Vincent Turner - Innovation, Design & Music

mutually assured... deconstruction?

2010-05-13T03:14:27Z

Control results in usually one thing, resistance to control.

twitter ... the industrialist for the information age

2010-04-16T17:41:54Z

We create the fastest known platform for mass disintermediation & dissemination of information and all we can think to monetise it is to use it to enable our corporations to get us to buy more stuff

supporting open innovation

2010-03-13T23:32:39Z

Surely the end outcome of what our governments should be trying to do is to develop us further as a nation by bridging the gap in our relative innovation, creating jobs and skills and improving other metrics (GDP, employment, productivity etc)

.. time to think

2009-10-14T11:36:52Z

We measure the success of our countries by their GDP, the virtues of our people by their personal wealth and the health of our species by our ability to challenge our mortality. None of which seem to measure the quality, subjective or otherwise, of our existence or endevaours.

are we turning into customusers?

2009-08-29T00:09:33Z

Infact, it seems that the things we want to acquire today are mechanisms to allow us to do stuff.. rather than things in their own right. The only point of owning something is to be able to have control of it so you can use it whenever you like. Ownership equates largely with convenience.

revisiting the cafe

2009-08-15T00:14:29Z

it's interesting that our intent to be efficient often drives a reality much different

an entre to opera

2009-07-17T09:26:12Z

A little aside from my usual posts on innovation, design and change to tell you about a more personal experience of mine in recent times.

balancing form and function

2009-06-28T01:20:17Z

Beautifully 'designed' items of form and function, in so far as they do something and look nice. One caught my eye particularly, a rock covered in orange calfskin leather masquarading as a paperweight.

What's in a name?

2009-06-17T01:53:00Z

No, not some study on how your name affects your socioeconomic standing (read up on this theory in 'freakanomics') but more the focus we put on developing a name for ourselves in our chosen field of passion or commerce and perhaps the negative effect this has on what else we think we can do.

It's not a popularity contest

2009-06-11T21:35:14Z

It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to work out the flaw here... so, with the wisdom of crowds and the 'viewed' counter based content profiling/ordering in any of our major content sites today such as newspapers, share prices, video (youtube), music (pick a site), photos (flickr etc) are we creating a similiar paradigm online?