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Spotify - rewriting the music business ?

according to internal Spotify data, after an initial burst of interest that resembles the pattern for sales of music, a funny thing happens. Songs in the company’s catalog are played again and again, with no diminution in popularity. The reason is simple: people are building playlists. It’s as if an artist were paid every time one of their fans dropped a needle on their record…”

Gerd comments: I love Spotify and certainly hope they can indeed change the way the music industry work - all it will take is approximately $3 billion in VC money ;)

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Never Forget a Face Again with Upcoming Facial Recognition Software for Google Glass

Here we go! Thoughts Future Geeks? Is this right on point or...

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Vint Cerf discusses an interplanetary internet.

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Father of the internet, Vint Cerf, on creating the interplanetary internet

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Hochinteressanter Podcast über die Ruhenetzwerke im Gehirn und ihre Bedeutung für die Aufmerksamkeit "Das Gehirn ruht nie" vom SWR

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An animated infographic series called “Smart Community” by Toshiba shows facts about countries in relation to the rest of the world.

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This blog features recently found insights, realizations and occasional foresights by Gerd Leonhard, Keynote Speaker, Futurist, Author & Blogger, Strategist, Idea Curator, Occasional Heretic, CEO of The Futures Agency, Founder of Green Futurists, Visiting Professor at Fundacao Dom Cabral (Brazil). Based in Basel, Switzerland.

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