Singularity Summit 2011

Web 2.0 Summit 2011

Update of Mary Meekers mobile trend slides (october 2011)

Mary Meeker presented yesterday (october 18, 2011) a fact-based update of her mobile trend slides at Web 2.0 Summit 2011.




The biggest digital trends, according to Mary Meeker:
1. We are living through a once-every-10/20-years technology evolution: the mobile computing cycle
2. Global mobile internet growth 35% Year-on-Year; smartphones surpassed feature phone shipments and mobile usage still has huge upside
3. Digital user interface moving to touch, sound & motion sensing (Siri, Kinect)
4. Next level commerce = fun / convenient / fast / price-transparent
5. Accelerating growth of eCommerce; continues to gain share from offline
6. mCommerce has lifted off
7. Local commerce is rejuvenated by mobile
8. Magazine concept is rejuvenated by mobile
9. Magazine concept transforms into an inspiration experience, combined with next level commerce (fast/convenient/fun/price-transparent)
10. Magazine concept transforms into a see-enjoy-yell-(or wave)-and-buy-(on a mobile device)-concept
11. In a mobile-ized, transparent world pricing matters a lot (in addition to branded differentiation)
12. Empowerment of people via connected mobile devices
13. Apple, Google, Amazon & Facebook remain mega-leaders; Chinese and Russion companies continue to step up
14. In last three years China added more internet users than exist in USA.
15. Content creation changed forever; How does one create differentiated content in an economically viable manner, when few want to pay for it? Joanne Bradford, chief revenue officer at web media giant Demand Media, gives the - oversimplified - answer:

Symbiothic Artificial General Intelligence

David Orban gave a talk at AGI-10 "Symbiotic Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Emergent Intelligence: Is a Planet Enough?"

AGI is also referred to as Strong AI: Artificial Intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.

There is wide agreement among artificial intelligence researchers that intelligence is required to do the following:
reason, use strategy, solve puzzles, and make judgments under uncertainty;
represent knowledge, including commonsense knowledge;
plan;
learn;
communicate in natural language;
and integrate all these skills towards common goals.

Gary Hamel: Reinventing management

Watch Gary Hamel, make the case for rethinking how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends. "Modern” management was developed more than a century ago to maximize standardization, specialization, hierarchy, control, and shareholder interests.

While that model delivered an immense contribution to global prosperity, the values driving our most powerful institutions are fundamentally at odds with those of this age—zero-sum thinking, profit-obsession, power, conformance, control, hierarchy, and obedience don’t stand a chance against community, interdependence, freedom, flexibility, transparency, meritocracy, and self-determination.

It’s time for reinventing management.

Where are smartphones being used?

Source: Tatango SMS Marketing

Context & Core

Brandwashed

View a brain-scan made as part of a 'De Telefoongids & Gouden Gids'-funded program to analyze and gain insights in brand appeal.

The brain-scan was made at the University of Amsterdam in cooperation with Neurensics and Department of Psychology.