Proud to have a Guest Post today by San Francisco’s own Michael McAnally, Founder, Futurist, Entrepreneur and Science Fiction Blogger who goes by the pen name Michael Blade. Mike lives in San Francisco as CEO-Dev of Touch Voice. He has apps…
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Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, Blood Tests: Fraud
Fraud and Failure Fail often, fail fast is often said to startup founders. But why? You can get an answer to ‘why’ from tech gurus, plain folk and failures as to why that might be a good thing. Supposedly…
Forget Facebook and Instagram: You Will Be Known By Your Bacteria: I am my microbiome. You can have Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook to explain yourself and present a vision/version of yourself and you probably do. Here we are in…
The transformation of the distribution of medicine to where it is needed has arrived. We’ve long had on demand cars (thank you Uber) and on demand rooms at reasonable rates (thank you AirBnB) and on demand consumer genetic testing…
I recently went to hear Elizabeth Holmes in person speaking in Santa Clara. She’s Theranos’ founder and CEO and a media darling. I loved the focus and single mindedness that shined through her story of knowing since childhood there…
A Webby for Health Crap? Yep. Just because the info is online and the delivery system is not what you are used to doesn’t make it award worthy. Health Tap is mediocre. Don’t call it a game changer –…
The medical industry may be dangerous to your health. Medical errors leading to patient death are much higher than previously thought, and may be as high as 400,000 deaths a year, according to a study in the Journal of Patient Safety. If you…
DON’T AGE US WITH NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES ON AGING. Poor Jason Cipriani. He just wanted to write an article about dumbing down your smartphone (!!) for CNET and the wrath of the boomer generation rained on his parade. Looks like…
Disrupting is the buzz word for game changing tech and Google is disrupting aging. I haven’t heard it used in association with aging before but go ahead Google, disrupt away. It’s pretty darn awesome to disrupt aging but what does this…
I don’t care if the Apple iWatch comes with a $1K price tag if it predicts a heart attack or comes with Dick Tracy. And I am floored about all the complaints from everyone about the 1K or more…