This document discusses trends that will affect the world in the next decade according to Marian Salzman. It covers 8 trends: 1) Increasing extreme weather events due to climate change, 2) Ongoing concerns about health risks from everyday products like cell phones, 3) Water scarcity becoming a global crisis as demand outstrips supply, 4) Products and services must have an online presence to remain relevant, 5) Social interactions increasingly occurring online rather than in person, 6) Advances in neuroscience changing what is known about the brain and potentially enhancing human abilities, 7) Virtual reality and simulations becoming more realistic than physical reality, and 8) Hyper-local information and services becoming more important than global issues.
How To Deal With Disruption and How To Thrive In A Disruptive AgeFahri Karakas
We live in interesting and accelerated times. No professional today, whether in the public or private sector, can afford to be unaware of the pace of changes surrounding them. The pace of business change happening around us is relentless. The global forces of competition, innovation, and new technologies are creating new markets while eliminating others.
Multidimensional technological forces involving automation, 3D printing, augmented reality, machine learning, Industry 4.0, internet of things, and blockchain are rapidly transforming the future of work, organizations, and jobs.
We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. Developments in machine learning, robotics, nanotech, biotech, and 3D printing are all building on and amplifying one another. Technology is disruptive and it keeps transforming workplaces, business practices, and work processes. Companies are trying hard to survive — the only way to survive is to adapt, change, and innovate fast.
Companies are hungrier for smart ideas and innovations than ever before because they know they will go extinct unless they learn, improve, evolve, accelerate, and create constantly.
89% of Fortune 500 companies from 1955 are not on the list in 2014. The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 was 67 years old in the 1920s. Right now this age is 15 years only and it keeps going down. In 2028, 40% of all S&P 500 companies are expected to disappear from this list. Similarly, 75% of S&P 500 firms are estimated to be replaced within 15 years.
In 1996, Kodak had nearly 150 thousand employees and $28 billion market cap. In 2008, the whole market was gone. The invention of digital cameras eliminated traditional camera businesses. A company that is not trying to disrupt itself is destined to be disrupted.
We are experiencing a digital revolution and the industrial paradigm is over. Mass production is becoming obsolete and 3D printers are replacing factories. Companies work in virtual networks and remote work is the order of the day.
Products are bought on demand and they are customized by default. We do not need huge scales of economy, organization charts, hierarchies, factories, standardized exams, or large production floors anymore.
We do not need cable TV, mass-market, and broadcast advertising. We are now experiencing a borderless, democratized, digital world where each individual can have a huge impact.
We can now create our own game in this world. We can design games, create our own blogs or podcasts or YouTube channel or raise funds on Kickstarter. We can write a book and explain ourselves to the world. We can create fresh and exciting digital products (training, courses, etc.) We live in a world where ideas can change people’s lives. This means all of us can create our own game.
It is impossible to imagine that the skills needed at work will remain the same in the new decade. The world is changing fast and we need to learn, re-invent, and disrupt ourselves every day.
What Is Social Media? This short slideshow will make things clearer.
Having worked in the media for 15 years, with many newspapers, magazines, advertising and PR companies, producing quality content, I have now taken the step into Social Media. Drawing on the experience of many years marketing on-line and creating content, we are able to offer companies training and solutions to integrate Social Media into their overall business strategy.
http://AardvarkSocialMedia.com
Take a look at our Services page to see the packages on offer, so we can help you!
New body culture, tattoo, smart drugs, future fabrics in fashion and a fast r...Buddha Jeans Company
A reality check and new body culture
The world around us seems sometimes totally out of control, our lack of ability to catch it and being here and now is difficult. Naturally we come to a point where we feel loose of control and everything feels as a giant chaotic state. We stop and drop out. The capability to grip disappears. Most people drop out of fashion, music, film or digital trends at one point. We tune out and our kids tune in, soon they are also turning out. Their kids continue this merry goes round in a faster and faster way than before. Not unlike the wheel of life and death, (Dharma wheel) this cycle goes on and every time we believe that we see, hear or feel as everything never have been done before. But this, but this is far from the truth. And how many parents have not shaken their heads while the youngest turns up the volume to 11. Parents who scream out; turn of that noise off, you call it music? Its dam noise”, forgetting that they heard the same thing from their parents.
Where is the borderline between young, old, hippies or punks?
