Published by Robert Scoble
I give you a front-row seat on the future. Focusing most of my efforts now on next-generation augmented reality and artificial intelligence, AKA "mixed reality."
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WATCH MY LATEST SPEECHES:
State of VR with Philip Rosedale (done in VR itself, very cool): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAA1EVGUZU
At GEOINT, June 2017: http://trajectorymagazine.com/glimpse-new-world/
Augmented World Expo, June 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xHILvLD8E
At Leade.rs, April 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
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BIO:
Scoble gives you a front-row seat on the future.
Literally. He had the first ride in the first Tesla. Siri was launched in his house. He's been the first to share all sorts of technologies and companies with you, from Flipboard to Pandora to Instagram.
Today he's focusing on mixed reality, AKA "next-generation augmented reality" which will include a new user interface for EVERYTHING in your life (IoT, Smart Cities, driverless cars, robots, drones, etc).
That's based on his view thanks to his past experience as futurist at Rackspace.
Best place to find Scoble? On his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
He has been a technology blogger since 2000, was one of five people who built Microsoft's Channel 9 video blog/community, worked at Fast Company Magazine running its TV efforts, and has been part of technology media businesses since 1993.
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SPEAKER PITCH:
Apple and Facebook now have revealed their Augmented Reality strategies, which means your business needs one too. Rely on Robert Scoble, the world's top authority on AR, to bring to your conference what businesses should do next.
SPEECH ABSTRACT #1:
TITLE: The Fourth Transformation: What's next in mixed reality (AR and AI) and the future of technology?
Here's an example of this talk at Leade.rs in Paris in April, 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
Why "the Fourth Transformation?"
Soon we will have phones and glasses that do full on augmented reality. Everything you look at will potentially be augmented. This world is coming in late 2017 with a new iPhone from Apple, amongst other products. Microsoft is betting everything on its HoloLens glasses that do mixed reality and the industry is spending many billions of dollars in R&D and funding new companies like Magic Leap.
This future will be the user interface for IoT, Smart Cities, autonomous cars, robots, drones, and your TV.
This is a big deal and Robert will take you through what mixed reality is and how it will change every business.
Learn more about Robert's speaking style and contact his agent at http://odemanagement.com/robert-scoble/Robert-Scoble.html
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #2:
"The Next Two Clicks of Moore's Law."
Over the next four years, or two clicks of Moore's Law, a ton about our technology world will change. Scoble will bring you the best from his travels visiting R&D labs, startups, and innovators around the world.
He views the world through his rose-colored-mixed-reality glasses, which will be the new user interface for self driving cars, Smart Cities, IoT, and many other things in our world.
He'll send you off with some lessons for companies both large and small.
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #3:
"Personalized Meaning: What is Augmented Reality For?"
As we enter a far more technological world where even cars drive themselves, I predict we'll see a blowback toward the analog, more authentic world.
What role does augmented reality play in both worlds?
Get Scoble's insight into where augmented reality is going, see tons of real-world demos, and understand what he means by 'personalized meaning.'
CONTACT:
If you are looking to contact me, email is best: scobleizer@gmail.com.
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ENDORSEMENTS:
IZEA Top 25 Tech Influencers: https://izea.com/2017/07/07/25-top-tech-influencers/
Time: One of the top 140 Twitterers!
FT: One of the five most influential Twitterers!
Inc. Top 5 on list of Tech Power Players You Need to Know: http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/30-power-players-in-tech-you-need-to-know.html
Next Reality: #4 on top 50 AR influencer list: https://next.reality.news/news/nr50-next-realitys-50-people-watch-augmented-mixed-reality-0177454/
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“In digital music, despite Apple’s seemingly insurmountable lead, Amazon has shown its willingness to compete with Apple head on. With no apparent current interest in the market, could Apple be ceding the eBooks front to Amazon? If Apple were to compete, would it be wiser to build its eBook business on the iPhone or a new, larger and perhaps a more dedicated device?”
I explored that and more in:
Why is the new Kindle eBook reader from Amazon and not Apple?
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“In digital music, despite Apple’s seemingly insurmountable lead, Amazon has shown its willingness to compete with Apple head on. With no apparent current interest in the market, could Apple be ceding the eBooks front to Amazon? If Apple were to compete, would it be wiser to build its eBook business on the iPhone or a new, larger and perhaps a more dedicated device?”
I explored that and more in:
Why is the new Kindle eBook reader from Amazon and not Apple?
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how about the sony reader that has been out for awhile? (duh)
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how about the sony reader that has been out for awhile? (duh)
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I’d definitely buy one of these if it was available in the EU. I usually carry around 2 or 3 books and this is smaller, lighter and has a pretty good battery life.
I honestly couldn’t care less how it looks.
