Hello world.
My name is Max Wessel. I have an idea. It's an idea based on a whole lot of theory.
See, professionally, I study business theory. Specifically, I study innovation. What it should look like? What innovations will yield big benefits? Things like that.
And I have an idea.
The idea has a lot to do with near field communications (NFC). People talk a lot about NFC in the technology world. "It's on it's way and its going to revolutionize everything."
Okay. Well, that's something I guess. But if they're are cool things we can build using NFC - a really expensive technology - what's stopping us from starting to build them now? NFC just tells our phones and computers where we are in the world, communicating snippits of data. Can't we do that now?
Anyways. So I used some theory to come up with an idea. Can we disrupt NFC, before NFC even happens? Can we identify jobs that can't be completed with imperfect GPS data? Can we integrate a platform based on a technology thats not good enough?
Maybe. Maybe we can. My inclination is to say we can do something pretty great with the technology we have. Why do we need to wait for NFC when our phones are perfectly capable of transferring data, snippits at a time, using the internet? Why do we need to wait for NFC when we have a great nascent technology right in front of us?
So we're building Scannr. It could be an epic fail. But next time you seem me, at least I'll be able to look you in the eye and say I tried it.
Here's to another attempt at breaking stuff.
