June 2011
1 post
Power vs People (LIVE) →
Watch live streaming video from pdf2011 at livestream.com
May 2011
2 posts
Mind Share →
Here’s my address to the Royal Institute of Australia, about the age of hyperconnectivity, hyperintelligence and hyperempowerment.
The Social Sense →
I: On Top of the World
I’ve always wanted to save the world. When I was younger, and more messianic, I thought I might have to do it all myself. As the world knocked sense into me, I…
April 2011
1 post
People Power →
Introduction: Magic Pudding
To effect change within governmental institutions, you need to be conscious of two important limits. First, resources are always at a premium; you need to work within…
February 2011
1 post
The New Toolkit →
This article will be published in the Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics.
Introduction: The Age of Connection
Anthropologists have appropriated the word ‘toolkit’ to describe the suite…
December 2010
1 post
The Blueprint →
With every day, with every passing hour, the power of the state mobilizes against Wikileaks and Julian Assange, its titular leader. The inner processes of statecraft have never been so completely…
November 2010
1 post
The Soul of Web 2.0 →
Introduction: In The Beginning
Back in the 1980s, when personal computers mostly meant IBM PCs running Lotus 1*2*3 and, perhaps, if you were a bit off-center, an Apple Macintosh running Aldus …
October 2010
2 posts
When I’m Sixty-Four →
I: No Fate
I started using the World Wide Web in October of 1993. To say that the Web was primitive and ugly at that early date is to miss the point completely, making fun of a baby just emerged…
Connecting to The Social Network →
(Warning, this analysis is essentially a huge spoiler for The Social Network. You may not want to read this until you’ve seen the film.)
I am a serial entrepreneur. At various times I started…
September 2010
2 posts
Mothers of Innovation →
Introduction: Olden Days
In February 1984, seeking a reprieve from the very cold and windy streets of Boston, Massachusetts, I ducked inside of a computer store. I spied the normal array of IBM…
Make War, then Love →
At the close of the first decade of the 21st century, we find ourselves continuously connecting to one another. This isn’t a new thing, although it may feel new. The kit has changed – that much is…
August 2010
1 post
Paperworks / Padworks →
I: Paper, works
At the end of May I received an email from a senior official at the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. It was End of Finanical Year, the official…
July 2010
1 post
Dense and Thick (LIVE) →
June 2010
2 posts
How Not To Be Seen →
I: The Comfy Chair
Back in 1978 – when I was just fifteen – I begged my parents to let me enroll in a course at the local community college (the equivalent of TAFE) so that I could take ‘Data…
Helicopter Lessons →
I: The Drive to Connect
Recently I spent a weekend in Melbourne visiting my good friends Darren and Leah, whom I’ve known since I first moved to Australia. Last December they conceived, and in…
May 2010
3 posts
Hyperconnected Health →
I: My Cloud
This is the age of networks, and we are always connected. If that seems fanciful, ask yourself how often you are parted from your mobile, and for how long? All of our hours – even…
Calculated Risks →
I: Baby Books
Forty-eight years ago, when my mother was pregnant with me, her friends and family threw her a baby shower. Among the gifts, she received a satin-covered ‘Baby Book’, with spaces to…
Blue Skies →
I: Cloud People
I want to open this afternoon’s talk with a story about my friend Kate Carruthers. Kate is a business strategist, currently working at Hyro, over in Surry Hills. In…
April 2010
1 post
What Ever Happened to the Book? (LIVE) →
July 2009
2 posts
Sharing Power (Global Edition) LIVE →
Sharing Power (Global Edition) from Mark Pesce on Vimeo.
My keynote from the Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, 30 June 2009.
Sharing Power (Global Edition) →
My keynote for the Personal Democracy Forum, in New York.
Introduction: War is Over (if you want it)
Over the last year we have lived through a profound and perhaps epochal shift in the…
June 2009
1 post
The Power of Sharing →
The Power of Sharing from Mark Pesce on Vimeo.
Inaugural address for the “What’s the Big Idea?” lecture series, at the Bundeena Bowls Club in Bundeena, a small…
May 2009
1 post
Sharing Power (Aussie Rules) →
I: Family Affairs
In the US state of North Carolina, the New York Times reports, an interesting experiment has been in progress since the first of February. The “Birds and Bees Text Line”…
April 2009
3 posts
Digital Citizenship LIVE →
Keynote for the Digital Fair of the Australian College of Educators, Geelong Grammar School, 16 April 2009. The full text of the talk is here.
