AI Digest: 8/9/09: Investing in Augmented Reality

Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: robots in healthcare, medical augmented reality, and investment in augmented reality.

AIDigest: 8/8/09. Holograms You Can Touch.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Reports from PopSci, ReadWriteWeb, Switched, and Wired.

AIDigest: 8/7/09. “Online Tools to Improve Happiness.”

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Reports from Wired, Psyblog and Botropolis.

AIDigest: 8/6/09. Mattel’s New Mind Game.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Reports from 7 Gadgets, Fox News, and PC Magazine.

AI Digest: 8/5/09. “The Truth About Grit.”

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Reports from The Boston Globe, CNET, and New Tang Dynasty Television.

The New “Company Town”

Over the past six months, my business partner and I have been on the road quite a bit, meeting with clients, friends, and prospects, and we’ve had the luck to see some of the greatest contemporary expressions of a rather ancient idea: the corporate campus. In an age where the distributed workforce is the controlling idea, there are a number of very large organizations thriving on the foundation of the well knit “society within a society” that was a mainstay of corporate life long ago.

But what about the rest of the corporate world – the many companies that do not have the resources or inclination to build corporate campuses?

AI Digest: 8/4/09. Synthetic Life

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Reports from The New York Times and Geek.com.

AI Digest: 8/3/2009. Japan Loves Robots.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Reports from Time Magazine, The Austin Statesman, and Gizmodo.

AI Digest: 8/2/09. The Problem with IQ Drugs.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Reports from BBC Channel 4, The Guardian, Wired, AFP, and Reuters India.

AI Digest: 8/1/09. “Oprah Bot” Saves the Day.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: reports from Wired, Associated Content, and the Examiner.com.