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Here Are The New Social Risks Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Christophe Degryse, Social Europe, 29 February 2016

But this 4^th industrial revolution also contains its share of new risks in the world of labour, including the ‘remake’ of existing jobs, the destruction of many of them, the relocation of countless others. For society as a whole, it is a prospect accompanied by the threat of increased polarisation between the ‘winners’ and the ‘losers’ of the digital economy.

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2016/03/032016/03/03

Stephen E Arnold: Real Time Search?

IO Impotency

Real Time: Maybe, Maybe Not

The general buzzy Teddy Bear notion of real time is that when new data are available to the system, the system processes the data and makes them available to other software processes and users. . . . Real time. Not now and not unless something magic happens to eliminate latencies, marketing baloney, and user misunderstanding of real time. Read analysis with chart.

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2016/02/292016/02/28

Doug Rushkoff: Silicon Valley — Amazon, Google, and Uber Specifically — Is Broken

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Silicon Valley is broken and heading for social unrest, argues media theorist

Rushkoff argues that several major tech companies operate with intentionally unsustainable business models. Amazon and Uber, he says, work by destroying marketplaces and then using their leverage to move into another area. So while Amazon doesn’t make much money off books, the original industry it disrupted, that’s not a concern for them. They make the bulk of their revenue from other products.

2016/02/292016/02/28

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Risks 90% of Revenue on Shift to AI for Search

IO Impotency

Alphabet Google Search: Dominance Ending?

I read “Will PageRank Expiration Threaten Google’s Dominance.” The main point is that Google’s shift to artificial intelligence “hurt Google Search’s market share and its stock price?” The write up references the 1997 write up about the search engine’s core algorithms. (There is no reference to the work by Jon Kleinberg and the Clever system, which is understandable I suppose.) Few want to view Google as a me-too outfit, “cleverly” overlooking the firm’s emulation strategy. Think GoTo.com/Overture/Yahoo in the monetization mechanism.

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2016/02/282016/05/29

Berto Jongman: Pirate Science — Are Elsevier & Thomson Reuters Joining Bloomberg in the Tarpit?

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, IO Impotency

Russian Researcher Illegally Shares Millions of Science Papers Free Online

Welcome to the Pirate Bay of science

A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles – almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published – freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers. For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world.

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2016/02/272016/02/27

Robert Steele: Palantir – Enough Already

IO Impotency

Robert David Steele Vivas

I keep hearing about people buying into Palantir as a “solution” for past mistakes. I do not recommend Palantir to anyone, and certainly not to multi-billion dollar companies that ought to know better. The best advice I can give any major company thinking about its sad existing IT infrastructure is this: first get the truth on the table, and then lead an industry-wide open source solution. The people who created the legacy mistakes are not the people that are going to admit their mistakes, nor are they the people best qualified to clean house and start over.

See Especially:

Palantir: A Dying Unicorn or a Mad, Mad Sign?

Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Raises More Money — Comment by Robert Steele on Palantir’s Short-Falls

Robert Steele: The Ultimate Hack — From Open Data to Open Engineering to Open Power

2016/02/222016/02/20

Stephen E. Arnold: Print – and Digital – Media Dead

IO Impotency

Print and Digital: Both Goners

I read in McPaper this article: “Wolff: Print’s Dead — but So Is Digital.” Okay, I learned from Dr. Francis Chivers (Duquesne University professor in the 1960s) that God is dead. I learned from Francis Fukuyama (assorted universities) that history is dead. Now I learn from McPaper that print and digital are dead. A two’fer! That is what makes McPaper so darned compelling.

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