The Singularity
I did it. I read The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil cover to cover. I have to admit that this was the most difficult book I have ever read. It is a bit hard to summarize but basically the singularity is how Ray describes the merger of biological humans and […]
Fraud Reduction Could Fund A Chunk Of Healthcare
On February7 we will be discussing Computational Biology at Demo. No doubt we will hear about some potential breakthroughs in healthcare. One thing we know for sure is that new healthcare solutions are costly. How will people afford them? There are many issues associated with this and one of them is the fraud that occurs […]
Blogs and Bots
The story about some possible future roles for blogging brought a number of comments from readers. Pito Salas at BlogBridge liked the hospital application I described and took it to the next level. He feels that aggregators (blog readers) do not have to be limited to displaying their results as a time-ordered series of posts. […]
Healthcare Update: Blogs, Robots, PT, and IBM
The story about some possible future roles for blogging brought a number of comments from readers. Pito Salas at BlogBridge liked the hospital application I described but took it to the next level. He feels that there is no reason why aggregators should display their results as a time-ordered series of posts. For example, BlogBridge […]
Wow!
A search at Google for "Wow" yields more than 20 million matches. A visit to the Wiktionary finds that "wow" means "an indication of excitement or surprise. A typical expression, according to the Wiktionary is "Wow! How do they do that?". If you visit the Danbury Hospital Wellness on Wheels van, I guarantee that you […]