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Music – How Life Change in the Last Decade (7)

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Alex McManus

Where are the young finding their new music? iTunes? Pandora? Last.fm? MTV? Nope. The same place they’re watching videos: Youtube.

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140 – How Life Changed in The Last Decade (6)

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Alex McManus

Twitter is today what a blog was a decade ago. Before that …messages in a bottle?

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Netflix – How Life Changed in the Last Decade (5)

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Alex McManus

Dematerialization is a macro trend in the entertainment business. That’s why Blockbuster disappeared from that corner spot and we all started live streaming from services like these…

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Google – How Life Changed in the Last Decade (4)

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Alex McManus

If you can’t remember what we did before google, just google it.

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“Print” — How Life Changed in the Last Decade (2)

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Alex McManus

Ten years ago we built houses and printed posters. Today we print houses. What we imagine when we hear the word “print” has expanded. 3D printing is one of the next big things to shape the evolution of the human experience. The attempt to be first to print a house will be undertaken by Dutch [...]

“Print” — How Life Changed in the Last Decade (2)
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Summer Fruit — How Life Changed in the Last Decade (1)

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Alex McManus

Just a little more than 10 years ago, blackberries were this… and then in 2002 they became this… Do a google search and click “images” and you’ll find the first few hundred images are the phone. Really? The summer fruit was here for tens of thousands of years before the “blackberry” phone (which is almost [...]

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4 Ideas Changing the World Right Now

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Alex McManus

Ideas have consequences. TIME Magazine published their list of 10 Ideas that are Changing the World Right Now. Inspired by Time, I’ve created a list of my own. See if you agree.

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16 Ideas that have stayed with me — A List

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Alex McManus

Have you ever mapped out your life? Just recently I was thinking about the Ideas that have stayed with me over the years. Some of these are from books, while others are from conversations. Though some ideas are difficult to separate from the experiences that carry them, these are not primarily experiences that have shaped [...]

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Getting Under Your Skin

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Alex McManus

The Baja Beach Club in Barcelona made headlines three years ago when it began to “tag” it’s patrons with microchips embedded in the arm. The chip is used to identify people when they enter and pay for drinks. So, let’s say, you go to the Baja Beach Club. A nurse preps you with a local [...]

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A List: What I’m thinking about (Part 1)

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Alex McManus

[youtube YsCR9Y4Ymvo] Welcome back. You belong here. I’m shooting-from-the-hip but here goes. Questions I’m asking #1 – 32… 1. We are exiting the postmodern and entering a new world dominated by genetic engineering. What shape will the gospel take when men no longer die? 2. Why do people still get excited about being postmodern when [...]

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