Category: Human-Machine Interaction

The number of ways we use our smartphone cameras is absolutely unthinkable. From cataloging the meal we’re about to devour to searching for Amazon products via a photo and even taking pictures of receipts and memos to remember later, our cameras have evolved past a memory aid and into a full-fledged behavioral enabler. While most… Continue reading Samsung and Instagram preview the future of app stores for the camera

Why is your comment so important that thousands of strangers need to see it? This is the question I asked myself the other day after realizing I was one of the top comments on a YouTube video with over 300,000 views. It’s popular opinion to believe the Internet would be better off without comments sections.… Continue reading The complicated history and frightful future of the Internet comment section

The relationship between inventors and consumers has always been a touchy one. The zipper didn’t get any respect for 30 years before it became a cultural phenomenon. The creators of RFID technology are probably sitting around wondering why consumers never started using their technology in droves. Innovators and consumers cannot exist without one another. It’s… Continue reading What it’ll take for Alexa to become the next $46 Billion App Store

When you spend every day analyzing technology and theorizing the future of said technology, you’ll occasionally devise some theories so powerful that you feel as though you’ve literally prophesied the future. That feeling becomes even more powerful when the emerging companies in the space begin making progress on those theories – bringing speculation into reality.… Continue reading Digital Humans are taking over the customer experience in healthcare, banking, and film

2019 is going to be a transitional year for social media, as we begin to see digital communities emerging outside of the traditional social media platforms. Business Wire cited a survey which reported 41% of Gen Z feeling anxious, sad, or depressed by platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. With them being the first digital… Continue reading 10 million people watched a live concert in Fortnite and we’re just getting started

Nearly forty years into the modern Internet, we’ve just crossed the threshold where 50% of the world is online. Providing Internet access to the remaining 50%, is going to be harder than acquiring the first half, even though, two of the largest tech companies are working on it. Although, we’d like to think they’re doing… Continue reading The developing world is being colonized again. Except it’s digital this time

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a tool that most people have never heard of and even fewer people truly understand. It’s a platform that the media has pegged as the Virtual Sweatshop of the Digital Age. We hopped on the bandwagon and referred to it as a modern form of unregulated factory work, in an article… Continue reading How Amazon’s Mechanical Turk will crowdsource the worst part of your job

Amazon has graced us with an impeccable vision of what shopping looks like in 2030. They’ve distributed over 100 million virtual storefronts and a personal shopper named Alexa for each person. They’ve given us the innovation that physical storefronts have needed for years with their Amazon Go stores. Either we’re too stubborn to believe these… Continue reading Alexa – Amazon’s virtual storefront with 100 million people waiting at the doors

If I had half a billion dollars to invest right now, mark my words, a large portion would be allocated to the edible insect industry. Insects have more protein than any other meat and as I covered in “Tasty, edible crickets may solve the impending food crisis”, they are an environmentally-friendly way to feed a… Continue reading Where’s the Uber for Raising Edible Insects in 2019?