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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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American Information Diet
A graphic describing the US information diet at 34 gigabytes per day. -
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Gifts and The Knowledge Problem
Of interest, though its not as deep as I first thought: ' ... The problem of buying good presents for other people, even people you supposedly know well, illustrates...
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Opportunities in Traditional Trade Markets
Via Herb Sorensen, by Arnaud Frade, TNS Retail and ShopperOpportunities in the Traditional Trade of Emerging MarketsFour billion people live on less than two dollars...
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Broadband Penetration Lagging in US
An interesting set of statistics about broadband exposure per hundred people in the US. Small countries like Denmark and the Netherlands still prevail, but that...
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Finding Algorithms and Their Design
Part of what I do is to figure out how to apply algorithms to tough problems. A book I bought and enjoyed some time ago is The Algorithm Design Manual, by Steven...
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The Times Regrets the Error
I do read and sometimes quote the NYT on Science topics, but I suggest that those that completely trust such media should take care ... see the correction below...
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Problems With Self Serve Checkouts
We tested some of the earliest supermarket self-checkouts in the innovation centers. Shoppers like the idea, but were confused by their operation and were afraid...
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The Power of Your Listing in ...
What happens when your site disappears from Google. And who do you complain to?
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Gimmicky Augmented Reality
Useful AdAge piece on gimmicks and hyping augmented reality. The suggestions are useful. Though gimmicks can be useful in positioning the possibility of an emergent...
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New Folds
A description in New Scientist of a new way of mapping the spherical earth into flat projections. I have seen a number of examples of similar methods. They are...
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Managong Business Complexity
Re-Discovered: Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation by Michael J. North and Charles M. Macal ....
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Neuromarketing in Forbes
Sally Satel, MD, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She comments on On neuromarketing in Forbes.
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Interactive Area Chart
From Flowingdata: How to make an interactive area chart, like the name voyager from the Baby Name Wizard by Martin Wattenberg. See the example on the right that...
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Extended Packaging Becomes Reality
From Global standards body GS1, the concept of extended packaging allows the consumer to gather unlimited information from packaging via devices. For example a...
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Swash to be Sold Online Only
In an interesting development, P&G has decided to sell its Tide-Swash cleansing products online only. We visited their OSU - Columbus innovation store two years...
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John Nash Interview
A video interview of John Nash, game theory theorist, nobelist, and subject of the fictionalized movie: A Beautiful Mind.
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First Time Scents
In Neuromarketing: On the memorability of first time scents, as opposed to the well-known Proustian remembrances. We did much innovation in the area of understanding...
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Bricklin Note Taker
Many of us that have been involved with personal computers since the beginning have a warm spot for Dan Bricklin. He invented the first PC spreadsheet package:More...
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FCC and the Set Top Box
In Slashdot: Regulating the set-top box: The cable companies require the use of their set top boxes to access their content. Will the FCC decide the regulate the...
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