Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the "mesh"

[Spasatcom]

goods video friends i like this

[andreeaweed]

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

[Whitchfinder1]

Remember kids... platforms = invitations. Yes, people talk like this in future, apparently. Sorry, but this is a festival of bullshit.

[rjc211]

really frustrating to watch

[rjc211]

To summarise her talk:

1) some random generic comments about the economy.

2) summary of zip car

[rjc211]

there is no structure to this talk

[GHortaV]

How about sharing GOOD talks for a change now TED?

[waveskissourfeet]

fuck business, the future of business is in the ground, under dirt.

[goney3]

I am a consumer whore :)

[jonathanbluestein]

Car sharing started in the Israeli Kibbutz movement in the 1940s...

[Tolstoievsky]

sounds like glorified renting to me

[doloppost]

sigh... I'll just watch some Russian dude show some new gunz again and trying them out on fruit and just forget about TED...

[KoriBustard]

what was she trying to say? aaaaagh! one of the worst TED talks I have seen...

[ilotitto]

Gringos you cry too much about recession. Try to live in Venezuela with a 25% inflation a year for the last 10 years and then we can talk about you having a hard time.

[SpaceHeaterStudios]

I liked her introduction talking about the changes in society affecting the way we relate to people. She raised many good points, especially when she talked about how we are extremely connected with each other, except when we're sitting right next to each other. These are important things to take into consideration when dealing with businesses and they way they relate to customers.

[CognitiveImbias]

"Sold out" are the favorite words of any business person? That's total bullshit. "Sold out" tells the business person that they should have produced more of the product or set the price higher. Any business person who knows what the hell he's doing (and clearly this speaker does not) knows "sold out" usually means "you misjudged demand, and lost profit as a result." Generally speaking, a company that produces 10 million of something should hope to have 1 left at the end of the day.

[blandflabbis]

@CognitiveImbias In the real world, you can't accurately predict demand to that degree of accuracy, so "sold out" is better than "oh crap, we've got 10 million dildo holders and nobody wants to buy them".

[KemaTheAtheist]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[pricejosephd]

I don't know if she or I was more bored by her talk.

[Mrmoc7]

Not sharing my car.

[CheezMonsterCrazy]

@Gegenhall I bet you share lots of other things too. ;)

[armarjaleo]

"The transition from a type zero to a type 1 civilization will be painful" - Michio Kaku

[cyberdems]

No thanks, I consciously choose to keep my car MY car for a reason... and I'm not sure what makes this lady think that I want these corporations to have so much information about my (private) life, or that me and my possessions be under constant RFID/gps surveillance. Some people value privacy and personal possession, as they are contributing factors in what comprises the uniqueness about a person. I like having my OWN car available on demand. Eloquently expressed pointless garbage =/

[DeimosSaturn]

@cyberdems We wouldn't be so concerned with privacy if these corporations weren't colluding with governments run by megalomaniacs and psychopaths. If there were no governments, i wouldn't give a shit about people knowing which porn videos I watch or where I happen to be at any given time. The ultimate problem of civilization are the sociopaths are the only ones ambitious enough and conceited enough to want to control everyone else.

[cyberdems]

@DeimosSaturn Well said, agreed

[Arcus2658]

Much more likely things to happen than everyone sharing a lot of things: Costs (and thus prices) will come down, materials and energies will be more "green" and loops will be closed, and everyone will be able to afford their own units for travel, communication and self-expression/individuality, more and more naturally integrated in to our lives (and even our bodies).

This sounds like one of the many, many idealist pipe dreams we saw in the 90's, still limping on 15 years later.

[neokanzler]

so, Communism was right?

[djAmiracle]

@neokanzler this is like a capitalist spin on communism. you own your own car, but you can share it if you want (not for free, you get paid to share it). so your car doesn't just get run down by people using it because you get money which you can use to maintain it. also, people have a choice of the car they pay to use, which would keep the system fresh with maintained cars. I that is vital step that communism is missing, and which leads to the eventual wear-down of that infamous infrastructure.

[ironmanstarks36]

Share ready cars from the manufacturer? She must be on crack as they barely sell any cars as it is. The last thing they want is people buying less cars because they have the ability to share them.

[GordonEdward]

I think people drastically over use the phrase, "Sexy". I would never fuck a "Sexy Sold Out" item for example.

[dswellhauser]

Another faux-intellectual re-packaging/re-marketing old ideas with some pseudo-new ideas...TED is Dead.

[gregjalbert]

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[jay19xxx]

BORING

[Riverdale270]

I hate sharing... I want all the icecream for myself!

[kchingk]

cumom women. be smart

[bluefootedpig]

So how long before socialists take over this and make it government cars, free for everyone with a license, paid by tax payers?

There was this one idea, where you would pay a membership fee, and you could barrow a book, and return it. It was a great concept of sharing a scarce resource. And now we have libraries.

[zeeshan66]

THIS followed the immersion talk?!?????!!!

