Cloud Labor

I blogged a while back about a concept called "Pop-Up Organizations," where dynamic, virtual organizations would organize using the Internet in order to deliver a product or service, or otherwise meet a need, and then disband. It was a concept that was predicted in one of the many forecasts that are published each year. Related to that concept is the concept of "cloud labor," where virtual workers come together to address a specific problem or deliver a service via the Internet.

The cloud labor concept was written about in the article, "Innovation: The relentless rise of the digital worker," by Justin Mullins and published January 15, 2010 on the New Scientist Web site. You can read more about it at:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18395-innovation-the-relentless-rise-of-the-digital-worker.html

Needless to say, the pop-up organization is taking form in realtime.

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IBM's Next Five in Five

It's that time of year again. IBM has published their end of 2009 "Next Five in Five," five innovations that will enter the commercial mainstream in the next five years that will have dramatic impact on all our lives. The five:

- We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world

- Real-time speech translation-once a vision only in science fiction-will become the norm

- There will be a 3-D Internet

- Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance

-Our mobile phones will come close to reading our minds

Read the full list at:

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/five_in_five/010807/index1.shtml

What say you?

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