The difference between young and old, hippies or punk, local or global culture get mixed and melt different cultural elements together. We are more adaptable than ever, like chameleons we change, adopt and paste into every situation we face, anywhere at any time. Walking global media units receives, sending and sort out information faster and faster. This is a highly dangerous development, everybody needs to disconnect from time to time, but try to take away from whomever the mobile phone and laptop for a week, you will after a day or two see a pale, uncomfortable and highly restless person. If the mobile phone was the modern cigarette Smartphones are the new Heroin, you get highly addicted, but not the same abstinent physical illness.
About a week ago day on the tram this young, drunk and homeless boy sit next to me and talk to everyone and he screams out that he did not understand much about it all. I replied as I sat next to him that it was good to hear because I do not understand anything as well.
What do I know?
I was thinking what do I really know? And I got this lost feeling that everything happening around me is unreal. One see and read all the news about education, terror, war, friends, social media, jobs not jobs, the terrorists in Afghanistan the war in Iraq, Steak or Sushi for dinner, red or blue, Athens or Rome, Facebook or Twitter, blog or web site? And then I just get dizzy. There are so many choices. When I start thinking like this I feel that I am totally losing the grip into the big chaos that surrounds me.
A Presentation about the deep-seated anxiety consumers and clients feel about Climate Change and the leadership role brands and businesses can take in empowering people to address the future with confidence.
Top 10 Global Future Trends 2015 - Roger James HamiltonRoger Hamilton
Slides from the Top 10 Trends 2014 Europe Tour, hosted in London, September 2014. How will the waves of the future impact your business? Join Roger James Hamilton in upcoming events and entrepreneur accelerators around the world at http://www.rogerjameshamilton.com
If you want to know something about the future just study the present. Marsh...Buddha Jeans Company
WHERE DOES IT ALL START
We drop out of fashion
The world around us seems sometimes totally out of control, our lack of ability to catch it and being here and now is difficult. Naturally we come to a point where we feel loose of control and everything feels as a giant chaotic state. We stop and drop out. The capability to grip disappears. Most people drop out of fashion, music, film or digital trends at one point. We tune out and our kids tune in, soon they are also turning out. Their kids continue this merry goes round in a faster and faster way than before. Not unlike the wheel of life and death, (Dharma wheel) this cycle goes on and every time we believe that we see, hear or feel as everything never have been done before. But this, but this is far from the truth. And how many parents have not shaken their heads while the youngest turns up the volume to 11. Parents who scream out; turn of that noise off, you call it music? Its dam noise”, forgetting that they heard the same thing from their parents.
Where is the borderline between young, old, hippies or punks?
The difference between young and old, hippies or punk, local or global culture get mixed and melt different cultural elements together. We are more adaptable than ever, like chameleons we change, adopt and paste into every situation we face, anywhere at any time. Walking global media units receive, sending and sort out information faster and faster. This is a highly dangerous development, everybody needs to disconnect from time to time, but try to take away from whomever the mobile phone and laptop for a week, you will after a day or two see a pale, uncomfortable and highly restless person. If the mobile phone was the modern cigarette Smartphones are the new Heroin, you get highly addicted, but not the same abstinent physical illness.
About a week ago day on the tram this young, drunk and homeless boy sit next to me and talk to everyone and he screams out that he did not understand much about it all. I replied as I sat next to him that it was good to hear because I do not understand anything as well.
What do I know?
I was thinking what do I really know? And I got this lost feeling that everything happening around me is unreal. One see and read all the news about education, terror, war, friends, social media, jobs not jobs, the terrorists in Afghanistan the war in Iraq, Steak or Sushi for dinner, red or blue, Athens or Rome, Facebook or Twitter, blog or web site? And then I just get dizzy.
There are so many choices. When I start thinking like this I feel that I am totally losing the grip into the big chaos that surrounds me.
Chaos
Chaos, derived from the Ancient Greek Χάος, Chaos) typically means a state lacking order or predictability. In ancient Greece, it first meant the initial state of the universe, and, by extension, space, darkness, or a; and informally to mean a state of confusion, and in this case popular culture.
The largest consumer group is also
This issue highlights key shifts and new pattern formations in the environment: Society, Financial Economy, Health, Transportation, Retail, Food and Drink, Marketing and Advertising, Information Technology as well as Media and Entertainment. Each section contains inspirations to provoke new thoughts and ideas for innovative concepts as well as 3 scenarios that highlight ways in which these trends could disrupt your business within 5 years.
