Interesting talk by Eric Topol (cardiologist) on the near future of healthcare. We are on the verge of what he calls consumer driven healthcare powered by wireless data.
/thanks to @yoldaanderskor
Tag "technology"
Interesting article by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times today on the do-it-yourself economy. In his article Friedman talks about the great inflection:
The Great Inflection is the mass diffusion of low-cost, high-powered innovation technologies — from hand-held computers to Web sites that offer any imaginable service — plus cheap connectivity. They are transforming how business is done.
On the great inflection I completely agree — I think it might prove a big agent for innovation. But — perhaps because I’m European — I don’t agree at all on the credit part. The credit-market is far from healthy; we need to get other values (e.g. nature, happiness) incorporated in our definition of wealth.
Read MoreToday I was thinking about the difference between using a **dishwasher** or doing the **dishes by hand**. I noticed while doing the dishes by hand I was much more aware of my *consumption*: the amount of plates, how dirty they are, the water required to clean the dishes, the amount of soap, the effort required, and so forth.
When you put everything into the dishwasher and merely press the ON-button. The dishwasher takes over. It solves all your worries — we explicitly don’t want to know what is happening inside. Of course this the exact reason why most people adore the machine: it gives us a **shortcut** for doing the dishes. So we can spend time on something else.
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Definition: These are the “shadow forms” of earlier materials or designs, which survive into later structures or artifacts.
So:
One “dials” a phone that has nothing but buttons […]
source: http://www.nous.org.uk/skiamorph.html
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