Recommending Alan Moore’s new book: “We have arrived at the edge of the adaptive range of our industrial world. At the edge, because that world, our world is being overwhelmed by a trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity. We are in transit from a linear world to a non-linear one. Non-linear because it is for all of us socially, organisationally and economically ambiguous, confusing and worrying. Consequently we are faced with an increasingly pressing and urgent problem, WHAT COMES NEXT? And also we are therefore presented with a design challenge: HOW do we create better societies, more able organisations and, more vibrant and equitable economies relevant to the world we live in today? No Straight Lines presents a new logic and inspiring plea for a more human centric world that argues we now have the possibility to truly transform our world, to be more resilient, to be more relevant to us both personally and collectively, socially cohesive, sustainable, economically vibrant and humane, through the tools, capabilities, language and processes at our fingertips.”
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From PCMAG.com: “Audi sketched out its vision for the future of connected cars Wednesday at CES, with cell phone boosters and LTE paving the way for hands-free driving and user-controlled swipable heads-up displays.

The German carmaker, which last year debuted a modular multimedia interface (MMI) built around the Nvidia Tegra 2 mobile processor, again brought Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang on stage to unveil a version of the board using the 1.4-GHz Tegra 3, which is currently being made available in the upcoming Audi A3.

But the company also unveiled a ridiculous amount of technology that the company is developing in its labs. A short-term improvement, LTE, seemed almost like an afterthought, after being prominently featured in announcements from Seagate and OnStar, among others.

Audi’s connected car vision, Audi Connect, previously used 3G technology to connect the car to an array of…read on.”

From Didier Marlier’s blog: “‘Strategy is not about guessing the future but preparing for whatever it will be!’. Many of you have heard our friend and partner Nick van Heck claim this. And preparing our organizations, start with preparing ourselves, as leaders and human beings.

Many of you know the fascination that the work of Joseph Campbell has on me. Campbell was a university professor in the USA and his life long quest has been around the myths of heroism. One of his most astonishing findings was the profound similarities between all of them throughout the world and moment in mankind’s history. In his view, human beings seemed to agree, regardless of their social, religious or time positions, on what traits a hero has and the Journey he/she has to go through in order to reach such a level of wisdom. Campbell’s work was so compelling that George Lucas, when working on the scenario of Star Wars, invited him to co-write the work… Lucas’ intuition was right: everybody in the world could connect with the movie and it became a worldwide success. Many movies are constructed today around the scenario of…read on.”

Found on Alan Moore’s blog SMLXL: “We have arrived at the edge of the adaptive range of our industrial world. At the edge, because that world, our world is being overwhelmed by a trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity. We are in transit from a linear world to a non-linear one. Non-linear because it is for all of us socially, organisationally and economically ambiguous, confusing and worrying.

Consequently we are faced with an increasingly pressing and urgent problem, WHAT COMES NEXT? And also we are therefore presented with a design challenge: HOW do we create better societies, more able organisations and, more vibrant and equitable economies relevant to the world we live in today? No Straight Lines presents a new logic/literacy and inspiring plea for a more human centric world that describes an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational…read on.”