In Search of the Next Great Addiction
In Search of the Next Great Addiction Is the cool glow of a smartphone the sure sign of an addict? “What exactly do you do here, I’ve been meaning to ask. Because I’m the producer, right? I cook. But from what I can tell, you are just a drug addict! You...
Anticipatory Computing: Unlocking the Ultra-Human in All of Us
Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your television and it instantly knew what show you wanted to watch? We all dream of an easier life, so what if we got into our car and it knew where we wanted to go, or turned on a radio and it played the perfect music, or...
Driverless Highways: Creating Cars that Talk to the Roads
Driverless Highways: Creating Cars that Talk to the Roads Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at a conference on the “Future of Mobility” in Shanghai, China. The event was produced by the very forward thinking people at Lanxess, a German-based chemical company...
Creating the ‘Builders’ of Our Future
Creating the ‘Builders’ of Our Future As something of a grand finale to their 11-week, full-immersion Ruby on Rails class, our first graduating class of DaVinci Coders took the stage on Demo Day to talk about the projects they worked on. To me it was quite remarkable...