R&D Blog - April 2009

Mashups

By Erich Hugo on 2009-04-27
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Think you've got a great new idea?  R&D's Erich Hugo says you might want to check your sources.

"Nothing like the sun."  Those words were written in the 17th century by William Shakespeare, and in 1987 they were sampled by Sting when he released an album by the same name. The album was critically acclaimed by the music industry and the public in general still rates this as probably his best album.

Choice Limits Choice

By Erich Hugo on 2009-04-16
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Bonnier R&D's Erich Hugo on "choice-iness", or how new tech avenues make us choose away.

And so it has come to pass. I have actually closed a tech avenue by choosing an alternative product which gives me alternative choices. And it makes me feel lost. The fact is, with the technology explosion being as it is, we have reached a crux point where the products that we choose to use, instead of opening up possibilities, have become synonymous with closing other possibilities.