10 Trends for 2012 in 2 minutes by JWTIntelligence

In our seventh annual year-end forecast of trends for the near future, continued economic uncertainty is at the center of or driving several of these trends; another theme is the rising idea of shared responsibility. As always, new technology is a key factor as well.

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The Steve Jobs MBA in 14 Lessons

This past June Wired UK published The Steve Jobs MBA, a collection of 14 lessons by some of my favorite writers and thinkers:

Unit 101: Future thinking by Alain De Botton

Unit 102: People pay more if it's worth it by Richard Seymour

Unit 103: Connect your people by Jonah Lehrer

Unit 104: Master the entire business by Ajaz Ahmed

Unit 105: Build from the bottom up by Tim Smit

Unit 106: Interpret, don't impersonate by Guy Kawasaki

Unit 107: It's all about design by Deyan Sudjic

Unit 108: Dazzle your audience by Carmine Gallo

Unit 109: Steve Jobs: in his own words by Steve Jobs compiled by Wired staff

Unit 110: Challenge the expectations of others by Jeff Jarvis

Unit 111: Be your own competition by Charles Dunstone

Unit 112: Reboot, reboot, reboot by Tim Wu

Unit 113: The big reveal is the best advertising by Leander Kahney

Unit 114: Stay hungry, stay foolish by Wired UK staff

Transmedia = device agnostic media

It used to be that every medium was tied to a specific device. Television was something you watched on TV; radio was something you listened to on the radio; a movie was something you went to the movies to see. No longer. Transmedia is what happens when media become uncoupled from the devices that were invented to deliver them. It's an organic and inevitable response to the world we live in. Like, how else would you tell a story? 

via Frank Rose at deepmediaonline.com

On The Creating And Sharing Of Awe

By @jason_silva and @NotThisBody - Follow us on twitter! Our other videos: Beginning of Infinity - http://vimeo.com/29938326 To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns - http://vimeo.com/34182381 Imagination - http://vimeo.com/34902950 Abundance - http://vimeo.com/34984088 Ecstasy is the experience of becoming "epiphanized" by rapturous AWE. As described in Rich Doyle's Darwin's Pharmacy, "...a sense of interior and exterior dissolves in awareness and awe." "...there is an upwelling of fresh insight coupled with a feeling of ubiquitous harmony," in the experience. The vision -- which i hasten to point out, is neither "religious" nor "otherworldly" -- feels like a"startling recognition." "Christopher Uhl reminds us that "while gazing 'up' at a night sky, one in fact hangs off the planet and near the edge of a galaxy, vertiginous, suspended over the infinity of space." - Rich Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy "As you lie there feeling yourself hovering within this gravitational bond while peering down at the billions of stars drifting in the infinite chasm of space, you will have entered an experience of the universe that is not just human and not just biological. You will have entered a relationship from a galactic perspective, becoming for a moment a part of the Milky Way galaxy, experiencing what it is like to be the Milky Way galaxy." - Cosmologist Brian Swimme Astronomer Rebecca Elson wrote in A Responsibility to Awe that: "Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars." The Imaginary Foundation says that "to understand is to perceive patterns" and this is exactly what all great thinkers have done throughout the ages: they have provided a larger, dot-connecting, aerial view of things that subsumes the previous paradigm. As Richard Metzger has written: "What great minds have done throughout history is provide an aerial view of things... Consider now how the evolving notions of a flat earth, Copernican astronomy and Einsteinian physics have subsequently changed how mankind sees its place in the cosmos, continuously updating the past explanations with something superior." Philosopher Charles Baudelaire was fond of hosting "hashish parties" where members of the intelligentsia could become inspired and elicit a very affective 'rhapsodic oratory'... essentially "having a download". "People completely unsuited for word-play will improvise an endless string of puns and wholly improbable idea relationships fit to outdo the ablest masters of this preposterous craft...", wrote Baudelaire... "Every difficult question that presents a point of contention for theologians, and brings despair to thoughtful men, becomes clear and transparent. Every contradiction is reconciled. Man has surpassed the gods." The goal of this video is to epiphanize you. Works by the following artist were incorporated /vimeo profiles/ /beeple /clemento /csisman /flight404 /genki /mato /zfilms

 Jason Silva is a media personality, documentary filmmaker, futurist and fellow at the Hybrid Reality Institute, where he is looking at human/technology co-evolution. He has been a host and producer for Current TV for the last 4 years and is obsessed with understanding inspiration and awe.

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What Are You Curious About? Discovery Channel Launches Curiosity

Premiering this Sunday, August 7th at 8pm, Discovery Channel launches the ambitious series Curiosity with a companion website at Curiosity.com. 

Curiosity asks and answers the most fundamental questions facing the world today. Each episode of Curiosity will focus on a single enduring question in science, technology, and society. As is always the case, one single question cascades into several more, making each episode of Curiosity a rich and textured experience. From the micro to the macro, we tackle provocative and insightful questions.

Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Questioned how we age? Asked what makes us truly happy? More than just a landmark television series, Curiosity is an adventure of discovery, an expedition to uncover the truths behind life's most challenging questions.

I have high hopes for the series, it has the potential to be another great source of creative thinking fuel. If the following teaser clips are an indication of what is to come we should all tune in to the series and join the conversation on the website.