Bonabeau describes data sonification as a "Breakthrough Idea for 2005"
Icosystem Corporation Press Release
Cambridge, MA - 1 Februay 2005

You heard it here first
by Eric Bonabeau

Although visual technology has about a 20-year jump on audio, the ears are coming into their own. Music that influences which wines we buy? Billboards that talk to one person at a time? Believe the buzz.

The above is an excerpt from the 2005 Breakthrough Ideas for 2005, which appears in the February issue of the Harvard Business Review. The full article can be accessed directly from the HBR web site (subscription required).

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