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The Apple Watch Series 6 helps illustrate how continuous health monitoring is going mainstream. I’m thrilled Techonomy is starting its Health+Wealth of America initiative and urge you all to take part. I’ve been thinking a lot about digital health in a post COVID...
As Facebook and Twitter begin to flag more hate speech and misinformation, new social media hangouts step up to fill the void, for those who don’t like such censorship. They create dangerous social media silos. In 2018, Walt Mossberg, a veteran and highly regarded...
Phillip Alvelda, the CEO of Medio.ai and a serial entrepreneur, put it to me this way: “Imagine you’re lying in the hospital and every few hours a very disruptive nurse with a clanging cart of diagnostic tools shows up to interrupt your rest and take your vitals....
We used to say that if you wanted to see the future of technology you should look no further than the porn industry. It was typically the earliest adopter of new technologies like CD-ROMs, DVDs, streaming, haptics and more. But today if you want to see the future of...
I’m not smart enough to be a developer of artificial intelligence software, but I do know when something momentous is (finally) happening in AI. On July 29th, NYT columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about a new AI language model that could read and compose text so well that...
Two weeks ago, shortly after moderating a session with a senior TikTok executive at the Techonomy Virtual conference, I speculated here about TikTok’s best way towards a “green card.” I suggested that it had to start flying its American flag right away and separating...
Whoops, it happened again. Another off the charts crazy video that our President retweeted. CNBC’s Sam Shead offered one version of the story behind this week’s fake which showed “America’s Frontline Doctors” peddling a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and...
Last week I interviewed Tik Tok’s head of monetization and partnership, Matty Lin and a talent manager who represents top TikTok artists, Billy Mann, at Techonomy’s Virtual Reset + Restore conference. We focused in that interview mostly on commercial considerations,...
Like so many of you, I spent July 3rd in a strange dystopia. Watching Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ode to the birth of America, Hamilton: The Musical, while watching today’s America undergo what might be its harshest test of how democracy should look to date. And thinking...
We’ve never had more ways to connect and communicate. We’ve never had better tech capabilities. Our smartphones are smarter than the smartest mainframes of yesteryear. So why can’t we use technology to help trace contacts and stop the spread of Covid-19? Spoiler...
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