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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Delphi Method
Shown Below is a basic use of the Delphi Method:
In the spirit of nano technologies, there is a notion of nanofood called “smart food”. In a society that continues to have increasing demands for food production, it will become necessary to produce foods that people prefer versus that of what they are expect to eat. While nanofood is being produced through out the world, there will be new smart foods to meet our individual needs.
DK Matai (2010) of the Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA) purports there will come a time in the near future wherein we will receive drink which has nano-capsules placed in the liquid. We, as consumers, will determine what features we want to activate (flavor, color, nutrients, etc) and with a tunable microwave, we will activate these desirable features. Whatever you do not desire will pass through the body in the unused nano-capsules.
Using Socratic dialogue, the ATCA, adhering to a non-violence doctrine uses a “philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001 to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global economy”. The implications here are, of course, a global responsibility to society along with an ethical responsibility to keep food as healthy as possible for the masses but also allowing for personal preference. With flexibility comes self-responsibility.
Time-lines for implementation will be difficult to predict because there is no current regulation on how this technology will be implemented. The obvious commitment to health and quality assurance (QA) for food will be desirable to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but with such a radical variety of how to keep this food healthy given all the possible variants of nutrients (or lack thereof) may provide to be a moral challenge knowing the FDA has strict guidelines of what is considered healthy with the placement of “Nutrition Facts” on all food products. Nonetheless, nanotechnology offers great promise with financial and global implications - the increase in healthier food, less waste with better tasting food, smarter packaging and cost effective production. Beyond this, there are possible other specific benefits such as some metals being very powerful by killing bacteria at a nano-scale by crossing the normal protective barriers in the body through the liver in the blood stream, and, can even penetrate the cell wall surrounding the brain.
(http://nano-modern.blogspot.com/)
Top ten nanotechnology uses for food are:
1. Contaminant sensors – light sensors reveals bacterial problems such as E.coli
2. Antimicrobial Packaging – oil films that cover food to kill bacteria
3. Improved food Storage – using nano-enhanced barrier to block oxygen-sensitive food
4. Enhanced Nutrient Delivery – nutraceuticals are nano-encapsulated to increase solubility of vitamins, omega oils, and antioxidants
5. Green Packaging – biodegradable, antimicrobial nano-fibers made from lobster shell or corn
6. Pesticide Reduction – soaked nano-fiber cloth slowly releases pesticides to better control the application
7. Tracking, Tracing, Brand detection – as a means of tracking indiscretions such as outbreaks
8. Texture – nano-sized crystals improve food stability and spreadability, improvements on lipids to provide better low-fat foods
9. Flavor – blockers to prevent bitter flavor or to add sweet or salt enhancements
10. Bacteria Identification and Elimination – binding carbohydrates with bacteria allows for identification and subsequent elimination
Sources:
http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/170110.php
http://nano-modern.blogspot.com/
DK Matai, Chairman, Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA) & The Philanthropia
In the spirit of nano technologies, there is a notion of nanofood called “smart food”. In a society that continues to have increasing demands for food production, it will become necessary to produce foods that people prefer versus that of what they are expect to eat. While nanofood is being produced through out the world, there will be new smart foods to meet our individual needs.
DK Matai (2010) of the Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA) purports there will come a time in the near future wherein we will receive drink which has nano-capsules placed in the liquid. We, as consumers, will determine what features we want to activate (flavor, color, nutrients, etc) and with a tunable microwave, we will activate these desirable features. Whatever you do not desire will pass through the body in the unused nano-capsules.
Using Socratic dialogue, the ATCA, adhering to a non-violence doctrine uses a “philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001 to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global economy”. The implications here are, of course, a global responsibility to society along with an ethical responsibility to keep food as healthy as possible for the masses but also allowing for personal preference. With flexibility comes self-responsibility.
Time-lines for implementation will be difficult to predict because there is no current regulation on how this technology will be implemented. The obvious commitment to health and quality assurance (QA) for food will be desirable to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but with such a radical variety of how to keep this food healthy given all the possible variants of nutrients (or lack thereof) may provide to be a moral challenge knowing the FDA has strict guidelines of what is considered healthy with the placement of “Nutrition Facts” on all food products. Nonetheless, nanotechnology offers great promise with financial and global implications - the increase in healthier food, less waste with better tasting food, smarter packaging and cost effective production. Beyond this, there are possible other specific benefits such as some metals being very powerful by killing bacteria at a nano-scale by crossing the normal protective barriers in the body through the liver in the blood stream, and, can even penetrate the cell wall surrounding the brain.
