Future of Business & Communications: FuturistGerd

(via Business travel: The $1 trillion industry - CNN.com)

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:31 +0200

(via Business travel: The $1 trillion industry - CNN.com)

"London to create airport of the future with 'Internet of Things'"

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:21 +0200

"London to create airport of the future with 'Internet of Things'":

imadeit-davidjanes:

Many of the more advanced features involve tracking passengers through a mix of face recognition and crowd-sourcing software that already exists in airports, plus the GPS that is already available in smart devices. For instance, a traveler who pre-orders food online or though their smartphone will be able to have it delivered to them as they arrive at the departure lounge.

Transportation Technology - AT&T Foundry FutureCast by...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:13:27 +0200

Transportation Technology - AT&T Foundry FutureCast by ShareATT

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Mon, 20 May 2013 14:24:26 +0200

(via CHART OF THE DAY: Where The Money Is Going In The Media Business - Business Insider)

Yahoo to buy Tumblr

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:31:15 +0200

Yahoo to buy Tumblr:

I hope this does not spell the end of Tumblr as we know it!

Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics: What the science really says

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:06:50 +0200

Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics: What the science really says:

futuresagency:

climateadaptation:

This page examines the science and common arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like ‘global warming is caused by the sun’, ‘temperature has changed naturally in the past’ or ‘other planets are warming too’ are examined to see what the science really says.

An excellent resource to bookmark.

"Bill Gates, speaking to the Royal Academy of Engineers in London last March, managed to capture the..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:48:33 +0200

“Bill Gates, speaking to the Royal Academy of Engineers in London last March, managed to capture the problem that Love’s idea would be leveled against: “Our priorities are tilted by marketplace imperatives,” Gates said. “The malaria vaccine, in humanist terms, is the biggest need, but it gets virtually no funding. If you are working on male baldness or the other things you get an order of magnitude more researching funding because of the voice in the marketplace.””

- How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach - Brian Till - The Atlantic

"So much ink has been spilled deriding the false concept of a “Facebook friend,” but I can tell you..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:12:18 +0200

“So much ink has been spilled deriding the false concept of a “Facebook friend,” but I can tell you that a “Facebook friend” is better than nothing.”

- I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet | The Verge

Gerd adds: great piece - must read’

"Bill Gates, speaking to the Royal Academy of Engineers in London last March, managed to capture the..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:12:15 +0200

"At such prices, Mulligan is skeptical that streaming services will ever be able to reach the scale..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:26 +0200

“At such prices, Mulligan is skeptical that streaming services will ever be able to reach the scale that would allow musicians to earn a living. “Ultimately the price needs to be lower,” he says. “$9.99 is not a mass market price point”

- What Google’s Move Against Spotify Could Mean for Music - Businessweek Gerd adds: totally agree on thar

"At such prices, Mulligan is skeptical that streaming services will ever be able to reach the scale..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:36:28 +0200

"This shrinking pie is hardly an incentive to make more music, notes Dediu. “The inevitable result..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:48:25 +0200

“This shrinking pie is hardly an incentive to make more music, notes Dediu. “The inevitable result will be a mass migration of talent away from the established content industries. Old media won’t fade due to a loss of users. It will fade due to a loss of talent,” he wrote”

- What Google’s Move Against Spotify Could Mean for Music - Businessweek

"On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:12:13 +0200

“On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at around 10 p.m. in each time zone, at which point a chart of Internet consumption looks like a python that swallowed a cow. By midnight Pacific time, streaming volume falls off dramatically.”

- Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley’s Elite - Businessweek

"On the future of technology: In the future, you will be able to send a robot to a rock concert..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:24:04 +0200

“

On the future of technology:

In the future, you will be able to send a robot to a rock concert instead of you.

By 2020, fiber networks will be implemented in every city.

Smart cars will reduce traffic accidents, which are 99% due to human error.

The web will be like electricity: always there.

Handsets could be preloaded with medical diagnostic tools.

”

- Google’s Schmidt Talks Human Rights and Tech, Unveils Latest Chrome

"“In the next five to ten years, another 5 billion people will join the Internet,” said Schmidt, the..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:36:04 +0200

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“In the next five to ten years, another 5 billion people will join the Internet,” said Schmidt, the company’s chief executive and one of the world’s richest men.

Most of those people will be in places like Asia, Africa and South America. And while newfound access to information will level the playing field to a degree, it will also set the table for the world’s villains as much as the up-and-comers, noted Cohen, Google’s director of ideas, who spent nearly half a decade at the State Department. This coming influx means we’ll keep seeing repressive governments censoring and stifling information and Internet access. And terrorists and hacker groups will continue to battle law enforcement in a fight that seems never ending.

”

- Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the New Digital Age

"“In the next five to ten years, another 5 billion people will join the Internet,” said Schmidt, the..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:48:30 +0200

“

“In the next five to ten years, another 5 billion people will join the Internet,” said Schmidt, the company’s chief executive and one of the world’s richest men.

”

- Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the New Digital Age

What Google's Move Against Spotify Could Mean for Music - Businessweek

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:46:12 +0200

What Google's Move Against Spotify Could Mean for Music - Businessweek:

Of course, the music industry has a long tradition of separating a song’s profit from its creators. Still, wrote Krukowski, “the ways in which musicians are screwed have changed qualitatively, from individualized swindles to systemic ones.”

"Look at Google’s self-drive car. In 2005, the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition for..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:24:15 +0200

“Look at Google’s self-drive car. In 2005, the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition for American driverless vehicles, drove 7 miles in 7 hours. Yet only six years later, Google has designed an autonomous car that has driven hundreds of thousands of miles in ordinary traffic. So what changed?”

- Filling In The Gaps With Tim O’Reilly

"Autocratic regimes don’t stay in power for decades by governing randomly; rather, they do so by..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:36:18 +0200

“Autocratic regimes don’t stay in power for decades by governing randomly; rather, they do so by following a tried-and-tested playbook of strategic censorship, isolation and repression of dissent. And control over information flows and the public sphere is a key element of this model of autocratic regime”

- How Social Media Is Changing the Cultural Landscape - The European

"In a report released this morning, the International Labour Organization estimates that worldwide..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:48:15 +0200

“In a report released this morning, the International Labour Organization estimates that worldwide youth unemployment will continue to grow over the next five years, reaching 12.8% in 2013. That means youth who are already without jobs are more likely to stay that way for longer, denying them crucial work skills and hobbling their careers for the rest of their lives.”

- Generation jobless soon to become generation hopeless – Quartz