William S. Burroughs described the title of his book, Naked Lunch, as "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork." In other words, there's a moment when the implications of a choice you've made for yourself, and the impact of all the events leading up to and supporting that choice, become clear in your mind. As a result, you become aware of the … [Read more...]
Augmented: Human + Machine = Humaner
In retrospect, it seems overly optimistic to have thought that technology would make us anything other than more of what we already were. Sure... In the early days of the internet it was easy to believe that this magical new technology would usher in an era of heightened enlightenment, riding in on a wave of ones and zeroes. In fact, the early indications were that some new … [Read more...]
Standing On The Threshold
Some things that are amazing me: We can smash atoms together to unlock a particle that only existed in math equations a month ago. We can store enough data to simulate a living organism. We can slow down time enough to sort through photons and see around corners. We can sort through vast amounts of data and determine that someone is pregnant based on their … [Read more...]
Signal To Noise & The Demise Of Facebook
Facebook is in trouble. Not because of the questionable success of its IPO or difficulty finding ways to commodify its services (although, the latter may be significant contributor to the issue). Google+ is in trouble for the same reason, albeit at the opposite end of the spectrum. The reason Facebook is in trouble is because of the fact that it's signal-to-noise ratio is … [Read more...]
The 5 Vectors Of Business Transformation
I spend my days in the Innovation Office of a large professional services organization. Our team focuses on helping the firm generate and refine new ideas to improve our culture, operations, and the services we provide to clients. All our efforts would be useless unless what we do is strategically aligned. One tool we use to ensure alignement is to map out the business … [Read more...]
Is Brainstorming Broken?
I just got done reading William Duggan's post on strategy+business called "How Aha! Really Happens." It is an interesting read and I'll let you read it for yourself rather than try to recap it here. For brevity's sake an our purposes, let it suffice to say that Mr. Duggan asserts that the process companies use to come up with solutions to problems is flawed in that the focus is … [Read more...]
Google Knowledge Graph: Clustering On Crack
One of the big problems with most search technology is that it still functions in a Web 1.0 way. For instance, you type in your search term and hit enter; when results come back, you scan for what you want and if it you can't find it, you enter a new search term and hit enter again. It's kind of like Battleship - you take a shot where you think something is and then find out if … [Read more...]
Ifttt This Is Wrong, Then I Don’t Wanna Be Right
Every once in a while, something comes along that makes me hit my head like the star of an old V8 commercial, then reminds me why I'm so optimistic about technology. Ifttt is one of those things. Ifttt, while a funny domain name, stands for "If This, Then That," and that's the simple beauty of this free web solution. I haven't been this geeked up about a solution since … [Read more...]
Cat & Mouse: Innovation In Entertainment
Change is happening. You can’t avoid it. The economy is fluctuating, there is an ongoing battle to reconfigure the regulatory landscape, and the marketplace keeps shifting as new players get into the game and established players enter new markets. However, the most profound changes we are seeing are being driven by technology – the digital platform is opening up new channels, … [Read more...]
Predict This! Kaggle Seeks The Michael Jordan Of Analytics
Last week, my boss and I had the pleasure of speaking with Anthony Goldbloomd and Karthik Sethuraman of Kaggle (http://www.kaggle.com/) and we were both impressed by what this San Francisco startup has cooking. Kaggle is a platform for crowd-sourcing solutions to complex analytics problems. There's a great writeup at Forbes about the company. Here's the gist of it, … [Read more...]
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