Comments on: Age of Conversation http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:12:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Age of Conversation 2 is now out || October || 2008 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-178695 Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Age of Conversation 2 is now out || October || 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:52:58 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/#comment-178695 [...] few months ago, I volunteered to contribute an essay to a compendium called “The Age of Conversation 2″. The first “Age of [...] [...] few months ago, I volunteered to contribute an essay to a compendium called “The Age of Conversation 2″. The first “Age of [...]

]]> By: peter http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-156042 peter Sat, 10 May 2008 22:09:53 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/#comment-156042 Some random thoughts: 1. As someone famous has said: The future is already here, it is just not distributed evenly. 2. New business models will continue to emerge while at the same time the old models will stay in use. 3. Despite laptops and pen computers, and the use of printed books for half a millenium, we sophisticated moderns still carve messages on stone monuments or engrave them on metal cups when we wish to write something permanent and significant. 4. Within a couple of miles of Wall Street, where the most sophisticated, complex financial derivatives, options and futures products are sold, there are still every week garage sales using traditional auction methods to sell stuff. 5. The fact that everyone does not get it provides a business opportunity for those who do. 6. Social networking sites are nothing new: the coffee houses of Europe in the 1660s were open centres for conversation, usually centred on particular topics or particular viewpoints, which anyone could join. Entire new industries (eg, insurance, art auctions) and new sciences (eg, probability theory) arose from coffee house culture at this time. HTH! Some random thoughts:

1. As someone famous has said: The future is already here, it is just not distributed evenly.

2. New business models will continue to emerge while at the same time the old models will stay in use.

3. Despite laptops and pen computers, and the use of printed books for half a millenium, we sophisticated moderns still carve messages on stone monuments or engrave them on metal cups when we wish to write something permanent and significant.

4. Within a couple of miles of Wall Street, where the most sophisticated, complex financial derivatives, options and futures products are sold, there are still every week garage sales using traditional auction methods to sell stuff.

5. The fact that everyone does not get it provides a business opportunity for those who do.

6. Social networking sites are nothing new: the coffee houses of Europe in the 1660s were open centres for conversation, usually centred on particular topics or particular viewpoints, which anyone could join. Entire new industries (eg, insurance, art auctions) and new sciences (eg, probability theory) arose from coffee house culture at this time.

HTH!

]]> By: james http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-155834 james Fri, 09 May 2008 02:16:00 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/#comment-155834 I got some stuff to do real quick, but I'm going to write down my thoughts tonight. Something about Tom Sawyer, right? I got some stuff to do real quick, but I’m going to write down my thoughts tonight.

Something about Tom Sawyer, right?

]]> By: utsav http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-155818 utsav Fri, 09 May 2008 00:46:23 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/#comment-155818 Dear (insert reference to preferred deity here)! Can you provide a little bit of context around your notion of business model evolution? Looks like you already have two editors-in-waiting, but I'm happy to volunteer myself. After all, what will I do with my life once EMSTM ends for us on May 13, 2008? Dear (insert reference to preferred deity here)! Can you provide a little bit of context around your notion of business model evolution?

Looks like you already have two editors-in-waiting, but I’m happy to volunteer myself. After all, what will I do with my life once EMSTM ends for us on May 13, 2008?

]]> By: Beemer http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-155801 Beemer Thu, 08 May 2008 21:53:34 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/#comment-155801 I'd be happy to run a critical eye over it. I’d be happy to run a critical eye over it.

]]> By: lila http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-155800 lila Thu, 08 May 2008 21:48:05 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/05/08/age-of-conversation/#comment-155800 i got me no idears, but i can edit... i got me no idears, but i can edit…

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