Toffler and the Revolution

Gregory Mantell's interview of Alvin Toffler relating to he and his wife's latest book Revolutionary Wealth addresses a series of notions including the intangible nature of knowledge and its reprecussions to wealth and his prediction of a series of "Institutional Katrinas", where businesses, governments and educational systems will catastrohpically fail in delivering on promises. Watch the interview.

Pollan and Kenner WNYC Radio Interview on Food

Author Pollan and Director Kenner talk on WNYC Radio about US food policy. For the complete interview listen here. Each synthesizes the idea of how flawed food policy is based on a past paradigm of scarcity of calories as the key obstacle; thus leading to a strategy of subsidizing corn and soy production which serves as the foundatio of our centralized fast food nation.

Serve Up Food Inc.

Michael Pollan, award winning author of a number of books including best seller The Omnivore's Dilemma is featured in the just released movie Food Inc.. No sphere of our world is protected from the impact of the revolution, least of which is the food industry as this documentary shows. You'll never look at food the same again. The need to decentralize our production and consumption of food has never been more evident.

Content Creation = New Biz Models

Digital content creation is becoming mainstream : both quality and quantity. Thus the barriers to entry around IP digital biz models are falling. If you are a new biz that is good news. If your an old biz, better get ready for the revolution.

Rosy - Google Wave's Real-time Translator

Rosy is an automatic translation robot, built on top of Wave and Google Translate, enabling real-time, multilingual, collaborative communication.Watch this brief snipit of the Wave demo presentation around Rosy.