La grande arte sa spesso cogliere i segnali deboli che preannunciano grandi cambiamenti, in modi a volte misteriosi e profondi. Decisamente non è questo il caso, ma che una serie televisiva americana del 1958 ci mostri un personaggio di nome Trump che va in giro parlando della fine del mondo e promettendo [...]
E' più sensata l'idea di un'auto che "si guida" completamente da sola, o piuttosto quella di un'auto che richieda l'intervento del conducente umano quando le condizioni dovessero diventare problematiche? Non sappiamo cosa sia successo di preciso a bordo dell'autovettura che nel 2015 s'era scontrata [...]
The relation between innovation and project management is quite close, and whoever has worked in a role related to project management has sure faced the question about the right methodology. Actually, the question can present itself in a thousand different forms: which is the right/best/easiest/safest/... [...]
It is good to know that longhand note-taking is not just a whimsical fixation of mine. A study conducted by Princeton's Pam A. Mueller and UCLA's Daniel M. Oppenheimer shows that longhand writing is more effective for taking notes than using a laptop or any other electronic device, and it is not just [...]
According to articles on Wired and Corriere della Sera, Twitter activity might lead to success in losing weight. According to the abstract, published on Translational Behavioral Medicine, the participants who initial reported weight loss predicted engagement with Twitter. From the social media point [...]
Following a course about Data Visualization, I've been playing with the excellent Tableau Public software and some data about the words used by speakers at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Here are the results:
A user-base of 8.2 million generates data: a lot of data, and most of it in highly fragmented silos contained within different agencies and departments. It's the situation faced by the New York City Strategic Planning office, who tapped into the different sources to indentify buildings that were [...]
Impressed by the emphasis dedicated to the launch of the iPhone 5, I checked the homepages of the four most highly circulated newspapers in Italy.
I have just come across the 2011 edition of the Pew Charitable Trusts report, "Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?", ranking the total investment on clean energy. In absolute terms, the US have re-taken the lead , surpassing China (although it might prove a temporary victory, as many US [...]
Last week, the food giant McDonald launched a media campaigns on Twitter, inviting the public to share 140-letters-long stories about their experience with the restaurants, the food, the brand or whatever. After a few hours, the hashtag #McDstories was taken away from the home page of Twitter as the [...]
Fabio Turel
Mi occupo di innovazione da quando ho iniziato a occuparmi di qualcosa.
L'ho identificata a lungo con la tecnologia, quando ho scelto un istituto tecnico al posto del liceo.
Ho smesso di cercarla [...]
