https://rossdawson.com/launching_the_f/ Keynote speaker | Futurist | Strategy advisor Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rossdawson.com/launching_the_f/#comment-122 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:22 +0000 http://rd.wpram.com/?p=189#comment-122 Hi Cameron, fair comment – to a point. I do think that our speakers including Ben Barren, David Sifry, Ross Gibson, Craig Newmark etc. are among those creating the future of media. However this event is about the Future of Media, not the Future of New Media. Like it or not, News Corp, Fairfax, Conde Nast (publishers of Wired) and their ilk will be central to the future of media (for at least a decade or so), so it would be taking a rather narrow view of the future not to give them a solid place at this forum. There are a lot of events where new media people talk to each other, and they all get wiser, but no-one else does. Part of the idea of the event is to create broader awareness and understanding of these issues, and that means geting the people who are current in the center of media to be involved and to engage with other thinkers and perspectives…

]]> https://rossdawson.com/launching_the_f/#comment-121 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:08:07 +0000 http://rd.wpram.com/?p=189#comment-121 Hey Ross, how come you don’t have more genuine new media types speaking at your Sydney event? Seems pretty top heavy with folks representing big old giants. It’s hard for you to genuinely position them as “at the edge of the future”, unless you mean they are on the edge of falling OFF. :-)

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