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March 3, 2015
Trend Tuesday: Do People Meet Technology’s Needs?
For most of the age of computing, the most important question has always been, “Is technology meeting people’s needs?” In their quest to answer this question, engineers and designers sought to make hardware faster and more...
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August 26, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Binge Consumption and Travel
I wasn’t surprised recently, when doing a search for ‘binge-watching,’ that I discovered there was an entry on Wikipedia. The term refers to on-demand viewing of television shows and movies, using online media services to watch...
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June 17, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Personal Clouds and Continuity
Typically, I try to avoid back-to-back Trend Tuesday posts on similar topics. This week, though, I’m making an exception because of a number of announcements by Apple at its recently completed Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2014). ...
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May 27, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Hybrid Cloud
Something a lot of us at Sabre have been excited about — the launch of Sabre Dev Studio – was announced last week. This new, open portal provides access to more than 150 Application Programming Interfaces...
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May 13, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Custom Messaging and Personalization
When it comes to personalization and custom messaging, I can’t think of a more frequently cited example than the 2002 Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report. In the movie, Cruise’s character enters a Gap clothing store and...
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April 29, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Mindful Living
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that a trend I wrote about here last September, the Attention Deficit Society, is at least, in part to blame for the emergence of another impactful trend – mindful living. After that...
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April 15, 2014
Trend Tuesday: When advertisers “Hijack”
On the Monday following the Super Bowl every year, a lot of attention turns to the television commercials aired during the big game. While highlights of the game are still being replayed on ESPN and others’...
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March 4, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Digital Currencies
For a few months, I’ve been fighting off the urge to write a Trend Tuesday post about Bitcoin, a form of digital currency often referred to as cryptocurrency (bitcoins rely on sophisticated cryptography to secure both...
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February 18, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Ephemeral Content
Trend Tuesday: Ephemeral Content Ephemeral def. – 1. lasting a very short time As 2013 unfolded, the word ‘ephemeral’ was increasingly heard at conferences, in blog posts, and in technology news articles. Typically, the word was...
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February 4, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Autonomous Vehicles
As has often been the case, a lot of the commercials aired during last Sunday’s Super Bowl offered entertainment as good as, or better than, the game itself (well, quite a few of them did, anyway). ...
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January 21, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Augmented Reality
A number of relatively new technologies are fully capable of rendering content to supplement our current view of the real world. This content – which may be text, graphics, audio, or various combinations of all the...
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January 7, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Longevity
It’s no secret that, around the world, the number of people over age 65 is increasing. In the United States alone, the number is expected to double in 25-30 years to 80 million. The result will...