The next 20 years of disruption in marketing (and everything else)
If you follow the money instead of the marketing services sector’s own narratives, change on a scale far larger than anything Google or Facebook have brou...
Tag: trends
Back to PR and the future
A week or so back, I was at the PRCA conference The Future of PR, as part of a panel discussing how agencies are changing. Danny Whatmough had invited me to tak...
Smartphones become pocket labs
That universal device that is the smartphone continues to surprise us with new ways its sensors, processing power and connectedness can be deployed. A ne...
Where will we the web be in four years
On the day Barack Obama was elected in the 2008, 1.8 million Tweets were posted. In 2012 that many Tweets were posted in the last 8 minutes or so [source]. The ...
The future will be stranger than you think…
Looking back at predictions that seem to have been far of the mark is diverting entertainment. Take these French visualisations of what like would be like in th...
Meeker’s Internet Trends: “Re-imagining nearly everything”
The annual presentation of internet trends by long-time influential technology analyst and commentator Mary Meeker has become a kind of a “state of the we...
Long term trends: The Ngrams Viewer
“A database of intentions” is how John Battelle described Google. It is a thrilling concept, at times unsettling, that you can see into the searchin...
The fog of revolution: social media trends 2006 & 2012
Thanks to the brevity and immediacy of Twitter I have already Tweeted saying everyone needs to read the sources of inspiration for this post. So you’ll fo...