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Future of Facebook Project: Society Video

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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Hot off the presses!

Here’s our latest installment of the Future of Facebook Project, with collaborators Alvis Brigis, Shane Valcich, and the Open Foresight FOFB team.

Facebook is a social phenomenon that’s sweeping the globe, enabling people to connect across geographic and cultural boundaries, share information, and build meaning and value together in new ways.

What are the implications of a technology relentessly embedding itself into our everyday social fabric?

Contributors include Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants, founder Wired), David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Howard Rheingold (author Smart Mobs), Nova Spivack (web innovator, co-founder Bottlenose), futurist Jamais Cascio, Doug Rushkoff (author Program or Be Programmed), Doc Searls (Berkman Center, author The Cluetrain Manifesto), social network research pioneer Valdis Krebs, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, web anthropologist Stowe Boyd, innovation strategist Chris Arkenberg, Suzanne Fischer (curator Henry Ford Museum).

Watch! Share! Check out interview clips on the Future of Facebook youtube channel, Contribute at futureoffacebook.com or Future of This Social Network on Facebook!

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Big thanks for support from our Corporate Patron, Innotribe, Zev at Averbach Transcription, Executive Producer Sean Park, and Producers Dr. William J. Ward, Debra Farber, Bill Lefurgy, Guido Stevens, and Nicky Smyth. Image design by the fabulous Erica Glasier.


Future of Facebook: Politics [video]

25 Tuesday Oct 2011

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Social Media, Video

The second installment in the 6 part Future of Facebook video series, a project to explore the impact social networking technologies are having on our lives.

Thanks to interviewees Chris Arkenberg, David Kirkpatrick, Alex Howard, Howard Rheingold, and Valdis Krebs; to all the people who contributed to the kickstarter campaign, and to Innotribe, our corporate patron. Continue reading →

Announcing: Open Foresight & The Future of Facebook Project

01 Tuesday Mar 2011

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projects, Video

In a world characterized by increasing complexity and accelerating change, we need tools that help us understand future possibilities in order to make more informed decisions today. The field of Futures Studies, or Strategic Foresight, has already developed many such tools, but they are still not commonly utilized by the general public.

So, I’ve partnered up with a colleague, Alvis Brigis, to help elevate the ‘futures thinking’ meme. We’re developing a process called Open Foresight, which aims to serve as an updated model for harvesting collective insight, generating scenarios, and creating strategic roadmaps into the future.

By combining available data, opinions from the experts, and the conventional wisdom of the crowds, we’ll be able to analyze a topic from a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints. We’ll then distill that down into a series of animation-rich videos that summarize these insights. The methodologies used will help us all gain a better understanding of the risks, opportunities, and implications surrounding the issues important to us. All of the content we collect will be made available via Creative Commons SA by-cc so that it can be reused, remixed, and built upon by others.

The first project to employ this framework was launched on Kickstarter today – The Future of Facebook video series.  (video above) Using the STEEP forecasting methodology, we’ll be viewing the challenges and opportunities for this company through the lenses of Society, Technology, Environment, Economics, and Politics. Each of these five categories will become a short focus video that fleshes out that topic area. The final video will be a big picture overview of the potential pathways for the evolution of Facebook.

by @EricaGlasier

Interviews are still underway, but here’s a look at who we’ve talked to so far:

