R&D Blogg - Erich Hugo

The 100th Idiot

By Erich Hugo on 2009-07-29
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R&D's Erich Hugo on the Global Village, and why he hopes to be the last idiot standing

"100 idiots make idiotic plans, and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot whose plans succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he's a genius."

—Iain Banks, Matter

Back from holiday and I have so many new ideas that I feel like I am in a ticker tape parade of impressions. We were in Turkey, and suffice it to say I was very surprised at how western the country is and how far the Paris Hilton-ization of the world has come.

The Evolution of Revolution

By Erich Hugo on 2009-07-28
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R&D's Erich Hugo on Nelson Mandela, his mother-in-law and the communication revolution

Revolutions have become sanitized affairs in the Western World. Far removed from the guts and glory days of the French Revolution, there has been an ebb towards making these socially up heaving events part an parcel of our daily lives. Most people in the west don't even notice the revolutions really; they just go from one default state to another without really prompting or even questioning their own motives. I guess it's all in the packaging.

I have lived through a revolution IRL.

Choice Limits Choice

By Erich Hugo on 2009-04-16
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Bonnier R&D's Erich Hugo on "choice-iness", or how new tech avenues make us choose away.

And so it has come to pass. I have actually closed a tech avenue by choosing an alternative product which gives me alternative choices. And it makes me feel lost. The fact is, with the technology explosion being as it is, we have reached a crux point where the products that we choose to use, instead of opening up possibilities, have become synonymous with closing other possibilities. 

Land of the Blind

By Erich Hugo on 2009-03-31
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Bonnier R&D's Erich Hugo wants web leaders to stop out-innovating the consumer.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king—or so the old adage goes.

But what has this got to do with the world we live in today? Well, it struck me last night while I was doing some dishes, using the latest and greatest dishwashing liquid.  It actually contained an active ingredient extracted from cucumber.  And I was like, what??

The End of the OS

By Erich Hugo on 2009-03-12
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Bonnier R&D's Erich Hugo on the end of the operating system, and why that's a good thing.

I am a consumer (not the walrus) and I need to get my daily fix of PopSci. So of course I need to pop into the website and see the latest headlines...If only it was as simple as that, though, because the wish to consume media means I need to get to a lap- or desktop. I need to boot the device up, which is all ready a two- to three-minute plus exercise; I then add some seconds to find and open the relevant browser application. Then I need to actually type in an address and wait for some loading times.

Fire Upon the Deep Web

By Erich Hugo on 2009-03-11
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R&D's Erich Hugo on the question of your online reputation. 

For my first blog entry I was asked to say a few words about myself, and right now I am stumped. So instead of me preaching about myself, I recommend that you guys do a search on my name and I will try and track you. I will post the results of anybody searching on my name (which I can find) here on the blog. That way you will get an overview of who I am and we get my first blog post done. And it is about the DEEP WEB.