Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud demonstrates the need for enterprises to develop new ways of harnessing the vast potential of big data. Yet these marketing clouds beg the question of who will help… RT @allthingsd: … Continue reading Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning
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Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering
Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil's Goal at Google is to enable … Continue reading Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering
Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet
Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too. http://flip.it/sMiw8 Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet Related articles Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The … Continue reading Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet
Google knowledge graph on drugs
Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine. Searching for information about medicine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs injected into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com) … Continue reading Google knowledge graph on drugs
Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”
Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat The Editors, betabeat.com Just don’t call them disrupters. By 11/14 11:30am Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter and Square, recently tried to disabuse the tech industry of its infatuation with the word ‘disruption.’ “We don’t want ‘disruption,’ where we just move… Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat http://flip.it/WgfQz http://flip.it/bz0gh … Continue reading Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”
Why creative writers are the best tech futurists
Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction - “Sex with Technology” Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net Here’s an exclusive excerpt from Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction, by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel. Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction films and television shows. Freed from … Make it So: … Continue reading Why creative writers are the best tech futurists
Designing your life
How To Design a Lucky Life Trent Hamm, lifehacker.com Is luck a supernatural thing that we have no control over, represented by four leaf clovers and gold pots at the end of the rainbow? For The Simple Dollar’s Trent Hamm, luck is defined as the result of some of the many random events in life… … Continue reading Designing your life
Frog predicts tech trends of 2013
frog’s 20 Tech Trends for 2013 core77.com Click for full-sized image. Download the full poster here.With 13 offices spread across the world, the designers, strategists and technologists that make up the world of frog have a unique global perspective on trends that effect business,… RT @core77: What #Tech trends should you be on your radar? … Continue reading Frog predicts tech trends of 2013
The reason societies become less productive with industrialization
Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably … Continue reading The reason societies become less productive with industrialization
IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?
The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com Pity the poor text message — a mere 20 years young this week and already they are talking about its retirement party. Actually, nobody holds retirement parties anymore, do they? We don’t retire from our jobs, we get pink-slipped. Which is apparen… http://flpbd.it/Y10fU IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement? … Continue reading IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?
Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery
S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com The Erkernermerst JOHNSON reads Reddit from time to time. Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme hatchery, is an incubator of new trends in written language. The Internet has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed … RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme … Continue reading Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery
Big data will rewire your brain
Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most modern humans are now attempting to cram more data into their heads in a single … Continue reading Big data will rewire your brain
Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date
An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design published… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, … Continue reading Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date
Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV
By Damon Lavrinc, wired.com LOS ANGELES, California – Geländewagen. It’s not an Austrian insult or some obscure epithet from the Eastern Bloc; it’s Mercedes-Benz’ iconic SUV. Originally crafted with a ruler and a chisel for military use, it eventually went… http://flpbd.it/cujf3 Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV Related articles Smart Crossover SUV to … Continue reading Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV
Qualcomm tricorder X Prize
The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer? Cormac Foster, readwrite.com The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize promises to turn everybody into a Doctor McCoy by 2016. It could change everything about the way we practice medicine. But are we ready for it? If you’re a redshirt thinking you might … Continue reading Qualcomm tricorder X Prize
Quotes from Steve Jobs
12 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs That Enrich your Day Zoe B, lifehack.org Steve Jobs was not just a visionary genius, but a man with an incredible passion for innovation, and a man who changed the world as we knew it. His lust for life was so huge that he used to look at his … Continue reading Quotes from Steve Jobs
Goodbye to the information age, hello to the hybrid
Parag Khanna: ‘So long, information age. Hello, hybrid age’ By Parag Khanna, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the October 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flpbd.it/LPJvj Related articles Make room … Continue reading Goodbye to the information age, hello to the hybrid
David Byrne: ethnomusicologist and data pioneer
David Byrne By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the October 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flpbd.it/X9j9P Related articles This David Byrne Interview With Himself Is The Weirdest … Continue reading David Byrne: ethnomusicologist and data pioneer
Marcin Jakubowski is building the DIY machines for a new civilization
Open-source blueprints for a modern off-the-grid civilization By Aaron Souppouris, theverge.com Marcin Jakubowski dreams of living off the grid. Over the past few years, he’s been working on a set of 50 machines he believes necessary to found and sustain an independent, modern community. He wants to “take everything that… http://flpbd.it/XhbyO Related articles What If … Continue reading Marcin Jakubowski is building the DIY machines for a new civilization
NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT
New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Accelerators and incubators have been popping up left and right over the last few years, becoming, as Peter Relan recently put it, “an industry segment in their own right.” And while that industry segment has become more … Continue reading NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT
The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I really enjoyed reading a recent story in The New York Times Magazine about attempts to understand extreme longevity — the weird tendency for certain populations to have larger-than-average numbers of people who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles … Continue reading The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100
Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking
Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bernstein, at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in inner-city Chicago, produced a set of maps that are still chang… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles … Continue reading Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking
Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job
Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Interviewing for many small business owners is more of an art than a science, relying on gut instinct and a collection of carefully… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don't Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow … Continue reading Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job
Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them
Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them” Rip Empson, techcrunch.com If you get the opportunity to hear Clayton Christensen hold court, seize it. Christensen is a Harvard Business School professor and renowned author and innovation expert, perhaps best known for his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” wh… http://flpbd.it/vxutu Related articles Turning openness into … Continue reading Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them
Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet
Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet By Rose Pastore, popsci.com From the archives: The “Paul Revere of ecology” sounded early warnings about the polluting effects of manmade products in 1972. Barry Commoner, the scientist-activist who founded modern ecology and helped ban above-ground nuclear testing,… http://flpbd.it/rPUAD Related articles Must See … Continue reading Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet
7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs
7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs | Inc.com Related articles Afghan president orders US forces out of key province - NBCNews.com (worldnews.nbcnews.com) Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 - Reuters (reuters.com)
4 Steps To Advancing Your Career
4 Steps To Advancing Your Career Via HR’s Myopic Bizarro World By David Clutterbuck, fastcompany.com You can make it without being a sociopath or middling to the point of uselessness. But it’s going to take some insight. Here’s a tough question: If corporate policies and practices in talent management and succession planning work, ho… http://flpbd.it/HOOdE … Continue reading 4 Steps To Advancing Your Career
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