Economist Debates: Tech Bubble
What a great format: bringing Oxford style debates into the online sphere. Current topic: Are we in a tech bubble or are we not?
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What a great format: bringing Oxford style debates into the online sphere. Current topic: Are we in a tech bubble or are we not?
We all create vast amounts of data as we go through our lives, both on- and offline. All this data should be public, argues a Brooklyn law professor.
We’re living in times where science fiction doesn’t stay fiction for long. Here’s the mini power generator to fit in your blood vessels.
Interesting interview with the Director General of CERN, on how physics answers philosophical questions for good, yet needs philosophy to find answers to its own questions.
Let’s talk personalisation, not privacy. Perhaps the real issue is not how much the world gets to know about us, but about how little we get to learn about the world.
Truth is: Technology has evolved massively since 1999, our general understanding of it hasn’t.
While everybody is worrying that Apple might know where we’ve been, these MIT-scientists know with 93.6% accuracy where you will be. And that’s only a fraction of what they learn from Smartphones.
Hugh Grant, who made a career of playing himself, in his best role yet. After learning his phone had been hacked by a tabloid paper, he is having a chat with one of their reporters, secretly taping it all.
Google UK has launched its own quarterly, a monothematic digital magazine. The first issue is on data, this text on coping with data obesity. Hal actually not being the computer from A Space Odyssey, but Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google.
Be warned, this is addictive. From New York Times’ intriguing “Smarter Than You Think” series comes a Rock-Paper-Scissors where you are duelling a computer that is getting smarter as you play, analysing your every move. Because, you know, in the long run, we can’t help but being predictive. In veteran mode, I managed to keep things even up until round 50 (with an overproportional half of all rounds ending in a tie). But from there, it went all downhill for me. The algorithm had started to understand my thoughts. Play and then share your experiences.
Make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be.
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