Posted by DesignWell - July 9, 2009
It's a banality to state that Healthcare IT is hopelessly out-of-date. Actually, hospitals are often full of gleaming new equipment and are constantly upgrading their infrastructure. The problem is that while the assorted blocks of hardware and software in a healthcare system are often very sophisticated in themselves, they typically don't connect to each other, or to their users, in a very effective manner. Printers, faxes, and paper filing cabinets form the real backbone of the system.
Posted by Fabio Sergio - July 9, 2009
Remember the days when people got all excited as soon as anyone mentioned the Semantic Web?
Well, that's still a promising future evolution of our beloved digital playground, but in the meantime other semantic goodness has already come into the world.
People are talking.
The One Machine has started answering back in Furby-like memes gleaned from the conversations it's been eavesdropping on.
Here are three projects I love that point the way by word-mining human internet chatter to reveal patterns.
Posted by Fabio Sergio - July 7, 2009
The July 09 U.S. edition of Wired magazine has an interesting set of articles dealing with what happens once the body goes electric and becomes a beaming node on The Network, pulsating bits with its every heartbeat:
"And not only can we collect that data, we can analyze it as well, looking for patterns, information that might help us change both the quality and the length of our lives. We can live longer and better by applying, on a personal scale, the same quantitative mindset that powers Google and medical research. Call it Living by Numbers, the ability to gather and analyze data about yourself, setting up a feedback loop that we can use to upgrade our lives, from better health to better habits to better performance."
Posted by tedglobal - July 6, 2009
On board a KLM 747 to Amsterdam, I’m reading Alain de Botton’s The Art of Travel as a preparation exercise for the TEDGlobal conference in two weeks (frog is a sponsor and the conference theme, "The Substance of Things Not Seen," is the theme of this group blog).
Posted by Nick de la Mare - July 6, 2009
Before we get started, I have three confessions:
Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 6, 2009
frog design founder and former CEO Hartmut Esslinger has written his first book, and it is available in stores now: A Fine Line – How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business. Part autobiography, part how-to innovation guide, part outlook to the future of design, A Fine Line is "a must-read for designers and business people alike" (Satjiv Chahil, senior vice president, Hewlett-Packard).
Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 5, 2009
Earlier this year, frog had the honor of participating in a series of expert hearings or what the Germans call "Zukunftswerkstatt" – a special think tank dedicated to envisioning and discussing the future of the country (or at least the next two decades).
Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 4, 2009
Modernista did it. Skittles did it. And now the world’s hottest advertising firm, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CPB), has done it, too: the NY outfit has re-launched its corporate web site as a conversational social hub that curates what is being said about CPB rather than staging what CPB has to say. Some may scoff at this move and denigrate it as “sooooo six months ago,” but I agree with Paul Isakson when he heralds the influence of the new CPB site on the rest of the industry as potentially paradigm-shifting.
Posted by Nick de la Mare - June 29, 2009
In 1893 the Newark Ohio Daily Advocate ran a series of articles predicting what the world would look like in a hundred years.
Posted by Tim Leberecht - June 28, 2009
Several blog posts this week, combined, pinpoint what are arguably the two most influential trajectories for the impact of communication technologies on business these days: from real-time web to real-time business, and from social media to social business design.
