MIT Media Lab founder Nick Negroponte at the Techonomy Conference in Lake Tahoe. Citing the rapid decline of film photography and music as precedents, Negroponte speculates that “It’s happening. It is not happening in 10 years. It’s happening in 5 years.” http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/physical-book-dead/ This is a little bolder than my prediction that physical [...]

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Some readers objected to my blog post a few weeks ago that forecast the end of printed books by 2016 http://bit.ly/dcI6UC , protesting that bound books will never go away entirely. That may be true, but if print edition books survive, it won’t be anywhere near the scale of today’s print business. I stand by [...]

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Wait! Before you rush out to Best Buy to replace your still-kinda-new high-def flat-screen TV with a not-quite-ready-for-primetime 3DTV, take a moment to consider what comes next: holographic TV viewing. Should you hold out and wait?Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology are preparing for a public demonstration of

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During my speech at the NAB convention in April, I expressed my view that the future of TV is empathically not “TV Everywhere”,  referring to the cross-platform concept promoted by major Cable MSOs  which is 1/3 hype, 1/3 bombast, and 1/3 fantasy. Here comes more testimony to support that assertion. Yesterday, Frost and Sullivan analyst [...]

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At a time when margins are tight and disruption occurs on a daily basis, business leaders are under pressure to discover the “next big thing”, such as a breakthrough product that will redefine a category or create an entirely new niche to dominate.  A new process that will save time and money.  A radical efficiency [...]

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Here we are, in low foothills of the second century of electronic media, and already the slogan “All media will be social media” has evolved from a rallying cry into a humdrum truism. But social media remains elusive and rather hard to define, primarily because human social interaction is so complex, varying by context and [...]

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This week HP announced a significant breakthrough:   devices that use a new chip design called the “memristor” that supplants the transistor-based designs of current semiconductors. This 3D chip could be a major breakthrough, introducing a new era of radically smaller, faster and more energy-efficient microprocessors.   In fact, this design would

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