“The first rule of The New Order is tell the truth. Because if you lie, you die” says Richard Seymour, cofounder and director of London-based Seymourpowell, one of the world’s top design and innovation firms.” If the blacksmith is lousy in the village, we all know it. But the difference is now that the village is the whole world. And we are the medium. We, humanity, are the medium.”
The New Order is the fourth episode of Into the Future video series:
As part of Tech@State, the US State Department’s ongoing series of collaborative discussions on the subject of mobile money, Jan Chipchase (Executive Director of Global Insights at Frog) presented “Scaling the Mobile Frontier”, a talk exploring how we can leverage technology and partnerships for sustainable development and financial inclusion.
“When I started researching this topic, my hypothesis was that illiterate consumers would not be able to complete tasks on a mobile phone that included a textual interface, but I was proved wrong on two counts: the first is that illiterate consumers are adept at rote-learning the steps to complete a task *assuming they are sufficiently motivated*; the second is that in many instances illiterate consumers can benefit from *proximate literacy* — where instead of completing a task themselves, they turn to someone more literate than them for help with some or all of it. What they lose in privacy they gain in efficiency. In this context an illiterate mobile phone user who wants privacy will either go to a trusted friend, or to a sufficiently-trusted agent outside their neighborhood”
Now, after more than 15 years having “an idea every day”, Alfons releases a magnificent book presenting 50 innovation concepts and their applicability in organizations. Visionomics; 50 Ideas and Illustrations on the New Dynamics of Organizations, combines graphics and text in such a manner that reading it is a real pleasure.
Visionomics is available today as hard copy in Spanish, and an English edition is coming soon. But if you can’t wait to get your hands on the hard copy of the English eiditon, you may want to download the PDF version (free), and re-distribute it within your network. You may want to use the text bellow for this:
Free Download Visionomics by Alfons Cornella (Infonomia) - English Edition http://bit.ly/ACVisio
Enviu - Innovators in Sustainability es una organización especializada en la generación de soluciones de negocio sostenibles. A éstas soluciones las llamamos Wow! Ideas, y entre otras se encuentran: …
Lotus 7.0, one of the latest pieces of Studio Roosegaarde: “an interactive organic wall covered by hundreds of smart foils unfolding, in a poetinc morphing of space and people”
Sustainable Dance Club, the award wining sustainable business idea from Enviu, has released a video envisioning an extra-large Sustainable Dance Floor.
“One of Sustainable Dance Club’s goals for the future is having the floor featured in a big international event. Could there be a better way to open the Olympics or World Cup with the energy of dancing people? That’s why we asked our friends from Waanzee to make an animation of this idea. A new movie shows the Sustainable Dance Floor in stadium size! This movie visualises how the energy of one dancer is shared with a large group of dancers and how this sharing of energy can lead to a fantastic energetic climax.”
