Good Idea! Now find a better one.

This Yoga mat idea with a built in flexible display demonstrates the challenge of predicting the future of technology.
We look through the lens of how we currently use today’s technology to come up with fantastic potential applications 5 years in the future.
This Yoga mat plays mp3’s. Why would you use this mat instead of […]

To butcher the old saying: For Cisco, their routers are hammers - and everything else on Earth is a nail - including Pro Baseball Stadiums. CNN published an AP story on a pitch by Oakland A’s owner, Lew Wolff, to city council members in Freemont California to build a new stadium backed by Cisco’s […]

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Here are three easy routes to a bad idea:

Take a simple, reliable tool and combine it with complex unreliable technologies.
Take a new technology, add it to your product and then look for the benefit.
Convergence over Divergence: Mash two unrelated tools together, usually to create inferior versions of both.

An organization called the Internet Home Alliance is […]

As noted on Engaget, Slashdot and elsewhere, ABC’s President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw offers proof that the tenets of socialism and the idea of a planned economy still resonates in the bureaucratic halls of large American corporations. In his words via MediaPost Publications:
“I would love it if the MSOs, during the deployment […]