Stephen E. Arnold: A Fresh Look at Big Data & Big Data (-) Human Factor (+) Transformation (+) RECAP

A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …

John Maguire: Web 2.0 and the Distracted Modern

Nicholas Carr, futurist and author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, has provided a tremendous amount of insight into how/why technology, and the Internet specifically, shapes both our behaviors and neurophysiology. According to Carr while the Web is unarguably a tremendous asset, it has also re-wired our neural pathways via neuro-plasticity. Due to the design of …

20 Sep 2012 Franklin & Marshall College: Internet Technology and the Transformation of the Human

Internet Technology and the Transformation of the Human Posted on September 7, 2012 in Common Hour Events 2012-13 Miller Humanities Fellow, Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author of “You Are Not a Gadget” Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. in Mayser Gymnasium This event will not be recorded. 415 Harrisburg Ave  Lancaster, …

John Robb: Resilient Curiosity, Cities Under Seige

LINKS: August, 31 2011 Some items of interest: Biocurious is a biohackerspace opening in Sunnyvale. Local software, hardware, and bio labs that connect to a global, R&D effort via online networks. A neighborhood location where professionals (formally educated) and amateurs (in the best sense of the word) can work together on building new things and …