Disordered Cogitations

Doc Searls - Searls anticipates a shift in business models on the live web where, rather than muting or skipping ads, consumers will choose to place them in their attention stream because they will meet the demand for what consumers actually want.

Dileep George - George has capitalized on new theory about the neocortex and created enough formalism around it to build working technology and a company to commercialize these concepts.

Rebecca MacKinnon - MacKinnon discusses the impact of emerging technologies in China and how the Earth's most populous nation is in turn affecting the future of the Internet.

Chet Kapoor - Kapoor explains why businesses are attracted to the meritocracy approach to development in Open Source Software, in this keynote from OSCON Europe 2005.