(http://nano-modern.blogspot.com/)
Top ten nanotechnology uses for food are:
1. Contaminant sensors – light sensors reveals bacterial problems such as E.coli
2. Antimicrobial Packaging – oil films that cover food to kill bacteria
3. Improved food Storage – using nano-enhanced barrier to block oxygen-sensitive food
4. Enhanced Nutrient Delivery – nutraceuticals are nano-encapsulated to increase solubility of vitamins, omega oils, and antioxidants
5. Green Packaging – biodegradable, antimicrobial nano-fibers made from lobster shell or corn
6. Pesticide Reduction – soaked nano-fiber cloth slowly releases pesticides to better control the application
7. Tracking, Tracing, Brand detection – as a means of tracking indiscretions such as outbreaks
8. Texture – nano-sized crystals improve food stability and spreadability, improvements on lipids to provide better low-fat foods
9. Flavor – blockers to prevent bitter flavor or to add sweet or salt enhancements
10. Bacteria Identification and Elimination – binding carbohydrates with bacteria allows for identification and subsequent elimination
Sources:
http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/170110.php
http://nano-modern.blogspot.com/
DK Matai, Chairman, Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA) & The Philanthropia
Podcast
A Podcast on Nanofood:
Gabcast! nanofood #1
This Gabcast is a brief recording on Nanofoods. The basic notions here are the flexibility for customized food and/or drink, freshness and the ability to cut or eliminate bitterness in foods.
Enjoy! Now...what is that you'd like to drink!?!
Good!
Bryan
Gabcast! nanofood #1
This Gabcast is a brief recording on Nanofoods. The basic notions here are the flexibility for customized food and/or drink, freshness and the ability to cut or eliminate bitterness in foods.
Enjoy! Now...what is that you'd like to drink!?!
Good!
Bryan
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Cool Tools 2 - Post 2
MeCanto - Listen to your Music Collection
http://mecanto.com/
I love music; I can’t seem to get enough of it. I have an eclectic mix from classic to jazz, country and western, classic rock and much more. As my collection grows, it becomes unmanageable.
Not that this technology is necessarily all that new, however, but the ability to place music where you can get to it and then stream it to your phone or to your PC is a nice feature. It get’s difficult to continue to port music from place-to-place, all-the-while trying to remember what is at work, home, and on the cell phone. Wouldn’t it be economical to store these music files in one central location?
MeCanto is the tool for such a task. You won’t find yourself transferring files or synchronizing them from device-to-device again. MeCanto is a hosted service that uses the Three Screens & a Cloud approach to music the technology platform as an innovative tool that has won awards from Microsoft and Nokia. This also includes video and images as well as music content.
So you now have the ability to bring your music into most any social setting using MeCanto. Not only can you manage your music but you can also purchase music at this site. Spend some time organizing and preparing for you next awesome musicality presentation at your gathering.
http://mecanto.com/
I love music; I can’t seem to get enough of it. I have an eclectic mix from classic to jazz, country and western, classic rock and much more. As my collection grows, it becomes unmanageable.
Not that this technology is necessarily all that new, however, but the ability to place music where you can get to it and then stream it to your phone or to your PC is a nice feature. It get’s difficult to continue to port music from place-to-place, all-the-while trying to remember what is at work, home, and on the cell phone. Wouldn’t it be economical to store these music files in one central location?
MeCanto is the tool for such a task. You won’t find yourself transferring files or synchronizing them from device-to-device again. MeCanto is a hosted service that uses the Three Screens & a Cloud approach to music the technology platform as an innovative tool that has won awards from Microsoft and Nokia. This also includes video and images as well as music content.
So you now have the ability to bring your music into most any social setting using MeCanto. Not only can you manage your music but you can also purchase music at this site. Spend some time organizing and preparing for you next awesome musicality presentation at your gathering.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
SDP Case Study
In Alexander Christakis' text, on 'How People Harness their Collective Wisdom and Power to Construct the Future in Co-Laboratories of Democracy', he uses the Structured Design Process (SDP) approach to present many different case studies. One particular case study addresses the use of RootCause Mapping (RCM) software. First, however, a brief summary on the Structured Design Process will be provided to bring the reader up to speed.
According to Christakis (2006), true dialogue is difficult in the Information Age because "complexity demands that we address issues collaboratively, systematically, and systemically" and requires a science of dialogic design.
There are three Axioms found in this design approach:
1. No single observer has a complete picture of all complex problems;
2. Everyone has limits in the volume of information they can process at any given time, and
3. In order to make good judgments, we need to compare things that are similar.
As presented above, collaboration is the key to success. The milestones in the Evolution of the Science of Dialogic Design found specifically for supportive technology are the use of collaborative space and collaborative software.
Simply put, without the collaboration of many individuals, nothing can be completely and effectively evaluated. The saying "knowledge cannot grow in a vacuum" is particularly true here. There are six Dialogue Laws that are used to successfully evaluate an concept:
We have to exchange dialog in order to progress through a complex design and exhaust every possible idea regarding a topic to come up with some form of consensus by a community of stakeholders. Each of the stakeholders possesses a diverse perspective but there must be a structured form in the dialogue process. Observations will avail themselves and become readily understood through the means of their relative importance. When the observers search for relationships and they can establish a priority through the evaluation of the influence of those relationships, all-the-while keeping autonomy and authenticity of the observers, learning will occur as a result of this dialogue.