[DunbarConfederalist]

meh

[ccottell]

So value stream analysis (Lean) and market analysis, just making use of the data now available

[imhallowarren]

Doesn't this ruin manufacturing business'?

[bluefootedpig]

@ClaritySWE Do you honestly believe that everyone knows about how resource sharing can work, or how it can help us? I know people who don't even know about time shares, let alone sharing cars. And she is bringing new ideas to spur innovations to get people thinking, "what else can i share?"

[ClaritySWE]

@bluefootedpig Of course not. However, I belive most of the people that subscribe to TED has some what of an education and/or real life experience. I.E I am not including the girls who watches asian Lady Gaga makeup tutorials.

[bluefootedpig]

@ClaritySWE Well, depending on where you live, these can be new ideas. I never even thought about sharing bikes, as I have never been to Europe, and my city barely has zip cars. That was a genius idea to me, and got me thinking about what else I don't use very often. Now, I am no country boy. I have a college education, live near san fransico, ca, and work for a company as an engineer. I subscribe to TED. This might have been review for you, but it wasn't for me.

[ClaritySWE]

@bluefootedpig And I'm from Sweden and I have heard pretty much every single suggestion about saving us from the dooming future we are certainly heading. All of them great, none of them ever going to come to realization. Why? Well because 6 of the top 10 largest companies in the world are oil-based and they will do everything they can to keep us in need of their oil. I have already given up on saving the world. We need to reach peak oil and then we can talk about changing the world Good day to u

[Crazylalalalala]

@ClaritySWE

not necessrly.

Energy companies are like any other company they run for profit. If people start coming up with economical technologies rather then just try to guilt them into buying things that would reduce their profits then these energy companies would jump in and many are.

[ClaritySWE]

@Crazylalalalala Well, You are both right and wrong. I agree with what you are saying, but as I said, 6 out of 10 of the largest companies in the world are oil-based. Not only oil but they own nearly every patent on batteries as well. Hence, we will have to run out of oil before the gready basterds will do any major changes.

[Crazylalalalala]

Im pretty sure that they do not own nearly every patent, that seems like a large over exaggeration. Even if they do, wouldnt they want to make more money? of course they would.

If they believed that these patents would allow them to make more money they certainly would have made them more available. If these patents cant then they really dont matter much because they are obviously not advanced enough to be cost efficient. and If they are advanced then we need not worry, oil will not last.

[SiliconBong]

Random women have feelings too, ClaritySWE . . .

[lassek85]

@ClaritySWE

Most unevolved sciences has people like this, more or less educated who create new and rename old definitions of different things (may it be a socal phenomena or as basic as a word). Its a lack of structure and a merited system to gain the knowledge attained as a general basis that are to account, not the people experiencing it.

[oclock1983]

@ClaritySWE you r a pure shovinist

[Slug99]

@oclock1983 No he just wants the kind of stuff he subscribed to TED for. You know, things like the Pinker video, the walkthrough of the experience of having a stroke, that kind of stuff. Not this "Ohh there is like this connectivity which we all belong to and which does stuff"

[Neylonx]

@oclock1983 no. just stating an accurate observation based on recent experience on this channel.

[angelwhite]

@ClaritySWE Wow, I can't believe a bigoted comment like that has gotten so many upvotes on a channel like TED :/

[LuckyCharms432]

@angelwhite This woman sucked at making a point. Check the upvotes and downvotes. People agree. That's why a negative comment is getting play.

[angelwhite]

@LuckyCharms432 So if she was a black guy and someone said "Aaaaaaaaand as always, some random black dude comes along and says stuff everyone already knows", then you would all go upvote it because you thought that he "sucked at making a point"?

Why does having a negative opinion of her talk make you think it is legitimate to extrapolate that to all women?

[morthim]

@ClaritySWE three secconds in, paused and stopped watching cause of this comment thank you for that.

[kinsmed]

@ClaritySWE Only women?

Why do you make this distinction?

[shyic]

I thought the title said the future of business is the "meth". Glad I was wrong.

[zassounotsukushi]

Information company, not car company - I agree that's what I see for the future.

But Zipcar has left some communities feeling abandoned, and didn't do what they needed to make the consumer feel listened to. On top of that, I think there's way more to collaborative consumption than how they were going about it.

I like the final point - we need transparency and need to share failures. People need to stop picturing a shiny and happy picture of a connected society, cynicism needs to be built in.

[Buddhabr0t]

no new creative concept

[Kebabsoup]

@Buddhabr0t well...still an idea worth sharing.

[bluefootedpig]

@Buddhabr0t can you define what is creative and new? the connectom brain, we already know that thinking is being done by the connections, all he did was map the brain, yet people loved it. That wasn't new, nor creative. Nothing is really new, how do you think TED finds people? hunting down in the backwoods of america, looking for a shack where a mad scientists just reanimated a human? these are concepts that are out there, but still haven't hit market penetration.

[DeceptiveSoul]

This needs to be implemented across the globe

[kid29a]

Nice vision. I like it.

[micealmacdonnchadha]

Great video