The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I’m looking for examples of the most cutting edge uses of technology in smart cities. What’s your thinking on the future of smart cities? If you were doing research on the future of cities, what would you focus on?
This is about de-centralising the net, distributing the data to the periphery where it’s needed, rather than running everything through big data pipes and central servers… HTTP is obsolete. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web HTTP is broken. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia …
Smart Cities — A $1.5 Trillion Market Opportunity Sarwant Singh Forbes, 19 June 2014 Mahatma Gandhi once said, “India is to be found not in its few cities, but in its 700,000 villages.” Though that may at one time have been true, it is no longer the case. With about 30 country dwellers moving lock, stock …
By next quarter, more data than voice will be traversing U.S. mobile networks Every day, we carry around small computers that, oh by the way, also can be used for phone calls. U.S. government joins push for more data scientists Three universities, two foundations and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announce multi-million-dollar …
Smartphone Makers Hit By Rising Competition Samsung gives weaker-than-expected earnings guidance and HTC posts tepid results EXTRACT: “The mid and entry-level smartphones are quickly picking up share, and are getting quite powerful in their capabilities,” said CK Lu, an analyst at Gartner in Taiwan. “Basically, a year ago, you didn’t have many choices in low-end …
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The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, by Ramez Naam Brenda Cooper IEET, Posted: Jun 20, 2013 There are writers and futurists who are swimming upstream against a tide of people screaming about the sky falling. Ramez Naam is one of the them, offering practical tools and illuminating the power of …
Could Lonely Planet Render World Bank Projects More Transparent? Posted on June 3, 2013 | 5 Comments That was the unexpected question that my World Bank colleague Johannes Kiess asked me the other day. I was immediately intrigued. So I did some preliminary research and offered to write up a blog post on the idea to …
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