Per @Forrester, the most advanced enterprises have common threads. These agile, customer-obsessed firms rapidly take advantage of emerging technologies: working with new technologies in the lab, discovering new business possibilities enabled by these technologies, and then bringing those new possibilities to market. Most firms fail when trying to drive innovation with technology. The inflexibility of their immature technology and business models requires them to drive innovation with business strategy.
HT @nycmedialab The VR/AR Association’s New York City Chapter is releasing an ecosystem report that will include a directory of VR and AR companies and services based in the metro area. Each member company will get one full page in the report. Register here for free.
Hearables can tell if your head is pointed toward a store shelf in front of your face or at a billboard down the road.
Add in a heart-rate monitor to measure stress and an electroencephalogram sensor to analyze spatial brain activity, and it could know what you are thinking about to some degree.
It won’t be long before Amazon can send ads for Robitussin when it hears you cough.
Are you a POC/Native working at a publishing house? @LatinxinPub and@PocPub to conduct an anonymous survey examining workplace racism. The results will be shared publicly. Help amplify the dialogue! Take the survey, spread the word. Survey closes 8/31.
ICYMI: This seems to be an invaluable guides to both sides – @LeilaSalesBooks shares 10 things that authors wish their editors knew, and 10 things that editors wish their authors knew, as someone who knows both sides of the publishing process.
Bookselling This Week has compiled a list of legal aid and charitable organizations where booksellers can donate money to help children separated from their families at the U.S./Mexico border.
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