Author Archives: Thomas Purves

The dawn of mobile in retail

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Thomas Purves

One big idea I’ve been focused on a fair bit lately is what I call “Augmented Retail”. Augmented retail is about the potentially disruptive outcome of the inevitable convergence of mobile technology, ubiquitous connectivity and retail. Mobile technology is not … Continue reading →

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Dead media watch: the web is dead

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Thomas Purves

Somewhere on a dusty shelf or storage box, I have this old issue of Wire Volume One two containing the strident prediction: “Tired: lynx, Wired: Mosaic”. Lynx is/was a text-only terminal app used for navigating a relatively obscure hypertext protocol, … Continue reading →

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The future is already here, it’s just not worth distributing yet

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Thomas Purves

In 1975, Steve Sasson of Kodak invented the first portable digital camera. It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured … Continue reading →

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