"Seeing the future collide with the present is so fun."

Dumbphone Sales Are Soaring As People Revolt Against “Overwhelming” Smartphones

In a time when various “developed world” intelligence agencies are filling up petabytes of hard disk space with domestic phone recordings and tracking their own citizens who – in the pursuit of a “liberal” agenda – have been escalated to a greater terrorist threat than actual foreign terrorists, some people have had enough and are throwing their smartphones into the trash and replacing them with “dumbphones” instead. Click here to learn more ...

How you could print your own pills at home after scientists make 3D printer breakthrough

Personalized pills containing several different medications in tailored doses will soon become available thanks to a breakthrough in?3D printing?technology. London’s?Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital?is planning to install a 3D printer in its pharmacy because its specialists believe “the ability to tailor drugs easily for individuals will be essential”. (click here to read more ...)

"Seeing the future collide with the present is so fun."

Sometimes we clearly can see how policy, legislation and behaviour is lagging a bit behind really. Or as was said on twitter with this shared " Seeing the future collide with the present is so fun."

POP-UP EVERYTHING: How pop-up popped-up in our lives, and why it is now here to stay

Vinod Kuma (CEO of Vodafone Business) in his LinkedIn blog elaborated on the Pop-up-developments he sees everywhere.

In this ever-changing environment, people and governments have had to adapt and come up with solutions sometimes at very short notice, giving birth to the concept of?pop-up everything. Usually, when we think of?pop-ups, we imagine a time-limited shop where you can buy the latest fashion or a fancy burger. But during the pandemic, we saw governments building?pop-up hospitals?overnight, and employers sending their staff?pop-up office kits with monitors, keyboards and even office furniture. (Click here to read more...)

Blockchain’s growing impact on healthcare

Back in 2016, author/inventor Richie Etwaru, an avowed futurist, predicted that blockchain would someday provide?“an underlying fabric for healthcare.” Etwaru, speaking at the New York Academy of Science, asserted that healthcare had been “underperforming as an industry,” and that blockchain would provide “massive acceleration within the sector” over the next 25 years. Specifically, he said the technology would go a long way toward “building a patient-centric healthcare system where a person’s entire lifecycle and journey is tracked through this system, while giving control on how their data is used and how it’s shared while they have full access and are in charge of their data.” (Click here to read more ...)

Walgreens sees highest comp sales growth in 20 years driven by healthcare demand

“We continue to make important strides along our strategic priorities, building a consumer-centric, technology-enabled healthcare enterprise at the center of local communities,” Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Rosalind Brewer said in a statement. “VillageMD and Shields are delivering tremendous pro forma sales growth compared to their year-ago standalone results, and our Walgreens Health segment is on track toward long-term targets.” (Click here to read more...)

That's all (for now) folks