A great article in the New York Times about the burgeoning world of DIY manufacturing. Because prices of machines that let you build things have been dropping steadily, we’re getting to a point that feels a lot like the early days of PC hobbyists. And eventually it could have an equally powerful impact on the [...]
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DIY Computerized Manufacturing: Getting a Little Closer to Becoming a Reality
May 16th, 2011 · Comments Off
Tags: Good Jobs · IT · Innovation
Computerizing Medical Records: Still No Shangri-La
December 13th, 2010 · Comments Off
Last year, I wrote about how everybody’s favorite idea for painlessly cutting healthcare costs – computerizing medical records – wasn’t really going anywhere. As part of the stimulus package, Obama tried to give those efforts a boost. How’d it go? Not so well, according to Computerworld:
Only 12% of U.S. hospitals had adopted [...]
Tags: Health care · IT
Stacking the Deck in Favor of the Big Guys? There’s an App for That
March 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off
Exhibit 42,517 of how deeply government is embedded in the “free market”: Apple just sicced its lawyers on HTC, an Android phone manufacturer, charging that it violated a gazillion Apple patents. Why HTC and not Google, which came up with Android?
[Harvard Law Prof. Jonathan Zittrain] believes Apple is simply going after a less [...]
Tags: IT · Innovation
