The Future of Communication and Technology

In the 1960s, Paul Baran, one of the founders of the Institute for the Future, envisioned a move from centralized communications to a distributed system, where nodes would automatically route packets of information to final destinations distributed across the globe—a network architecture, that over the last several decades, has formed the backbone for today’s Internet.

This move from centralized to distributed systems is transforming institutions, economies, and how we coordinate to get things done.

Looking out to 2025, we can see the outlines of a transformation in communications that will be equally profound: we will be marketing to machines, receiving messages from our bodies, and reinventing how we communicate, collaborate, persuade, and build relationships in a hyper-connected and distributed world where everything is becoming media.

- See more at: http://www.iftf.org/future-now/article-detail/when-everything-is-media-the-future-of-communication-and-technology/#sthash.gqM3yK0T.dpuf

I like this Polizei photo

We did spend two weeks in Germany with Irja during the month of May. This picture comes from the German Daily DIE WELT, Welt in Spiegel, Sonnabend, 9 Mai 2015. It’s powerful picture of the polizist Horst Kraus.

The German Hochenloher Spezial-Maschinenbau GmbH & Co

HSM is reporting 50 years of success in the field of development, sales and customer services of forestry machines.

The reason for starting the company stems from the commitment of the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg family to the 200-year history of sustainable management of its own forests, which was first mentioned in the history books in 1553.

Their idea moved from experiences with Timberjack to their own designs: "It must be possible to provide top-notch services, long lasting design engineering and the best ergonomics for the purpose of forestry," stated the HSM company founder in 1967.

Their machines were drawn and designed based on experiences from the difficult-to-manage Keuper locations in their own forests. HSM says, they have the ideal forestry machinery for all circumstances, with fields of application from thinning and all the way to harvesting of full size trees.

"Forestry and forestry technology" combined influenced the implementation of the technology. They wanted to design and test machines  that the forestry needs; machines that conserve soil and the environment.

It's almost 50 years since the company was founded and the drawing board is a thing of the past, but the original goal has reminded the same: To provide the modern forestry industry with optimal forestry technology that delivers high-performance and economical results.

What HSM machines have in common is production from a single source, direct from the manufacturer and most importantly, without complex modification work from a third party. The individual needs of their clients can be completely implemented without delay, from sales consultancy to delivery.

The HSM product line includes articulated skidders, forwarders, harvesters and combination forestry machines. The company says, they have a long tradition of sustainable care of the soil and production in the forests.

With narrow machines and wide tyres, the technical navigability of logging trails is maintained and forestry is supported in a way that is both economically and ecologically sustainable.

Source: HSM Press Release "Technik die Freude Macht" and their Homepage: http://www.hsm-forest.net/cms/Home.html.

Imalpal On-line Quality Control Equipment

Imalpal Group www.imalpal.com presented its On-line Quality Control product line at Hannover Messe, Germany.

Their post-Ligna Press Release says, "Ligna 2015 a huge success for the IMALPAL group."

The 2015 edition of the international Ligna show ended on a very successful note for the IMALPAL group. Twelve major contracts were in fact signed with customers.

The stand attracted a large number of visitors, keen to view all the numerous and interesting innovations that were on show.

The IMALPAL group is able to offer a wide range of equipment, including a full package of EC standard compliant laboratory equipment, all kinds of on line quality controls such as

1. the unique Full Control Blister detector, 
2. the “Dynapellet press”, the largest pellet press in the world, capable of processing up to 12 ton/h, 
3. the Cyclops, an “eye” which is able to detect all kinds of contaminants in the recycled material, 
4. the SRC Knifering Flaker that can process up to 15 ton/h of flakes, the MSG mill for dry material equipped with an hydraulic system that changes the ring in just 8 minutes and, 
5. last but not least, an extensive range of complete lines for the production of particleboard, MDF, OSB, Pallet Blocks, Pellets, Insulation Boards, Pressed Pallets.

The IMALPAL group, a synergy combining the resources of 3 companies that have over 40 years’ experience in the industry, has once again proved that it is able to accept the market challenges and anticipate customer requirements, which are increasingly focussed on economic savings and an increase in production capacity.

The group has forecast a 15% rise in sales this year with respect to 2014.

The German Prebena: I am Nailing!

Schotten, January 2015 - The German manufacturer of high quality pneumatic nailers, compressors and fasteners PREBENA Wilfried Bornemann GmbH & Co. KG expands with new automatic tools. 

More PREBENA pneumatic nailer and stapler with Automatic-Technology will follow.

For more information: www.prebena.com

Ligna 2015 is over

We returned back home May 22, 2015 from Hannover via Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Ligna provided us with an impressive set of new and valuable information. The Baltic Sea round-trip did give us necessary added value about the economic climate along the road.

We're writing about the mechanical wood working industry for several months. Special reports are also delivered through printed media at a later time.

KK-Net spent eight days in Germany. Our mobile office and publishing platform was established at a cozy hotel in Celle. Everything worked fine, but the hours of the days limited our chances to tell everything at once.

