Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

The web has always enjoyed talking about, well, the web. That’s nothing new. It was true in the days of forums and boards, in fact some of the most heated threads stemmed from meta discussions.

Forbes has the news that the University of Florida is basically eliminating their computer science department. As a UF graduate who took several CS classes and have friends who graduated with CS degrees and are very successful, this is, in one word: shameful.

As William Gibson famously said: the future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed. Google (my employer) recently released this video sharing a real life example of what it’s like to be behind the wheel of a self-driving car:

AlterNet has an unmissable story on why we need to go back to a 40 hour work week. The short, short version is that 150 years of research proves shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits — and overtime destroys them.

David Ogilvy is one of the most quoted advertising professionals and a legend in the space. So it was neat to see Lists of Note pull up an internal memo sent to all employees of his advertising agency in 1982.

We not only have a highly engaged group of smart readers here at The Future Buzz. Beyond that, our community is so passionate about what they do they frequently take time out of their busy day to share thinking with all of us.