The reelyActive Blogs

  • Yesterday (March 11th, 2020), the World Health Organisation’s Director General characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. Today, in Montréal where reelyActive is based, and around the world, many find themselves directly and personally affected by measures intended to prevent the spread…

  • We’re all familiar with some variant of the adage: The best way to predict the future is to create it. Our first blog post of each of the past three years has been about prediction. This year will be different.…

  • If you’re familiar with our blog posts, you’ll know we never get bored populating them with puns (oof, there they are already). In case it isn’t obvious, the title is playing on the word case: we’ll be talking about enclosures…

  • Would you choose to receive dental treatment from a dentist with bad teeth? Fitness coaching from a coach that is unfit? Change management consulting from an organisation resistant to change? At the First International Innovation 4.0 Forum this week, we…

  • Occasionally a book will provide the opportunity for the reader to travel back in time and delve into the mind of an author that was thinking far ahead, at least as far as the reader’s present. What a pleasure to…

  • Consider the following prediction by Matt Ridley, in his 2010 book The Rational Optimist: I forecast that the twenty-first century will show a continuing expansion of catallaxy — Hayek’s word for spontaneous order created by exchange and specialisation. Intelligence will…

  • What’s your product? “It’s a real-time data stream of who/what is where/how in any physical space” anyone at reelyActive might answer today. Okay. But what are you really selling? Curiously, what we’re really selling today may very well be discomfort.…

  • “It’s up to smart humans to stop being stupid about AI.” That was the title of what we’d argue was the most impactful talk at Collision 2019 in Toronto. A single slide of three words eloquently summarises the challenge and…

  • Oh the irony of human-entered data at an RFID conference. Ten years ago, Kevin Ashton, who coined the term “Internet of Things”, explained in RFID Journal: We need to empower computers with their own means of gathering information […] without…

  • For years we’ve been hearing about the rollout of 5G, with much speculation about how exactly it will transform our daily lives. As with any new technology, the most disruptive use case often emerges completely unexpected. In the case of…