How To Deal With Disruption and How To Thrive In A Disruptive AgeFahri Karakas
We live in interesting and accelerated times. No professional today, whether in the public or private sector, can afford to be unaware of the pace of changes surrounding them. The pace of business change happening around us is relentless. The global forces of competition, innovation, and new technologies are creating new markets while eliminating others.
Multidimensional technological forces involving automation, 3D printing, augmented reality, machine learning, Industry 4.0, internet of things, and blockchain are rapidly transforming the future of work, organizations, and jobs.
We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. Developments in machine learning, robotics, nanotech, biotech, and 3D printing are all building on and amplifying one another. Technology is disruptive and it keeps transforming workplaces, business practices, and work processes. Companies are trying hard to survive — the only way to survive is to adapt, change, and innovate fast.
Companies are hungrier for smart ideas and innovations than ever before because they know they will go extinct unless they learn, improve, evolve, accelerate, and create constantly.
89% of Fortune 500 companies from 1955 are not on the list in 2014. The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 was 67 years old in the 1920s. Right now this age is 15 years only and it keeps going down. In 2028, 40% of all S&P 500 companies are expected to disappear from this list. Similarly, 75% of S&P 500 firms are estimated to be replaced within 15 years.
In 1996, Kodak had nearly 150 thousand employees and $28 billion market cap. In 2008, the whole market was gone. The invention of digital cameras eliminated traditional camera businesses. A company that is not trying to disrupt itself is destined to be disrupted.
We are experiencing a digital revolution and the industrial paradigm is over. Mass production is becoming obsolete and 3D printers are replacing factories. Companies work in virtual networks and remote work is the order of the day.
Products are bought on demand and they are customized by default. We do not need huge scales of economy, organization charts, hierarchies, factories, standardized exams, or large production floors anymore.
We do not need cable TV, mass-market, and broadcast advertising. We are now experiencing a borderless, democratized, digital world where each individual can have a huge impact.
We can now create our own game in this world. We can design games, create our own blogs or podcasts or YouTube channel or raise funds on Kickstarter. We can write a book and explain ourselves to the world. We can create fresh and exciting digital products (training, courses, etc.) We live in a world where ideas can change people’s lives. This means all of us can create our own game.
It is impossible to imagine that the skills needed at work will remain the same in the new decade. The world is changing fast and we need to learn, re-invent, and disrupt ourselves every day.
What Is Social Media? This short slideshow will make things clearer.
Having worked in the media for 15 years, with many newspapers, magazines, advertising and PR companies, producing quality content, I have now taken the step into Social Media. Drawing on the experience of many years marketing on-line and creating content, we are able to offer companies training and solutions to integrate Social Media into their overall business strategy.
http://AardvarkSocialMedia.com
Take a look at our Services page to see the packages on offer, so we can help you!
New body culture, tattoo, smart drugs, future fabrics in fashion and a fast r...Buddha Jeans Company
A reality check and new body culture
The world around us seems sometimes totally out of control, our lack of ability to catch it and being here and now is difficult. Naturally we come to a point where we feel loose of control and everything feels as a giant chaotic state. We stop and drop out. The capability to grip disappears. Most people drop out of fashion, music, film or digital trends at one point. We tune out and our kids tune in, soon they are also turning out. Their kids continue this merry goes round in a faster and faster way than before. Not unlike the wheel of life and death, (Dharma wheel) this cycle goes on and every time we believe that we see, hear or feel as everything never have been done before. But this, but this is far from the truth. And how many parents have not shaken their heads while the youngest turns up the volume to 11. Parents who scream out; turn of that noise off, you call it music? Its dam noise”, forgetting that they heard the same thing from their parents.
Where is the borderline between young, old, hippies or punks?
The difference between young and old, hippies or punk, local or global culture get mixed and melt different cultural elements together. We are more adaptable than ever, like chameleons we change, adopt and paste into every situation we face, anywhere at any time. Walking global media units receives, sending and sort out information faster and faster. This is a highly dangerous development, everybody needs to disconnect from time to time, but try to take away from whomever the mobile phone and laptop for a week, you will after a day or two see a pale, uncomfortable and highly restless person. If the mobile phone was the modern cigarette Smartphones are the new Heroin, you get highly addicted, but not the same abstinent physical illness.
About a week ago day on the tram this young, drunk and homeless boy sit next to me and talk to everyone and he screams out that he did not understand much about it all. I replied as I sat next to him that it was good to hear because I do not understand anything as well.
What do I know?
