#gleonhard

[ecologiadigital]

This is what I think about #alexa and google home: are you ready for an increasingly clever AI to go deep-diving into your brain? ready to abdicate? Outsource thinking ? pic.twitter.com/8tpXLONcpv

— Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) September 26, 2018

[ecologiadigital]

Pierre Omidyar's 6 ways social media has become a threat to #democracy https://t.co/9tDOL8F3KU "Conflation of popularity with legitimacy"

— Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) October 25, 2017

[ecologiadigital]

Sowing Seeds of Hate: The Unforgivable Disgrace of an American President https://t.co/meBgs4AQPu via @SPIEGELONLINE

— Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) August 27, 2017

[thegoodfuture]

Future of Digital Content Business Gerd Leonhard Futurist.014 on Flickr.

The future of content is less and less 'buying' or even 'getting' a copy

[futuresagency]

While streaming is especially popular with younger consumers, downloading music through services like iTunes is still a prominent way to listen to music, according to research by AYTM. AYTM’s survey indicated that 37% of US internet users used free music streaming services like Pandora in October. Moreover, 32% paid to download music through a music service like iTunes. Only about 9% paid for a music streaming service like Spotify on a subscription basis that month.

With Streaming and Sharing, Teens Find Ways Around Paying for Music - eMarketer

Gerd comments: it's not rocket-science: cherry picking songs on iTunes feels good to some people because it's only a $ £ € every now and then, but committing to a monthly fee on Spotify is totally different ( I do, and love it). Neither one will really get EVERY music fan engaged. The solution: Bundle Spotify et al into ISPs, operators, etc, make it 'feel like free' ie totally painless for users, then upsell to next levels such as HD, more offline storage, fan clubs, live concert streams etc. Music industry guys: you can't have the cake and eat it - time to wake up.

[thegoodfuture]

In the long term, “Don’t Be Evil” is bound to prove a major handicap, preventing Google from developing robust ethical frameworks for dealing with the never-ending problems facing the company. Google has unknowingly become a prisoner of its own motto and is at great pains to distance itself from it" Serious read ;) made me think

[thegoodfuture]

"The old YouTube you knew (and maybe loved!) is gone. It’s been replaced by something that’s a lot more like a play-anywhere, device-agnostic, multi-channel network. It’s becoming a cable network for people who don’t have cable. YouTube doesn’t want you to watch videos anymore — not in the singular sense, at least. It wants you to stick around and see what comes next..."

Gerd adds: makes total sense. Cable TV without Cable. Absolutely. A long-term, ultra smart investment by Google.

Remember, in this context:

[thegoodfuture]

Twitter is not a newspaper. It’s not a gaming platform. It’s not a TV network. It’s potentially more powerful than all of those things because it’s so simple. It’s not as sexy as Facebook right now, and the road to billions of users may be slower, but it has the ability to be timeless. If it stays the course.