Ligna 2015 is for us an investigative reporting project and we're spending quite a lot of time to dig into the available information and combining it with new stuff appearing through Internet research, Data mining and Interviews.

Our reports will be available in Finnish, English and Swedish languages. Please, have some patience, everything will not be available at once -- it will take months to get all the points of view and different themes written and distributed.

Stay tuned to this channel. There'll be country reports as well. Time will tell the final result.

KK-Net Reporting from Ligna 2015

KK-Net  Reporting from Ligna 2015, Hannover Messe, Germany. This is the largest mechanical wood working expo on the globe.

Bombala Times, Australia

We're now working with Nordautomation to increase the company's digital presence and footprint through digital storytelling.

There's a lot of historical material that can be used to build a comprehensive picture of this company delivering Sawmill solutions to the forest industry around the globe.

Read more: http://nordautomation.blogspot.fi/

Kajaani Today

I have finally a clear plan and roadmap for our journey to Mexico.  Now testing Galaxy Note 8.0 as my documentaion and reporting tool. I don't want to carry with me too many digital devices.

Returning back to original content

I was experimenting with Finnish language content in the Visual Radio blog but this is one of my very first blogging platforms and most of the content is written in English language.

Pori 2014 lämmöllä muistellen

Kesäloma on kohta vietetty, tälle viikolle luvataan 30 C lämpöä Kainuuseen, mutta olemme jo vähin äänin siirtymässä arkeen. Vuokatti 2015 –vuosikokouksen järjestelyt siirtyvät ideoinnista ja linjojen vetämisestä arkisempiin asioihin.

Tapasin tänään Sotkamo-lehden toimittajan ja kerään kuva-arkistoistamme väkeviä kuvia Pori 2014 –vuosikokouksesta.

Livestream esimerkki

Vuokatti Photowalk 13.4.2014

Photowalk in  Sotkamo Aprli 13, 2014. The lake is partially open. What about next year the same time?
 

Aarto Mäkinen kutsuu mahdollisuuksien toteuttajia töihin

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Is journalism going to survive?

Creative destruction is no fun if it is your livelihood or beloved newspaper that is being destroyed. But research has convinced that journalism is being adapted, rethought and reconstructed in thousands of ways in far more places than can easily be grasped. 

 In short, there is enough experiment in train to be optimistic that economic sustainability will be found even if the experiments have a high failure rate.

In open societies, this takes the form of new communities of interest, new market players, new suppliers of news. 

Even in some closed societies, information can often flow down different routes in informal, unpredictable ways. 

Some of those new flows are – or may become – journalism.

http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2013/09/journalism-going-survive-era-creative-destruction

 

Journalism

 http://www.journalismfestival.com/news/hal-varian-on-the-economics-of-the-newspaper-business/

by Hal Varian 

Thank you, it is a great honor to accept this award on behalf of Google. We appreciate the recognition and the responsibility that accompanies it. 

I am an economist by training, and only a part-time journalist, so I want to focus my remarks on the economics of the newspaper business during this period of transition. 

Printed  newspaper circulation has been declining for 50 years In the US, newspaper circulation reached its peak in 1972 and it has been all downhill ever since. 

Experts agree that most of the decline during this period was due to competition from broadcast TV news and cable news, with the Internet contributing only in the last few years.

Working with spaces

There’s a huge world waiting for the poet working with the confidence of the dream world.

We travel to dangerous corners of the globe with the lyrics of extraordinally complex compositions.

It's a serious issue, it's my dilemma.

Try to imagine other worlds

How to write a book properly.  Make a story that's fun to reead. A gateway to the world of litterature.

A human way of migration in time. Living like a nomad wherever you live.

Reconnected me to a network of people.

The Man Behind Calvin Klein's Iconic Obsession Ads, Robert R. Taylor, Dies

The Man Behind Calvin Klein's Iconic Obsession Ads, Robert R. Taylor, Dies

Fashion is known for its provocative ads, and Kate Moss just happens to be in many of them. One of her most famous? Calvin Klein's sultry Obsession ad campaign, in which she went barefaced and topless while just a teen.

The man behind the iconic Obsession ads was Robert R. Taylor, who passed away at the age of 77 on Tuesday.

Taylor, who battled cancer in the last years of his life, was a marketing expert and beauty entrepreneur with several impressive claims to fame, including marketing the first liquid hand soap with a pump (!).

But as Women's Wear Daily points out, he was also behind the iconic ad campaign for Calvin Klein's Obsession, the sexy fragrance ads featuring a topless Kate Moss.

Tourism and social media

Our firm developed a social media strategy for Alderbrook of several posts each week, each signed by the poster (a member of our team or staff that we trained).

The vast majority of these posts were focused on providing valuable content for those who are, or might be, interested in the resort, the marina, the spa, the restaurant, or the region.

We also, from time to time, posted specials, deals, and packages. We still made room for the big news events but now we had daily interaction with our fans on a myriad of topics.

http://frankjkenny.com/social-media-for-tourism-case-study/