
A six-hour night of clerical absurdity gave a physician-entrepreneur his enduring problem: hospitals ask skilled people to behave like data-entry clerks. His answer is an ambient system built to notice the work, record it and then get out of the way.

A lapsed Catholic, a meditation habit and one almost comically obvious question became Hallow. Alex Jones built the first prototype for himself, then learned that millions of other people were looking for the same quiet doorway.