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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Entrepreneurial migration: It’s not brain drain, it’s global network formation

Trends in the Living Networks

My key message was that we absolutely shouldn’t see this as “brain drain”, but the formation of rich networks that are enormous enablers for the economy and entrepreneurial opportunities in the future. In a networked world, this is a critical source of success for us. So let’s drop the talk of brain drain.

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Haunted by repeated breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella

GeekWire

Microsoft halted its internal software development temporarily and made security its top priority under the “Trustworthy Computing” initiative that Bill Gates instituted in 2002. The company has been here before, more than two decades ago. “It would be transparent about breaches. .

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Living Networks – Chapter 10: Liberating Individuals – Network Strategy for Free Agents

Trends in the Living Networks

Download Chapter 10 of Living Networks on Liberating Individuals. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. Living Networks – Chapter 10: Liberating Individuals.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

Trends in the Living Networks

While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. As it happens this model closer to LinkedIn than any of the other major social networking platforms of today.

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Cyber Safety Review Board finds Microsoft security culture ‘inadequate,’ calls for accountability

GeekWire

At one point, the report says Microsoft’s leaders need to consider refocusing its product development, prioritizing security features over new product features, effectively reviving the spirit of the “Trustworthy Computing” initiative that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously instituted in 2002.

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Reviewing my map of the 2010s at the end of the decade

Trends in the Living Networks

Many developed nations will start hitting the wall in their ability to support their elderly. The contrast with the rapid growth of developing nations will bring into focus the turn in economic fortunes. ORGANIZATIONS TO NETWORKS. DEMOGRAPHIC CRUNCH. The inevitable result is mass migration, licit or illicit. GLOBAL TALENT.

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