Friends Talking Podcast

Chris Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine. He was very gracious to give me a few minutes of his time before a talk he gave in Austin on The Long Tail. I asked him about The Long Tail and how the story came to be.

I think you’ll get more out of my interview if you’re familiar with the idea of the Long Tail. You can read Anderson’s original Wired article here. You can also read his blog, www.thelongtail.com; he’s using his blog to write a book about it.

The song in the piece is Organ Wah by Paul Shuler, from The Internet Archive.

This piece was recorded on 10/14/05 in Austin, Texas.

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(18:00 12.7mb mp3 file.)

An Interview with Derek Woodgate, Futurist and Author of Future Frequencies.

We talk about:
The future
Progressive Culture
US vs. European Culture
Music
The Beat Generation

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(50:50 36.6mb mp3 file.)

As I was waiting for Derek to finish his phone call before we started our interview, I was absentmindedly flipping through his book Future Frequencies. I came across his story about Orlan, the French artist that uses her body as a canvas in public surgeries that can best be described as performance art pieces. So, the first thing I asked him was, “What does progressive culture have to do with business strategy 20 years out?”

You’ll hear the answer in the interview. In a field where preconceived notions paint the future in technological brushstroke’s, Derek’s views are refreshing because they span the whole of human experience. I hope this interview provides a different way of looking at the future and inspires all of us to create the future that we want.

I’m editing two interviews that I hope you like. I should have them up by the end of June, 2005.

1) Derek Woodgate, futurist. Founder of the Futures Lab. Former British diplomat, polyglot, spoken word artist, musician, empressario, and executive at VF Corp. We talk about his new book, Future Frequencies; Future Studies vs. Strategic Planning; Europe vs. the US; the beat generation, etc.

2) Chipp Walters, CEO of Altuit. Chipp’s an industrial designer and founder of Human Code, one of the cool companies of the multimidia boom of the ’90’s. We talk about taking VC money and lessons learned from Human Code; why there are no old industrial designers; extreme programming,etc. Then, he takes me for a ride in his Prius and shows me how he and other Prius owners “game” the car to get the best gas mileage.

An Interview with Bijoy Goswami, Author of The Human Fabric.

We talk about:
Mavens, connectors, evangelists
Boostrapping
Spirituality
How not to become a cult leader
The Primms

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(47:38 33mb mp3 file.)