Next sustainable digital revolution: innovation that leads back to basic human intuition

Kashif Zaman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:45:06 +0000

I am very impressed by the thought-process this MIT genius introduces with his SixthSense Technology. While tech cool hunters spam each other with augmented reality examples (that may or may not have any real application), this guy is for real. He is showing us a path that leads to basic human intuition. It makes me feel much better.

Very interesting that Apple iPad pitch is all about basic intuition uses lines like “holding internet in your hands” and “you don’t think about it, you just do!”. I think the next sustainable revolution is intuitive devices like these.

Innovation is now driven by demand not dreams

Kashif Zaman — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:04:46 +0000

As I walked through the halls Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry listening to stories of Industrial Revolution, something dawned on me. In the Industrial Age, the dreams and imaginations of visionary inventors drove innovation. Has anyone realized that tables have turned? Innovation is now in demand and there’s simply not enough raw creativity, persistence and motivation – the traits of all those great industrial pioneers.

Take long awaited mobile revolution? After years and years of text messaging being the coolest thing Sony, LG and Samsung “smartphones” could offer, Apple finally invented something that stirred something up. All of a sudden everyone has figured out how to make touch-screens work.

We seriously lack real innovation. There is just too much marketing fluff. Is this a side effect of our version of free market economy that does not have a real solution to the ’short term gains’ issue?

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Next sustainable digital revolution: innovation that leads back to basic human intuition

Innovation is now driven by demand not dreams