We sometimes forget how miraculous it is that our technology talks to each other. The ability to hook a computer to a network, or Skype to a landline, is not preordained. It takes interested parties to sit together and set standards. The "Internet of Things" is a great idea, but suffers mostly from being an endless series of data islands. A dishwasher can talk to the … [Read more...]
Wearables in the Harvard Business Review
Beth Comstock, the way-smart CMO at GE, points out a good article from the Harvard Business Review about the use of wearable technology in business. Although it starts with the thorough instrumentation of professional athletes in training, the article explicitly raises the specter of Frederick Taylor's pioneering (though later questioned) time-motion studies done at Western … [Read more...]