Field Period: April 18 – 25, 2020 THIS ISSUE’S FOCUS: STAYING HEALTHY HOW ARE CONSUMERS STAYING HEALTH (OR NOT) DURING LOCKDOWN? This week we asked our community what they’re doing to take care of…
Wearable Tech: More Than Just A Clever Accessory
By Andrew Hawn co-founder of MetaForesight and Jennifer Hawn, contributors to Metametrix I recently had lunch with a friend who showed me his latest accessory: wearable health tracking technology. Frank sported a new watch equipped…
Aging In Place
By Natalie Haynes, Contributor I write this as a researcher, but also as a daughter with a mother “aging in place”. And I leverage technology every day to help her stay at home. It’s great…
Welcome Home: What Retail Can Learn From An Event That Involves No Retail At All
By Natalie Haynes, Contributor Each year, in a remote area of the Nevada desert, for a week there is an event called Burningman that attracts around eighty thousand people who endure the extreme conditions of…
One Word: Plastic
Searching For Sustainability On The High Seas “There’s a great future in plastics.” This now iconic advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ben, in the 1967 film The Graduate, was suggested as a sure thing…
Metametrix Cityscape: Values Shaping the Midwest’s Character
What is urban character and why does it matter? What makes the character of the city of Milwaukee different than that of Denver? How do people in St. Louis compare to those in Chicago? And…
