Saturday, July 17, 2010
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies' new report "Out of Control"
Members' Report 1/2010: Out of Control
Out of Control: Digitalisation, perishing industries and new business models
In the institutes report "Anarconomy" from September 2009, we described how the creation of knowledge and digital services will be governed by autonomous networks and illegal subversive movements, who publish digital copies of books, music and movies. In this next report "Out of Control" we examine: "How to actually make money in an 'Anarcomic market'?
We are witnessing a rapid growth of free
content and services on the internet
and in the physical world. This content
is created and distributed by the users
themselves in voluntary, self-regulated
networks. These conditions, we have
described and diagnosed in our report
”Anarconomy” from 2009.
This report addresses the challenge of
how to make money in an anarconomic
market, because as several have pointed
out, “we can’t all make a living from cutting
each other’s hair”. Our answers can
be found in this report, which elaborates
on the ideas behind anarconomy, but
takes its starting point in how it is possible
to create fruitful business models in
a market, where everything that can be
digitalized will be digitalized, where the
price of digital products moves towards
zero, and where everything is more or
less out of control.The core elements are still that knowledge
and ideas as well as digital products
fundamentally have other characteristics
than physical products, however, we
also look at how the physical products
move towards digitalization. In addition,
we call attention to which characteristics
and services a business model in an
anarconomic market ought to include
and attach importance to showing where
things can be done differently in order to
give rise to better conditions for existence
in this new logic.
Capitalism is perfectly unsustainable and everyone knows it
1999
Jensen, Rolf (1999). The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination will Transform your Business. New York: McGraw Hill. http://www.cifs.dk/en/boeger.asp.
2007
Geuken, Thomas; Gitte Larsen (2007). All Dressed Up – but nowhere to go. Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendalske Boghandel. http://www.cifs.dk/alldressedup/.In Danish only.
Jensen, Rolf (1999). The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination will Transform your Business. New York: McGraw Hill. http://www.cifs.dk/en/boeger.asp.
2007
Geuken, Thomas; Gitte Larsen (2007). All Dressed Up – but nowhere to go. Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendalske Boghandel. http://www.cifs.dk/alldressedup/.In Danish only.
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Professor Thorkil Kristensen, former OECD Secretary-General, Danish Minister of Finance and member of the Club of Rome founded the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning) in 1970. It is Denmark's and one of Scandinavia largest Futures Studies think tank. It is a non-profit think tank and its mission was from the outset to help Danish organizations (public and private) understand and plan for the trends that are shaping their long-term future. Today it is an international think tank
Ambient intelligence
ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Ambient intelligence is a vision on the future of consumer electronics, telecommunications and computing that was originally developed in the late 1990s for the time frame 2010–2020. In an ambient intelligence world, devices work in concert to support people in carrying out their everyday life activities, tasks and rituals in easy, natural way using information and intelligence that is hidden in the network connecting these devices (see Internet of Things). As these devices grow smaller, more connected and more integrated into our environment, the technology disappears into our surroundings until only the user interface remains perceivable by users.
The ambient intelligence paradigm builds upon pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, profiling practices, and human-centric computer interaction design and is characterized by systems and technologies that are (Zelkha & Epstein 1998; Aarts, Harwig & Schuurmans 2001):
- embedded: many networked devices are integrated into the environment
- context aware: these devices can recognize you and your situational context
- personalized: they can be tailored to your needs
- adaptive: they can change in response to you
- anticipatory: they can anticipate your desires without conscious mediation.
Ambient intelligence is closely related to the long term vision of an intelligent service system in which technologies are able to automate a platform embedding the required devices for powering context aware, personalized, adaptive and anticipatory services.
A typical context of ambient intelligence environment is a Home environment (Bieliková & Krajcovic 2001).
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Astroturfing
Astroturfing denotes political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are formally planned by an organization, but are disguised as spontaneous, popular "grassroots" behavior. The term refers to AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass.
The goal of such campaigns is to disguise the efforts of a political or commercial entity as an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician, political group, product, service or event. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual promoting a personal agenda, or highly organized professional groups with money from large corporations, unions, non-profits, or activist organizations. Very often, the efforts are conducted by political consultants who also specialize in opposition research. Beneficiaries are not "grass root" campaigners but distant organizations that orchestrate such campaigns.
High Frequency Trading
The Matrix & Stock Market Manipulation - High Frequency Trading Programs Ripping Investors Off
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Culture jamming
Culture jamming, a tactic used by many consumer social movements[1], is a mechanism in which an activist or activist group attempts to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions including corporate advertising. Culture jamming is often seen as a form of subvertising. Many culture jams are simply aimed at exposing questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture so that people can momentarily consider the branded environment in which they live.
Confabulation
Confabulation is the spontaneous narrative report of events that never happened. It consists of the creation of false memories, perceptions, or beliefs about the self or the environment usually as a result of neurological or psychological dysfunction. When it is a matter of memory, confabulation is the confusion of imagination with memory, or the confused application of true memories. Confabulations are difficult to differentiate from delusions and from lying.
Colin McGinn
Colin McGinn (born March 10, 1950) is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at Oxford University and Rutgers University. He is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, though he has written on topics across the breadth of modern philosophy. Chief among his works intended for a general audience is the intellectual memoir The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (2002).
N M Rothschild & Sons
N M Rothschild & Sons (more commonly known simply as Rothschild) is an investment bank company of the Rothschild family. It was founded in the City of London in 1811 and is now a global firm with over 40 offices around the world. The firm acts as a financial advisor to some of the most important companies, largest governments, and wealthiest families in the world.
White-shoe firm
White-shoe firm is a phrase used to describe the leading professional services firms in America, particularly firms that have been in existence for more than a century and represent Fortune 500 companies. It typically—but not always—refers to banking, law and management consulting firms, and frequently refers to firms in New York City.
The Seven Sisters
The Magic Circle
The Magic Circle is an informal term used to describe collectively what are considered to be either the five, or possibly six, leading London-based law firms, all of which employ primarily solicitors. It is also used as a term to describe the top four Commercial Chambers at the Bar. In the US, the term used to describe the leading firms is White shoe firm. Members of the Magic Circle are:[1]
As of 2008[update] the first four listed above were in the top six largest law firms in the world by revenue (in 2006 Clifford Chance became the world's highest-grossing law firm).Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: CNBC's Big Brother, Big Business
Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: CNBC's Big Brother, Big Business
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Inattentional blindness
Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is the phenomenon of not being able to perceive things that are in plain sight. This can be a result of having no internal frame of reference to perceive the unseen objects, or it can be the result of the mental focus or attention which cause mental distractions. The phenomenon is due to how our minds see and process information. Closely related to the subject of change blindness, it is an observed phenomenon of the inability to perceive features in a visual scene when the observer is not attending to them.
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