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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 …
From Putting People First
The revolution will be fetishised
Now that the refrains of “Twitter Revolution” and “the first uprising powered by social media” are fading into the distant memory that is 24 hours ago, we can start...
From Putting People First
A range of new products will be created from social data
LinkedIn founder and CEO Reid Hoffman says in an interview on Nokia’s Ideas Project that the unprecedented accumulation of social network data provides fertile...
From Putting People First
Technology is for revolution (and repression)
Far from being a tool for oppression, as often portrayed in old science fiction, technology has become a means of liberation, argues the Financial Times. “Technology...
From Putting People First
As blogs are censored, it
The New York Times discusses extensively the “Cute Cat Theory of Internet Censorship”, as propounded by Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at the Berkman Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of TV
Dave Knox posts a good piece: I have seen the future of TV
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Brand Loyalty Fading
In a large scale study of loyalty card customers. In the Financial Times. Not unexpected, but note that the funders of the study stand to gain by these results...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 22
June 25 Hearing: The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity activity at NIST and the Department of Homeland Security. 2 p...
From The Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
Those of you who know Marti Hearst or follow her work may have heard that she’s been writing a book on Search User Interfaces to follow up on her chapter in Ricardo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Blog
Long time colleague Richard James, who is always interesting, writes: 'Just got back from P&G Alumni event/few days holiday in Rome. Met some fantastic peopleinteresting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Escape from Cubicle Nation
Much enjoyed Pamela Slim's Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur. This is the kind of how-to book that I usually just skim...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Minute Books
I see that Jerry Michalski is putting together an interesting conference call idea. See more at the link. Always love new ideas for sharing knowledge. See also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Networking Inside the Enterprise
This short article makes the case that social networking inside the enterprise is more important than outside. This was precisely what I was involved with before...
From Apophenia
xkcd meets reality
Earlier this week, xkcd posted a fantastic comic about the apocalypse happening and the dead rising to walk the earth. In the comic, mathematicians scribbled frantically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Amazon Stifling Creativity?
In an interesting and detailed piece, Cory Doctorow writes: ' ... Now, it's not that I hate Amazon or Google, but I do understand that they are fast becoming the...
From Putting People First
Mobile impact
Last week I quoted from Robert Fabricant’s contribution to a Fast Company discussion roundtable on the impact of the mobile phone. Robert has meanwhile posted the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unloaded Dice Program
Mind Hacks points to an excellent podcast program on the science of randomness. ' ... The hour long science trip largely focuses on how we make sense of random...
From The Noisy Channel
Google
Great post from our commenter-in-chief Jeremy Pickens on his own blog, Information Retrieval Gupf, about comments from Google Director of Research Peter Norvig...
From Putting People First
Thomas Crampton on his transition from journalism to digital strategy
Thomas Crampton, a former correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, was asked to address an OECD gathering in Paris about his transition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolving Complicators and Simplifiers
From the Edge, a talk with John Bargh, professor of social psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation)...
From Putting People First