Bruce MacVarish Notes

Personal Media Memory Map

Kristina Loring at Frog Design does a nice job summarizing day 1 of PopTech 2011.

What caught my eye was the Personal Media Memory Map developed by the New York Time’s R&D Lab.

The app takes your basic personal info and creates a personalized map of media relevant to your lifetime by aggregating and curating articles, pictures, posts and other content. 

Check out this video of Alexis Lloyd talking about the challenge of creating these personalized media maps.

 

 

 

The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity

 

Niall Ferguson identifies the 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity that drove the Great Divergence is wealth creation between the West and the East after 1800.

They include:

1. Competition

2. The Scientific Revolution

3. Property Rights

4. Modern Medicine

5. The Consumer Society

6. The Work Ethic

In essence, it came down to Ideas and Institutions.

So some questions come to mind:

• What new Ideas and new Institutions will drive wealth creation in the next 100 years?

• How might the "Ideas and Institutions" model be applied to creating wealth for companies and individuals?

• Who (nations, business, individuals) are defining and implementing the new killer apps of prosperity for this century?