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Facing fierce competition, Facebook is working nonstop to gain users, add features, monetize more effectively, and embed its platform anywhere and everywhere.
The “Future of Facebook: Technology” is the fifth video in a six part series exploring the implications of social networking technologies on our lives.
Using the Open Foresight model, we’ve generated forecasts by combining expert opinion with insights from the public. All content is licensed under Creative Commons, making it free to remix and reuse, with attribution.
Add your voice to the mix by creating a video response on the futureoffacebook youtube channel, sharing your thoughts on twitter with the hashtag #fofb, posting on the Facebook page, or putting in your 2¢ on our Quora questionnaire. Follow the full project at futureoffacebook.com.
Featuring (in order of appearance):
David Kirkpatrick – author, The Facebook Effect
Alex Howard – Govt 2.0 Correspondent, O’Reilly Media
Chris Arkenberg – Innovation Strategist
Kevin Kelly – author, What Technology Wants
Nova Spivack – founder, Lucid Ventures
Jamais Cascio – Research Fellow, Institute for the Future
Stowe Boyd – Web Anthropologist
Valdis Krebs – Social Network Consultant/Researcher
Produced by Alvis Brigis, Venessa Miemis, Sean Park, Shane Valcich and Innotribe.
emergent by design 
is it just me, or does the thinking here all feel dated? doesn’t it seem that consciousness possibilities and values are already beyond anything facebook can imagine? facebook is old-paradigm and way too linear …
there are all industry pros, of course, so one can’t expect them to be cognizant beyond the leading edge of the status quo …
the interviews were mostly shot a year ago, so that may contribute to the dated feel along with our general habituation to the facebook phenomenon. i think the discussions about facebook moving into the built world and having to deal with augmented reality systems remain very appropriate and profound!