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Re: Conducting Weigh-in’s

Claire Thompson — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:59:07 -0000

Good luck - well done - will follow suit!

Re: About Me

Sue Robinson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:20:03 -0000

Hi Farhan,

I'm a recruiter and I'd love to have a conversation with you. I am currently looking for a Marketing Director for a SW vendore of Social Business Software solutions. I'm not sure what you are thinking of career wise- but it could suit you. Anyway, I'd be happy to talk.

Could you please email me your mobile number of give me a call?

Regards
Sue Robinson
sue@itseuropean.com 01483 484300

Hope to hear from you soon

Re: My Predictions for the iPhone4

tamlyn — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:03:19 -0000

Agreed apart from the video call prediction. It's been "just about to take off" since the early 80s (and sci fi before that). Remember video phones from BT? Then 3G was meant to be all about video calls but people ignored that functionality and invented twitter instead.

I think most people fundamentally do not want to see or be seen when making a phone call. Business meetings are a different matter and there's certainly a lot of room for improvement in video conferencing technology. But I remain very doubtful that any new gadget will suddenly make people want to video call each other socially.

Re: My Predictions for the iPhone4

Farhan Rehman — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:00:42 -0000

Yeah, tell me about it! I decided not to join in the 'fanboy rush' this morning, but will probably grab one sometime in the next few days.. Or perhaps over the weekend.. Interesting to see the problems with antenna/reception and pixelation of screen appearing as issues.. making me think it might be worth waiting a little bit longer..

Re: My Predictions for the iPhone4

M van Hylckama Vlieg — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:35:03 -0000

I'm with you. The iPhone 4 is the first edition I actually want to own, and will own (after the crazy fanboy rush has calmed down).

It seems Apple finally got it right.

Re: Welcome to FarhanRehman.co.uk

Robert WoW De Souza — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:28:30 -0000

Dear Farhan,

It was wonderful to meet you to learn about Social Media and how mobile is evolving. Let's find a way to collaborate with more like minded caring, sharing leaders who want a win win plan of action.

Namaste with love and many blessings.

Robert De Souza

Re: Welcome to FarhanRehman.co.uk

Jessan Dunn Otis — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:37:52 -0000

"...is where I’m going to just be me."

:-)

With a curious and informed mind, that's is the best, Farhan.

I look forward to listening, learning, sharing and enjoying the conversation.

Dance on...

Jessan

Re: Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery?

Farhan Rehman — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:34:20 -0000

@Dean
I did see him describe the coin toss experiment being based on nothing more than maths, but from a statistical point of view, the probability of one person accomplishing 10 successful combinations, whilst the other person only gets one combination is most definitely skewed given my basic understanding of probability and statistics..

There's also the work of William Tiller, where thoughts have been shown to directly affect physical reality, especially in skewing seemingly 'neutral' probability based events, (see What The Bleep Do We Know!? for a more detailed explanation of this worldview).

There is also the work of Rupert Sheldrake that talks about morphogenetic fields, and how a group effect is both possible, and probable in terms of generating a telepathic effect, especially with his theory of morphic fields.

Re: Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery?

Dean — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:43:29 -0000

Farhan, if you'd watched the program properly, you'd have seen that the support group of people for the coin toss experiment made no difference - it was based on maths.

Derren Brown doesn't believe in anything psychic. Although the wisdom of crowds theory does exist, that's not how he predicted the 6 lottery numbers. Sure, he got them together and they managed to get 4, but that final 'prediction' was done using a camera trick.

Re: Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery?

Farhan Rehman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:55:16 -0000

@Robert - hehehe, indeed.. But having read the book the Wisdom of Crowds, and understood some of the basic principles behind divining/psychic precognitive type stuff, and also seeing some of his more obvious uses of suggestive subconscious pre-suppositions, I'm curious to figure out if it's a Wisdom of Crowds approach that did it - or the sheer desire of a large enough support group (i.e. all the people who were watching the show and wanted him to get it right), that led to him getting the right numbers.. If you think about how he got the support of a few people, to influence a few coin tosses, this isn't that much different, just to a larger order of scale, in some regards..

@Seung-Wook, @Mark, @Luke, you've all been added to the list ;)

Re: Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery?

thirstforwine — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:49:40 -0000

You do realise it was VERY carefully set up so that when, not if, this fails to make any significant difference, he can say it was because you weren't disinterested enough, not in the right state of mind. Have fun though!

Re: Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery?

Luke Edge — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:12:16 -0000

Sign me up Farhan . . . . . . . would come in handy at the moment!
And like yourself and mark, really interested to see if it could be done.

Luke

Re: Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery?

Mark Shaw — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:17:01 -0000

Hi Farhan, like you, I watched the programme. I am really interested in the idea of what you think about, you bring about... It will be fun to have a group of us, working together to see if we can replicate what was on telly..

It may well be a trick, but it will be fun trying to see what we can achieve. It will also be great to meet some new peeps in the process of trying.

The only thing that I am not sure about is the level of commitment needed. I am happy to stay for the long haul, but perhaps an indication of what that entails should be communicated to all the participants..

What a great case study... what a great story... lets make it happen...

best

Mark Shaw
07990 743 564
mark@markshaw.biz
twitter.com/markshaw

Re: Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery?

Seung-Wook — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:01:54 -0000

Hey Farhan, just saw your tweet haha I'd love to have a go.

Re: Welcome to FarhanRehman.co.uk

Robert De Souza — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:45:01 -0000

Keep up the great work you do sharing your many gifts. Look forward to meeting you soon. Namaste.