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Future Talks is a new online video channel jointly presented by Futurists Gerd Leonhard and Glen Hiemstra, and by Media Conversations and the Conversations Network.
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In this hour-long interview, media legend Ralph Simon and Glen Hiemstra discuss Glen’s book, Turning the Future Into Revenue, the concept of long-range futuring, and various trends and issues impacting media and our broader global culture.
In this hour-long interview, media legend Ralph Simon and media futurist Gerd Leonhard discuss Gerd’s new book “The End of Control“, now available online, for free. Gerd expands on the key topics introduced in his first book “The Future of Music” while escalating the debate out of the music realm and into media at large. Gerd argues that in the future, controlling distribution is replaced with earning, receiving, and maintaining attention; that in media’s future friction is fiction; and that the “people formerly known as consumers” now literally run the show.
You can find many more conversations about the future and the future of media at Media Conversations.
FutureTalks.com is a website featuring weekly video episodes of conversations with Futurists Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard.
April 9th, 2008
There are three convergent items that all raise the question of the link between global warming and future fossil fuel use. Recent testimony to Congress from oil executives once again included assurances that there is sufficient oil to last for decades, and that no matter what, oil, coal and gas will still comprise the […]