The concept of shareholder value – extracting wealth from enterprise for the benefit of shareholders – was borne of the industrial revolution. It was a time when natural resources were plentiful, industrial technology created value without costing people, and populations were scarce enough to be a valuable resource in factories. Entrepreneurs got rich, but they […]
If this video encourages anything, it is a difference of opinion. What about the steam train? Transistors? “On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin? Or, in terms of changing history, Sir Hiram Maxim’s devastating invention: the machine gun. Innovation is everywhere, and we don’t all agree on it. Taking a more birds-eye view, though, throughout history, we can see that population size […]
“Dark data” is the data we routinely store during day-to-day business activities, but which we fail to put to any use. And it’s a double-edged sword. On the one hand, we now have the computing power to analyse and use this data for commercially valuable purposes. The problem in the past has been that this […]
The journey here started in 2006 while beginning to build global networks of creative and technical people to work on client projects. Between us, we started sharing trends – ultimately making us more aware and greater than the sum of our parts. In the early part of this period, we mostly focused on the technical […]
Joining me for the first Futurist.Matt podcast is Jason Bates, Co-founder – Mondo Bank. During the short 10 minute audio, we discuss the following questions: 0:30: Why start a bank? 0:55: What’s different about Mondo? 2:30: What trends in society make Mondo possible? 4:30: Where could Mondo be in five years time – subject to […]
