I first encountered After Thought in the early 1990s, a decade into working with tech companies that were changing the world—and changing me. I was living inside a machine-mediated world before most people recognized it. But James Bailey’s book After Thought: The Computer Challenge To Human Intelligence taught me something new; exploded my mind –…
The relationship we have with our cars is the stuff of legend. In fact, Sir William Lyons, one of the founders of Jaguar Cars, said “The car is the closest thing we will ever create to something alive.” While I can’t imagine how Sir Lyons would feel about today’s technology, I know many who are…
In 2012 I wrote about the Digitizing of Everything. Since then, even more than I imagined has been reduced to 0 and 1, stored in the cloud or on drives, and changed the world forever. Looking back, I realize that while I stuck a toe into the science fiction of the future as it was…
In a short attention span, “I’m not listening”, world – communicators need to ensure that their visuals carry the story on their own when needed. To address the “mute” button and multi-screen society, some of the best broadcast commercials have told moving stories without spoken words for years. Check out the Budweiser #bestbuds series with…
Social norms, technology and the economy are under constant pressure. Small but meaningful changes that have the potential to disrupt our plans are advancing every day. Like pressure on a fault line, they can release small tremors or become major earthquakes. From the decline of intermediaries to the growth in protests, the shocks will affect…
The Closing General Session at MPI World Education Congress 2014 featured Scott Schenker, the General Manager, Events and Production Studio at Microsoft and Founder of Janus Dialogs. Scott believes there is magic in discovery and innovation. However the process of innovating is not magical – it comes from observing what others are doing, tapping the collective…
Posted August 4, 2014, 7:00 AM EDT by BizBash At the Event Innovation Forum in Los Angeles, Scott Schenker examined some of the latest buzzwords the event and meeting industry is obsessed with. These days it seems the event and meeting industry is obsessed with a constant stream of new buzzwords. But are they really…
Audio’s day is coming. Like battles in geopolitics, operating systems, and hem line length, the mediums of text, images, and audio have each been in and out of favor. Text took an early – and admittedly long – lead with the Gutenberg Printing Press in 1436. This allowed for not only storage of text,…
In early May of 2012 I presented at the Event Marketing Summit 5 trends facing the Experience Marketing industry. That presentation is embedded below. Some additional notes related to this presentation: An update on the Apple Store Protest in Australia can be found here The Flash Mob that was denied a…
I was planning on writing this one last week but the Economist beat me to it, and much better than I could. The impact of this new norm – 3D printing and additive manufacturing – will be nothing less than transformative to all aspects of business, society, and technology. Think about printing new light…
Computing, binary code, and calculating have been with us since the 1930’s. And as devices that needed data, the process of digitizing began as well. Weather data, stock trades, order and inventory, sales transactions, etc. The trio of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are the most visible caretakers of this transformation – but there are databases…
Personal diaries have been tucked under mattresses, hidden in secret drawers, and peeked at by nosy friends for a long time. But as everything analog shifts to digital, technology allows unlimited storage and sharing, and new gadgets are introduced – we’re starting to collect a lot more, and different kinds, of data about ourselves. Logging…
Social Media started with content relevant to your “social” world. It was through new channels like Twitter and Facebook and about you. But once released from the bottle, the genie cannot be held to just the social aspects of life for long. User generated content is typically seen as ‘Conversational Media’, as opposed to the…
There are 31,463 digital images in my photo library including scans from my earlier work and old family images, and photos taken in digital form. Currently there are 416 emails in my work inbox, and 256 in my 5 personal email accounts. I have thousands of emails filed from the past 30 months. My 5,699…
In the song “The Hardest Part” Blondie sings Twenty five tons of hardened steel rolls on no ordinary wheel Inside the armored car ride two big armed guards In a bullet-proof vest, shatterproof glass, overdrive, we’re gonna pass Twenty five tons of hardened steel rolls on no ordinary wheel The hardest part of the armoured…