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What happens when the pharmacy is in your body. New chips and implants are being released that allow for the dispensing of medicine and or body monitoring in real time. Imagine your doctor reading your vital stats for the last 10 days, by simply waving a RFID reader over you. Imagine being dependent on a therapeutic drug that is implanted in →…read more If you build or work with brands or have an online site that involves community or sharing this Google 1 hour video is a must watch. Reputation is brand, it is how other perceive things, people and everything else. These value judgements created and managed by others are powerful. Learn how people treat each other, build reputation, rob each other, slander lie →…read more According to the SEC Flash Crash report 86% of securities traded 10% lower during the May 6th flash crash with some shares trading down to $.01 (see page 26 of SEC report). The US Equity market is valued at roughly $15 trillion. The Flash crash was a temporary $1.0 trillion accident.  trillion normal accident: flash crash">Leave a comment  Finance & Economics, Technology  Finance & Economics, Technology Sorry to any nihilists in the audience about the cheap paraphrasing of Nietzsche. Robert Cialdini is a power house in the sociology world for his publications and highly digestible books on persuasion and influence. He is now using his understanding of psychology to manipulate people into saving energy and he is doing it with a new start up called Opower. The idea →…read more Crowdsourcing, intrinsic motivation and positive externalities are powerful forces when combined. I am currently teaching some friends about the online world. My friends use Facebook, twitter etc. but don’t know how they work as media tools. Similar to the fact that watching TV doesn’t necessarily mean one understands the dynamics and mechanics of it is a marketing, social or psychological phenomenon. →…read more The average individual in the developed world easily spends 30-40% of their waking hours in front of a screen, either a computer or a TV. The state of reality and awareness created in these environments doesn’t exist. It is a shared collective narrative of concepts or representations strung together by ourselves or others for work or entertainment. Think about it, your →…read more Ultimately great investments are created by sustained margins over years and longer. These margins are created by what value investors call moats. Moats are created by excellent strategy. Strategy has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is innovation. Every product, service or firm you see today was an innovation at some point and time that has stood a test of time. →…read more An interesting experience, to watch and feel the sense of future in the video below. The technology is now 6-8 orders of magnitude cheaper and better but hasn’t fundamentally changed. thanks to the personal genome site for digging this up The next real revolution will happen with either analog environments or a shift from the purely Von Neumann architecture used today. My →…read more Here is a fascinating article that reinforces the work of Ray Kurzweil and his book, the singularity is near. Basically the article is about the ability to track via live scanning a single human thought. It is early days in this field, but the science is rapidly approaching boundaries considered science fiction just a few years ago….and ever faster we go, →…read more SSSHHH. I am not supposed to know it, but I am getting a Wii for the holidays. Here is an uber hack for those also fortunate to have the game console. Turn your wii into a surface →…read more |
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