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I’d definitely buy one of these if it was available in the EU. I usually carry around 2 or 3 books and this is smaller, lighter and has a pretty good battery life.
I honestly couldn’t care less how it looks.
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Without reading the article reference in the first comment, I think that the new Kindle eBook reader is from Amazon and not Apple because of the relationships that Amazon has with book publishers compared with virtually any other book seller. It takes time to build relationships (especially when the content in many cases is fairly easy to pirate, copyrighted content). Amazon’s strength in managing and moving content of all types from product reviews to e-commerce transactions, to its Web Services Unit (EC2 and S3 services for example) make it even more understandable to me.
I think that this will help overall book sales (especially books like Robert Scoble’s and Shel Israel’s Naked Conversations, which contains almost all black and white text). Just look at what Apple did for music as a whole with regard to actual number of tracks sold compared to tracks sold (even when incuding physical CDs) prior to the Apple Store and the iPod.
The book I recently finished has hundreds of color photos and screen shots from Photoshop and other apps, so the experience won’t be the same on the Kindle.
I am curious how the web surfing experience is overall. I need to read more reviews or try one for myself.
Andrew Darlow
Editor, The Imaging Buffet
http://www.imagingbuffet.com
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Without reading the article reference in the first comment, I think that the new Kindle eBook reader is from Amazon and not Apple because of the relationships that Amazon has with book publishers compared with virtually any other book seller. It takes time to build relationships (especially when the content in many cases is fairly easy to pirate, copyrighted content). Amazon’s strength in managing and moving content of all types from product reviews to e-commerce transactions, to its Web Services Unit (EC2 and S3 services for example) make it even more understandable to me.
I think that this will help overall book sales (especially books like Robert Scoble’s and Shel Israel’s Naked Conversations, which contains almost all black and white text). Just look at what Apple did for music as a whole with regard to actual number of tracks sold compared to tracks sold (even when incuding physical CDs) prior to the Apple Store and the iPod.
The book I recently finished has hundreds of color photos and screen shots from Photoshop and other apps, so the experience won’t be the same on the Kindle.
I am curious how the web surfing experience is overall. I need to read more reviews or try one for myself.
Andrew Darlow
Editor, The Imaging Buffet
http://www.imagingbuffet.com
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I think Apple probably wouldn’t want to build a reader on e-ink technology. It’s a fascinating type of display, but the extremely slow lag time probably necessitates too many design compromises for a slick experience. E-ink needs to figure out how to do more dynamic drawing so that UI highlights, text entry, and other basic effects are doable. Otherwise, it’s just too limiting for designing a slick UI. And Apple is all about slick.
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I think Apple probably wouldn’t want to build a reader on e-ink technology. It’s a fascinating type of display, but the extremely slow lag time probably necessitates too many design compromises for a slick experience. E-ink needs to figure out how to do more dynamic drawing so that UI highlights, text entry, and other basic effects are doable. Otherwise, it’s just too limiting for designing a slick UI. And Apple is all about slick.
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Robert,
I was a big fan of your work at Microsoft. I worked there previously before Amazon. I think you’ve lost sight of what made you good- just an modest, excited, honest, geeky blogger. Now you’ve changed to someone demanding that “so and so” who did this should be fired, “so and so” that shouldn’t get a raise this year, etc, etc. It’s a sensationalist, propaganda route, much in the vein of Dvorak targeting Apple and Microsoft to generate page hits.
I’ve never touched a Kindle, but as I understand it, it’s a V1 device, and currently the best at what it does on the market. You need to step back a bit, be more honest about what it does well as well as what it does badly, and stop the “fire these people” propaganda to generate page hits. You’re selling out.
You do have many good ideas, too. I hope they’re listened to despite your inappropriately harsh tone.
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Robert,
I was a big fan of your work at Microsoft. I worked there previously before Amazon. I think you’ve lost sight of what made you good- just an modest, excited, honest, geeky blogger. Now you’ve changed to someone demanding that “so and so” who did this should be fired, “so and so” that shouldn’t get a raise this year, etc, etc. It’s a sensationalist, propaganda route, much in the vein of Dvorak targeting Apple and Microsoft to generate page hits.
I’ve never touched a Kindle, but as I understand it, it’s a V1 device, and currently the best at what it does on the market. You need to step back a bit, be more honest about what it does well as well as what it does badly, and stop the “fire these people” propaganda to generate page hits. You’re selling out.
You do have many good ideas, too. I hope they’re listened to despite your inappropriately harsh tone.
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I’d say enough with Kindle, but no matter, in time you will get bored, onto the next cool-kids shiny thing or shiny meme. Nature will out.
But the really insufferable ones, however, are the Windows Mobile Pocket PC’ers, going on and on, about some new foreign limited-run PDA device that no will be able to get, except them, because they are so very special. The Palm people, I just pity.
