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Today’s Media Industry

Why Is The Internet Disruptive?

Power To The People

To us, this appears to be one of the great constants of the web. It is taking power away from existing large institutions and pushing it out to smaller entities and often all the way to individuals. In the process it is building up new institutions (such as Google), but the net result appears to be a distinct shift of “power to the people.”

http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/09/power_to_the_pe_1.html

Capital Efficiency

It takes about 1/10th the hardware, software, bandwidth, storage, and other expenses to build a web service compared to what it took in the 1999/2000 time period. That was before services like Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, 10Gen, and other "cloud computing" platforms emerged as real options. It's gotten even less expensive now.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/10/capital-efficie.html

Lower/Eliminate Transaction Costs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10946770@N04/1384459683/

One To Many Two Way Communication

Shrink A Market

If you have a business that will shrink an existing market, allowing you to take $5 of revenue from a competitor for every $1 you earn, let’s talk!

http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/04/shrink_a_market.html

Sustainability

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomchance/1008213420

Global, social, open, mobile, playful, intelligent

And number seven would beinstantaneous

Six Words To Live By On The Internet

So What Industries Are Next?

“End To End Digital”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nichollsphotos/2906834393/

Government Can Help

A Suggested List

1)Consumer Finance2)Education3)Energy4)Health Care?5)Government?

Money Is Just Bits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larskflem/215263735/

The “Unbank”

Mobile Payments

Peer Produced Mutual/Hedge Funds

Peer To Peer Lending

Virtual Currencies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/118904267/

Hacking Education

Un-schooling &Homeschooling

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakesmome/274015822/

Open Courseware

The End Of The Diploma

Let The Students Teach

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yewenyi/300115482/

Call Of Duty

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidfarrant/2491881324/

The Web As A Textbook

Your Profile Is Your Transcript

Electrons vs Bits

The Smart Grid

Smart Grid infrastructure consists of electronic meters at each residence and business, an information network to carry data from the meters to the utilities in near real-time AND to bring information on the instantaneous price of electricity back to consumers; gadgets which help us automatically adjust our electrical use to prices in whatever way we want to do that; and lots of electronics and other devices in the electrical grid itself, which let the grid use the information on usage to adjust transmission and supply and accommodate the varying output from alternative energy sources.

http://blog.tomevslin.com/2009/03/whats-a-smart-grid-and-why-does-it-matter.html

Energy Hub

“Microgrids” as peer-to-peer energy

Small networks of power generators in "microgrids" could transform the electricity network in the way that the net changed distributed communication.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4245584.stm

The New Gas Station

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alantrotter/2492684025/

Energy and Carbon Trading

Web Based Data Bases

Health Care Is Not End To End Digital

The Doctor As Middleman

Prevention vs Remediation

Self Organized Support Groups

Games Can Change Behaviors

Digitizing Medical Records

RAND Corporation reported in 2005 that computerizing medical records could save the US $81bn per year and enhance the quality of health care.

Open Government?

My Friend Steve’s List

Procurement

Defense

Entitlement program Admin

Tax collection and enforcement

Elections

Law enforcement

Operations communications

SeeClickFix

Washington DC

Questions?