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The Future of In-Flight Entertainment: Virtual Reality? (interesting trend)
“Such virtual reality headgear are staples of science fiction movies. In “Demolition Man,” Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock use them to have virtual sex (it...
HBO Go without needing cable? Welcome to the future of television (good insights via the Guardian)
From channels to platforms…! Broadcasting converges with Boadbanding:) see my illustrations below. I do think that, outside of the US, it's more about cable-nevers than...
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Sep 2014
Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It’s All Over the Internet (interesting read via Bloomberg)
This is a good read on a topic I have been looking at very closely – which personal information can be used online for what...
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Sep 2014
The 2 best Concepts From Malcolm Gladwell’s Bestsellers (adapted from BusinessInsider)
Via BusinessInsider: Malcolm Gladwell’s first two bestsellers, The Tipping Point and Blink, earned him a place onTime’s 2005 “Most Influential People” list; and with Outliers, the “10,000 Hour” theory made its...
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Aug 2014
Why Higher Education Cannot Resist Disruptive Change (something interesting I just read)
“This brings us to the future of higher education. Its situation is much the same as that of the news media. Content, often of high...
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Aug 2014
Digital Darwinism: Transforming a Business in The Selfie Era (nice piece by Brian Solis, great free report)
Brian Solis: To help understand what digital transformation is as well as its promise, I spent the last year along with my colleagues at Altimeter...
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Aug 2014
Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours (some pretty amazing stats via IndustryTap)
Some pretty amazing stats here (even though this is from 2013:) Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge...
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Jul 2014
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
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
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
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...
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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
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...
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Jun 2014
The Secret To Creativity, Intelligence, And Scientific Thinking (good read, just found)
“knowledge alone is not useful unless we can make connections between what we know. Whether you use the terms “knowledge” and “experience” to explain the...
