Information & Interfaces
I’m still stuck on the narrative of consumption – both on the intent and interest front, as I wrote in Intent, Interest & Internet Dominance, as well as on […]
A shift in the world order
(via) It has been a while since I wrote about nation states, or notion states as I call them. Now is not really a good time to bring this […]
Brand Interfaces
A couple of months ago, I had written a post on the inevitable ambient future of what we now call the internet, and the role of AI in it. […]
Old bottles, new wine
I recently contributed a column in Pitch on the role of mass media in building ecommerce brands. You can catch it here.
The IoT battlefield
The last time I wrote about the Internet of Things, I hoped for an application layer that could sense and collect data and convert it into use cases. In […]
An Interweb of Things
Since the time I wrote An Internet of Things narrative, its trajectory and pace has seen tremendous acceleration, to an extent where TC has claimed that it has reached escape […]
Changing brandscapes
Recently, I was part of an interesting round table discussion organised by afaqs and IBM around “Technology in Marketing“. While we did stick to the subject, in my mind, […]
Linking learning & labour
I’m a huge Asimov fan, and am constantly amazed at how he was able to have a perspective of the future on multiple fronts. I was reminded of two […]
Social Nextworks
The impending death of Orkut (2004-2014) made me think of the evolution of social networking and its transience. Orkut lived ‘only’ for 10.5 years, and this is despite being part […]
The Change Imperative
Ever since I first wrote about institutional realignment, I have been more conscious of it and its implications on our lives. To a certain extent, even paranoid, because of […]