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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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Fjord Trends from Accenture
Brought to my attention:Fjord Trends (Design and Innovation from Accenture) A look at what's ahead for the future of business, technology and design.PhysicalDigital...
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On the Machines of Wal-Mart
Been following Wal-Mart's tech for many years, worked with them in in the realm of RFID systems and supply chains. Been reviewing the history. Much writtenThe...
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AI and Insurance
Some of our earliest work in advanced analytics and AI work dealt closely with risk and thus with elements of insurance. And then talking to the insurance industry...
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Shazam for Data on Music Behavior
Have been recording my music listening habits via IFTTT, and smart speakers and then analyzing it over time. As a means of predictively understanding this over...
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Future of Retail in China?
Is the future of retailing in the East? The creative drive? The New Customer Experience? Starbucks’ future … appears to be in the East not the West. Why? Starbucks...
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Amazon Acquires Blink
Why does Amazon acquire rather than work in collaboration? Are there particular nuggets of innovation in Blink beyond the obvious? I have voice driven assistants...
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Case for Digital Reinvention
We have seen the start of this digitally driven innovation. It has been happening for some time. Good thoughts on its continuation.The case for digital reinvention...
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Marketing via Augmented Reality
Do such focused AR experiences for purchase work? Has been driving some interest.Patrón mixes e-commerce and AR by Jonathan GrossWhen Apple opened up ARKit...
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Managing Data and Video Content
I just reexamined their online presence. Join in ....JambaarEasily Manage the Entire Lifecycle of all your Data and Video Content from a Single Platform The Intelligent...
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Assistive Tech Examples
Emphasizing help for the disabled using Emerging Technology:Assistive tech is progressing faster than ever, and these 7 devices prove it By Luke Dormehl in DigitalTrends...
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Augmenting Human Intelligence
Quite an interesting piece. Obvious at one level. Its always about augmenting human intelligence, at least in any near term view. So then its about how well...
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An Era of Personal Drones?
Have been following the evolution of drones for some time, my son is a pioneer in their use for photography. Now will it become the case that each of us has a...
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Featured Snippets in Google
Is this a challenge to Wikipedia being at the top of many search results? How we arrange knowledge and its discovery is an important topic.Improving Search and...
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Legos for Creativity
Look at this once for enterprise creativity, but got no buy in. Still intrigues me as a play-create process. A Gamification idea with fewer constraints. Have...
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Youtube Works on Show
I had noticed a couple of days ago that Google is now again allowing access of Youtube on the Amazon Show. So the below article starts out being wrong. ThatAmazon...
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LG Renames Appliances by Intelligence: ThinQ
Intriguing marketing spin for intelligent appliances. Includes list of systems and applications involved. Note smart home implications and deep learning. LG...
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Wal-Mart's Personal Shopping Service
Sounds like a powerful idea. Anything else out there on results of this?Walmart is developing a personal-shopper service for rich moms — and a store with no cashiers...
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McKinsey on Data Monetization
Via a McKinsey Survey. Analytics means doing things better,faster, cheaper .... so why not?Fueling growth through data monetizationA new survey finds that many...
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The Uses of Augmented Reality
Good points in Wired. Have been searching for the big applications of AR long before modern AR. Our own experiments first looked at maintenance support in manufacturing...
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