  • David Armano – SVP, Edelman Digital
  • Stowe Boyd – futurist, social technologies blogger
  • Jamais Cascio – ethical futurist, Senior Fellow of the IEET
  • Amber Case – co-founder Geoloqi
  • Suzanne Fischer – Curator of Technology, The Henry Ford
  • Garry Golden – energy and emerging markets futurist
  • Alex Howard – Government 2.0 Correspondent for O’Reilly Media
  • Kevin Kelly – author, What Technology Wants; founding editor, Wired Magazine
  • Brett King – author, BANK 2.0
  • Rita J King – Innovator-in-Residence IBM Analytics Virtual Center
  • David Kirkpatrick – author, The Facebook Effect
  • Valdis Krebs – founder, Orgnet; network analysis expert
  • Richard MacManus – founder, ReadWriteWeb
  • Om Malik – founder, Giga Omni Media
  • Eghosa Omoigui – Venture Capital & Private Equity
  • Howard Rheingold – author, Smart Mobs
  • Douglas Rushkoff – author, Program or Be Programmed
  • Doc Searls – author, Cluetrain Manifesto
  • David Siegel – author, Pull
  • John Smart – President, Accelerating Studies Foundation
  • Scott Smith – founder, Changeist
  • Nova Spivack – founder, Lucid Ventures
  • Sibley Verbeck – founder, The Electric Sheep Company

by @gavinkeech

To launch the public arm of the project, we’ve posted the same 15 questions we asked all interviewees onto Quora. We’ll be monitoring the topic for the most insightful and provocative answers you’ve got. The people with our favorite answers will be invited to participate in an interview with us for inclusion in one of the final videos. You can add your visions to “The Future of Facebook Project” topic here.

We’ve also created a Facebook page, aptly named “Future of This Social Network.” 😉 Please follow our developments, video releases, and conversations there as well as on Twitter with the hashtag #fofb.

We hope this will be the first of many upcoming foresight projects that teach us to better harness our collective intelligence to understand complex issues in a way that’s open, collaborative, and fun.

Please help us develop this initiative by supporting the Future of Facebook project on Kickstarter and contributing your thoughts and insights through the various channels listed above.

We’re looking forward to developing Open Foresight with you!

Web Premiere of Future of Money video; Now where do we go from here?

27 Wednesday Oct 2010

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Design, money + currency, Video

What are young adults thinking about money and value? How can we create new systems of wealth generation and abundance? What does the future hold for banks and other financial institutions in the wake of massive peer to peer exchange?

“The Future of Money” begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation (twitter hashtag #futureofmoney)

We did it! Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this process over the past few months!

I presented this video to a room full of bankers (200+, standing room only!) as part of my keynote on Monday, 25 October 2010, at the SIBOS Conference in Amsterdam. Though I don’t think most of them “got it,” the seed has been planted. And apparently someone found my talk compelling enough to quote me in an article on finextra.com! yay! (Sibos kicks off with call for innovation).

It will be interesting to see if we whetted their appetite enough that Swift or another organization might want to provide funding for us to take the project further. Perhaps we could roll out a whole video series that dives deeper into what is really going on with peer to peer exchange, the emergence of complimentary currencies, and the social movements that are fueling this (wealth generating commons, open innovation, coworking and open design spaces, sharing, cooperatives, collaboration, data transparency, social networks, mobility, etc).

In all, I’m so pleased with this experience and the energy and activity supporting it. We crowdfunded over $5,700 over on emergence.cc, and donations are still rolling in! Pretty amazing, and resonant with a comment Linus Olsson of Flattr makes in the video, describing the new way people are thinking about micropayments and the funding of an individual’s creative process –

It’s not a question that you pay for what you already got. You actually pay for what you will get… the things that can be made because you paid.

Please pass the video around, and let’s keep the conversation going. In just 2 days since we posted it online, it’s received over 4,000 views! Share, embed, spread! A Future of Money page has also been started on Facebook, and the #futureofmoney hashtag is alive and well on Twitter. 🙂

I’d love any feedback on the video from you, or any suggestions as to where we go from here. As you know, we will also be creating an infographic as the final part of this particular project, so stay on the lookout for its release in the next few weeks!

Below is the transcript of my talk – it’s quite brief because I only had 15 minutes total, and the video took up half that time. I’ve also listed all the people who appear in the video, along with links to their initiatives/projects.

Thanks again to all!