Digital Citizenship →
Introduction: Out of Control
A spectre is haunting the classroom, the spectre of change. Nearly a century of institutional forms, initiated at the height of the Industrial Era, will change…
March 2009
0 posts
Share This Lecture! →
My annual lecture to the “Cyberworlds” class at the University of Sydney. Recorded on 31 March 2009.
December 2008
4 posts
Inflection Points →
I: The Universal Solvent
I have to admit that I am in awe of iTunes University. It’s just amazing that so many well-respected universities – Stanford, MIT, Yale, and Uni Melbourne – are…
Crowdsource Yourself →
I: Ruby Anniversary
Today is a very important day in the annals of computer science. It’s the anniversary of the most famous technology demo ever given. Not, as you might expect, the first public…
The Alexandrine Dilemma →
I: Crash Through or Crash
We live in a time of wonders, and, more often than not, remain oblivious to them until they fail catastrophically. On the 19th of October, 1999 we saw such a failure….
Fluid Learning →
I: Out of Control
Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students,…
September 2008
1 post
This, That, and the Other →
I. THIS.
If a picture paints a thousand words, you’ve just absorbed a million, the equivalent of one-and-a-half Bibles. That’s the way it is, these days. Nothing is small,…
August 2008
2 posts
Interview: “The Alcove with Mark Molaro” →
Recorded in New York City, 23 June 2008 - the day before I delivered “Hyperpolitics, American Style” at the Personal Democracy Forum. A wide-ranging discussion on…
Collisions & Smash Repairs →
My brief keynote to the ICT Roundtable of the TAFE Sydney Institute. Recorded on Wednesday, 13 August 2008. Many thanks to Trish James and Stephan Ridgway for arranging the…
July 2008
1 post
Hyperpolitics (American Style) Live →
June 2008
3 posts
Hyperpolitics (American Style) →
Part One: Hyperconnected
We have been human beings for perhaps sixty thousand years. In all that time, our genome, the twenty-five thousand genes and three billion base pairs which comprise the…
Those Wacky Kids (Live version) →
Recorded at “The Digital Education Revolution”, Adelaide, on Monday 2 Monday 2008. It’s a video presentation of the talk that was published on this blog.
Many thanks to…
Little, Big →
Introduction: Constructing a Child
In November of 1998, I attended a conference on technology and design in Amsterdam, and brought along two mates itching for an excuse to visit Europe. We all…
May 2008
11 posts
Transforming Governance →
My keynote address to the South Australian State Government conference, “The Digital Media Revolution”, in Adelaide, South Australia, 26 April 2008.
Friends, Enemies and My Army →
My presentation at Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival, on the panel “Friends I’ve Never Known”, with Christian McCrea, Dani Kirby, Alex Gibson and myself, all talking about…
Those Wacky Kids →
I. Get Off My Lawn!
To say that we’re living in a time of accelerated change is a truism. What we forget – because it would scare the hell out of us – is exactly how much change we’ve seen. I…
Only Connect (Live Version) →
Here’s a link to the big version.
Only Connect →
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,
And human love will be seen at its height.
Live in fragments no longer.
…
Synopsis: Sharing :: Hyperconnectivity →
The Day TV Died
On the 18th of October in 2004, a UK cable channel, SkyOne, broadcast the premiere episode of Battlestar Galactica, writer-producer Ron Moore’s inspired revisioning of the…
Synopsis: Introduction (The Fisher King) →
For at least the last thousand years, fishermen trawling off the southern Indian state of Kerala have faced a perpetual question: which market will bring them the best price for their fish? The…
On Writing Books →
I.
I have always loved to write. As far back as I possessed the capability to scribble a coherent narrative onto a piece of paper, I’ve written stories. I remember writing a short story in third…
A (Modest) Proposal →
In March of 2008, someone – probably in India – bought a mobile telephone. By itself, that wouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, yet it represented a watershed: the halfway mark of humanity’s…
The Nuclear Option (film adaptation) →
From the Walkley Public Affairs Conference on Social Media, Sydney, 6 May 2008.
The Nuclear Option →
I.
One of the things I find the most exhilarating about Australia is the relative shallowness of its social networks. Where we’re accustomed to hearing about the “six degrees of separation” which…
April 2008
2 posts
Engaging Conversation →
I.
Everybody talks about the weather. It happens in Singapore, where the weather never changes much, and in Melbourne, where four seasons unfold over the course of an afternoon. Why? It comes down…
Everywhere →
I.
Sydney looks very little different from the city of Gough Whitlam’s day. Although almost forty years have passed, we see most of the same concrete monstrosities at the Big End of town, the same…