Recent initiatives designed to make U.S. consumer financial products simpler and intelligible to customers, reminds me of a study we did on Mobile Banks in the developing world. Designed to…
It’s been a tough recession for retailers, although the better ones are emerging from it stronger relative to their peers than before the deluge.
That’s obviously true of the big supermarket…
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invited amateur and professional designers from…
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invited amateur and professional designers from…
Perhaps the most intriguing piece I’ve seen at Ars Electronica so far is called WIA<>WIA, “Water in Africa, Water in Austria”. On the surface, it’s a well-thought through piece of installation art…
Kristen Taylor is a food pornographer. She asks us not to tell her mother… though she’s just told a very full room at Ars Electronica in Linz. She’s the instigator today of a “food hacking”…
This is the text of the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture, given at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival by Robert Peston, at 12.30pm on Saturday 29 August 2009. In it, the…
Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information. Since extropy is defined as negative entropy — the reversal of disorder — it is,…
Our unregulated global marketplace is a fantastic conduit for warfare since it is…
Our unregulated global marketplace is a fantastic conduit for warfare since it is…
Using Richard Feynman’s famous series of lectures as a testbed, Microsoft Research has created a very impressive video presentation tool. yes, we’ve seen video annotation and linked…
Just a little obvious aside, this - but something that only struck me this morning as I was heading to the studio. I mentioned it to Webb, and he said “write it down” so here we are.
It’s been…
Good friend and fellow Rebooter Peter Rukavina asked me to write about Instapaper, as I was raving on about it when we had our annual meetup in Copenhagen.
I thought it a difficult…
Mybarackobama.com during the campaign
The Obama campaign picked up the Titanium Grand Prix at last week’s Cannes Lions advertising festival, and was praised in particular for its…
There are growing signs — from a black swan in savings/debt reduction to massive debt loads to quarterly trillion dollar losses in personal wealth to stagnant/falling consumer purchases to…
