Pollen Digital

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“The 3 stages of #innovation: 1. That’s impossible. 2. It may work for them, but it won’t work here. 3. That’s obvious. Everybody knows that.”

https://twitter.com/davegray/status/924705917920317441

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London's famous Piccadilly Circus is getting an immense and terrifying new video display called Piccadilly Lights. According to its maker, the enormous screen (which is almost the size of two professional basketball courts) can detect the vehicles, ages, and even emotions of people nearby, and respond by playing targeted ads. Imagine New York's Time Square with a makeover from John Carpenter's They Live -- but without any pretense of deception.

(via New All-Seeing Billboard Uses Hidden Cameras To Show Ads Based On Age, Emotions | Gizmodo Australia)

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@visualicecream reviewing some fresh work in the studio this morning. http://ift.tt/2ykdajO

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Today’s reading list for our Experience Design team. The Australian Digital Inclusion Index is a particularly stark read. There are gaps in digital literacy that affect people’s ability to access economic and social advantage. The gap is particularly evident for indigenous Australians and for people over 65, with older women behind men in key indicators. http://ift.tt/2i13PYx

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This single case study examines the way that Johnstone’s (1981) Impro ‘Poetics’ are being used in the contemporary practice of Open Scene Additive Improvisation (OSAI).

Offering: Initiating Moves; any physical or vocal action - 

Endowing: Naming or giving a quality to something not yet predicated in the scene - 

Justifying: Naming or giving a quality to something already in the scene, that requires naming or qualification - 

Extending: Stopping the narrative to focus, explore and extend upon one aspect of the scene, or to add detail to it - 

Advancing: The opposite of Extending: moving the narrative on to the next step - 

Shelving & Reincorporating: Memorising narrative elements and Offers and bringing them back into the scene later - 

Accepting: Responding Moves that acknowledge, validate or extend upon other’s Offers - 

Blocking: Negating or refusing an Offer, or undermining the basis of an Offer without accepting any of its assumptions - 

Yielding: A stage-‘uncluttering’ device. Dropping one’s own Offer in order to maintain a single stage focus for the Scene. 

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"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor."

(via (1) The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) - YouTube)

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Excited to share our work on @sydlivmus Convict Sydney. Such a pleasure helping to tell the story of our city. Link in bio! http://ift.tt/2jWDTh4

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an MVP is a product you can build quickly and cheaply, and solves someone’s problem well enough that they’ll pay money for your solution. The purpose of the MVP is to quickly learn whether you’re building something people want.

» How to start small. — Medium

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In Shannon’s communication model information is not only complicit with noise; it is totally dependant upon it for understanding. Without noise, either encoded within the original message or present from sources outside the channel, information cannot get through. The model of sender-encoder-channel-signal (message)-decoder-receiver that Shannon constructed has an arrow inserting noise. Visually and schematically this noise is a disruption pointing up and inserting itself in the nice clean lines of the message. This does not mean that noise was a last minute consideration; rather noise was the very thing Shannon was working with (and against). It is present in every image we have of information. A source, message, transmitter, receiver and their attendant noises are all material infrastructures that serve to contextualise the information they transmit, receive, and disrupt.

(via M/C Journal: "Information, Noise and et al.")

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The Cynefin framework helps leaders determine the prevailing operative context so that they can make appropriate choices. Each domain requires different actions. Simple and complicated contexts assume an ordered universe, where cause-and-effect relationships are perceptible, and right answers can be determined based on the facts. Complex and chaotic contexts are unordered—there is no immediately apparent relationship between cause and effect, and the way forward is determined based on emerging patterns. The ordered world is the world of fact-based management; the unordered world represents pattern-based management.

(via A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making)

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Top 5 Digital Transformation Trends In Financial Services

Digital transformation is revolutionizing every industry. Here are the top five digital transformation trends for banking and financial services.

Goodbye Banks

Hello Blockchain

New Rules — And Experiences

Eliminating The Need For Money

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Top Five Digital Transformation Trends In Health Care

Digital transformation is revolutionizing every industry. Here are the top five digital transformation trends for the health care field.

No one can dispute technology’s ability to enable us all to live longer, healthier lives. From surgical robots to “smart hospitals,” the digital transformation is revolutionizing patient care in new and exciting ways. That’s not all. National health expenditures in the United States accounted for $3.2 trillion in 2015—nearly 18% of the country’s total GDP. It’s predicted that the digital revolution can save $300 billion in spending in the sector, especially in the area of chronic diseases. Clearly there is value—human and financial—in bringing new technology to the health care market. The following are just a few ways how.

Telemedicine

Mobility And Cloud Access

Wearables And IoT

Artificial Intelligence And Big Data

Empowered Consumers

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Local, state and federal governments are using technology to improve their citizens lives. From automation, to using the IoT to make cities smarter, these entities have discovered how to use tech to improve workplace efficiency and improve the lives of citizens. Let’s look at the top digital transformation trends making waves in government.

(via Top 6 Digital Transformation Trends In Government)

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At Pollen we celebrate diversity – gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability – and say YES the right of all Australians to celebrate their love for each other in marriage. ✔🏳️‍🌈 #loveislove #marriageequality http://ift.tt/2jHBlU3

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#vr installation at @sydneycontemporary by #haydenfowler. Includes a dingo and a bone. http://ift.tt/2eL0hEL

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#maiomotoko's mesmerising performance at @sydneycontemporary #pollenfieldnotes http://ift.tt/2gRpqC1

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Our Intrepid reporter @jolsey on location at #sydneycontemporary http://ift.tt/2xguzdY