I was thinking what do I really know? And I got this lost feeling that everything happening around me is unreal. One see and read all the news about education, terror, war, friends, social media, jobs not jobs, the terrorists in Afghanistan the war in Iraq, Steak or Sushi for dinner, red or blue, Athens or Rome, Facebook or Twitter, blog or web site? And then I just get dizzy. There are so many choices. When I start thinking like this I feel that I am totally losing the grip into the big chaos that surrounds me.
A Presentation about the deep-seated anxiety consumers and clients feel about Climate Change and the leadership role brands and businesses can take in empowering people to address the future with confidence.
Top 10 Global Future Trends 2015 - Roger James HamiltonRoger Hamilton
Slides from the Top 10 Trends 2014 Europe Tour, hosted in London, September 2014. How will the waves of the future impact your business? Join Roger James Hamilton in upcoming events and entrepreneur accelerators around the world at http://www.rogerjameshamilton.com
If you want to know something about the future just study the present. Marsh...Buddha Jeans Company
WHERE DOES IT ALL START
We drop out of fashion
The world around us seems sometimes totally out of control, our lack of ability to catch it and being here and now is difficult. Naturally we come to a point where we feel loose of control and everything feels as a giant chaotic state. We stop and drop out. The capability to grip disappears. Most people drop out of fashion, music, film or digital trends at one point. We tune out and our kids tune in, soon they are also turning out. Their kids continue this merry goes round in a faster and faster way than before. Not unlike the wheel of life and death, (Dharma wheel) this cycle goes on and every time we believe that we see, hear or feel as everything never have been done before. But this, but this is far from the truth. And how many parents have not shaken their heads while the youngest turns up the volume to 11. Parents who scream out; turn of that noise off, you call it music? Its dam noise”, forgetting that they heard the same thing from their parents.
Where is the borderline between young, old, hippies or punks?
The difference between young and old, hippies or punk, local or global culture get mixed and melt different cultural elements together. We are more adaptable than ever, like chameleons we change, adopt and paste into every situation we face, anywhere at any time. Walking global media units receive, sending and sort out information faster and faster. This is a highly dangerous development, everybody needs to disconnect from time to time, but try to take away from whomever the mobile phone and laptop for a week, you will after a day or two see a pale, uncomfortable and highly restless person. If the mobile phone was the modern cigarette Smartphones are the new Heroin, you get highly addicted, but not the same abstinent physical illness.
About a week ago day on the tram this young, drunk and homeless boy sit next to me and talk to everyone and he screams out that he did not understand much about it all. I replied as I sat next to him that it was good to hear because I do not understand anything as well.
What do I know?
I was thinking what do I really know? And I got this lost feeling that everything happening around me is unreal. One see and read all the news about education, terror, war, friends, social media, jobs not jobs, the terrorists in Afghanistan the war in Iraq, Steak or Sushi for dinner, red or blue, Athens or Rome, Facebook or Twitter, blog or web site? And then I just get dizzy.
There are so many choices. When I start thinking like this I feel that I am totally losing the grip into the big chaos that surrounds me.
Chaos
Chaos, derived from the Ancient Greek Χάος, Chaos) typically means a state lacking order or predictability. In ancient Greece, it first meant the initial state of the universe, and, by extension, space, darkness, or a; and informally to mean a state of confusion, and in this case popular culture.
The largest consumer group is also
This issue highlights key shifts and new pattern formations in the environment: Society, Financial Economy, Health, Transportation, Retail, Food and Drink, Marketing and Advertising, Information Technology as well as Media and Entertainment. Each section contains inspirations to provoke new thoughts and ideas for innovative concepts as well as 3 scenarios that highlight ways in which these trends could disrupt your business within 5 years.
Similar to Marian Salzman @ Media Future Week (20)
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Dit zijn de slides afkomstig uit de presentatie van Willem Brom (EndemolShine) gegeven op 6 oktober 2020 tijdens het Cross Media Café - Video voor nieuwe platforms.
Jordi van de Bovenkamp (MediaMonks) met vijf tips voor fit-for-format-contentMedia Perspectives
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Paulo Lopes Escudeiro over nieuwe TikTok-gewoontes @ Cross Media Café - Nieuw...Media Perspectives
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Datum: dinsdag 19 mei 2020
Event: Cross Media Café - Nieuwe rol voor het publiek
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Paul Bojarski, CEO Sceenic, vertelt over de nieuwe formats die met Sceenic Events Solution gerealiseerd worden rond archiefmateriaal. Zo keken fans samen met boxer Dave Allen naar een oude wedstrijd, waarbij Allen commentaar gaf en met fans praatte.
