26 2019 December
5 Non-Obvious Megatrends Changing Our World In 2020
For the past ten years I have gone through an annual ritual of publishing a book about trends that describe our shifting culture and business...
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01 2019 August
5 Awesome (And Slightly Scary) Technology Stories You Should Know
Most weeks I tend to focus on stories about our culture, but this week my curation led more consistently toward technology with a wide range...
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07 2019 February
Hotel Encourages Digital Detox, Cypto Founder Dies With Only Password To $190 million and Why SF Might Ban Facial Recognition | Non-Obvious Insights 02.07.19
The Hotel That Forces You To Take A Digital Detox In Sweden, one hotel has created a stunt designed to encourage you to stay off...
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17 2019 January
Robot Layoffs, Disappearing Street Food & Asymmetrical Jeans | Non-Obvious Insights 01.17.19
Japanese Hotel Has First Round Of Robot Layoffs I first wrote about the Henna hotel, staffed entirely by robots, more than two years ago. It...
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23 2018 August
Why Facebook Rating Your Trustworthiness Is Good News
The Washington Post story this week revealing the “previously unreported ratings system” used by Facebook to rate the trustworthiness of users on a scale of zero...
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17 2018 August
New Study Finds Robots Can Emotionally Manipulate Humans Easily
A team of German researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany studied how humans interact with robots. In a paper published in PLOS ONE – they...
Read Now01 2018 July
5 Dangerously Futuristic Features Facebook Is Quietly Testing
Facebook is fond of running experiments, even though in the past this hasn’t gone so well. Yet these missteps haven’t stopped them from trying. Over...
Read Now05 2018 March
AI Outperforms Lawyers, Seeking Love With DNA Matches And Google “Right To Be Forgotten”
This week you’ll find stories of DNA-based dating to automated agriculture, but there was one that captured my attention most. It relates to the latest...
Read Now25 2017 October
Nissan Will Make Its Electric Cars “Sing” To Protect Pedestrians
Electric cars are too quiet. For years, unsuspecting pedestrians accustomed to listening for cars would walk into the road in front of electric cars, unaware of their...
Read Now24 2017 August
The Mask That Displays Your Emotions In Real Time
Rather than wearing your emotions on your sleeve, a new product called the Hyperface lets you wear them on your face. The idea from London-based...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Measure Food By Its Ingredients?
We already have Artificial Intelligence using features like facial recognition to personalize experiences for us, but this story about “AI Gastronomy” looks forward to a...
Read Now03 2017 August
Have An Accent? It Might Help You Get Your Next Job
AI voice-assistants have long had difficulty understanding foreign accents, but now Amazon may be taking steps to address this frequent issue. In Australia, the brand...
Read Now20 2017 March
What The “Robot Renaissance” Really Means …
Nothing says the future quite like robots, and this week there were plenty of interesting stories of how robots are being used in important, curious,...
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