James Currier
Technology Entrepreneur and Chairman of Medpedia
James Currier is a technology entrepreneur. As an early proponent of user-generated media and viral marketing, he founded Tickle in 1999, which he sold to Monster in 2004. In 2007, Currier founded Ooga Labs with Stan Chudnovsky to incubate consumer Web companies. Currier is currently the CEO of WonderHill, a casual games company spun out of Ooga Labs, and the chairman of Medpedia, a communications platform for the medical community worldwide. Medpedia operates in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine and several other health and medical organizations.
Currier is a Big Think Delphi Fellow.
The widespread use of biometrics will change how we see our health and fitness and open up new vistas for the health care industry.
Most of the United States’ health care costs come from diabetes, heart disease and obesity—problems that could be fixed by changing our behavior.
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How an expensive trip to the emergency room convinced a tech entrepreneur that there is something seriously wrong with medical care in America.
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Medpedia seeks to balance the distributed nature of knowledge with the oversight of medical professionals.
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The “major thesis of our lives” is that zero marginal cost technologies like the Internet are allowing systems of control to be distributed, rather than centralized.
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A brief description of virtual currency and why it may revolutionize the way we pay for things on the Web.
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A conversation with the chairman of Medpedia.
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