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Over almost a 80% fall since launch of Seacom…ESSAy landedWACS next year

bandwidth pricing coming downbandwidth pricing coming down

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Telkom TaxTelkom Tax

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Demand on networks crazyAT&T’s network is broken because of it(cells on wheels)

COWsCOWs

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Mobile will increasingly replace the need for printed tickets

QR Codes: Mobile TicketingQR Codes: Mobile Ticketing

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Augmented RealityAugmented Reality

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Facebook and Twitter are paragon examples

Cloud ComputingCloud Computing

onsite applications = old school

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The rise of behavioural financeThe rise of behavioural financejustin spratt – WTF – 20th of Oct

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Stratfor: “South Africa is at high risk of a cold war with Angola”

Logic is that Angola’s oil wealth is now tapped and it is significant

Also, Angola increasingly appears a Chinese proxy

Cold War with Angola?Cold War with Angola?

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Reinventing FireReinventing FireReinventing Fire

We know how to save half We know how to save half of our oil and gas and of our oil and gas and three-quarters of our three-quarters of our electricity at a cost that is a electricity at a cost that is a fraction of what we are fraction of what we are paying now.paying now.

Amory LovinsAmory LovinsRocky Mountain Institute co-founderRocky Mountain Institute co-founder

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Mass production of contentReporting done by botsEditorials will be the only paid for content

Media FarmsMedia Farms

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Media Farms: Demand MediaMedia Farms: Demand Media

Cheap food depends Cheap food depends on: on:

1.1. cheap oilcheap oil

2.2. plentiful waterplentiful water

3.3. constant weather constant weather pattern pattern

global warming aside, price of oil is will increase &

big food chain was built on $30 a

barrel of oil not $130

FoodFood

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Emerging EconomiesEmerging Economies

Voicemail is brokenVoicemail is broken

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Phone Numbers are DeadPhone Numbers are Dead

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Call Centre vs. Contact CentreCall Centre vs. Contact Centre

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“check-in” – earn points – become the “mayor”

Geo MarketingGeo Marketing

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geotagginggeotagging

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geotagginggeotagging

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France’s “Joie de Vivre” Index

Intended to provide a better measure of GDP (“well being”)

More countries looking at other measures of prosperity, such as the Triple Bottom Line (people, profits &planet)

Better measure than GDP?Better measure than GDP?

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Challenging “groupthink” on copyright laws

Believe copyright impinges on culture

Parties in 28 countries around the world

The Pirate PartyThe Pirate Party

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“Even if developed countries recover completely in 2010, emerging economies will account for 70 - 75% of the growth in global output ‘for the foreseeable future”

New York Times

Emerging EconomiesEmerging Economies

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“China’s growth as an economic superpower is increasingly correlated with that of Africa, on which it now relies for 25% of its oil imports, reports the” Financial Mail

Emerging EconomiesEmerging Economies

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Jobs of the FutureJobs of the Future

Search is increasingly giving us what we want,

not what we ask for

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Emerging EconomiesEmerging Economies

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