What is the future of retail and consumer innovation? How will major brands respond to disruptive shifts in customer behaviour? Carte Blanche, a South African TV current affairs program ran this video special featuring futurist and author Mike Walsh during his visit to Capetown for the South African Shopping Centres Congress.
CATEGORY: South Africa
Mike Walsh, author, CEO of research agency Tomorrow and a specialist on the digital future, is a keynote speaker at the 2010 national conference Eyes Wide Open in September. He spoke to Research News about what the world's digital future might look like - and it may be coming fromn a different direction than the one you'd expect. Brazil, Russia, India and China, will the interesting countries to watch in the next few years for digital innovations, according to futurist Mike Walsh. But first, he says, we need to go baxk to the past...
CATEGORY: Australia
Management Today, part of the HSM group produced this profile on futurist Mike Walsh on his views on the future of consumers, marketing and business. With insights from his best selling book Futuretainment, Mike discusses the unique opportunities for digital focused companies and entrepreneurs with a special focus on the Latin American region. This popular episode, subtitled in Spanish has been on high rotation on broadcast networks in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and in other markets across Latin America.
CATEGORY: Latin America
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE, YOU just have to know where to look,” the futurists say. They tell stories of the use of technology in cities such as Tokyo and Seoul, of transport choices in cities such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen and of balances of power shifting from the USA to China. But what exactly does it all mean for us, for the individuals who will be affected by the rapid and rampant change that we’re seeing around us on a daily basis. What type of world will our children be living in?
This article appear in ‘Lexus Magazine’.
CATEGORY: Australia
Will good design ultimately concede to digital books?
Art director Vince Frost thinks so: 'The book has been replaced already. A book is an old-fashioned form of communication. We are all writers and publishers. We make our own content and share it with the world with ease. It's a break-down of traditional monopolies that have controlled our literary diet for too long.'
Fitting, Frost has art directed a new book called Futuretainment, which is about the amazing things that have happened and are happening in the digital world.
Published by Phaidon, you will note that it is, in fact, a book.
CATEGORY: United Kingdom
