ucla future jobs : unlocking potential : digital
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This presentation was prepared for the UCLA Alumni Day Future Jobs panel discussion. The presentation covers a brief history of online milestones and trends since 1996, the current intoxication of social media, what the sometimes erratic and often chaotic timeline and landscape means for jobs, what's next in the industry, and how to unlock the potential of it. Resources (magazines, blogs, books) are listed at the end of the presentation.TRANSCRIPT
UCLA Alumni Day
Future Jobs: Opportunities Unlocked
Amy Ilyse RosenthalSaturday May 15, 2010
In general: “A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values.” – Wikipedia
DIGITAL
For the purposes of today:
• Online/Internet• With biases toward media and design
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ONLINE MILESTONES & TRENDS
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THIS MOMENT’S MADNESS
Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) by Erik QualmanSocialnomics09 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng
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AND JOBS?
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WHAT’S NEXT?
Who knows…But we do know new interface paradigms will emerge
Perhaps driven by voice (VUI)
Perhaps manipulated & visualized in 4D spaces (3D + time). (check out John Underkoffler’s work with the g-speak spatial operating system @ http://www.oblong.com/)
Perhaps it will recede into the background(check out john Maeda’s vision of life in 2020 http://tinyurl.com/ydnaazc)
Perhaps all of the above
Consider how that impacts other industries like energy, sustainability, healthcare, finance, politics, law, media, storytelling…(check out Jane McGonigals vision of of making it as easy to save the world in real life, as it is to save the world in online http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html)
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HOW TO UNLOCK THE OPPORTUNITIES
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RESOURCES
Search is your friend
Media bits & bytes: • Wired & Wired.com• Fast Company & Fastcompany.com• Techmeme.com• Techcrunch.com• Mashable.com• Allthingsd.com• Engadget.com• designmind.frogdesign.com/• Smashingmagazine.com• Slideshare.net/• TED.com
Search is your friend
Smart People: • Twitter
• Nnegroponte• Chr1sa• TEDChris• Frogdesign• Etc…
• LinkedIn• Facebook• Slideshare.net/•
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RESOURCES
• Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 Signals
• Socialnomics by Erik Qualman
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng>
• Making Idea Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision & Reality by Scott Belsky
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
• Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design by Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, and David Verba
And the classic ( vintage even):
• Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
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THANK YOU!
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