Prior to joining FreedomLab I've had a long history in various media companies. Ranging from Dutch national broadcasters to independent television production companies in the Netherlands and the US. At the end of the last millennium I was involved with the set up of several internet based companies and experienced the boom and the bust first hand. I hold a degree in communication sciences from the University of Amsterdam.
FreedomLab’s Penny-For-Your-Thoughts program is asking opinion leaders around the world to share some unfinished thoughts with us. In this first installment Pakistani-born political scientist and futurist Sohail Inayatullah shares some possible futures for a world that is being transformed by the global financial crisis: “As you engage in mapping the future, your own subjectivity, your own inner stories keep on changing the map. If you can understand what is the core inner story, then you can link that to an objective alternative future. That’s why I think this transformation is a sign of the end of the industrial era. And each of us needs to help in creating the transition.” Watch Sohail’s PFYT and share your thoughts on it…
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Toolbox
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by Bob Garfield (Isbn-13: 9780984065103)
What happens when the old world order collapses and the Brave New World is unprepared to replace it as an ad medium, as a news source, as a political soapbox, a channel for new episodes of Lost? Welcome to The Chaos Scenario. It's here, and Bob Garfield saw it coming. In his roles as Advertising Age editor-at-large and as co-host of NPR's On the Media, Bob Garfield long ago connected dots that many in media and marketing refused even to acknowledge. In this fascinating, terrifying, instructive and...
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