I believe McLuhan was right and that we´re just starting to feel it. Since the interconnected electronic world became more or less open (and is still opening up) we get a medialized mental environment – on steroids. Memes swoosh over the world bashing into each other, from little short-lived and often bizarre memes to value-memes … Read more
If I had my own Google to play around with – I´d spend the ad revenue on open research answering questions like who we are, how culture is created and how our minds work using data mining at the intersection of psychology and linguistics. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin proposed a fusion between the naturalistic evolutionary perspective … Read more
Empowerment. Det finns inget bra svenskt ord för det, men det var precis vad Steve Jobs gjorde för miljoner av människor. Framförallt de där som de flesta kallar knäppgökar – och som andra kallar de kreativa. Det är inte lite Apple under Steve Jobs lovade, men jag menar att det företaget spottade ur sig faktiskt … Read more
Log on, check in, tweet out. The gospel of the new digital always-on lifestyle is most loudly cheered by knowledge workers that make a living as (digital) communication consultants or speakers. The theoretical upsides of easy access to information, knowledge and human connections are indeed marvelous. The theoretical downsides, however, tell about mass digital attention deficit … Read more
Whether you communicate professionally or personally there are four fundamental aspects to it. Any firm that claims to be full service needs to deliver on all four quadrants. It´s very rare for the same person to be proficient at all aspects and, as a team, it´s very rare that people that are naturals … Read more