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I’d say enough with Kindle, but no matter, in time you will get bored, onto the next cool-kids shiny thing or shiny meme. Nature will out.
But the really insufferable ones, however, are the Windows Mobile Pocket PC’ers, going on and on, about some new foreign limited-run PDA device that no will be able to get, except them, because they are so very special. The Palm people, I just pity.
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“If you’re not quite there, getting there takes some nerve” – Tom Peters.
Jay, from Bangalore
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“If you’re not quite there, getting there takes some nerve” – Tom Peters.
Jay, from Bangalore
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Greg: fair enough. It’s interesting that I’ve put up six videos about the Kindle. But the one with me going all apoplectic and all got 10x more visits and 20x more links.
If you do professional work and no one pays attention is it really professional? Does it matter?
I notice that over on ScobleShow.com we put up a video every day — most of which are very professional — but it’s a rare one that gets onto Slashdot, Digg, TechMeme, or linked to by other blogs.
So, we as media consumers (and producers) get what we want: entertainment. Even if it’s combined with an inappropriately harsh tone.
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Greg: fair enough. It’s interesting that I’ve put up six videos about the Kindle. But the one with me going all apoplectic and all got 10x more visits and 20x more links.
If you do professional work and no one pays attention is it really professional? Does it matter?
I notice that over on ScobleShow.com we put up a video every day — most of which are very professional — but it’s a rare one that gets onto Slashdot, Digg, TechMeme, or linked to by other blogs.
So, we as media consumers (and producers) get what we want: entertainment. Even if it’s combined with an inappropriately harsh tone.
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Yeah, Scoble. How DARE you ask for people to be fired!
Why should YOU have the same FREEDOM as EVERYONE ELSE?
http://www.michaelsalamon.com/?p=21
(To that whiny wanker poster: Get frikkin real.)
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Yeah, Scoble. How DARE you ask for people to be fired!
Why should YOU have the same FREEDOM as EVERYONE ELSE?
http://www.michaelsalamon.com/?p=21
(To that whiny wanker poster: Get frikkin real.)
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Robert-
Based on your harsh criticism of “they didn’t design it to hold”, I wondered what you thought of Julian’s comments here:
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/36063?from=30&comments_per_page=30
“That evening I just read. The Kindle disappears, and I realize how important the design of the book is, and how strongly I disagree with so many web comments about it’s supposedly horrendous un-holdability. The instructions for the thing say that it’s designed to be used with the cover on (even though all of the marketing shows it with the cover off). Being a weak pawn, I tend to follow directions, and I can confirm that wiith the cover on, it’s extremely difficult to accidentally hit any buttons while reading, and the left hand spine becomes a natural handle. The super-matte surfaces of both the screen and the frame make it readable and un-distracting at any angle, in any light. The next page buttons on both sides make it usable in more positions than a normal book, and in no case does it ever require two hands to use.
It is, in short, the most invisible piece of technology I can recall owning. This makes it supremely unsexy, and exactly right.”
Have you tried it with the included cover on?
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Robert-
Based on your harsh criticism of “they didn’t design it to hold”, I wondered what you thought of Julian’s comments here:
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/36063?from=30&comments_per_page=30
“That evening I just read. The Kindle disappears, and I realize how important the design of the book is, and how strongly I disagree with so many web comments about it’s supposedly horrendous un-holdability. The instructions for the thing say that it’s designed to be used with the cover on (even though all of the marketing shows it with the cover off). Being a weak pawn, I tend to follow directions, and I can confirm that wiith the cover on, it’s extremely difficult to accidentally hit any buttons while reading, and the left hand spine becomes a natural handle. The super-matte surfaces of both the screen and the frame make it readable and un-distracting at any angle, in any light. The next page buttons on both sides make it usable in more positions than a normal book, and in no case does it ever require two hands to use.
It is, in short, the most invisible piece of technology I can recall owning. This makes it supremely unsexy, and exactly right.”
Have you tried it with the included cover on?
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BradC: I have tried the cover. It makes it a bit better in some instances (it makes it less likely you’ll accidentally hit the buttons), but when I’m home reading with Milan in my lap having the cover off makes it easier to use.
I can see where he’s coming from. Once you get into a book it’s fairly nice. But the thing is damn uncomfortable to hold. You have to put your hands in places it’s not comfortable or natural. They really messed up on the design.
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BradC: I have tried the cover. It makes it a bit better in some instances (it makes it less likely you’ll accidentally hit the buttons), but when I’m home reading with Milan in my lap having the cover off makes it easier to use.
I can see where he’s coming from. Once you get into a book it’s fairly nice. But the thing is damn uncomfortable to hold. You have to put your hands in places it’s not comfortable or natural. They really messed up on the design.
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