One good thing about COVID-19, we finally got the tech to work

by Sarah Firisen This Christmas, I stayed in a Marriott in the town where my kids live. Like most people, my business and personal travel has mostly ground to a halt in the last 9 months. So I was pleasantly surprised by the check-in experience the hotel provided me to allow for social distancing. I’m…
Innovation in a time of COVID-19
A brave new world to live and work in
Taking virtual education beyond Zoom: How VR and AR can help
When the Real World turns Virtual…the new reality of office life?

by Sarah Firisen Two months ago, COVID lockdown was still new; in the US it was horrific that 3,000 people had died and I wrote about some possible longer-term technology innovation that might come out of this crisis. Fast forward to today and the US has just passed an unimaginable, grim milestone, 100,000 dead. And while…
Technology in a time of Covid-19
The Sephora Syndrome

by Sarah Firisen First off, let me just get this out of the way: we share too much data about ourselves knowingly with companies and they collect, use and share even more than most of us are aware of (read through those lengthy privacy notices recently?). And unless you live in Europe with its pretty…
The tale of Joanne the Roomba, Or, does work have to be such…work?
The future of knowledge
Governing in black and white
The jerk in the machine
The digital divide – when even the beggars need smartphones
In God and AI we trust?
A future without boredom
Amazon is disrupting the publishing world….again
Telling your disruption story from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to the Slopes of Enlightenment
The automation all around us
The Disruption Ecosystem
Digital remembrance of things past
by Sarah Firisen My grandmother had 7 sisters (and a couple of brothers who died young and none of us remember), my great-grandmother had 10 siblings. This past week, I attended reunions with 22 of the descendents of these ancestors, on two continents (New York and London). At these joyful family gatherings we told stories,…