Boomers have marveled at the return of bellbottoms, skinny ties, mullets, and moustaches. Memories of misspent youth, suddenly became exciting trends for the generations that followed. Now we’re discovering that the process of rejuvenation applies not only to fashion, but business models too. Take, as examples, the kid across the street who cut your grass …
Last night I saw Tony Kushner’s Angels in America – A Gay Fantasia on National Themes at Soulpepper. What a superb production of an epic play. Like all great theatre, it delved into universal human themes that are relevant today even though the play was written in a different era (for me, Shakespeare and Chekov …
“We made a practical and open work environment for engineers and shop workers, forcing the guys behind the drawing boards onto the shop floor to see how their ideas were being translated into actual parts and to make any necessary changes on the spot.” -from Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed …
The Scanadu Scout is the forerunner in the race to invent the “Medical Tricorder”, the handheld scanner from Star Trek that space-age doctors use to gather data on a patient. This past May, Scanadu put the device up on Indiegogo, a crowdfunding website, asking for $100,000 for its development. The Scanadu Scout is a small …