Bots all the way down, and a puppy reference
Bots have been around for a long time. Anyone who knows the history of AI remembers ELIZA, a conversation-mimicking AI that made you feel you were talking to a ...
Category: Innovation
Hey, John McCarthy, AI has finally gone mainstream
You know the feeling when someone mentions something and then you see it everywhere? Well, that’s what happened to me with AI. I wasn’t giving it an...
Thoughts on Aetna’s Apple Watch move
Aetna announced they were going to subsidize the Apple Watch for select large employers and individual customers this open enrollment season. Aetna will also pr...
What’s the healthcare equivalent of reach, throw, row, go?
The other day we were talking about my wife’s mobile veterinary practice, and I started mapping what she does to human healthcare and reach, row, throw, g...
AIs, writing, and computational literature
A few months back, I stumbled upon Inkitt. Well, more like they stumbled upon me – they were looking for someone with a background in analytics and in wri...
Thoughts on “The age of indie fitness apps is over”
I officially left the mobile world back in ’09. But, of course, since then, we’ve seen the meteoric rise of the iPhone, folks getting the idea of mo...
Is OpenTrons the Makerbot of biotech? In some ways.
When I was a molecular biologist, folks used to ask me what I did. I used to say, “Squirt things into tubes and wait.” OpenTrons takes that drudgery...
Changes in Aetna’s online offerings: what the impact?
I find Aetna to be a leader in using online tools to increase member engagement in their health (with the interest to lower costs, of course). One interesting o...
Posting mobile photos like it’s 2005
I haven’t looked at my Lifeblog archive in a long time. Without the software, it’s just a deep tree of folders holding all sorts of media over many ...
Breaking free of activity monitors: affective wearables, digital pheromones, and emotional mapping
Christine Lemke posted a collection of links to wrist gadgets, which triggered a conversation between us on Twitter. The list had your usual (yawn) suspects, su...