Datum: 21 april 2020
Cross Media Café - Innovatie in coronatijden
Tomas van den Spiegel (Flanders Classics) en Jorre Belpaire (Kiswe Mobile) ov...Media Perspectives
Tomas van den Spiegel, CEO Flanders Classics en Jorre Belpaire, Head of Europe Kiswe Mobile over de virtuele Ronde van Vlaanderen – een massaal bekeken wielerwedstrijd met coureurs die vanuit huis op hun eigen fiets meededen aan een digitale wedstrijd.
Datum: 21 april 2020
Cross Media Café - Innovatie in coronatijden
Geraldine Macqueron (GAME OVER) over het initiatief Creators United @ CMC - I...Media Perspectives
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Datum: 21 april 2020
Cross Media Café - Innovatie in coronatijden
Arno Scharl (webLyzard technology) over online corona sentimenten weergeeft @...Media Perspectives
Arno Scharl, Managing Partner at webLyzard technology, over het REtv dashboard dat online corona sentimenten weergeeft
Datum: 21 april 2020
Cross Meda Café - Innovatie in coronatijden
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Op maandag 7 oktober presenteerde William Linders (ODMedia) over de opkomst van SVOD en AVOD. Met uitleg waarom TVOD stagneert en SVOD groeit. Ook was er in zijn presentatie aandacht voor de reden waarom de distributiemarkt wordt gedomineerd door internationale partijen.
Suzan Hoogland (GfK) over hoe de Nederlander 'Video' consumeertMedia Perspectives
Tijdens de expertsessie Video on Demand op maandag 7 oktober presenteerde Suzan Hoogland (GfK) over hoe de Nederlander 'video' consumeert. Met antwoord op de vragen:
- Welke platforms
- Welke doelgroepen
- Welke Merken
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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And...
Speakers:
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Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
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Marian Salzman @ Media Future Week
1. 2020 Tr ends:
What Will Affect Our
World in the Next Decade?
Media Future Week
Marian Salzman
May 16, 2011
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2. Why Trends?
Why do we look at trends when
creating actionable and insightful
strategies for big brands?
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3. Why Trends?
Why do we look at trends when
creating actionable and insightful
strategies for big brands?
•To identify the driving forces behind today and the
future and plan for long-term success.
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4. Why Trends?
Why do we look at trends when
creating actionable and insightful
strategies for big brands?
•Toidentify the driving forces behind today and the future
and plan for long-term success.
•To discover unexpected opportunities that can help
transform brands and businesses.
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5. Why Trends?
Why do we look at trends when
creating actionable and insightful
strategies for big brands?
•Toidentify the driving forces behind today and the future
and plan for long-term success.
•To discover unexpected opportunities that can help
transform brands and businesses.
•To manage into change by giving insight into the
drivers of key business, consumer and social trends.
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6. Learning to
Spot Trends social
It means tracking momentum
people
companies
radical
breakthroughs
economies
brands
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7. Spotting trends
is big business for people
in many industries who need
to be thinking ahead, for
themselves and their clients.
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8. And, really, isn’t that
everyone today?
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12. 1. Mother Earth
Needs Valium
•Maybe in the decades of prosperity we forgot how much we
depend on Mother Earth. Then came Hurricane Katrina and
all the ensuing worrying signs: tornadoes ripping across the
southern U.S.; massive flooding in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and
Australia; a heat wave in Russia; torrential rain and
mudslides in Brazil….
•The jury is still out on whether it’s man-made or not. But
either way, the climate is changing and getting decidedly weird.
•Are seismic events getting more frequent, too? The 2004
Asian earthquake and tsunami; earthquakes in Spain, China,
Haiti, Chile and New Zealand; the volcanic eruptions of
Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland and Merapi in Indonesia last year;
and this year’s Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
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13. 1. Mother Earth
Needs Valium
•What’s next? Could the La Palma volcano in the Canaries
erupt and send a megatsunami across to flatten the U.S.
East Coast? Could the Yellowstone Supervolcano blow up into
the finale to end all finales, with Americans getting a
ringside seat?
•Only economic engineering, with a massive injection and drip
feed of money, have saved the world from near economic
catastrophe so far. What sort of geo-engineering do we need
to save the world?
•How big a valium would we need to calm Mother Earth?
