"Radical" is a term often used by marteteers to sell products. It usually applies to the technology inerent in the usually new product being sold. It is a successful term to apply in marketing. People go for "radical." Why?
Radical technology offers innovation potential to its buyer/user if they are successful at implementing and using the radicalness.
In the healthcare space, we are beginning to see huge investments in health information technology from the US Federal government influence the direction of development. Meanwhile, integrated clinical information systems at hospitals in the 1980s found huge challenges integrating data and providing a managerial value to the health providers. Indeed, they were deisgned to help the administrators with their analytics and quarterly reports to CMS or other regulartory bodies.
We see interesting devices from time to time that prompt re-thinking the potential of how we behave and what we are able to do. I saw an interesting USB key fob today that did just that. It is a small device that will enable a person to carry files along with an identity and interaction method! What does this mean?
So, how long will it take for flying cars to be commonplace? Will they ever? As of this week, there is a viable flying car that will be on the market for under $200,000 in the near future.
Virtual worlds enable whole new business opportunities. Have a look at this article about second life and how successful businesses are using the medium to make real money. Note that the majority of this business usage currently centers on marketing and fashion. Other common uses of the virtual world include social clubs and advertising. Second life businesses article on CNET
Lately, the IT world has been humming with a variety of acronyms and buzzwords as usual. We hear about SOA and ITIL as well as "virtualization." Here virtualization generally refers to the ability to separate the computational capabilities associated with a business process from specific servers or other hardware. In effect, grid computing in which any terminal on a given grid can access the functions available.
I am marking this space to begin collecting my thoughts on the Age of Design. Future Shock, Network Nation, and Megatrends all predicted the information age. People would become information-empowered.
The Internet connects people today and offers access to pricing, regulations, other government and public documents, as well as tools for manipulating data and producing more information.
The multi-touch screen procesing allows complex motion to be captured and interpreted. Look at the new two-finger scroll on MacBookPros and you see one application. here is another. This is a hot I/O technology to follow. it can be intuitive and accessible by average consumers, even non-computer-literate ones. Combine this technology with projectible touch-screen technology and amazing possibilities like projectible I/O interfaces on watches, etc. become possible. Here is an example of a projectible touch-screen application:
We see interesting devices from time to time that prompt re-thinking the potential of how we behave and what we are able to do. I saw an interesting USB key fob today that did just that. It is a small device that will enable a person to carry files along with an identity and interaction method! What does this mean?
Virtual worlds enable whole new business opportunities. Have a look at this article about second life and how successful businesses are using the medium to make real money. Note that the majority of this business usage currently centers on marketing and fashion. Other common uses of the virtual world include social clubs and advertising. 