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In the industrial era, labor unrest came when the workers felt that the owners were profitting wrongfully from them. I wonder if in the connected age, we are going to see labor unrest when folks are unceremoniously dropped from the on-demand labor pool.

What are the labor laws in a world where workforce is on demand? And an even bigger question is how are we as a society going to create rules, when data, feedback and, most importantly, reputation are part an always-shifting equation?

Are You Ready for the Quantified Enterprise? | Innovation Insights | Wired.com

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With Big Data, we are creating artificial intelligences that no human can understand (made me think)

Big data will require a new group of people to take on this role. Perhaps they will be called “algorithmists.” They could take two forms—independent entities to monitor firms from outside, and employees or departments to monitor them from within—just as companies have in-house accountants as well as outside auditors who review their finances.

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)

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)

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We are entering an era of information tsunamis: mind-boggling global data torrents , all-pervasive social-local-mobile (SoLoMo) connectivity, widespread ‘wikilikean’ transparency expectations (both B2C as well as B2B), rapid changes in interface technologies (AR, gestures, voice-control, nano-technologies, bionics, AI etc), the hyper-realtime speed of information and media, and of abundant consumer choice in pretty much every sector of commerce and business.

Gerd’s guide to disruption: the next 5 years (Part 1) - Futurist Gerd Leonhard

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All this talk about big data makes me feel uncomfortable (me too)

The second hurdle is the so-called averaging of data. This produces the phenomenon which you can call “I don’t know you, but I know your type”. It’s what cookies do. The end result is a sort of spurious intimacy, correct up to a point but ultimately wrong in that it fails to capture your real essence or soul - an essence that may never be captured because there is no data for that.

How to Predict the Future (and How Not to) | LinkedIn

The massive quantities of data now available, coupled with the computer processing power to sift through it and subject it to microsopic analysis, can easily give us a false sense of confidence. As op-ed columnist David Brooks said recently, it is as if there is a new “religion” of “data-ism,” leading some to think that “data is a transparent and reliable lens that allows us to filter out emotionalism and ideology; that data will help us do remarkable things — like foretell the future.” But data without common sense and intuitive, human judgment can be dangerously misleading. Just ask the ratings agencies.

(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

(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

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Consumerization of IT increases as consumers become the driving source for innovation and technology, which is fueled by rapid advances in processing power, storage, and bandwidth. Smart companies have recognized that this is a hard tend that will continue and have stopped fighting consumerization. Instead, they are turning it into a competitive advantage by consumerizing their applications, such as recommending safe and secure third party hardware and apps. Encouraging employees to share productivity enhancing consumer technology will become a wise strategy. (via 20 Game-Changing Technology Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level | Flash Foresights from Daniel Burrus | Big Think)

Consumerization of IT increases as consumers become the driving source for innovation and technology, which is fueled by rapid advances in processing power, storage, and bandwidth. Smart companies have recognized that this is a hard tend that will continue and have stopped fighting consumerization. Instead, they are turning it into a competitive advantage by consumerizing their applications, such as recommending safe and secure third party hardware and apps. Encouraging employees to share productivity enhancing consumer technology will become a wise strategy. (via 20 Game-Changing Technology Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level | Flash Foresights from Daniel Burrus | Big Think)

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Invasion of the Data Snatchers - NYTimes.com *good read

When it comes to privacy, we are all hypocrites. We howl when a newspaper publishes public records about personal behavior. At the same time, we are acquiescing in a much more sweeping erosion of our privacy — government surveillance, corporate data-mining, political microtargeting, hacker invasions — with no comparable outpouring of protest. As a society we have no coherent view of what information is worth defending and how to defend it.

Invasion of the Data Snatchers - NYTimes.com *good read

When it comes to privacy, we are all hypocrites. We howl when a newspaper publishes public records about personal behavior. At the same time, we are acquiescing in a much more sweeping erosion of our privacy — government surveillance, corporate data-mining, political microtargeting, hacker invasions — with no comparable outpouring of protest. As a society we have no coherent view of what information is worth defending and how to defend it.

Today, an analogous transformation is taking place: This time, we’re transporting digital, not physical goods. Rather than physical factories, we’re seeing the rise of digital ones. The heavy hitters in tech – think Facebook, Google and Amazon – can’t survive on small-scale servers. Or, as they’re more commonly known: data centers. (via Why HP, Dell and IBM Are on the Wrong Side of Internet History | Wired Opinion | Wired.com)

Today, an analogous transformation is taking place: This time, we’re transporting digital, not physical goods. Rather than physical factories, we’re seeing the rise of digital ones. The heavy hitters in tech – think Facebook, Google and Amazon – can’t survive on small-scale servers. Or, as they’re more commonly known: data centers. (via Why HP, Dell and IBM Are on the Wrong Side of Internet History | Wired Opinion | Wired.com)

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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.

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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)

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)

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Think about it for a minute: Google knows our deepest secrets because we search with INTENTION - and in realtime, and often even in real-place (i.e. when using mobile devices) - for the things that matter to us - whether it is an upcoming trip or a disease that we are suffering from, or vexing problem we may have. Google knows all that stuff, and keeps it in their records (unless we take steps to delete it all… allegedly). Facebook, on the other hand, just knows what we SAY, what we share, what we purport to LIKE. That’s also quite deep but… there is a big difference. Your thoughs? Browse my Privacy to Publicy links to read more (via MediaFuturist: Facebook knows what we SAY but Google knows what we THINK - where does this leave us?)

Think about it for a minute: Google knows our deepest secrets because we search with INTENTION - and in realtime, and often even in real-place (i.e. when using mobile devices) - for the things that matter to us - whether it is an upcoming trip or a disease that we are suffering from, or vexing problem we may have. Google knows all that stuff, and keeps it in their records (unless we take steps to delete it all… allegedly). Facebook, on the other hand, just knows what we SAY, what we share, what we purport to LIKE. That’s also quite deep but… there is a big difference. Your thoughs? Browse my Privacy to Publicy links to read more (via MediaFuturist: Facebook knows what we SAY but Google knows what we THINK - where does this leave us?)

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A Wall Street Journal analysis estimates that the typical American doing everyday activities ends up having data being collected about him or her in 20 different ways (i.e. cell phone location, web searches and online purchases) — and more than half of the tools being used in this surveillance did not exist 15 years ago.