How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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“That doesn’t make Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon any better than Google – Facebook in particular, oh my God – but it’s the first time that these new titans of American industry have really looked genuinely ugly. Just, nasty. Because… more ›
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“When wearables arrive, I hope they’re Italian. If you’ve gotta wear the damn things all the time, they ought to at least look elegant.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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“The world in 2014 is like a globalized Twitter Egypt.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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“we see cameras transitioning into what they were bound to become: networked lenses.” (via Goodbye, Cameras : The New Yorker) more ›
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“If you begin considering emerging self-metrics that measure, for example, your routes through cities, fitness level, social status, and state of mind (think Foursquare, Nike , Facebook, and Twitter), you realize that there is a compelling universe of information waiting… more ›
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‘Open Informant’ attempts to confront the unsettling realties of surveillance in a networked age. Open Informant is a phone app and e-ink badge. The app searches your communications for these NSA trigger words and then sends text fragments containing these words to the badge… more ›
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Design for the New Normal – talk by Anab Jain, from the awesome Superflux more ›
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“Why? “The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You’re watching a great television show you’re really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes… more ›
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“The code itself is “big data.”” – The Algorithms of Our Lives – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education more ›