Repost: “The four horseman”
I have been following a number of companies for a long time, among them the usual suspects: Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. I have been posting on them also numerous [...]
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03, 2015
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06, 2014
A great talk on the development of the commercial internet
Various themes are combined by Maciej Ceglowski into a thoughtful, though bleak, talk on the development of the commercial internet: "The Internet with a human face" delivered at the Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference
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07, 2013
Interoperability is to tools as what collaborability is to humans (sort of)
Wikipedia: “Interoperability is the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for [...]
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07, 2013
Humans and their tools in relation to collaborability
The inquiry into “Collaborability” is about creating a theory on human collaboration. Humans predominantly collaborate with tools involved. We are not the only species to use tools but we have [...]
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06, 2013
The interconnected world brings good as well as bad…
In a side line of this Mondays post on the way governments will enforce their interest - while hopefully representing us citizens for the better - in this interconneceted epoque: [...]
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05, 2013
Shocker: I Find Google Much More Interesting Then Apple!
Some of today's technological and economical trends culminate in the battle between Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Samsung and some of the other well known tech giants. I have been following [...]
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04, 2013
Robosourcing: software deciding what we think, how we act, when we do and where we are
A regular theme on Red Planet Dust is about how the increasing capabilities of software are influencing the way we make decisions as persons and as companies. How these capabilities [...]
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04, 2013
Your Behaviour will Haunt You in Big Data Driven Job Application Assesments
Big data will push out human factor more and more in decision-making. An interesting quote from the economist article "How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects?" underlines [...]
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03, 2013
Internet is changing the Nature of Man
In an earlier post I stated that we are changing due to the effects of placing our memory outside of our brains (aka “exomemory”) and suggested that is even taking [...]
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03, 2013
Robots of all lands, unite!
Increasingly software is taking care of all kinds of decision making for persons and companies alike. At the same time we see the advent of the personal robot. Machines that [...]
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03, 2013
Not much data is needed to get profiled accurately
As Sharon Jayson of USA Today reports University of Cambridge researchers predicted race, age, IQ, sexuality, personality, substance use and political views using Likes alone using a dataset of more [...]
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03, 2013
Systemic Vulnerability due to software based decision making
One of the developing themes on Red Planet Dust is the way our personal and company decision-making is being influenced and even replaced by software. We are getting more dependent [...]
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03, 2013
The machine is taking over, humans are lending them a hand
Yesterday I indicated that at some point in the nearby future business decisions will not only be helped by software programs but that the role of humans will change by [...]
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03, 2013
What Google Graph will be to people, big data will be to companies
IBM CEO Rometty says that "Big Data Are the Next Great Natural Resource": “With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will in fact see the death of [...]
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03, 2013
Google Graph: The Nature Of Man Is Changing
Translation from original post: We adapt seamlessly to the opportunities that the Internet offers us. We do this so well that we hardly realize that we humans are changing. We [...]
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03, 2013
The commercial Internet has far-reaching social consequences
(This post has been translated from Dutch original 29 Jan 2014, "Het commerciële internet heeft verstrekkende maatschappelijke consequenties" original text included below) Michael Fertik CEO of Reputation.com has written a [...]