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Audio Interviews
SURVEY
New media
April
20th 2006
In the
participatory era, media will no longer be delivered one way from a media
company to an audience...but by audience members to other audience members.
The distinction between content creators and consuming audiences first gets
blurry and then disappears completely...Instead of media being delivered as
a sermon or lecture, it becomes a conversation among the people in the
audience”
MANAGEMENT
Managing people, innovation and processes
Technology has
transformed the ways executives manage their people, their company's
innovations and its processes. Our Executive Dialogue looks at how
technology throws up new challenges and presents new opportunities
OTHER
Redesigning the internet
March
9th 2006
The internet has
been a hotbed of innovation because it’s “dumb”. The designers didn’t
presuppose how the internet would be used and that has made it extremely
flexible. But what we are running into now are scaling and security
problems, and some people are asking: if we were building the internet from
scratch, what would be the ideal clean-slate design?”
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