In other words, the desired end result should be an effective action put into place by starting as a meaningful idea brought into light by the use of a structured dialogue, the use of autonomy, through learning, through maintaining an appreciation of diversity, and assigning an understanding of the importance of meaning through wisdom.
For example, using the wisdom of the stakeholders in a case study for the RootCause Mapping (RCM) software, the technological benefits of this approach are the use of an Influence Tree to build and develop a Collaborative Action Plan. This tool provides the means to manage complexity and will give a development team a financial edge by not only managing that complexity but also giving the team preferred action options through use of the most leveraged Factors. In turn, these Factors will lead the dialogue towards problem resolution.
According to Christakis (2006), true dialogue is difficult in the Information Age because "complexity demands that we address issues collaboratively, systematically, and systemically" and requires a science of dialogic design.
There are three Axioms found in this design approach:
1. No single observer has a complete picture of all complex problems;
2. Everyone has limits in the volume of information they can process at any given time, and
3. In order to make good judgments, we need to compare things that are similar.
As presented above, collaboration is the key to success. The milestones in the Evolution of the Science of Dialogic Design found specifically for supportive technology are the use of collaborative space and collaborative software.
Simply put, without the collaboration of many individuals, nothing can be completely and effectively evaluated. The saying "knowledge cannot grow in a vacuum" is particularly true here. There are six Dialogue Laws that are used to successfully evaluate an concept:
We have to exchange dialog in order to progress through a complex design and exhaust every possible idea regarding a topic to come up with some form of consensus by a community of stakeholders. Each of the stakeholders possesses a diverse perspective but there must be a structured form in the dialogue process. Observations will avail themselves and become readily understood through the means of their relative importance. When the observers search for relationships and they can establish a priority through the evaluation of the influence of those relationships, all-the-while keeping autonomy and authenticity of the observers, learning will occur as a result of this dialogue.
In other words, the desired end result should be an effective action put into place by starting as a meaningful idea brought into light by the use of a structured dialogue, the use of autonomy, through learning, through maintaining an appreciation of diversity, and assigning an understanding of the importance of meaning through wisdom.
For example, using the wisdom of the stakeholders in a case study for the RootCause Mapping (RCM) software, the technological benefits of this approach are the use of an Influence Tree to build and develop a Collaborative Action Plan. This tool provides the means to manage complexity and will give a development team a financial edge by not only managing that complexity but also giving the team preferred action options through use of the most leveraged Factors. In turn, these Factors will lead the dialogue towards problem resolution.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Future Predictions
Natural Interfaces
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/Pages/Product/WhatIs.aspx
As technology improves, so does the integration of that technology. In 2003 I saw a video demo of Microsoft Surface as a prediction of where integration was headed. Since that time, the development of the Microsoft Surface hardware and software has continued to bloom.
Along similar lines with the release of the ever popular Apple iPhone, Microsoft Surface is bound for destiny. Our cell phones now have the touch screen capability to select phone numbers, dial calls, and view and share pictures. These features have encouraged and even pushed the acceptance of Microsoft Surface.
Everyone wants to be different and to have technology serve their own personal needs. From a business perspective, Microsoft Surface can provide some very trendy methods to accomplish a development tool. In the video below, in 2008, Microsoft Surface uses a touch screen to create uses Windows Live to connect to a cloud hardware/software environment for the purpose of demonstrating the placement and creation of “customized” images and the placement of the bindings on a snowboard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. As the trend continues, Microsoft Surface was presented on many different applications at CES in Las Vegas this year. There are two types of Microsoft Surface – Commercial and Developer units.
http://www.cesweb.org/
With cloud computing, user interest, need for customization, and for collaboration between business and customer or business-to-business, the possibilities are endless for an application such as this.
While commercially available, Microsoft Surface is slotted to be released to the public in 2011 for a reported sale price of over $10,000.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/Pages/Product/WhatIs.aspx
As technology improves, so does the integration of that technology. In 2003 I saw a video demo of Microsoft Surface as a prediction of where integration was headed. Since that time, the development of the Microsoft Surface hardware and software has continued to bloom.
Along similar lines with the release of the ever popular Apple iPhone, Microsoft Surface is bound for destiny. Our cell phones now have the touch screen capability to select phone numbers, dial calls, and view and share pictures. These features have encouraged and even pushed the acceptance of Microsoft Surface.
Everyone wants to be different and to have technology serve their own personal needs. From a business perspective, Microsoft Surface can provide some very trendy methods to accomplish a development tool. In the video below, in 2008, Microsoft Surface uses a touch screen to create uses Windows Live to connect to a cloud hardware/software environment for the purpose of demonstrating the placement and creation of “customized” images and the placement of the bindings on a snowboard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. As the trend continues, Microsoft Surface was presented on many different applications at CES in Las Vegas this year. There are two types of Microsoft Surface – Commercial and Developer units.
http://www.cesweb.org/
With cloud computing, user interest, need for customization, and for collaboration between business and customer or business-to-business, the possibilities are endless for an application such as this.
While commercially available, Microsoft Surface is slotted to be released to the public in 2011 for a reported sale price of over $10,000.
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