Tricorder Update — Social Medicine is the Next Big Thing After Social Media

You want a vision for the future of health care?  Don’t look to policymakers and regulators.  Look to innovators and innovations.   Look to San Diego’s wireless mesas and San Francisco’s silicon valleys.  Look at Scanadu’s protean medical Tricorder.  They get it, and it’s awesome.  Watch their one-and-a-half-minute video before reading on. Scanadu’s vision embraces patient-centric healthcare as a personal information service,…

The “New Economy”: Transistors, Electrons and Coal

EnergyFactsWeekly — The Cloud Begins With Coal We know three things about transistors: They have already changed the world: Silicon technology progress is not over, and vast domains of untapped social and economic opportunity remain: Every single transistor consumes electricity. And we know two other related facts: The energy cost of computation has collapsed, but the overall amount of…

Has Apple Peaked? Hardly.

In 1980, no one – no one – anticipated what Apple would become.  That era was dominated by Central Computing.  No one foresaw the revolution Distributed Computing would unleash.  Hundreds of new companies emerged, many old ones evaporated, and millions of new jobs were created in an employment tsunami that transformed American businesses for the next two…

NEW, PIVOTAL TECH REVOLUTION IN THE OFFING?

San Diego Union-Tribune It’s a presidential election year. The economy is limping along. Real estate and the job market are terrible. Graduates are despondent. The big innovations that changed the world over the past several decades are behind us. Sound familiar? Welcome to America in 1980. Not a soul imagined then that technology would ignite…