An idea: Free airlines
I have been on too many planes in the last 7 days. Probably a total of 40 hours actually sitting in the plane, let alone the airports and taxis. While doing so, I was reading an article about how TiVo 9and similar technologies) are causing great concern amongst...
Google Book Search – Librarian Revolutionaries
I have just been playing around with Google's online book search & it is awesome. They have indexed the actual content of millions of pages of books. When you run a search it actually returns the book to you. You can then go to the physical page in the book where the...
Business Benefits for a new type of employee
The Herman group send out a weekly trend tracker. This week's deals with the new types of benefits companies will need to offer in order to attract Talent. You can sign up for the weekly newsletter here Herman Group Trends Herman Trend Alert: Aggressive Benefits Will...
The Bottom Half of the Pyramid
Michael Goldman, Lecturer in Marketing, Innovation and Strategy with the Gordon Institute of Business Science, wrote a brief piece about C K Prahalad's concept of reaching the world's poor in MarketingWeb. Read it here. The key is a radical rethink and some serious...
Interesting Time magazine edition
The 14 November edition of Time magazine contains several interesting articles about future trends and the connection economy.
The best ‘i-something’ so far
Since the birth of the iMac, we've seen about as many 'i' things as you can imagine, although there are still a few innovative designs coming through, and with the overwhelming success of the iPod I sense we'll continue to see many new designs hitting the shelves for...
The best 'i-something' so far
Since the birth of the iMac, we've seen about as many 'i' things as you can imagine, although there are still a few innovative designs coming through, and with the overwhelming success of the iPod I sense we'll continue to see many new designs hitting the shelves for...
A pension deficit disorder
I've written about this before: America's ticking time bomb is its estimated $450 billion underfunded pension schemes. Many Baby Boomers are going to get horrific surprises when the pensions they're relying on don't materialise. Finally, the greed of the companies...
SALT – here at last
This past weekend, the SALT was finally launched. SALT is the South African Large Telescope, based at Sutherland. It is the southern hemisphere's largest optical telescope, and has some of the best further technical abilities of any telescope on the planet....
Sony and how NOT to do the customer experience thing!
How does a company who so often has been on the cutting edge of innovation and known for delighting their customers with some of the most amazing gizmos and gadgets get it so wrong? Personally I think they've moved a bunch of accountants and lawyers into their R&D...
Online, on tap resources
Imagine this... You're a manager in a large corporate, and you're working on an important project. You assess your current team, and you realise that you're a little short of some skills, and the team is not quite as balanced as should be. It could also do with a...
WAY Future
So you think you are a futurist huh? Keep up on these readings and you will stay ahead of the game. http://www.gizmag.com is a blog about emerging technologies, gadgets and gizmos. Technorati tags: future, innovation, technology
The Game of Snakes and Ladders in the 21st-Century
Today, your office headquarters could be an impressive office block, your humble study or the local deli. Because the modern office environment has changed (and continues to transform even while you read this), new work opportunities have arisen. Together with these...
From ink to audio
Yesterday on the 26th day of the 10th month of the year after last, TomorrowToday.biz went audio in the form of a Pod Cast channel. We've jumped in on Odeo and as of a little while ago we had 3 shows ready for you to listen to or download. If you use iTunes to listen...
China's Generation Y
I don't often recommend a book before reading it myself, but this book has caught my eye, and I wanted you to know about it. I have ordered a copy, and will review it in detail in a few months' time. It is China's Generation Y by Michael Stanat ( (get it online at...
China’s Generation Y
I don't often recommend a book before reading it myself, but this book has caught my eye, and I wanted you to know about it. I have ordered a copy, and will review it in detail in a few months' time. It is China's Generation Y by Michael Stanat ( (get it online at...
The Boomer tidal wave is about to hit old age
The Baby Boomers (born post-World War II and into the 1960s) have been a demographic tidal wave in every life stage they've entered so far in life. And now, they're about to start retiring (or, at worst, re-tyring) and hit old age (although they'll never admit it)....
Is this keeping Bill Gates awake at night?
If you've been following the posts on this blog of late, or the tech world news in general, then you're aware of Google's charge toward world domination. Recently Google and Sun Microsystems signed some cooperation agreements that made the headlines for an hour or...
From ring tones to protest tones
We know the world is changing, and the change is being driven by new people doing some new things with new technologies. Convergence is one of the bigger drivers creating all kinds of interesting options and opportunities. Example: Just when you'd surrendered to cell...
Tithing is the way to go
The biblical principle of tithing is to give to the work of the church 10% of your increase (your salary). There are reasons why you one is encouraged to do this. But the one I like is to compare tithing to that of planting seed. It could go towards an Aids home for...