You might think that above is just another sensationalist website. It’s certainly sensationalist. But MediaMass is not just another website! First off, all the news reported on MediaMass is completely fake – indeed, it’s an exercise in proving that you shouldn’t believe everything you read. But more importantly for our purposes, none of it has been […]
The concept of user-generated content (UGC) is not new. It first came to the attention of business analysts in the early 2000s, when it became apparent that companies like Facebook were becoming corporate behemoths not by churning out their own content, but by leveraging the value of content created by users. In a sense, Google […]
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 second Futurist.Matt podcast is Chris Monteiro, Senior Systems Admin by day, Cybercrime researcher by night. During the short 15 minute audio, we discuss the following questions: 0:37: What started your interest in Cybercrime? 1:15: What happened with the Ashley Madison dataleak? 2:12: What did the hacker do with data once it was stolen? 2:40: […]
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 […]
There’s no doubt about it. Cyber attacks are getting more sophisticated. However, so are the protection measures. As long as one exists, so will the other. In the previous post, I looked at one of the earliest computer security crimes involving Roswell Steffen and the embezzled $1.5m in 1973. A landmark case in 1988 involving […]
Computer security and Cybercrime are the focus of this blog post, as we explore them in an upcoming short series of articles. Before we look at Cybercrime in any depth, it’s important to define it. It’s essentially a word describing any crime committed through the use of computers and often using the internet. Notably, the […]
