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  • The future of touchscreens

    Awesome video of innovation in glass by Corning. Everything becoming touch based interface: from your cupboards to car dashboards. When the video shows health data visualizations, please start thinking big data in financial services and how this could change your financial and personal data services. Imagine doing VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) from an environment/interface like… Read more

  • The future rarely arrives when planned

    The title for this blog post comes from a 2010 talk by Mark Pesce. He adds to it: it rarely arrives in the form that we expect it is too hard to grasp, a bridge too far the seeds of the future are always with us in the present I have referred many times already… Read more

  • Fight or Dance

    This blog post is a variation on the theme “my boss asked me to dance” of some weeks ago. It’s something that has been following me, harassing me like a very strong meme. It’s confrontational, as it lets me look in the mirror. It’s difficult as it requires me to let go the ego. The ego as in… Read more

  • Poem: Be Free, Like Birds in the Sky

    I’d like to do nothing for some time be free flying and gliding like birds in the sky left, right, up, down, up, down,… defying centrifugal forces unlimited by time, space, distance, force like free painting with myself as the paintbrush and the sky as canvas 4-dimensional playful like the birds, showing little tricks, challenge and… Read more

  • Pirates in the Sandbox!

    I spent last weekend in the wonderful city of Lisbon, under a blue sky, lots of sunshine and an pleasant spring-like 18°C! The atmosphere in the city is super-relaxed, the best description I heard was “like Barcelona on tranquilizers”. A couple of months ago, Venessa Miemis pointed me to the website of SandBox, a movement/network… Read more

  • 2012: my boss wants me to dance!

    We are getting towards the end of the year, and time has come to nail down the Innotribe 2012 objectives of our team members. Last Friday, I had my regular 1-1 with my boss Kosta Peric @copernicc – Head of Innovation at SWIFT. We had a really good discussion, challenging each other vigorously on what… Read more