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Is Technology Making Our Lives Richer Or Poorer? A conversation between Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor covering technology for the New Yorker, and computing pioneer Jaron Lanier. They’ll discuss the virtues of technology, but also the ways it has made us less imaginative, more distracted, and less connected to other people. Lanier is one of the founders of “virtual reality,” but he has since become the most prominent critic of what technology has wrought. Last year, he published “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto,” a provocative critique of digital technologies, including Wikipedia (which he called a triumph of “intellectual mob rule”) and social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, which Lanier has described as dehumanizing and designed to encourage shallow interactions.
Sean Gourley, co-founder and chief technology officer of data analytics company Quid, however, underscored the importance of overlaying a human perspective on a machine’s computational outlook. The easiest problems to solve are ones that can be easily quantified. But, Gourley asked in his presentation, should we really only focus on the easiest problems?
And how are we, whose egos are already more fragile than a porcelain potty, supposed to feel when we know that a glasses-wearer has one eye on us and another on our Klout score or teenage sexting pictures? The site explains: “Gradually people will stop acting as autonomous individuals, when making decisions and interacting with others, and instead become mere sensor/effector nodes of a global network.” (via Google Glass: The opposition grows | Technically Incorrect - CNET News) Interesting debate and development
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: Meet me at this event in London: Big Data, Big Ideas for Media, June 7, 2013
Gerd Leonhard “Data is the new oil” says Gerd Leonhard, CEO of the Futures Agency and according to the Wall Street Journal ‘one of the leading media-futurists in the world’. With the Social Media-led explosion of available sources of information crucial to commercial decision-making, Gerd will set the scene by highlighting key trends for the next five years, and share foresights and scenarios impacting the media business and journalism in the near term.
Data-Driven Main Street: Data will take personal service to new heights, giving small merchants the ability to provide goods and services tailored to the specific needs of individual customers. We are already seeing startups, such as ScoutMob and Womply, allow local merchants to combine information on purchases with social media data to provide a more complete picture of customer preferences. (via Big Idea 2013: Big Data for the Little Guy (via LinkedIn) - Futurist Gerd Leonhard)
How Big Data Can Drive Business and Journalism Strategies for Media Companies Media companies are hungering for a precise understanding about their audience members’ engagement of news and sales content across media platforms. Media companies want to understand where the advertising and other revenue markets are moving – in their specific geographies. Big Data is “The New Oil” because it enables media companies to capture a powerful understanding of their audiences and business opportunities for the future. The speakers at this inaugural Big Data event for Media will focus on the many opportunities and tools to carry out Big Data strategies at your companies. Where: London’s Millbank Tower, hosted by Open Society Foundations When: Friday, 7 June 2013, 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Big Data, Big Ideas for Media
Meet me here Friday June 7, 2013, in London!
(via 2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs - Dion Hinchcliffe’s Next-Generation Enterprises)
From 2012— but still very true for 2013 too
Data is the new Oil: 3 illustrations - which one do you think is best? The theme was coined by Clive Humby at AMA 2006, but I use it a lot in my talks and presentations, see the links here
The b/w piece was done by Sedat Oezgen, the green & cloud piece is by Gerry Alpern, and the people/cloud background was licensed from sevensheaven
Is Big Data The New Term for Business Intelligence? | Business Analytics
The term “business intelligence” was first coined by IBM researcher Hans Luhn in 1958, and then used in its modern sense in 1989 by then-Gartner analyst Howard Dresner.
Earlier this year, Gartner joined other analyst firms such as IDC and started using “business analytics” as an umbrella term for solutions for turning data into value :
Business analytics is comprised of solutions used to build analysis models and simulations to create scenarios, understand realities and predict future states. Business analytics includes data mining, predictive analytics, applied analytics and statistics, and is delivered as an application suitable for a business user. These analytics solutions often come with prebuilt industry content that is targeted at an industry business process (for example, claims, underwriting or a specific regulatory requirement).
There’s still lots of disagreement about the differences between the terms “business intelligence” vs “business analytics” (read the comments), but it now increasingly looks like the battle of the semantics has been lost to a newcomer: “big data”.
The future of data, technology and the Internet: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at #Online12 Conference in London (by Gerd Leonhard) Thanks to Incisive Media for making this available.
After finishing the project, Smolan became such a convert that he argues that “big data will have a bigger effect on humanity than the Internet” because knowing so much more about the world via data lets us anticipate and potentially solve problems. (via Big data gets its own book: ‘The Human Face of Big Data’ | Internet & Media - CNET News)
New slideshow by Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard: the Future of The Internet: Big Data, SoLoMo, Privacy, Human Machines?
This is the edited PDF of my presentation at the Online Information Conference 2012 see http://www.online-information.co.uk/static/programme-overview Everybody is talking about ‘data is the new oil’ aka big-data. SoLoMo (social local mobile) is the battle cry of the day. Human-machine interfaces are rapidly evolving and may quickly become commonplace (think Google Glasses, MSFT Kinect), artificial intelligence is the geek-phrase-of-the-day, and Kurzweil says the singularity is near/here. So how will our world really change in the next 5 years, i.e. the way we communicate, get information, create, buy and sell, travel, live and learn? What are the biggest threats and the hottest opportunities - not just in financial terms, but also in societal and human terms? Futurist Gerd Leonhard will share his foresights and explore the key ‘networked society’ scenarios.
From an IBM study of more than 1,700 Chief Marketing Officers, 71% say they are under-prepared to deal with the ‘data explosion’ they face in the marketing arena, even as 79% say that customer analytics influence their strategy decisions
Meet me at the Online Information Show 2012 in London, Keynote Nov 21 2012
Everybody is talking about ‘data is the new oil’ aka big-data. SoLoMo (social local mobile) is the battle cry of the day. Human-machine interfaces are rapidly evolving and may quickly become commonplace (think Google Glasses, MSFT Kinect), artificial intelligence is the geek-phrase-of-the-day, and Kurzweil says the singularity is near/here. So how will our world really change in the next 5 years, i.e. the way we communicate, get information, create, buy and sell, travel, live and learn? What are the biggest threats and the hottest opportunities - not just in financial terms, but also in societal and human terms? Futurist Gerd Leonhard will share his foresights and explore the key ‘networked society’ scenarios.
It’s also inevitable. Nothing can stop the generation of information, its dissemination and the burgeoning of knowledge. The rate of growth is exponential, doubling every few years. Innovative ways of harnessing information are now the “new economy” – or as futurist Gerd Leonhard would have it, “data is the new oil”.
The walls between professional services are coming down
Indeed, so it is:))
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