Yottabytes – Part 2
A reader of the story about the hospital SmartCard project asked me if the card could store an MRI. The short answer is no, not today, but in the long term, yes for sure. The most important short-term role for the smartcard is authentication. The best example to explain that is Clear. The Clear smartcard […]
Chocolate and Gum
In the story about the hospital SmartCard project, I made a reference to both Wrigley’s Gum and M&M Mars candy. Little did I know that a few days later would come an announcement that Mars Inc. — with some financial backing from billionaire Warren Buffett — is buying The Wrigley Company, the one-hundred year-old powerhouse […]
eLearning Guild AG08 Keynote
On April 16th, I gave a keynote at the eLearning Guild AG08 Annual Gathering where I talked about the future of the internet and implications for learning. Below is a video clip [6:31] of the address, and a mindmap of the presentation created by Clark Quinn who attended the keynote – click the image to […]
Our Medical Records
It is 11PM. Do you know where your medical records are? Most likely they are scattered across multiple doctors’ offices in manila folders. The most information about our healthcare encounters is with "payers", the insurance companies which pay for care if we are lucky enough to have the coverage. Most of their information is about […]
SOA Las Vegas
The conference in Las Vegas this past week was not like the ones Thomas J. Watson used to hold in Endicott where all the blue suit white shirt male attendees would sing songs about IBM’s future. The master of ceremonies for the opening morning was Drew Carey and the "dinner music" was by The B-52’s […]