Today’s Media Industry

Why Is The Internet Disruptive?

Power To The People

To us, this appears to be one of the great constants of the web. It is taking power away from existing large institutions and pushing it out to smaller entities and often all the way to individuals. In the process it is building up new institutions (such as Google), but the net result appears to be a distinct shift of “power to the people.”

http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/09/power_to_the_pe_1.html

Capital Efficiency

It takes about 1/10th the hardware, software, bandwidth, storage, and other expenses to build a web service compared to what it took in the 1999/2000 time period. That was before services like Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, 10Gen, and other "cloud computing" platforms emerged as real options. It's gotten even less expensive now.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/10/capital-efficie.html

Lower/Eliminate Transaction Costs

One To Many Two Way Communication

Global, social, open, mobile, playful, intelligent

Six Words To Live By On The Internet

So What Industries Are Next?

“End To End Digital”

A Suggested List

1)Consumer Finance2)Education3)Energy4)Health Care

Money Is Just Bits

The “Unbank”

Mobile Payments

Peer Produced Mutual/Hedge Funds

Virtual Currencies

Hacking Education

Un-schooling &Homeschooling

The End Of The Diploma

Let The Students Teach

Call Of Duty

The Web As A Textbook

Your Profile Is Your Transcript

Electrons vs Bits

The Smart Grid

Smart Grid infrastructure consists of electronic meters at each residence and business, an information network to carry data from the meters to the utilities in near real-time AND to bring information on the instantaneous price of electricity back to consumers; gadgets which help us automatically adjust our electrical use to prices in whatever way we want to do that; and lots of electronics and other devices in the electrical grid itself, which let the grid use the information on usage to adjust transmission and supply and accommodate the varying output from alternative energy sources.

http://blog.tomevslin.com/2009/03/whats-a-smart-grid-and-why-does-it-matter.html

Energy and Carbon Trading

The New Gas Station

Health Care Is Not End To End Digital

Prevention vs Remediation

Games Can Change Behaviors

Questions?