Comments on: Six Trends that are transforming Living Online: Presentation at Influence conference

By: David Gilmour

David Gilmour — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:54:55 +0000

Ross, thanks for a very interesting set of themes.
Gavin Heaton made an interesting comment about privacy and attention profiling. I certainly concur that unless the profiling done is under the complete and exclusive control of the user, it’s a nonstarter. From my perspective, the user should be able not just to monitor, but to intercept profile access and allow it or not on a case by case basis. illumio already works this way.

By: Gavin Heaton

Gavin Heaton — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:49:34 +0000

I like the idea of attention profiling, but don’t know if I am happy to engage in it (risks to privacy, open to unmitigated influence etc). It seems that there are opportunities to conflate attention profiling and social revolution — perhaps you can’t have one without the other (at first glance I would think the social networking/influence networks are a precondition for attention profiling). Interesting.

By: Kerry Nitz

Kerry Nitz — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:37:47 +0000

Your claim: the fact that 80% of the population cannot touch-type constraining economic productivity
Surely you’re mistaking quantity for quality – to me if you’re constrained by not being able to touch type then you’re not spending enough time thinking about what you’re typing.

By: Marnix Catteeuw

Marnix Catteeuw — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:18:56 +0000

Think that technology trends are driving social change. The new technological trends will change the way we work, live and interact with friends, collegues, customers, … Just look at e-mail, I never asked for it, but in 10 years time, it changed my working day from 20 % paper mail handling to almost 90 % e-mail checking.
But I am now using the new 2.0 tools to get the freedom back I had before ;-)

By: Wonderwebby

Wonderwebby — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:13:30 +0000

The conference sounds very interesting Ross…wish I was there!
“It is a fascinating question whether technology trends are driving social change, or if technological development is reflecting social trends”…it certainly is! I am watching this space with interest. It is intriguing, exciting, frightening, liberating, enabling, connecting and disconnecting all at once!
While exciting technology trends have an impact on society, and society demands technology to help personalise experience and identity, I am just glad that we are human and – as a group of twenty-something organisational learning students told me the other day “nah, we prefer to talk in person!”