Final session of the day. Futurist from Da Vinci Institute – Attibuted the rise of the internet to the breakup of AT&T from Judge Green.

• Wireless Electricity: MIT project has prototype that will power a lightbulb
• WiMax Cars: Internet Radio, Traffic Alerts, Online Games, Information Hub
• Hyperlocal Future: Opportunities and an awareness of them will be focused and enable more enriched experiences.
• Keyboards will disappear, Displays will become 3D and interactive
• Computers will have personalities
• Search: Attributes for search will expand. Search by smell, taste, texture, reflectivity, vibration, & gravity
• CourseWare Vacuum: Open Education Movement to promote learning so that it may catch up to the information glut. MIT has 1400 classes online for free. Encouraging others to join the party.
• Traditional Education: Learning camps with specific applied knowledge vs. traditional book education. Smarter people.
• The marketing moment will combine with the buying moment. Speed sells. Television of the future. See a pizza commercial and it’s delivered in 30 seconds
• Fractal transations: Watch out music industry. This will liberate the artists from the distributors.
• Global systems: Global tax codes, currency, accounting standards
• Internet creating borderless economies. Countries will lose control of their citizens. Flying cars.
• Virtual countries. No land involved. Membership voluntary. Techno Nation State. Control over an economic domain.
• Empire of One: Outsoure everything. Advantage is eliminate HR problems. Freedom to travel. Control your own destiny. People dropping out of the corporate world. 45 million Americans working from home.

Cult of Blogging session with Leo Laporte & Justine Ezarik. Leo is one of my favorite podcasters. MacBreak was one of the first podcasts that I began listening to back in 2006 (?).

Before I went Mac I spent time listening to Leo, Merlin Mann, Alex Lindsay, & Scott Bourne dissect the inner circle of Mac. It’s quite a thrill to be sitting here and listening to him expand on blogging, privacy, digital id’s, & the tech movement. Justine has several blogs & online tools that she has now turned into a ‘brand’.

Check her out at Mommy Pack My Lunch

Currently listening to Scott Allen’s presentation “Maximizing the benefits of small business blogs”. Scott writes a blog that helps people better utilize Linked In. Check it out, Linked Intelligence. He’s had some great suggestions about the do’s & don’ts for small business blogs. I can’t wait to get back to Frisco and spend some time reading his blog. Linked In is a great tool to expand one’s reach. However, like everything else on the web, understanding how to use the tool requires finding experts. Here’s one just for Linked In!

Other highlights:

1. Matt Mullenweg for keynote this morning – I’ve had the good fortune to hear Matt speak twice now. Both times I’ve come away impressed with his maturity and clarity around what he does and how he is going about doing it.

2. Scott Bourne & Alex  Lindsay (MacBreak) – Great presentation on podcasting tools (lighting, mics, location, filtering, etc.) – Way over my head but very interesting. They single handedly added dozens of things to my to-do list. Leo Laporte was there as well. And the only other guy I’ve seen in a hat all day. What a cool cat.