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14. How Trend No. 1
Means Business:
The Dutch have arguably the world’s
best record in geo-engineering with
water management; when the world
fears eco-bust, Dutch can think geo-
boom. Businesses everywhere need to be
sure they’re better prepared than
Tokyo Electric Power Co. Not many
countries would behave as meekly as
the Japanese.
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17. 2. Tobacco, GMOs,
Trans Fats…What’s Next?
•When so many things turn out to pose health risks, what
can consumers trust? Which everyday products could kill
them? We’re all familiar with these:
– Tobacco. Doctors and a young Ronald Reagan promoted the health
benefits of cigarettes. Even after medical research found conclusive
proof of health risks, tobacco companies continued to refute it.
– GMOs. When genetically modified organisms hit the headlines around
a decade ago—after the BSE scandal—Europeans talked of Frankenstein
foods and set strict regulations. As of April 2011, the EU is still
hesitant; GMO cultivation is limited.
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18. 2. Tobacco, GMOs,
Trans Fats…What’s Next?
And next, wireless communications?:
– Cell phones. For a decade, people have been wondering whether cell
phones bring health risks—especially brain tumors—but the U.S. FDA
says, “The weight of scientific evidence has not linked cell phones with
any health problems.” In Europe, many sites are quoting a 2007 report
from the European Environment Agency saying that cell-phone
technology “could lead to a health crisis similar to those caused by
asbestos, smoking and lead in petrol.”
•The concerns aren’t stopping cell phones and Wi-Fi from
being widely adopted, so the potential for an issue is
growing. Although maybe the worries will switch to
repetitive strain injury—teens and young adults, especially,
spend far more time texting than calling.
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19. How Trend No. 2
Means Business:
Everything could change with a
“perfect wireless storm.” Everyone in
cell-phone and Wi-Fi provision needs to
think about potential vulnerability to
claims by millions–maybe hundreds of
millions–of global consumers.
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21. 3 Water:
.The Next Oil
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22. 3. Water:
The Next Oil
•People have been talking for decades about water as the next
oil, but it will soon become a scary truth—and we’re not talking
bottled water, which already costs as much as car fuel.
•Drier places in the world (Australia, the Middle East, the
American Southwest) have long lived with drought and
squabbled over water resources for the basics of life:
drinking and growing food.
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23. 3. Water:
The Next Oil
•Now, modern consumption and hygiene habits, plus today’s
population growth, have been draining reservoirs, rivers and
groundwater faster than a bathtub with the plug pulled.
•Whole seas have been shrinking—the Aral Sea in Central
Asia and the Dead Sea in the Middle East, and in the U.S.,
Lake Mead was an estimated 54 percent empty in 2008.
With climate change, southern Europe could become even
more like North Africa.
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24. How Trend No. 3
Means Business:
The slowly unfolding water crisis is a
great opportunity for businesses to
roll out more water-efficient products
for newly conscientious consumers.
Companies and countries with a track
record in water will be especially
well placed.
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26. 4 What’s Not
.Online-able
Is Doomed
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27. 4. What’s Not Online-
able Is Doomed
•In the 1980s, CDs made LPs obsolete, then MP3 music
through the Internet started killing CDs and undermining
the whole old-style music industry.
•Inthe late 1990s, DVDs started replacing VHS tapes; a
decade later, DVDs are under pressure from Tivo-style DVRs
and on-demand Internet-delivery services.
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28. 4. What’s Not Online-
able Is Doomed
•Digitalcameras hit consumer markets in the early 2000s;
in 2005, Kodak’s digital products and services overtook its
film product sales. Now, who needs a camera when a mobile
phone can take pictures and upload them to view online?
•Printedbooks, magazines and newspapers are selling less,
and the contents are being consumed more on computers
and pads. In February 2011, e-book sales overtook print
book sales with a 202 percent month-over-month increase.
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29. How Trend No. 4
Means Business:
Consumers value being able to do
things online–including having
friendships. Brands or products that
have smart online elements will beat
those that don’t.
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31. 5.Antisocial
The New Social:
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32. 5. The New Social:
Antisocial
•Even if we don’t like the name, we all love social media. But
sometimes its paradoxes are just plain ridiculous—or tragic.
•These days, people don’t smoke when they’re feeling nervous
in a social setting; they check their FB page or Twitter feed
on their mobile device (as antisocial to people nearby as
having cigarette smoke blown on them).
