The phenomenon of cheaper, faster, better (better in terms of having more options) is more a result of global economics than it is a corporate mandate. If you think about Bauhaus (the origins of Industrial Design) and how it was intended to provide a social service of making houses and household product...
There is no shortage of recommendation tools on the web. Amazon recommends books, Pandora recommends music, YouTube recommends video, just to name a few of the more popular online services. While the added value is obvious in the realm of personalized content discovery, if we keep adding streams of...
After visiting CES last month, my boss suggested I write a blog post on some of the most interesting things I saw there. The problem was, though, when I thought about many of the things that were supposedly the unofficial theme of this year’s show (e.g. 3D TV, Web TV, e-Readers) my reaction was…...
More is not always better, because there’s only so much that we can digest. The signal to noise ratio does not necessarily improve if that which was once signal converts to noise as new signals are introduced into the system.