A new home for the AmazonBay video
Just before I went to Africa, I happened to notice that my former employers had taken down the link to the AmazonBay film at www.amazonbay.co.uk & www.drkwrevolution.com/2015. Not exactly sure when it disappeared but have been meaning to get it up on my site in any event and hopefully will soon be able to get the original url (which is printed on all my personal cards!) to re-direct once again to the video which you can now find here (I’ve also updated the link in the sidebar.)
Looking at it again (it’s probably been almost a year since I last viewed it) the thing that struck me most is how dated it now seems (the scenario just celebrated its 2nd birthday…); on the other hand, many of the themes are more relevant than ever, and some of it has even come true. (For those of you seeing it for the first time, some context can be found here and here.)
Here’s to 2015.
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A big big thank you to Malcolm. Without whom the Park Paradigm would exist only in my head.
June 17th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Just a great piece of thought provocation. It made me think though, if Google does manage to bridge into “the real world” though mapping, and GPS, potentially into “person search” (where is Sean now etc.), it might actually open up “lifestream risk”, i.e. much as genetics will have predictive capability on our likelihood of dying young etc., being able to track our movement through the physical world, where we hang out, who we hang out with, could actually affect some of the same measures, (i.e. Sean is in a pub, after skying, with someone that has had 3 personal injuries, therefore Sean’s risk score will increase for the length of time he is in those sets of circumstances!). And given the way people like to broadcast these things (www.jaiku.com, www.plazes.com, www.twitter.com), it actually might not have any privacy issues!
June 17th, 2007 at 9:49 am
PS: have a look at www.garlik.com
Seamus McCauley has a great piece on a market for predicting technology trajectories,
http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2007/06/techforx_a_tech.html
He has a great piece on trading your own credit card rating!
http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2007/06/got_a_great_cre.html
June 17th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
The AmazonBay of media? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8ZadKgdC0
Your AmazonBay video and related thinking are decidedly more scientific than this clip - - but the future played out via corporate mergers is similiar and interesting, or at least fun to watch.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Thanks for the link Ross, hadn’t seen it. The narrator has kind of a crazy Italian accent; is that how English will be spoken in 2050?
Anyhow thought it was good fun.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:42 am
Indeed the ubiquity of mobile phones and GPS positioning technology will allow the migration of ‘attention’ data from the virtual world to the physical world. The implications, opportunities and risks are signficant; suffice to say that we are probably closer to a world as envisioned in Minority Report than perhaps we realize. Had seen garlik…don’t really have an opinion - what is your view? (Or alternatively do you know of any objective reviews in the blogosphere?) Thanks for the other links will have a look.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Not really relevant to your central argument, but fun nonetheless: Why Amazon Should Buy eBay (NY Times, 14th December 2007) and some commentary here: Should eBay Merge With Amazon?
Neither article has anything like the breadth and depth of the Park vision