A data democracy built to last needs tools that empower everyone to work with data rather than relying on apps and data scientists.
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
(via MediaFuturist: My guest post on the DDB blog: The Future of Marketing & Media - Data Is the New Oil)
Whoever gets to sift through this data, slice and dice it, move it around, make it useful, clear its legal and fair use, and just make sense of it all, is probably going to be more powerful than Shell, Exxon or Mobil have ever been (BigG and BigF emerge as distinct options here)…
Vint Cerf discusses an interplanetary internet.
Father of the internet, Vint Cerf, on creating the interplanetary internet
An animated infographic series called “Smart Community” by Toshiba shows facts about countries in relation to the rest of the world.
How Google Glass Works
By Martin Missfeldt.