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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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Fragility and Convexity
Long on my reading list, this essay by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Some fascinating thoughts: " ... The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial...
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Blogs and Posts
The language log takes on the difference between blogs and posts. To blog and all that. Here I write a post about the subject. All language is fluid, and in...
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Language Killing Innovation?
At first I bristled at this. In Innovation excellence, but they make a point about being able to switch between visual and textual language that I have to agree...
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Trends Driving Technology Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Trends driving technology innovation. Nothing surprising here, but worth reviewing. All the things they mention have been done for some...
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Glass Nests
Saw this in Engadget. My colleagues and I worked on the notion of the 'automated' home in the innovation centers. The idea has been around since at least 1990...
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Use a Common Standard, If You Want to
Wow, this an old controversy. The switch to the metric system. I remember writing a piece about it in high school for a technical newsletter. Still in the news...
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Telehealth and Coordinated Care Models
Based on a number of conversations about this with doctors, the overall model is not working, perhaps because who is attempting to management it. This Ecommerce...
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Google Ready to Start Shipping Glass
In CW World. Looks as though we are about to start another interesting socio-technical experiment. I have my doubts that this will become common, or socially...
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Google Innovation Possibilities
Google CEO Larry Page says they at 1% of what is possible. I am concerned about wielding a number like that without some backing.
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Eye Tracking as Privacy Invasion?
Is eye tracking a privacy invasion? Similar arguments to the use of neuroanalysis while interacting with product or process. In Mashable.
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Snubbing Apps vs Desktop
In CW World: It seems most MS WIN 8 users just try to find their way back to the classic desktop, avoiding the 'modern' App tile interface. Only touch tablet...
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Intelligent Bar Code Scanning
A piece by the standards group GS1: GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance team up to bring intelligent bar code scanning to mobile devices ... GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance...
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Ethernet and the Cloud
Have noted a number of anniversaries in the last few weeks. The Web is 20 years old. And now the basic infrastructure that created the Internet, the Ethernet,...
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Artificial Intelligence Getting Smart
In Technology Review: More on the increasing abilities of AI. Immensely interesting to me as I had several encounters with the application of these methods in...
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Data Visualization Expertise
Short CW Piece on the topic of data visualization. How specialists are emerging. I repeat that I consider data visualization an essential element of analytics...
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Brainwaves Added to the Quantified Self
Word of a kickstarter project called Melon that would gather brainwaves. Another example of the quantified self. Also, related this to neuromarketing, there might...
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Big Oil and Gas Companies in the next 5 Years
Recorded Future uses their forward looking semantic analysis tool to understand future activities of Oil and Gas Companies. Full interactive version here.Some...
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Printing 3D Food
Much in the News: About how NASA and others are looking at how food can be printed digitally, remotely. Things like Pizza? You still have to have the component...
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Mobile Completes Us
In E-Commerce Times: MicroStrategy CEO on how our mobile presence completes us. An interesting take. Helps form our identity, yes. And beyond the idea of...
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