Archimedes’ Hot Tub

My latest Prototype column in the New York Times, Making Fast Food Even Faster, looks at the problem that faces innovators when their ideas run into market inertia.

My latest Prototype column, Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap, looks at Vanu, a company which is trying to replace the high-priced guts of today’s cellular networks with (relatively) cheap software.

My latest Prototype column in the New York Times looks at a new wave of personal organizing tools, and suggests that sharing will become a new challenge for business. See A Tool to Organize Our Many Organizers.

My latest Prototype column for the New York Times,
It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming, looks at some of the big ideas in climate change, and how hard it will be to get them implemented.

The patent system exists to encourage innovation. It may now be discouraging innovation. Read my latest New York Times column,

A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not

My Prototype column this week looks at an entrepreneur trying to reinvent the venerable shoe. See The Shoe Changes, But the Fit Doesn’t. He Can Explain.

My latest Prototype column, Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game, looks at how the gamer generation is remaking the workplace.

My latest Prototype column in the New York Times, To Find the Danger, This Software Poses As The Bad Guys, looks at some efforts to build automated hacking tools, in hopes that they might help reduce the number of opportunities for hackers to break into systems.

My latest Prototype column, How to Improve It? Ask Those Who Use It, in the New York Times looks at the impact ordinary customers have on product design, and whether that’s likely to become a dominant force for innovation.

My latest Prototype column in the NYT. It looks at the social networks of bacteria, which is fascinating to think about. But it also provides an excellent example of how long it can take an idea to become commonplace.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/business/yourmoney/25proto.html

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