I'm now ensconced in the bloggers' perch, on the balcony overlooking the stage at the Nokia Theater in NYC (two blocks from Times Square), ready to take in the talks at HSM's Innovation Forum - Clayton Christensen, CK Prahalad, Paul Saffo. Big names. BIG conference.
Of course innovation is a big topic, too. So large a topic that there are lots of sub-topics, and sub-sub-topics. But these are the leading thinkers, so I'm expecting leading thoughts.
As I look down on the crowd below sitting in the darkened theater I see a whole array of lit up PDA screens, as people check through their email, some going online, some just tooling through messages, creating the vision of a deep sea punctuated by an assortment of glowing fish, winking on and off occasionally.