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10 Breakthrough Innovations That Will Shape The World In 2025 (recommended reading)
“What world-changing scientific discoveries might we see by 2025? Will we have more energy technologies that move us away from fossil fuels? Will there be...
Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper (Gerd’s must-reads)
“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent....
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Jun 2014
The robot apocalypse will look a lot like this game (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“How can you not be freaked out by the real, tangible progress in robotics from DARPA and Boston Dynamics?” Hattem asks. “Imagine all the crazy...
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Jun 2014
ProtonMail: a new Swiss Secure Mail Provider (is Switzerland waking up to the ‘secure swiss cloud’ idea?)
I have been talking about this huge opportunity for Switzerland ever since the ‘summer of Snowden', and finally we are seeing some action on this....
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Jun 2014
After Aereo, what’s next for Internet TV? (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“While the content on the major broadcast networks is very important for some people, it’s not important for everyone,” Niemeyer said. “So it’s a dent,...
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Jun 2014
Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview (recommended reading)
“At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds $76 billion, but he may also...
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Jun 2014
ProtonMail Is A Swiss Secure Mail Provider That Won’t Give You Up To The NSA | TechCrunch (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“One of our goals is actually to build a system that does not require trusting us,” he said. “We’ve taken the first step with our...
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Jun 2014
How Your Machines Get Smarter (good infographic via Mashable)
Nice infographic “Years ago people thought we would be living like The Jetsons by now. We may not be as technologically advanced as once thought,...
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Jun 2014
US Report Projects High Toll on Economy From Global Warming (via the NYT): Ego-to-Eco shift is finally happening?
Interesting to see that now that Global Warming (or rather, its consequences) has become a serious business issue, everyone is much more open to discussing...
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Jun 2014
New project aims to upload a honey bee’s brain into a flying insectobot by 2015 (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“Every once in a while, there’s news which reminds us that we’re living in the age of accelerating change. This is one of those times:...
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Jun 2014
Design to Disrupt: Four visionaries (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“Gerd Leonhard (Download his slides.) Thinking out of the box is extremely different when you have been crammed into the box in the first place. According...
24
Jun 2014
Stepping Out: a report on Fitbit, via The New Yorker (recommended reading)
I was travelling myself when I got my Fitbit, and because the tingle feels so good, not just as a sensation but also as a...
24
Jun 2014
The Disruption Machine (recommended reading via Jill Lepore, The New Yorker)
Great read about disruption and some insightful comments on Christensen's ‘The Innovators Dilemma'. I don't agree with all of it but it's worth pondering. In...
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Jun 2014
10 mindblowingly futuristic technologies that will appear by the 2030s (good list via IO9)
A good list via the pretty cool IO9 ‘we come from the future' site. Here is their list and my brief comments: Artificial intelligence assistants (a clear...
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Jun 2014
Google’s Nest Buys Dropcam for $555 Million (recommended reading)
“Dropcam, the popular home monitoring camera startup, will be acquired by Nest, maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors. The deal is worth $555 million...
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Jun 2014
The Biology of Risk (recommended reading)
“SIX years after the financial meltdown there is once again talk about market bubbles. Are stocks succumbing to exuberance? Is real estate? We thought we...
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Jun 2014
10 mindblowingly futuristic technologies that will appear by the 2030s (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“In short order we’ll be living in a Rainbow’s End world, where information processing devices will be virtually everywhere, but completely invisible — absorbed into...
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Jun 2014
Will robots make us all redundant? (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“But there’s also this concern about jobs and I would also say inequality, which is related. For 200 years, the Luddites have been wrong in...
