Technology That Rocks

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-apple-ios-14-damage-audience-network-ad-business-2020-8

Looks like Apple continues to reinforce their position as the privacy conscious choice among technology vendors, for those consumers seeking it. Very interesting to see this play out - I believe there’s more room for startups & businesses to emerge and tap into this market, especially as the newer generations who are tech natives and are more familiar with the inner workings of the ad driven businesses / data mining. As they grow older, they will see more options for themselves to distance from the data mining vendors.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/18/1007196/ai-research-machine-learning-applications-problems-opinion/

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/honda-bucks-industry-trend-removing-touchscreen-controls

Great example of a scenario where the User Experience (UX) strongly matters and goes well beyond any simple User Interface (UI) — intuitive controls in the car allow drivers to use them without having to look with their eyes, to perceive config changes, which is especially important to allow the driver to keep their eyes on the road.

User testing matters. User context matters.

Great write-up from the Center for Humane Technology, specifically about how technologists can take our profession to the next level in terms of positive impact, by being more than simply informative. A number of examples focus on the COVID-19 response and where tech could have (and can still have) a bigger positive impact:

https://medium.com/center-for-humane-technology/from-inform-to-persuade-how-can-tech-step-up-for-humanity-3ac21de4c53b

Tech-enabled care is a major emerging theme in the 2010s and beyond. Personal health records, monitoring via wearables, medical diagnostic devices that connect to smartphones or are integrated directly into them, as well as decision support / analytics support systems that enable caregivers, as well as the patients themselves, to have an even more detailed understanding of the physiological state — are being advanced and introduced more frequently. Certainly a cross-functional, cross-domain theme that folk with a broader set of experiences will be able to contribute to.

An example of a service that goes beyond what’s available today to patients, through the use of technology - available below:

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/comprehensive-tech-enabled-checkup-service-q-bio-scores-40m