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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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…
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…
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…
Institute for the Future is moving into a new home on Hamilton Ave in downtown Palo Alto. They picked a fitting space. It used to be Institute for the Past. Well, not really, but it was an antique store.…
See TOUCH-VOICE We are so impressed that med tech apps are moving forward for specific needs. This is a truly heartwarming and utilitarian one we want to share with you. Counting calories and watching heart rate is fine, but…
Get your DNA read at 23andme (when the FDA unchains them) and then find out how broken it is and fix it with Exogen’s great new citizen scientist kit on how broken your DNA is. This is one of the…
UPDATE, July 16, 2014 I am so behind on Theranos stories but have to comment on today’s Palo Alto paper’s comparison of Elizabeth Holmes to Mark Zuckerberg. I say NO! Compare her to no one! Give her credit for…