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“I’m going to talk to you about the changes that are taking place in the way my generation is redefining money and value and wealth. To help convey this message, I spent the past three weeks co-producing a video with a creative studio in Berlin, especially for this event. Just using webcams and Skype, we interviewed people from around the world – from Thailand, Sweden, Germany, the UK, the US, Mexico – all of whom are involved with initiatives that enable new forms of peer to peer value exchange. So, without further explanation, here is the world premiere of The Future of Money.

(video played)

I hope you found that both though provoking and entertaining. There was a lot of information there, so if I had to distill it down into one main concept, one takeaway, it’s this:

There is a class of young, intelligent, creative people who are disillusioned with the debt-based monetary system, and are busy building the infrastructures for a commons-based economy, which is emerging, right now, in parallel to what currently exists. The foundation of this economy is built on trust… and transparency…. and the ability of distributed networks to self organize. And using the Web as a grounds for experimentation, we’re learning more effective ways to link unmet needs with unused resources, innovate, generate wealth, and build resilient communities.

This is the prototype of the future. This is where the opportunities are.

I hope that during the Innotribe sessions the remainder of the week, we can explore ways to create bridges between these two worlds and ways of thinking, and co-evolve the next global economy.”

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Future of Money Interviewees:

Featuring (in order of appearance):
Edward Harran, Attention Philanthropist
Caroline Woolard, Our Goods
Alan Rosenblith, Director, The Money Fix
Hans Schoenburg, Founder, GiftFlow
Ashni Mohnot, Founder, Enzi
Linus Olsson, Founder, Flattr
Jerry Michalski, Founder, Relationship Economy Expedition
Georg Zoche, Founder, Transnational Republic
Fernanda Ibarra, Advocate, Metacurrency Project
Jessica Harris, One Blue Dot Share Networks
Michel Bauwens, Founder, P2P Foundation
Douglas Rushkoff, Author, Program or be Programmed

Documenting the Open Innovation Process

17 Sunday Oct 2010

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Video

How can the open innovation process be made more transparent? How can information be more shareable and useable for others? How easy can we make it to modify, reshape, and build upon experimental frameworks and prototypes?

We’ve been asking ourselves these questions as we create the videoblogs documenting the Future of Money project. The episode above shows us reflecting a bit about the interviews we conducted, answering a few questions that were posed on Twitter, and enjoying the free time we were able to squeeze in here and there.

We plan to get into more specifics in upcoming episodes, but would love your feedback in the meantime. How could this collaborative storytelling project be improved? What parts of the process do you want to know more about? Let us know!

my talk at Social Business Edge: Designing a Culture of Collaboration

09 Sunday May 2010

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collaboration, Video, Work

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I was recently invited by Stowe Boyd to get out from behind the blog and participate in my first public speaking engagement. (ahhhh!)  He organized a conference here in NYC, Social Business Edge, which brought together a lot of voices “developing an operating manual for 21st century business.” It was kind of surreal to be in the company of many people whose work I follow, like Jamais Cascio and John Hagel, and actually getting to talk to them. (turns out they’re just people too! shhhhh). So, here is my big breakout video. You can watch everyone’s talks here.

p.s. thanks Stowe, for the very nice intro 🙂

thanks Michael for inspiring the quote –> “Technology is the tool, not the builder. We are the builders.”

Video: The Value of Critical Thinking

31 Thursday Dec 2009

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This short video provides an overview of the skills involved with critical thinking, like how to methodically evaluate the information we consume. The amount of garbage content and spam we come across every day is growing exponentially, so this seemed like a good refresher for reminding ourselves to be careful about the amount of value or merit we put into the things we read. As you watch, think about some of the tweets that pass through your stream, and some of the posts you read on people’s blogs that are positioned as facts instead of opinions. Now that everyone has the ability to be a publisher and broadcast their messages, knowing how to determine what’s worth retaining is…well….critical!

(thanks to @Mgandon for finding this)

Is Social Media Enabling a Digital Democracy?

09 Thursday Apr 2009

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