The final frontier of digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks like it’s possible. You’ve probably read bits and pieces about brain implants and prostheses. Let me give you the big picture. Neural implants could accomplish […]
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The Icy Mountains of Pluto | NASA
Congratulations to NASA on the success of the New Horizons’ Mission! New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago […]
Link: “An era of unbounded malignant complexity”
O’Reilly interviews Mickey McManus, a researcher at Autodesk, about the extreme complexity that IoT will unleash. It’s definitely worth fifteen minutes of your day to listen to this: credit : O’Reilly Radar
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Comic-Con reel
High, the bar is being set by J.J. Abrams… …disappoint he better not
A decent list of UX questions for a unified customer experience
I’m not a huge fan of the term ‘Omni-channel,’ but the core concepts in the post below is valid – the burden of figuring out the mode of interaction shouldn’t fall on customers. Companies must craft a user experience that provides for the highest quality interactions, at every touchpoint: But an omni-channel experience isn’t just […]
Why email sucks
We may despise our inboxes (and 99% of what’s in them), but we’re neurochemically compelled to make sure that there isn’t something potentially important or pleasurable lurking in there this time. And then five minutes from now. And then again. And again. “The internal stimulus is the one that gets you,” Rosen says. “On balance, […]
Flying over the ‘burgh
I took this pic early on June 12, 2016 – final approach into PIT…
An underground spice mandi at Grand Central Station
It’s amazing the things you’ll find in New York
The internet remembers too much…
Excellent talk (transcript) by Maciej Ceglowski. This is just a brief extract: I’ve come to believe that a lot of what’s wrong with the Internet has to do with memory. The Internet somehow contrives to remember too much and too little at the same time, and it maps poorly on our concepts of how memory […]
♦ Marketing to a digital butler: Customer engagement in a VRM empowered world
In my previous post, I referenced Paul Greenberg’s brain dump of technologies, concepts, and theories that are pulling the CRM community toward a larger market of customer engagement. CRM innovation is shifting from delivery of technology [footnote] By that I mean taking decade old CRM technology from on-premises to the cloud, with little customer oriented […]
