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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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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Particls switches on the power of RSS | Main | A week of hot news on the web: Trade sales mark the boom » Launching the Web 2.0 report - You can download Chapter 2 on Web 2.0

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Reality check: intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis since the 1990s

Trends in the Living Networks

I fail to understand why this is big news, since US intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis (SNA) for domestic purposes since the 1990s, and likely even before that. I have been focused on networks since long before I wrote Living Networks in 2002. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S.

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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Below is the Extinction Timeline created jointly by What’s Next and Future Exploration Network – click on the image for the detailed timeline as a pdf (1.2MB). For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Also see Richard Watson’s blog post on the extinction timeline.

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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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