Innovation takes place as creative minds attempt to solve unmet consumer needs. Design thinking centers on user experiences with products and services, uncovers implicit gaps causing frustration, and then points toward new approaches (Kaufman & Sternberg, 2010, pp. 161-162). In reviewing trends in emerging media, the focus of my academic studies, I used seven steps… read more
How Voltaire Might Approach Digital Innovation — Be that break of dawn that inspires appreciation; that digital innovation that inspires online collaboration. Habit does not make passion. When plunged into the profound darkness of night, people take pleasure in the burst of new light. If everything were beautiful and good, one would no longer admire anything. Let… read more
How Voltaire Might Approach Virtual Authenticy — The best tool to eliminate digital rivalry is truth. When online communities divide, they form rallying points for doubt and error. When the truth is evident, factions fall. Nobody disputes about whether there is daylight at noon. If a group is Christian, then there are people who are not, therefore… read more
It’s important to analyze the values and beliefs of our society to understand how they’ll fit into a sociotechnical system, where those values and beliefs materialize as cultural catalysts. We want to be heard (Web 1.0). We want decentralized information and decentralized influence (Web 2.0). We want to help organize data (Web 3.0). We want… read more
“Dialogue is not always going to be entertaining, nor is it doing anything visibly useful. So you may tend to drop it as soon as it gets difficult. But I suggest that it is very important to go on with it – to stay with it through frustration.” David Bohm Dialogue is taking place everywhere,… read more
“If people are to cooperate they have to be able to create something in common, something that takes shape in their mutual discussions and actions, rather than something that is conveyed from one person who acts as an authority to the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority.” David Bohm Everyone is a… read more
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