Oral culture: Snapchat, deleting streams, and, now, Banter
I have two teens and it has been fascinating to see how they approach the permanence of text and images. The digitization of the world has challenged how we kee...
Category: The Narrative
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...
TSA and faux terror theatre
Disclaimer: My family has a long history living in, speaking out against, and escaping trouble from totalitarian governments. So, please understand that I have ...
Google Maps as traffic cop in the sky?
I am a very heavy user of Google Maps, even when I know where I’m going. It’s a pretty good* predictor of current travel time and traffic patterns. ...
The chocolate and peanut butter method of ideation
Just a thought. Sometimes for me to generate new ideas I randomly grab different topics (the more different the better) that interest me and explore what they m...
One night – a global story of one night in the mobile life
There is but one Night, a Night that lives in Earth’s shadow, a Night that covers half the Globe, sliding gradually West in a never-ending run from the Da...
Smartwatches: data freshness, interactive surfaces, and how the old became new again.
If you are an older runner, like me, there’s a high chance that smartwatches are nothing new to you. In 2005, when I was at Nokia Ventures Organization, t...
Are EMR systems in the 10s like AOL in the 90s?
I’ve been getting a feeling that EMR systems, while here, are a decade late. While I am totally in favor of digitizing the patient, what EMR vendors set o...
“Welcome to the Post-Pasteurian Age” (my HealthFOO Ignite talk that never happened)
I was blessed with an invitation to HealthFOO this year, here in nearby Cambridge. Alas, the event was cancelled due to the intense events after the Boston Mara...
Why can’t health be a sufficient incentive?
There have been a slew of consumer healthcare devices that have come to market ranging from fancy pedometers and activity meters to apps that track your every m...