Flow

World

• Napstering — a world changing force built on asymmetry and aiming to provide transparency — is the alpha-trend to watch today and the next decade.
• Currently journalism/news/print, the college/educational system, healthcare — industries supporting a not-anymore-performant-enough human specie –  are under heavy napsterization.
• Politics also started to be napstered thanks to Pirate Bay.
• As a result governments started to protect their ’shareholders’ by introducing internet cenzorship in various ways in various countries: Switzerland, Malaysia,  US,  Canada, and more.
• Meantime Russia became the world’s first oil power.

Biz

• At the end of the ‘recession’ the rich got even richer. Black markets are rising high, and savvy countries are preparing their citizens for eventual consequences.
• IT markets are consolidated through huge acquisitions: Xerox, Dell, Adobe and the newcomers.
• Cambridge, UK, therefore EU is finally taking the good example from US to focus on high value added companies.
• Open source and the culture spreading with takes over even the last company standing.

Life

• We are the best learning machines in the universe thus it is not a surprise we became capable to create completely new and fully functional universes.
• Some already felt the need to escape from digital, others are just slowing down to find the balance between building new universes and living a decent real life.
• As napstering is a world and business changing paradigm, less is more is a life changing paradigm.
• Meantime the state is taking care automatically of its citizens wether or not they want such attention.
• It seems the key to individual hapiness is nothing more than healthy time management.

Technology

• This summer was about Augmented Reality. 15 years ago it was about Virtual Reality. One thing is sure: the real is slowly merging into digital.
• The web and internet growth to a level where it needs another, a better, a native technological infrastructure, different from classic client/server and desktop technologies.
• Some clever countries are already investing into future architects, and results are immediate.
• Technology became so accessible now you can even create in no-time your personal programming language.

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