So this morning Andrew Zolli spoke on his forecast for technology and society. I found him to be enlightening, a visionary, and amusing.
In the essence of time (gotta head downstairs to present the poster soon), I’ll list the salient points, cool quotes, links to check out later, and misc in bullet points:
- eventful.com, thepoint.com & crowdspirit.com
- the health of patients doesn’t really depend on things like access to health case so much as it depends on the pts. social networks (pts. w/breast cancer had better survival rates if they had a network to share with)…this could drastically change our role and the role of information
- fundamental shift in literacy (no longer just about the # of facts known or the uniqueness of facts known) as we go beyond these “basics” (and should we remember if we have google?)
- networks of lack trust (how do we integrate this, what do we base it on, ebay ratings?)
- choices are ever increasing (yet satisfaction doesn’t) we choose based on: filters, past choices, and brands which = trust to allows us to skip first two options
- do we need more “Chief No Officer” or “Chief Uh-uh Officer”? or are more and more choices okay? will the next generation expect more and more choices, maybe we should just sit this one out.
- Interesting Jetblue example, Zolli’s Law: “people would rather fly a burning, flaming plane than fly United” [hope I got that quote right!]
- We need to be better at dealing with the abstract rather than only responding to threats we can see. (example of fighting terrorists vs. climate change and which one will really impact each of us more)
- It’s a good time to be us!
I also attended the Virtual Roundtable discussion. I was the recorder for that group and will link to my write up later. It was a small group (Pam from Iowa State Library and Peggy from UCSD) so we were easily able to share our thoughts and current practices. Then we ended up on other fun tangents! Good conversation!
