Sogeti’s trend lab, ViNT, recently published its second report on “Things”: “Empathic things: Intimate Computing from Wearables to Biohacking”. The 40-page report “explores the coming transition toward a more empathic form of computerization. … even more intimate, human-oriented and ubiquitous…. We are witnessing a computer boom in devices of all kinds, shapes and sizes – around, on or inside the body – that behave increasingly smarter and link up more and more intuitively with mankind’s extremely personal and natural interface.”

Topics like the shift from systems of records to systems of engagements, things IN-ON-AROUND you, and the increasing level of intimacy and intelligence in things, are addressed in the report. If you want to go deeper in understanding the context of wearables like Google Glass and where we’re heading, this report is well worth the read.

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