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Author: Jay Parkinson
GQ Japan: The Future Well
Grant and I are honored to be featured in the latest issue of GQ Japan about our thoughts on the the future of health and the "hyper body." If you're in Japan, pick one up and send us the translation. We'd be eternally grateful!
What if health solutions are unmeasurable?
Almost every Sunday night, I walk to this one restaurant in my neighborhood for some comfort food (we're creatures of habit aren't we?). I pass a church on my way where an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is held almost every night. As I walk through the crowd of smokers, I look at them and they look [...]
Posted in culture Tagged behavior, service design, the future
A moderately healthy community.
Grant and I have been asked to decide what the above hospital becomes. The picture was drawn in the late 1880's as it was originally built under the direction of Florence Nightingale in a neighborhood just north of Notting Hill. It looks a bit different nowadays, but it's still retained its beauty and charm. It's [...]
Posted in design
Go local. Embrace low-tech. Maximize relationships. Make it sexy.
Susannah Fox at the Pew Internet & American Life Project recently posted a comment made on a blog about the internet and health: The remaining 95% of “patients” out there are not motivated to become informed, or invest the time/energy/money in using any of these tools. These are the folks that know that fast food [...]
Posted in health Tagged behavior, data, healthcare, social media, the future
Our aging world.
I spent all of last week in Melbourne, Australia and Tasmania. I was invited to speak at a conference about Aged Care in Australia. Like everywhere in the world, Australia's population is aging and the country faces a mismatch of supply of aged care services and growing demand. GE, in partnership with Ben Fry, built [...]
Posted in health Tagged aged care, healthcare, service design, the future
Healthcare needs some hospice care.
My grandma caught this fish sometime during the 1930’s while fly fishing back in Missouri with a 2 pound line. She died about two years ago. The last five years of her life weren’t too pretty. She just didn’t seem to enjoy much of her time. Her medical care was aggressive and some family issues went [...]
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Posted in design Tagged healthcare, service design, transportation
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Eat food. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry. Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup. Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) listed among the top three ingredients. Avoid food products that contain more [...]
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Posted in design Tagged graphic design, transportation


Did anyone ask us if we want the future?