Tag: Industrial Revolution

The data factory is the next industrial revolution

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization, Linguistic Search

Sequoia’s Sir Michael Moritz: The ‘data factory’ is the next Industrial Revolution Jolie O’Dell, venturebeat.com Early Bird Tick­ets on Sale SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — Com­pu­ta­tion power, appli­ca­tions, device and ser­vices costs, and stor­age are expe­ri­enc­ing a dra­mat­ic upheaval not unlike the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion of cen­turies past. All that adds … http://flip.it/T6dGj Related articles Sequoia's Sir Michael … Continue reading The data factory is the next industrial revolution

Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement Changed one Man’s Life

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Sustainable Design

(via Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement... | TimBatchelder. Related articles 'Maker Movement' enabling more women to launch tech businesses? (zdnet.com) Chris Anderson: New Revolution "Bigger Than The Web" (dailyreckoning.com) Maker Corps at Maker Faire Wants You! (makezine.com) Life on the Fringes of Cyberculture: An Interview with Gareth Branwyn (motherboard.vice.com) MIT wants to see … Continue reading Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement Changed one Man’s Life

TechShop: industrial revolution for $125 a month

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Metadata Masterdata

TechShop: an industrial revolution for $125 a month Brian Heater, engadget.com Some­one, Mark Hatch, if I had to guess, has left a Square read­er just to the left of where we’ve set up our cam­eras. It’s on a table next to a small, but excep­tion­al­ly diverse array of gad­gets. There’s a wood­en book that unfolds … Continue reading TechShop: industrial revolution for $125 a month

Nokia works to understand developing markets thru ethnographic research

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Metadata Masterdata

Great article on the fact that Nokia is investing heavily in a do or die fashion in understanding the anthropology of how people actually use mobile devices in the developing world, and using this to develop a line of low power mobile devices. Nokia Sets Sights on Developing World - Technology Review. Related articles Nokia's … Continue reading Nokia works to understand developing markets thru ethnographic research

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Ethnographic Methods, Systems Science

via www.wired.com An interesting new article in Wired on the way that social networking, crowdsourcing and software driven, personal manufacturing is transforming the manufacturing of every type of good. Indeed the worlds of bit and atoms are merging at a rapid clip. Related articles Innovation Lessons From 3-D Printing (sloanreview.mit.edu) Bits of Atoms (farisyakob.typepad.com) Robots Will … Continue reading In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine