The Death Of The Smartphone

If you take a look at the performance of Apple of late, it’s not pretty. Check the one year chart on MarketWatch, and you’ll see that — after climbing to a 52-week high of $705.07/share — it has come back to the price that it was about a year...

Get The Picture?

If you are into nextsensing, you have to be into entertaining new thinking. This means that you have to be open to challenging ideas, concepts and possibilities — no matter where they come from. Some days, I don’t spot anything that tickles my next sense....

Failure Is Too An Option!

The first thing to note is that is was a BIG deal. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), with some 150,000 attendees, not only was a big start for convention business in Las Vegas, it was also a big start for anyone wanting to attract attention for the next big thing...

The Internet’s Best Is Yet To Come

I am old enough to remember the time, not that long ago, when people who proclaimed that the Internet would change everything were seen more as heretics than prophets. Record store owners scoffed; the compact disc is the essence of modern music. Newspaper editors...

Digital: The Next Industrial Revolution

In newly built (or renovated) homes in developed countries, it’s not unusual to have thermostats that control when different parts of the house are heated or cooled. A step beyond that are more computerised thermostats that can sense whether anyone is in a room or not...

All He Really Had Was A Dream

First, you have to fully understand that Gustavo Grobocopatel and his family, living in Argentina, started with nothing, really. He had neither enormous land holdings, abundant capital, legions of workers, extensive access to venture capitalists, caches of winning...