Dan Hon on Metalabels, or: Geocities Brands, and Old Mode. Yesterday I went to Near Future Lab’s General Seminar 20 on metalabels (more)

Connie: Alohomora. Popular fiction is filled with stories about children who grow to realize that they possess some kind of special power. (Harry Potter, Elsa) (more)

Tina He: FKPXLS SPECIAL VOLUME: Embedded Education. The first generation of EdTech companies breaks into traditional classrooms with, well, technology. We grew up developing a love-hate relationship with Blackboard, Canvas, and Piazza. (more)

Max Headroom is a British fictional artificial intelligence (AI) character, known for his wit, stuttering and pitch-shifting voice. He was introduced in early 1985. The character was created by George Stone,[1] Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton. Max was portrayed by Matt Frewer and was called "the first computer-generated TV presenter",[2] although the "computer-generated" appearance was achieved with an actor in prosthetic make-up and harsh lighting, in front of a blue screen, with other audio and video editing effects... For his role hosting a music video programme, Max Headroom was conceived of by creator Rocky Morton as "the most boring thing that I could think of to do...a talking head: a middle-class white male in a suit, talking to them in a really boring way about music videos",[3] also deciding that he should be computer-generated. Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer was chosen based on his "unbelievably well-defined features" that Jankel noticed in a casting polaroid, and from his comedic improvisation skills that he demonstrated in a ten-minute audition.[3] The actor took inspiration from The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Ted Baxter... The background story provided for the Max Headroom character in his original appearance was rooted in a dystopian near-future dominated by television and large corporations, devised by George Stone and eventual script writer Steve Roberts. The AI of Max Headroom was shown to have been created from the memories of crusading journalist Edison Carter. (LifeBox) The character's name came from the last thing Carter saw during a vehicular accident that put him into a coma: a traffic warning sign marked "MAX. HEADROOM: 2.3 M" (an overhead clearance of 2.3 metres) suspended across a car park entrance.[3] The name originated well before the other aspects of the character from George Stone, who said "Max headroom was over the entranceway of every car park in the UK. Instant branding, instant recognition.".... Max Headroom originally appeared in the British-made cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which was broadcast on 4 April 1985. The TV movie consisted of material originally planned to be broken into five-minute backstory segments[3] for a British music video programme, The Max Headroom Show, which premiered two days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom (more)

Scrivener (/ˈskrɪvənər/) is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors.[5] Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research, and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including rich text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts. After writing a text, the user may export it for final formatting to a standard word processor, screenwriting software, desktop publishing software, or TeX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrivener_(software) (more)

by Clayton Christensen, ISBN:1578518520 (more)

Religion (see etymology below) - sometimes used interchangeably with faith or Belief System - is commonly defined as belief concerning the Super Natural, Sacred, or Divine; and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. In the course of the development of religion, it has taken many forms in various cultures and individuals. Occasionally, the word "religion" is used to designate what should be more properly described as "Organized Religion" (Big Religion) - that is, an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion, often taking the form of a legal entity (see religion-supporting organization). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion (more)

Religious Cult created by L Ron Hubbard (more)

Codex is a web-based operating system for knowledge workers. With Codex you can transform your notes, texts, images, videos, etc., into a multimedia knowledge graph: just highlight text and create bidirectional links, entities, relationships, attributes, events, and more. This is done from a special text editor which not only offers rich text styling but also separates the markup from the text. https://www.patreon.com/codexeditor https://twitter.com/codexeditor (more)

System is a free, open, and living public resource that aims to explain how anything in the world is related to everything else. https://system.com Intertwingularity (more)

Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.[2] It is a common source of open data that Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia,[3][4] and anyone else, can use under the CC0 public domain license. Wikidata is a wiki powered by the software MediaWiki, and is also powered by the set of knowledge graph MediaWiki extensions known as Wikibase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs, and a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data.[2] GraphQL was developed internally by Facebook in 2012 before being publicly released in 2015.[3] On 7 November 2018, the GraphQL project was moved from Facebook to the newly established GraphQL Foundation, hosted by the non-profit Linux Foundation.[4][5] Since 2012, GraphQL's rise has closely followed the adoption timeline as set out by Lee Byron, GraphQL's creator.[6] Byron's goal is to make GraphQL omnipresent across web platforms. It provides an approach to developing web APIs and has been compared and contrasted with REST and other web service architectures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphQL Built to feed React.

Data Store optimized for graph data. (more)

I'm interested in Accelerating Progress Through Tools For Thought - how? (more)

curator of Exponential View... I am a strategist, product entrepreneur and analyst, currently working as the Senior Advisor for AI to the CTO of Accenture. http://www.exponentialview.co/about-azeem/ (more)

Henry William Chesbrough (born 1956) is an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor and the faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Maire Tecnimont Chair of Open Innovation at Luiss. He is known for coining the term open innovation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chesbrough (more)

Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm ISBN:0-19-929072-5 by Henry Chesbrough and Joel West (and others) looks like it might be interesting... (draft EBook free) Open Innovation is sometimes conflated with open source methodologies for software development. There are some concepts that are shared between the two, such as the idea of greater external sources of information to create value. However, open innovation explicitly incorporates the business model as the source of both value creation and value capture.

Open Innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at Berkeley. The concept is related to (but distinct from) User Innovation, Cumulative Innovation and Distributed Innovation. (more)

where the "consumers"/"users" become part of the process of adding/creating value (more)

process/model of getting Innovation ideas from your customers (cf Lead User, Co-creation)) (more)