Kent Beatty on January 14th, 2010

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In the future, location will not matter…

Say goodbye to cubicle nation…

Think about this:  The Future of Work is YOU!!!

Wherever You are…

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Kent Beatty on December 10th, 2008

Chief Information Officers focus on managing their IT infrastructures so having a good idea of what to look out for over the horizon is in their best interest.   CIO Insight asked 222 IT leaders about which technologies they expect to explode in the next 5 to 10 years:  They answered with this list:
1.  Green IT
2. [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 27th, 2008

 
We are rushing toward the future much faster than we realize and the speed of that rush is increasing exponentially.  The future is much more diverse and complex than we can realize.  It’s like the difference between riding along a country lane in a horse drawn buggy and flying through the asteroid belt in a [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 4th, 2008

Do you hear it?  That whooshing sound?  Sure you do.  Just listen:
It is there – the future rushing toward us ever faster!
I am fascinated by potential.  In this case the potential of “computing” to increase from the equivalent of a mouse brain to that of a human brain in about 12 years from [...]

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Kent Beatty on September 16th, 2008

A message from the future - A “Temporal Blowback” occurred as a result of a tachyon field failure in CERN’s Large Haldron Collider (LCH) on 22nd October 2008 resulting in the vaporization and destruction of the world.

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Kent Beatty on August 31st, 2008

Does your cell phone transform?

VIA: Unbelievable animation: close encounters of the desktop kind

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Kent Beatty on August 30th, 2008

Simplicity to Complexity,
from one connection to a social web explosion!

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Kent Beatty on August 30th, 2008

Weekend Music Video
Click the four arrows to view FULL SCREEN & TURN UP the volume!

The Top (Music Video) from Francis and the Lights on Vimeo.

The Band - Francis and The Lights on MySpace

Two Records - A Modern Promise and Striking

Listen on LastFM

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Kent Beatty on August 26th, 2008

We connect, relate, group and network:

Facebook is Number 1 Globally but MySpace is still most popular in the United States. Pingdom.com used Google Insights for Search to compare search volume comparisons across global regions and thereby assess Social Network popularity. They looked at the google data to see where the 12 top social [...]

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Kent Beatty on August 11th, 2008

An Very Cool Introduction to YouTube and the “MediaScape”
Michael Wesch

“An anthropological introduction to YouTube” video of Library of Congress presentation Jul 29th, 2008 by Prof Michael Wesch

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Kent Beatty on August 11th, 2008

“The Machine is Us/ing Us:
Web 2.0 in Under Five Minutes”
A video created by Michael Wesch in February of 2007.  Michael talked about about how everything is connected and his background in cultural anthropology during an interview with John Batelle.  From Michael’s blog, “I sent it to 10 people. Four days later it was the [...]

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Kent Beatty on August 8th, 2008

High gas prices, increasing food prices and food shortages -  are we descending into a Mad Max-esque dystopia?

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Kent Beatty on August 6th, 2008

This is done with still photos. Imagine when we achieve the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) well enough to decode our memories.  Each image in this video could then be a chapter from your memory (or your imagination) that plays with full sensation:

Check out immersive views from across the web by PicLens.
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Kent Beatty on August 6th, 2008

Catchyoo Celebrates Olympic Games
Watch it fullscreen, then watch “Catchyoo on Panasonic’s National Road Show”

This is seriously cool stuff and very near the horizon!
Check out the Catchyoo Blog.
And the LM3LabsBlog.

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