The most interesting indie R&D shops
For future reference, a short list of some of the more interesting independent companies, studios, design and dev shops that are engaged in invention, prototyping or research & development. Some...
View ArticleOpening up expert knowledge for social change
tl;dr How can we make traditionally expensive expert knowledge available for free for social causes and communities in need? Sharing professional advice freely & openly I make my living as a...
View ArticleFeatured in BrandEins
BrandEins is one of these rare publications that – starting the moment it appeared – made the media landscape a little better just by virtue of being there. Strictly speaking, it’s a German economics...
View ArticleA smart city and responsive governance report for the German government
I’m super excited to be commissioned to co-auther a chapter for a report for WBGU, the German government’s Advisory Council on Global Change, with Dr. Christoph Bieber. We’ll be taking a close look at...
View ArticleQuestioning the Euro tech narratives
There’s a been a lot (a lot!) of talk about Europe’s, and particularly Germany’s, take on digitization and tech innovation. Sometimes using the Industry 4.0 terminology (connected factories and the...
View ArticleGrowth through Asymmetric Business Models
The other day I sat down with Andreas Constantinou, founder of analytics company VisionMobile and adjunct professor at Lund University. He researches business models, particularly around developer...
View ArticleLetter to the next resident of Casa Jasmina
Dear next guest of Casa Jasmina, Welcome to your new temporary home. Please note: This is a cross-post from the GitHub repo for letters from one resident of Casa Jasmina to the next. For more context,...
View ArticleVisiting Casa Jasmina
We lived in the open source connected home of the future. And survived. When I learned about Casa Jasmina (CJ), a connected open source home of the future that Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic are...
View ArticleI’m becoming an e-citizen of Estonia
I had been vaguely aware of Estonia’s initiative e-Estonia, in which people from around the world could sign up for a sort of e-citizenship for this most technologically advanced country of not just...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Connected Home: Framing the Debate
Understanding the Connected Home is an ongoing series that explores the questions, challenges and opportunities around increasingly connected homes. (Show all posts on this blog.). Update: As of Sept...
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