•Some people even check their mobile device while they’re
walking along the street or in stores, oblivious to the people
around them—until they bump into them.
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33. 5. The New Social:
Antisocial
•The “new social” often interrupts physical interactions with
people—attention keeps flitting from the face-to-face
conversation to the online action.
•It’s a one-way trend of more technology, nevertheless.
Another 10 years of smart phones (iPhone 15?) and tablets
(iPad 13?) will make it even more compelling for consumers
to conduct social interactions through their technology.
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34. How Trend No. 5
Means Business:
As consumers’ social interactions are
mediated more by tech, companies have
a huge scope for making money with
hardware, software and services that
enhance them.
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36. 6 The Brain and Homo
.Sapiens 2.0
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37. 6. The Brain and Homo
Sapiens 2.0
•Neuroscience is the new rock ’n’ roll, the new darling of the
media, looking into brains with high-tech scanners and
revealing the workings of everything from addiction to love.
•Itholds out the promise of enhancing memory and
creativity, as well as offering better treatment for illnesses
such as dementia and Parkinson’s, and delaying the aging of
the brain with supplements, drugs and devices.
•And there’s more…
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38. 6. The Brain and Homo
Sapiens 2.0
•We now know that our brains are shaped—literally—by what
we experience. And what we are increasingly experiencing is
interactive technology mediated through the screens that
represent the world to us.
•Now we have the scientific instruments to see how the
technical tools we’re using are changing our brains. We have
a box seat to watch the emergence of Homo sapiens 2.0.
“Perhaps not since early man first discovered how to
use a tool has the human brain been affected so
quickly and so dramatically.” —UCLA neuroscientist Gary
Small on modern technology
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39. How Trend No. 6
Means Business:
Watch as n (for “neuro”) gets applied to
brain products and services: nBoosters,
nHancers, nNutrients, nGames,
nGagement. Get into people’s brains
yourself by becoming a detached
anthropologist to notice key points that
might not be apparent to insiders (who
might be too busy screen-watching).
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41. 7 More Real
. than Real
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42. 7. More Real
than Real
•Even in the dark ages of computer graphics, the U.S. Marines
were using a version of first-person shooter game Doom for
training, and airline pilots were training on simulators.
•Now with CGI and 3-D, gamemakers and moviemakers are
creating experiences more vivid, more stimulating and more
immersive than virtually anything in the mundane physical
world of everyday reality.
•Military pilots “fly” unmanned drones on combat missions,
and millions of civilians immerse themselves in
hyperrealistic computer games for hours on end.
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43. 7. More Real
than Real
•Itdoesn’t even need fancy graphics: Interactions on simple
text-based social media platforms such as Facebook are
typically experienced comparably to offline interactions
(online-ability strikes again!).
•Some consumers already tend to find ordinary life
experiences less “real” than mediated virtual experiences.
As computing power increases and technology companies
refine their offerings, growing numbers of consumers will
drive this trend.
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44. How Trend No. 7
Means Business:
In the struggle for consumers’
attention, there are two options: Pay
out a lot of money for Matrix and
Avatar levels of vividness or get much
smarter at lower-cost “nGagement.”
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46. 8 Hyperlocal Is
.the New Global
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47. 8. Hyperlocal
Is the New Global
•It’s interesting to know what’s happening in other parts of
the world, but how much does it really matter? Compare it
with what’s happening hyperlocally, right on your doorstep,
which is more likely to be useful and virtually guaranteed to
be relevant.
•All the hot new online services are either about where
people live or work (Groupon in the U.S., Mecom in the
Netherlands and other parts of Europe, ProXiti in France,
Patch in the U.S.) or where you are right now with your
mobile device (Foursquare, Gowalla), so that they can
deliver news, information and deals that are likely to matter
to you.
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48. 8. Hyperlocal
Is the New Global
•Hyperlocal media is more than just the traditional local
newspaper or broadcasting delivered through the Internet: It
patches together journalism, bloggers, citizen journalists, and
people taking videos and photos in an online grapevine.
•Hyperlocal media uses the real-time, multimedia, interactive
power of the Internet to strengthen connections within and
between local communities.
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49. How Trend No. 8
Means Business:
With the Internet, businesses can
track consumer choices and adjust
offers to match. Hyperlocal media
makes them even more relevant to
consumers and their communities.
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52. 9. USA: No.
Internet: Yes.
