High tech - high touch

What is high tech - high touch?

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High tech - high touch

John Naisbitt, Nana Naisbitt, Douglas Philips

Page 26

Broadway Books

ISBN: 0767903838

It is a human lens.

It is embracing technology that preserves our humanness and rejecting technology that intrudes upon it. It is recognizing that technology is an integral part of the evolution of culture, the creative product of our imaginations, our dreams and aspirations - and that the desire to create new technologies is fundamentally instinctive. But is also recognizing that art, story, play, religion, nature, and time are equal partners in the evolution of technology because they nourish the soul and fulfill its yearnings.

• It is expressing what it means to be human and employing technology fruitfully in that expression. It's appreciating life and accepting death.
  
• It is knowing when we should push back on technology, in our work and our lives, to affirm our humanity.
  
• It is understanding that technology zealots are as shortsighted as technology bashers.
  
• It is creating significant paths for our lives, without fear of new technology or fear of falling behind it.
  
• It is recognizing that at its best, technology supports and improves human life; at its worse, it alienates, isolates, distorts, and destroys.
  
• It is questioning what place technology should have in our lives and what place it should have in society.
  
• It is consciously choosing to employ technology when it adds value to human lives.
  
• It is learning how to live as human beings in a technologically dominated time.
  
• It is knowing when simulated experiences add value to human life.
  
• It is recognizing when to avoid the layers of distractions and distance technology affords us.
  
• It is recognizing when technology is not neutral.
  
• It is knowing when to unplug and when to plug in.
  
• It is appropriate human scale.
  

High tech - high touch is enjoying the fruits of technological advancements and having it truly sit well with our god, our church, or our spiritual beliefs. It is understanding technology through the human lens of play, time, religion, and art.

Big6

Source:

Designer's research manual

Jenn O'Grady & Ken O'Grady

Page 71

Rockport

ISBN: 1592532578

Chief Beer Officer

What happened?
Four Points Hotels ( part of the Starwood Hotel Group ) is looking for a Chief Beer Officer ( CBO ). The position's role is to:
Evangelize Best Brew program
Tour breweries
Attend beer fests
Sample beers
Select beers for hotel's bar menus
Host beer fests
Document beer related activities
Impart beer related knowledge to other staff through a blog

What do I think about this happening?
This is a interesting idea. Guest can enjoy better taste experience at Four Points Hotels. Four Points can brand themselves as the top of the mind brand for beer at hotels. Staff can learn all about beer from their CBO.

What do you think this happening will cause?
Will the hotel industry starts to value other non work expertise besides drinking?
Will copy cat hotels come out with other drink chief officers ( like wine )?
Will the hotel industry starts to have other expertise specialists?
Will the hotel industry capitalized on inter-organization knowledge sharing?

10 laws of simplicity

10 laws of simplicity

1. Reduce

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

2. Organize

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

3. Time

Savings in time feel like simplicity.

4. Learn

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

5. Differences

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

6. Context

What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.

7. Emotion

More emotions are better than less.

8. Trust

In simplicity we trust.

9. Failure

Some things can never be made simple.

10. The One

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

Source:

The laws of simplicity

John Maeda

Budget Airlines 3.0

On 26 Oct 2006 Oasis Hong Kong Airlines' first flight took off. It flew from Hong Kong to London. The travelling time was 14 hours and 20 minutes.

At the moment, budget airlines flew domestic ( Southwest Airlines ) or regional ( Tiger Airways ). Is this the beginning of Budget Airlines 2.0 where they start flying from from domestic and regional to global? The current airline industry is very competitive; will Budget Airlines 2.0 make it more competitive?

What happen if Southwest Airlines, Ryanair, Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, Tiger Airways and Virgin Blue form a global budget airlines alliance? This will be Budget Airlines 3.0. Will this make it even more competitive? How affordable will long distance air fares be? Will there be two distinct airline groups in the future - affordable and high cost?

Initiative

Each year Buckminster Fuller receives and answers many hundreds of unsolicited letters from youth anxious to know what the little individual can do. One such letter from a young man named Michael – who is ten years old – asks whether I am a “doer or a thinker.” Although I never “tell” anyone what to do, I feel it quite relevant at this point to quote my letter to him explaining what I have been trying to do in the years since my adoption of my 1927 - inaugurated self-disciplinary resolves. The letter, dated February 16, 1970, reads:

Dear Michael

Thank you very much for your recent letter concerning “thinkers and doers.”

The things to do are the things that need doing that you see need to be done and that no one else seems need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often get buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviours induced or imposed by others on the individual.

Try making experiments of anything you conceive and are intensely interested in. Don’t be disappointed if something doesn’t work. That is what you want to know – the truth about everything and the truth about combinations of things. Some combinations have such logic and integrity that they can work coherently despite non-working elements embraced by their systems.

Whenever you come to a word with which you are not familiar, find it in the dictionary and write a sentence which uses that new word. Words are tools and once you have learned how to use a tool you will never forget it. Just looking for the meaning of the word is not enough. If your vocabulary is comprehensive, you can comprehend both fine and large patterns of experience.

You have what is most important in life – initiative. Because of it, you wrote to me. I am answering to the best of my capability. You will find the world responding to your earnest initiative.

Sincerely yours,

Buckminster Fuller

Source:

Critical Path

Buckminster Fuller

Page xxxviii

St. Martin's Press

ISBN: 0312174888

Buckminster Fuller leadership principles

Buckminster Fuller leadership principles

1. Think comprehensively.
   
2. Anticipate the future.
   
3. Respect gestation rates.
   
4. Envision the best possible future.
   
5. Be a trim tab - an individual who can initiate big changes.
   
6. Take individual initiative.
   
7. Ask the obvious and naïve questions.
   
8. Do more with less.
   
9. Seek to reform the environment, not man.
   
10. Solve problems through action.
    

Source:

The anticipatory leader

Medard Gabel & Jim Walker

Futurist 2006 Sep