Ted Talk: Kevin Kelly on the next 5.000 days of the Web

At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days.
Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer on biology and business and "cool tools." He's admired for his new perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology and religion.
Why you should listen to him:
Perhaps there is no one better to contemplate the meaning of cultural change -- bad? good? too slow? too bold? -- than Kevin Kelly, whose life story reads like a treatise on the value of technology. Whether by renouncing all material things save his bicycle (which he then rode 3,000 miles), founding an organization (the All-Species Foundation) to catalog all life on earth, or by touting new gadgets in WIRED, Kelly hasn't stopped exploring the phenomena of technical and biological creation.

In articles for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among others, he has celebrated scientific breakthroughs, and at the Long Now Foundation, where he serves on the board, he champions projects that look 10,000 years into the future. Today Kelly is at work on a book that asks what appears to be his life's core question: "How should I think about new technology when it comes along?"
Kelly discusses the 7th Kingdom at length in the July 18, 2007, edition of Edge.org.
"Thinker, environmentalist and philosopher extraordinaire ... A one-man force of nature."
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Very nice and inspiring talk!

Ted Talk to share: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the Web

Very nice story to follow.

'WE ARE IN THE BUSINESS TO CONNECT WITH THE CONSUMERS. WE ARE NOT HERE TO KEEP THE MEDIACOMPANIES ALIVE!'

In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."

Why you should listen to him:
The Internet would change everything: it's a truism now, but for some, this took years to sink in. Not for Peter Hirshberg. A marketing specialist at the epicenter of emerging technology, he has spent a quarter of a century charting the reverberations of all things high tech in culture and in business. (It's big business, too.)

Hirshberg first helped bring Apple into the online services arena., then acted as strategic adviser to Microsoft, AOL and NBC. Along the way, he was CEO of Gloss.com and Elemental Software. He's built a deep understanding of the fundamentals of content production and consumption -- and how they've changed, both online and off.

Hirshberg is a trustee of the Computer History Museum and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. He serves on the advisory board of Technorati and keeps up a lively blog on disruptive culture.

Cannes Lions Festival and the Cannes VIP Event 'Welcome to Amsterdam', a lot to take home.

A perfect week @ the Cannes Lions Festival. A beautiful balance between spotting the good work between all the entries worldwide and visiting all the seminars. Not enough time to see it all....but enough time to get a total view of what is happening in our world. The countries who are used to 'dance' - by culture - are the countries who succeed. The brands who trust their creative agencies and are able to co-create and think in opportunities succeed as well. Feeling very 'senang' (joyful) about the changes and therewith the chances in our industry.
This good spirit also embraced the VIP Event 'Welcome to Amsterdam' at the replica sailing ship 'Clipper Amsterdam' which brought us back to the early times when entrepreneurial thinking was attached to the city of Amsterdam. Businesspeople who dare and trust are able to get connected to the Creative Hub of Europe.

VIP Event Cannes 'Welcome to Amsterdam' selling Amsterdam as the Creative Hub to Europe.

Bureau Pindakaas working together with Marco de Vries & Ron Boyle from amsterdam inbusiness, Anouk van der Kruk, Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency & Lucas Hendriks by creating a VIP Event in Cannes on the replica sailing ship 'Clipper Amsterdam'. A meet & greet between Amsterdam Agencies & International Agencies, Amsterdam Government, Multinationals & Cannes Lions / Eurobest.