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The global financial crisis hit nearly four years ago in 2008 but America and Europe appear to still be stuck in the mud. Even the Asian market has softened. But is this a recession? Or are we seeing a reconfiguration of the economy as the technological seeds laid over the last few generations finally germinated and bear fruit? Prices for made goods are collapsing as the cost of manufacturing has plummeted, while the cost of sourcing and distribution has crashed, caught between globalisation and the Internet. Even innovation, the source of all those sexy new products, has been democratised with the investment required to development new products taking a nosedive. Our existing business models were not designed to thrive, or even survive, this this environment. While the current market is a challenge to navigate, a lot of the problems we're seeing could be result of a collapse of antiquated business models rather than the collapse in demand that these businesses are intended to service.
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Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
Tags: 12ozPROPHET, Apple, Apple Inc., Computing, design, Economics, Economist, Google, H&M, India, Innovation, iPad, Jim Jarmusch, Marico Innovation Foundation, Microsoft, Quora, The Economist, Uniqlo, World Wide Web, Zara
I gave a talk on innovation at Chisholm tonight in their Business Innovation Seminar Series, and promised to provide links to some of my references. Here they are:
Leave a comment if I’ve missed anything and I’ll try and find a reference.
Tags: Apple, Apple Inc., Apple iPad, Apply, Computer hardware, Electronics, Innovation, IOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, John Boyd, John Kay, Multi-touch, obliquity, OODA, OODA loop, Peter Drucker, Seth, Seven Sources of Innovation, Sony, Sony Walkman Cassette Player Recorder, Steve Jobs, Technology, Walkman
Nick Carr’s recent blog post on delinkification[1] (putting the links at the end of a post as footers, rather than as hyperlinks in the text) made a lot of sense to me. Perhaps I’m old (though its all relative, as one bloke told me this morning[2]), but I find myself leaning heavily on browser tabs and Instapaper[3] to try and manage the distractions of links in text.
So I’ve decided to experiment. I’ve dropped in a plugin which converts links to footnotes (though it relies on magic markup, rather than doing it automatically and retrospectively as I would prefer), and going forward I’ll give footnotes a go. It might work, or it might suck. Who am I to know though. Ping me with your thoughts, if they lean one way or the other.
1. Experiments in delinkification @ RoughType↑
2. Peter Fingar↑
3. Instapaper↑
Tags: Hyperlink, Instapaper, iPad, iPhone software, Markup language, Nick Carr, Peter Fingar, Rough Type
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