•Although the United States still has many of the world’s
biggest tech brands, it no longer dominates the action on the
Internet. North America now accounts for just 13.5 percent
of Internet users, compared with 24.2 percent in Europe and
42 percent in Asia.
•Silicon Valleyis the spiritual home of the Internet, and the
U.S. government (DARPA) is its spiritual father, but the
Internet is now bigger than both. The Internet has made a
fading United States less important as a physical place in
the world.
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53. 9. USA: No.
Internet: Yes.
•Today, many of the best bits of the U.S. are available on the
Internet 24/7: music, movies, sports, TV, keynote speakers
on TED, educational materials. It’s always there virtually, so
there’s less need to go there physically.
•The more time consumers spend online, the more their
cyberspace destinations will blur with physical locations in
their mind.
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54. How Trend No. 9
Means Business:
The Internet is ousting America as the
iconic Land of Dreams. People with
great ideas and determination can
meet up online, make things happen
and make their fortune (without the
green card hassle).
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56. 10 English Out,
.Globish In
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57. 10. English Out,
Globish In
•Ambitious people with an eye on the coming superpower
might be learning Mandarin as a second language, but most
of the rest of the world is learning English. It’s the network
effect at work.
•GlobetrottingFrench businessman Jean-Paul Nerrière noticed
how many non-native speakers struggled with “proper
English” and set about creating a standardized, simplified
form of English with a vocabulary of 1,500 words and a
simple structure—a world language called Globish.
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58. 10. English Out,
Globish In
•In keeping with the online-ability imperative, anybody
interested in learning the slimmed-down global English can
go to Globish.com and start learning.
•The Globish initiative has fired up journalist Robert McCrum,
who made an authoritative TV documentary of the English
language 25 years ago. He now sees Globish as the language
of the Internet-powered world.
“English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural
revolution…a global means of communication that is
irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and
subversive.” —Robert McCrum
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59. How Trend No. 10
Means Business:
In data communication, TCP/IP and
HTML enabled people in any country
with any computer to communicate. In
verbal communication, Globish has the
potential to do the same. Brands need
to learn Globish.
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61. 11 Long, Sloooow,
.Demanding TV
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62. 11. Long, Sloooow,
Demanding TV
•For a long time, everything seemed to be getting faster and
shorter—MTV videos, fast-cut movie action sequences and
now millions of YouTube clips. Not much attention required.
•Then came much more demanding long-form TV series with
much less action and much more complex plotlines spread
over many episodes and multiple series—think “Lost,” “The
Wire,” “Deadwood,” “Mad Men.”
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63. 11. Long, Sloooow,
Demanding TV
•Asa yin to the yang of youth-targeted, fast-twitch TV,
demand for complex long-form TV has grown organically as
mature consumers get drawn in and find themselves hooked.
•Europe has developed a taste for swapping loooong, sloooow
gritty crime dramas shown in the original language with
subtitles—“The Killing” (“Forbrydelsen”) from Denmark,
“Spiral” (“Engrenages”) from France, “Wallander” from
Sweden.
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64. How Trend No. 11
Means Business:
Out in Consumerland, there is an
appetite for content that rewards
adult attention and sophisticated
intelligence. The catch: It requires
those traits from producers and
consumers.
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66. 11.5Kick Start
Career
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67. 11.5 Career
Kick Start
•Some choose to start over; others are forced by circumstance.
Either way, hundreds of thousands of people are embarking
on new careers. Great Recession = Great Kick Start?
•Many older people have been forced back to work because
pensions, savings or investments don’t cover their costs of
living—and increasing life spans mean they’ll need even more.
•Fewer workers means lower costs for businesses—but also
less money for consumers to spend on their products.
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68. How Trend No. 11.5
Means Business:
The more businesses can foster people
starting new careers, the more money
consumers will have to spend on the
products businesses make.
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70. What It All Means
•Unexpected quakes (whether the death of Bin Laden or
perma-rattles in Tokyo) cause lasting shudders.
•The real-time news ticker with the stock indices gives us all
a minute-by-minute measure of the ROI of the consuming
life—we have become “bad news bears.”
•“Mycasting”becomes the name of the news dissemination
game, and we’re all in the control booth.
•Miniature, flexible and portable—from the cloud to the idea
of classrooms in backpacks versus backpacks in classrooms.
Have office, will travel (or not).
•Everything is changing faster, more furiously and sometimes
with less purpose than ever. Stress fuels decades of adult life.
•ADD is the new normal. If you can’t multitask, you’re a
white elephant.
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