Disconnecting as a trend: Frog Design
Frog Design, like J. Walter Thompson, has identified "Disconnecting in the Modern, Digital World" as one of the 15 trends that will shape technology in 2014. Faraday Zones...
The bookstore is “the body to my Internet mind”
In a recent Random House blog essay, writer and bookseller Fiona Ducan argues that "we read more, and in more ways, than ever, and this is thanks to
Taking contemplative computing to Buddhist monastics
Last week I was in New York for the launch of J. Walter Thompson's new report on consumer trends, and while I was on the East Coast I
“Authentic living needs lots of fake people in order to pay for it”
Hugh Macleod writes about the rise of an "Antidote Economy" in response to the "*brave* new world of stimulus oversupply.... It’s an increasingly huge cultural phenomenon, simply because
I’ve 3D printed a pair of sunglasses that instagrams a selfie when you need to buy teabags
Actually I've just been playing with What the F*** is my Wearables Strategy. We'll be millionaries in 12 months.
At tech companies “a calm mind is the new in thing”
Computerworld recently had a piece about "Tech companies find their inner Zen:" For high-tech powerhouses like Intel and Google, where scientists and engineers are focused on goals like
JWT Intelligence thinks contemplative computing is a Thing
The boffins at J. Walter Thompson Intelligence included contemplative computing in their list of "100 Things to Watch in 2014." It appears at #25, but I'm not getting
“develop and use a new form of technology: technology that doesn’t exploit us, but that does support us”
Because I can't cover the whole world, I just found out about Offtime, a project out of Berlin to develop an app to manage calls, texts, etc. while
Common e-mail strategies “can be detrimental to other goals and the people that we work with”
Kingston Business School professor Emma Russell has been researching e-mail interruptions [pdf] and strategies (good and bad) for dealing with them. Science Daily reports that Russell conducted in-depth
Martha Graham on “working very hard to give our all to those things to which we are called”
All too often we assume that the good life is about ease. It's the one presented in a million infomercials about how to make money flipping foreclosed properties: