Bryan O’Rourke shares his thoughts on technology, business, and consumer trends in health, fitness and more.
The recent announcement that ITunes has reconfigured its pricing model and made 10 Million songs DRM Free continues to evidence the decline in content pricing. The implications are significant for an array of industries. Learn more here:
The revolution at its core is being driven, among other dynamics, by technologies. Here is yet another example of how education and content creation are being revolutionized by the application of new technologies. This time by APPLE:
In the US and across the globe, an aging population is becoming increasingly obese and sick This time bomb of illness is running head on into a "health care" system designed to "fix" it: all at an unaffordable and unsustainable cost. As with other industries, a new paradigm is emerging to better allocate resources with the outcome of positively impacting people's health. The "long tail" of prevention is emerging. New web 2.0 solutions and other methods enabling business model redesign for other industries can be adopted to meet the challenge of helping people become healthier affordably. See Steve Case discuss Revolution Health and learn more.
Mobility, Mashups, Video, Robotics, Social Networks : Just a few of the trends in 2008 and 2009. See what these folks think about it.
As Andreas Constantineu's presentation below sets forth; megatrands in mobility are contributing to overall macro shifts in a variety of areas. Creation of the prosumer for one and that 25% of all content will be self produced or mashed within a few years for another. That open source will rule and more importantly that the sale value of content is declining rapidly are of great significance to the revolution and directly tied to mobility trends. Check out this vision mobile research presentation and the white paper it refers to in order to learn more.
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