OK last post was musing. This is the synthesis. People. The world is becoming flat again. example: Interfaces are becoming flat. Touch screens. Flat screens. Tablets. We are writing and reading on tablets again. Let’s hope we don’t fall off the wrong edge. Special thanks to Einat Biran for helping me crystalise! Image source: 1922 [...]

Things are changing. Fast. Sometimes it can be hard to articulate quite how much I feel that things are changing and those changes are speeding up. Even our (and my own) shift to visuals over words^. My friend posted the link to the images below on Facebook*. It portrays visually what I feel. Things are [...]

“Our kids don’t know what it’s like to be bored…” my uncle mentioned in passing last week. I write this on my laptop with Whale Rider on the TV in front of me, my iphone next to me, a zillion tabs open in firefox…I notice how these days if I’m in a cab or even [...]

I keep meaning to post but I’ve been sending links & cool stuff via twitter (@natstories) and I guess I’ve been, well…procrastinating. So here’s hoping just posting something will get me back to blogging (and storytelling and…) Happy Wednesday! Image from the fab folks @ Harold’s Planet

Ever felt time is speeding up lately? Feelings of disorientation and something not quite right or… simply how the hell is it already September? I asked a dear friend futurist and elder, Paul Shumann, about time and space in one of our dialogue-chats. He shared a thought experiment with me. And after the conversation I [...]

What are we breathing life into? And what is in our breath? Two distinct and yet somehow (in my tangential mind) related pieces came together – beyond the fact that I found them via the same source… Last week I took the time to watch the TEDtalk of Jane Poynter as she discussed living in [...]

The other day I mentioned to a friend in finance that I thought the markets were going to keep falling much more. “That’s rather pessimistic”, he said. My reply: “No, that’s me being optimistic. I actually think that they are going to crash burn and disappear*.” That’s my opinion and mostly I’ve been wondering for [...]

I know I posted yesterday but this clip was sent to me by Gary (who found it thanks to Barefoot Meg – great blog, Meg) and I just HAD to share it. Not in the least as because with everything going to shit it really does feel great to just LAUGH and realise just how [...]

I’m here again. I’ve been here for a while. A part of me has been ignoring it. The part of me who expects a lot is dissatisfied. Another part is having a mini-tantrum “aren’t we done yet?” “are we ever done?” “waah” One part wants to make many decisions. One wants to put her head [...]

Current times are a bit of a bitch…ok they’re a huge in pain the butt and, if you are a bit like me, you believe that it’s only going further downhill*. It’s a little comical for me to consider that some years ago I was “a change agent” who “wanted to change the world” and [...]