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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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August 5, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Human Augmentation
Followers of these Trend Tuesday posts are aware that I’m a big fan of movies, especially in the science fiction and action/adventure genres. Over the years, I’ve seen many ‘inventions’ that only existed for the movies...
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July 1, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Smart Fabrics
A few weeks ago, I came across an interview that Lauren Goode of Re/code did with Intel’s head of new devices, Mike Bell. Bell answered questions about a ‘smart shirt’ that Intel is developing with a...
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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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April 1, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Virtual Reality
Although I’ll probably be accused of being late to the party, I decided to go ahead with this week’s post for several reasons. First, I had already begun working on it last Tuesday when, Mark, one...
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March 18, 2014
Trend Tuesday: Re-imagination
It isn’t every day that you get a live glimpse at the future. I felt like that’s exactly what I did, though, at a baseball spring training game in Florida between the Toronto Blue Jays and...
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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...