Since March many people feel they have been caught in a ‘Zoom hell‘ of back-to-back video calls throughout their waking hours. While this would have seemed futuristic a few decades ago, it already feels deeply tired. We have all experienced the problems with engagement, attention, and effective collaboration on video-conferencing calls. One of the most […]
For the last couple of months I have been selectively sharing conversations, tutorials, and highlight videos from The Virtual Excellence Show on this blog, but I haven’t written anything about the show itself. This is the story of the show and the most important things I’ve learned so far. The last time I spoke in-person […]
The intent of The Virtual Excellence Show is to explore and share how to do things well in virtual space. Professional speakers and business presenters now all need to learn how to be excellent at virtual presentations. Live-streaming software can be invaluable in doing high=quality presentations relatively easily. In our first tutorial I provide a […]
I was recently interviewed on the Studio 10 TV program about the future of dating and relationships. See the video below:
Every one of the almost 8 billion people on this planet is unique. And everyone can contribute to the world and humanity in a unique way. Most of us spend our lives trying to work out quite how. The past of work has been one of using and paying for a tiny and specific portion […]
Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. For those are familiar with some of my work, the broader frame […]
A group of well over 1000 academics and researchers calling themselves Coalition for Critical Technology has just published a public letter to academic publisher Springer urging them not to publish a forthcoming article. The article claims to be able to predict if someone is a criminal based on a picture of their face, with “80 […]
In my recent conversation with John Hagel on The Virtual Excellence Show, one of the topics John shared insights on was scalable learning, which he has substantially focused on in recent years. For an excellent framing of the subject see his article in Harvard Business Review Great Businesses Scale Their Learning, Not Just Their Operations. […]
Today virtual live music platform Wave announced a $30 million investment, placing it at the center of the burgeoning virtual live music performance space. I recorded a segment for The Virtual Excellence Show on this, watch the short video below, including relevant video clips, or a transcript is below.
The pandemic is changing many aspects of our lives. One of the impacts is on homes and how we live. Fellow futurist Mark Pesce and I were interviewed for an article just out titled From a sharing economy to a sterile economy: how will COVID-19 change our future homes? Here are some of the quotes […]
