Tropisms – Page 3 – Thoughts from the center and the edge on design, technology, and the social behaviors that are affected by both.

It’s not about automation, it is about the adaptation of labor, work and outcomes

I recently attended a thought provoking Chicago Humanities Festival forum discussing the effects of automation on work with Louis Hyman […]

7 years ago

I recently read the MIT Technology Review on 10 Breakthrough Technologies in which there are many articles throughout that described […]

7 years ago

Agile Innovation Teams

Many organizations are seeking ways to move faster to market and want to be “agile.” They associate agility with speed, […]

7 years ago

At a recent Dutch Design week, a panel discussion was chaired by Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs as part […]

7 years ago

Recently, the Xinhua News Agency in China unveiled at the World Internet Conference a new sharply dressed news anchor, that […]

7 years ago

Innovation

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare, Measure […]

7 years ago

Other

There was a recent story on National Public Radio highlighting the increase in independent workers and their desire to find […]

8 years ago

I was listening to NPR and they had another story about crowd sourcing and a gym shoe company in Seattle […]

8 years ago

Technology

We never really think about losing our smart phone because it is never supposed to happen to us. It seems […]

8 years ago

Other

” . . . we are clinging as never before to the familiar in matters of style and culture.” Kurt […]

8 years ago

Other

I recently attended two lectures on the future of the book. This topic is close to me for two reasons […]

8 years ago

Cognition

With all the focus around augmented reality, the trend to geolocate and post data layers on top of specific locations […]

8 years ago