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Why the Apple iPhone 4 May Change Communication

By John Julius Sviokla | Published June 17, 2010

All true breakthroughs in an art form come when there is a change in perspective.  Some say that Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio (1401-1428) “rediscovered” how to paint in perspective after the technique had been lost in the Dark Ages, and the Renaissance painters all.

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Intel & Vice: Innovation where hip meets bits, and the Digital Gift meets art

By John Julius Sviokla | Published June 5, 2010

It always amazes me how the most creative folks often have one part of their radical plan which is very old style and conservative.  In particular, Vice, the growing edge-dwelling media group which began publishing in 1994, when as they put it “any idiot.

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Innovations in Use: Is the iPad to computers as transistors were to radios?

By John Julius Sviokla | Published June 3, 2010

A few days ago the iPad just passed 2,000,000 units in sales in under 60 days.  Why is that?  I think its because the device allows people to take their information sources and uses (e.g. their personal marketspace) and “bring” it into their everyday.

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Five Attributes of Paradigm Breaking Innovations

By John Julius Sviokla | Published May 27, 2010

Recently, a team consisting of MIT students, along with Pratt & Whitney and Aurora Flight Science Corporation announced a radical new design for a jetliner which would take about 1/4 the amount of fuel consumed by today’s planes. It made me wonder, what are.

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Create “Choosing” (Not “Shopping”) Experiences

By John Julius Sviokla | Published May 9, 2010

On a recent, gorgeous day in New York City I walked from Bergdorf Goodman at 59th Street & 5th Avenue past Cartier on 52nd street and continued down 5th Avenue for over a mile. Because I was preparing for a speech I was scheduled.

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How the iPad is Like the Tesla Roadster

By John Julius Sviokla | Published May 7, 2010

Courtesy of my dear friend Peer Munck (Founder of MunckMix, a music distributor), I just had my first ride in a Tesla Roadster, the $129,000 electric sports car. It blew me away, because I was reminded what can happen when innovators lovingly create something.

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Is This Innovation Too Disruptive for My Firm?

By John Julius Sviokla | Published January 15, 2010

One of the trickiest decisions in business is to assess: is this innovation too innovative for my firm? You need to decide, will the core business embrace the new product or service, or reject it?  Xerox, which invented the laser printer, ethernet, and the.

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Brain Brandy: A plea for information density, not information for the dense

By John Julius Sviokla | Published September 27, 2009

The other day I was reading the New York Times online which was reporting on the financial crisis a year after the crash.  They created the most fantastic time-line to organize events, articles, and videos across a year — all having to do with.

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Sometimes It’s Just Genius

By John Julius Sviokla | Published September 17, 2009

Well, the more I stare at this poster by Milton Glazer, created to announce his own work, the more I think of the phrase: the eternal lightness of being…

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Google’s FastFlip: Good for us! Good for media?

By John Julius Sviokla | Published September 15, 2009

Google’s new fastflip technology which has launched with three dozen publishers — including Slate, Cosmopolitan and the New York Times — implements an idea that has been around for a long time: visual search.  I think their implementation is slick, and their mobile application.

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