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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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The Application of Scientific Method in Healthcare
Mark Montgomery sends along a link to a talk by Dr. Donald Berwick. Provocative talk about how the scientific method is modified by social interaction in a health...
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Extensible Ad Formulas
In AdAge: A formula for ads by Procter & Gamble's Men's grooming. Is it extensible to other categories? " ... Cracking Viral Code: Look at Your Ads. Now Look...
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Visual Dictionaries
A friend and I recently discussed how we had both grown up scanning pages in the encyclopedia and dictionary. What I found interesting about that were not only...
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Big Green Boxes
An interesting idea via IFTF: Take unused warehouse space in a city and use it to implement aquaponics ... a combination of soil-less growing of plants, and using...
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Enforcing Fun at Work
I always loved having fun at work. Yet in my years at the enterprise there were a couple of times where there was an attempt at attempting to enforce or systematize...
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Berners-Lee and the Mobile Web
In Read Write Web: Comments by the Web Inventor Berners-Lee on concerns with important issues regarding the mobile Web. Some points I had not thought of. Inevitable...
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On Not Finishing the Book
An interesting Volokh piece about the ethics of reviewing or criticizing books (or anything) without finishing the whole thing. Guilty at times of exactly that.
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Managing Data as an Asset
Thinking about managing data as an asset. It is surprising how often we do not think about this. Could be a key aspect of managing knowledge.
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Business Card Scanning
In the NYT, an overview of a number of business card scanning applications. I still hand business cards manually, it would be good to digitize these and add them...
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A House that Knows Family Mood
Another example of sensing and automating common home processes such washing your hair. Or integrating sensory processes into the home itself. In the early 2000s...
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Hair Washing Robot
Panasonic announces a robot that washes your hair. Designed primarily for health institutional and caregiving scenarios.
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ARF Neuromarketing Standards Study
This makes great sense, it is overdue that this is looked at closely to try to produce useful standards. Sands Research pointed this out to me. Eight firms to...
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Talent Analytics
This piece relates to several posts I have done recently on retiree knowledge retention and linking specific corporate needs to expertise based on assignment approach...
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Companion Future of Smartphones
Intel talks about the future of smartphones as assistants, and interestingly companions. It is to be expected as phones become more context aware, include more...
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New Kind of Science on the iPad
Stephen Wolfram blogs about the appearance of his mega book: A New Kind of Science on the IPad, with enhanced graphics. I bought this book when it first came out...
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Super Wifi Space Approved
Engadget on Super Wifi. Followed Wimax for years and its potential application for retail. Is this the same thing? No it is not, but it is very likely to compete...
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Gillette, Razor and Blade Strategy
In the HBR blog, more history and discussion of the renowned Gillette razor and blade strategy. " ... What should we take away from this? Did Gillette just miss...
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Reality Has a Gaming Layer
In O'Reilly Radar, a good interview piece on integrating reality and games. I know about attempts like FourSquare that make weak attempts to do this. In the world...
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Pay with Your Smartphone
An Engadget report. We saw experimental examples done in this space over two years ago, it is surprising that we are still not seeing the right hardware in smartphones...
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