Owens think that Care/of could be attractive as a shop-in-shop insider brick-and-mortar retailers looking to cater to a younger demographic, like Target or even Whole Foods. Given that it’s a subscription service, Care/of could bring more repeat traffic to brick-and-mortar retailers, if these customers visit stores to replenish their subscriptions.
The more precise and niche the words I input, the better the internet would match me with people I could forge meaningful relationships with. This precision was hard for me, partly because my sense for how communication is supposed to work is shaped by reading mass media. Writing for a general public, you need to be broad and a bit bland. I didn’t... See more
Firstly, the Wandelbots platform is hardware independent, which means the end-user can finally “program” an ABB or a Yaskawa robotics application in essentially the same way and can even transfer skills from one robot to the other.
AR is just going to be a lot harder. I really don’t think that AR is going to be good until you get normal-looking glasses that can project holograms into the world. And now, glasses range from thin to pretty thick frames. I don’t think we’re anywhere near getting all the electronics that you would need to get into a thin frame. But the hope would... See more
Creating and selling a brand new device (or two) every 4-7 years is tiring work, and nailing it every time historically doesn’t happen. And because Nintendo is always innovating in a truly distinct way, the upcoming customer response is somewhat unpredictable.
A subscriber recently asked me how I decide what information to consume.
The first step is to distinguish good info from junk info. Good info is that which changes you, either by making you think or act differently, or by changing the certainty with which you already think or act. Junk info is the opposite; you’re exactly the same after consuming... See more