Stowe Boyd

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The Pace of Technology Adoption is Speeding Up - Rita McGrath The chart above, created by Nicholas Felton of the New York Times, shows how long it took various categories of product, from electricity to the Internet, to achieve different penetration levels in US households.  It took decades for the telephone to reach 50% of households, beginning before 1900.  It took five years or less for cellphones to accomplish the same penetration in 1990.  As you can see from the chart, innovations introduced more recently are being adopted more quickly.  By analogy, firms with competitive advantages in those areas will need to move faster to capture those opportunities that present themselves.

The Pace of Technology Adoption is Speeding Up - Rita McGrath

The chart above, created by Nicholas Felton of the New York Times, shows how long it took various categories of product, from electricity to the Internet, to achieve different penetration levels in US households.  It took decades for the telephone to reach 50% of households, beginning before 1900.  It took five years or less for cellphones to accomplish the same penetration in 1990.  As you can see from the chart, innovations introduced more recently are being adopted more quickly.  By analogy, firms with competitive advantages in those areas will need to move faster to capture those opportunities that present themselves.

If you want a culture of innovation, there are certain conditions for it. The culture of an organization is about habits and habitats—creating a habitat where people feel their ideas are welcomed, empowered and rewarded, and creating a physical environment that develops new ideas.

Ken Robinson

Steelcase Global Posture Study

Technology is the single greatest force driving the changes in the way we work, live and behave. 

The multiple devices we deploy throughout our work day allow us to flow between tasks, fluidly and frequently. And the user interface of these technologies are increasingly intuitive and responsive to the gestures of the human hands and face. 

But what about the interface between the rest of the body and the place in which the device is being used? What about gesture recognition for the human body? 

While our technologies have continued to advance, no one has designed for the impact of these technologies on the human body, or for the physiology of how work happens today. 

Until now. 

Steelcase studied how our devices are changing the way we sit: the connection we have with our devices, desk, and chair. The system interfaces where out arms, core, and seat touch and push against the chair.

The result is the new Steelcase Gesture chair, which I would like to try for a week or two. (Are you listening, Steelcase?)

Leadership and Board of Salesforce.com

At Dreamforce, Sheryl Sandberg was flogging her oddball high-tech, low-substance feminism, which led Marc Benioff to blurt ‘I want to have more women leaders at Salesforce. I want to have more balance between the men and women leaders on my team’.

Some diversity is called for, obviously. Aside from the four women in management roles or on the board, it’s 90% white guys. But it’s ok, because US tech is a meritocracy, right?

By the way, about ‘comprise’? Salesforce is using it wrong. The sentence should read ‘The current board of directors at Salesforce.com comprises the following:’. A company worth billions and they can’t write a grammatical sentence.

prostheticknowledge:

I PIXEL U

iOS7 photo app can pixelate subjects in photos, which gives the look of 8bit digital subjects in the real world.

It is a simple, so easy app!!! “Pixel in real world”

After opening the app, you simply choose between take a photo or pick a photo from gallery. After recognize the face automatically from photos, It shows up with the guidelines.

Features:

- Auto face detection from photos.
- Auto adjustment by types of your picture. No settings!
- Use real world backgrounds with pixelated person.
- Edit Mask to change the area you want to pixelate.
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Share your amazing PIXEL ARTS with all your friends.

More can be found at the J2WORK website here or the App Store here

I need this app.