Weitere ähnliche Inhalte Ähnlich wie The technology zeitgeist (20) Mehr von Martin Geddes (20) Kürzlich hochgeladen (20) The technology zeitgeist2. I collated this ‘library of links’ during 2014 and 2015 as part of a
research project into the future of communications. It covers many of
the key trends in technology, business and society today.
I very much hope you find it of interest and value.
Martin Geddes
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3. Contents
General technology trends 4...................................................................................................
Futurism Videos 4...................................................................................................................
Books worth reading 5............................................................................................................
Mass personalisation 5............................................................................................................
Inclusive and accessible design 6.............................................................................................
Data-driven decision making 6................................................................................................
Generational change 6............................................................................................................
Portfolio careers 7...................................................................................................................
Virtual workplace solution 7....................................................................................................
Privacy 7.................................................................................................................................
Resurgence in voice 9..............................................................................................................
On-the-go communications 10...............................................................................................
Future of email 10...................................................................................................................
Virtual reality 10.....................................................................................................................
Gaming and gamification 11...................................................................................................
Sensor revolution 11...............................................................................................................
Sensual interfaces 12...............................................................................................................
Soundscaping 12.....................................................................................................................
Wearables 12..........................................................................................................................
Social robotics 14....................................................................................................................
Sentiment analysis 14..............................................................................................................
Anticipatory computing 14.....................................................................................................
Virtual assistants 15................................................................................................................
Wireless and mobility 16.........................................................................................................
Distributed trust systems 16...................................................................................................
Batteries and power 16............................................................................................................
‘Glomad’ workers 17...............................................................................................................
Home teleworking 17..............................................................................................................
Data destruction 17................................................................................................................
Cybermeetings 17...................................................................................................................
Security as a service 17............................................................................................................
Human productivity 18...........................................................................................................
Simplified security 18..............................................................................................................
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4. General technology trends
One in three jobs will be taken by software or robots by 2025 – ComputerWorld
Connections: Looking to the future of business communications – ComputerWorld
Future of Work – Frog Design
Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 – New York Times
10 Breakthrough Innovations That Will Shape The World In 2025 – Fast Company
Many of the biggest tech tenants in SF are companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
– The Information
Everything From This 1991 Radio Shack Ad You Can Now Do With Your Phone – Huffington Post
In 100 Years: Leading Economists Predict the Future – MIT Press
The tech utopia nobody wants: why the world nerds are creating will be awful – The Guardian
The UK Ministry of Defence Says Life in 2045 Will Be Unequal and Violent - Vice
The World is in Beta – PwC
A History of Books that Forecast the Future – Printer Inks
Botageddon – Global Guerillas
The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity – kk.org
Future Work Skills 2020 – Institute for the Future
2026 and All That – Flip Chart Fairy Tales
The Future of Work – A journey to 2022 – PwC
Computers will be like humans by 2029: Google's Ray Kurzweil – CNBC
Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work – danah boyd
Researchers reveal their predictions for life in 2025 – Mail Online
Quantum Computing Is About To Be The Biggest Breakthrough Of The Century
– Business Insider
Gartner's Predictions Of New Trends – Broadstuff
Could a big data-crunching machine be your boss one day? – BBC
Disruption is the Future of Work: The All Consuming Employee – Servant of Chaos
With New Updates, Evernote Aims to Rethink Work Itself – ReCode
'Digital twins' will make decisions for us – and even console loved ones after we die by 2020,
futurist claims – Mail Online
Learning to learn about futures thinking – Edge Ryders
This Is What It Will Look Like When Robots Take All Our Jobs – New Republic
Civil Rights, Big Data, and Our Algorithmic Future – Robinson + Yu
‘Robot Overlords’ Job-Stealing Exaggerated: Jackson Hole Paper – Bloomberg
America, say goodbye to the Era of Big Work – LA Times
AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs – Pew Research
Futurism Videos
The birth of a word – TED
The Beaming Project – Advanced Virtuality
Smartwatches could be a perfect home for augmented reality –The Next Web
Netwars – (eponymous)
Flashback: What we said about mobile phones in 1983 – CBS News
Mariana Mazzucato – TED
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5. Got a meeting? Take a walk – Nilofer Merchant
Self-Driving Car Test – Steve Mahan
A new way to stop identity theft –TED
Juan Enriquez: The next species of human – Juan Enriquez
6 ways mushrooms can save the world – TED
The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology – TED
Where’s Google going next? – TED
Radical Openness by Jason Silva – TED Global
Government — investor, risk-taker, innovator – TED
Microsoft Smart Home – Microsoft
The LSD-Inspired, Oculus Rift Game 'SoundSelf' – Kotaku
WebRTC enabled remote control of Lego Mindstorm robots via OpenMTC. – Tsahi Levent-levi
The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video –Abe Davis et al
The Future of Gesture Control -- Introducing Myo: Thalmic Labs – TEDxToronto
Pointing to the future of UI –TED
InterDigital Vision 2020 – GigaOm
Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google – The Interconnected, Improving World – YouTube
GE: The boy who beeps – Ads of the World
Watch Old People Freak Out Trying Oculus Rift For the First Time – Gizmodo
Books worth reading
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect – Matthew D. Lieberman
The Domesticated Brain – Bruce Hood
The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity – Bruce Hood
The New Digital Age – Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen
Virtual Leadership –Ghislaine Caulat
Telephone Conversation –Robert Hopper
Why We Don't Talk To Each Other Anymore: The De-Voicing of Society – John Locke
Voice User Interface Design – Michael H. Cohen, James P. Giangola, Jennifer Balogh
Architecture from the Outside -Elizabeth Grosz
The Substance of Style – Virginia Postrel
Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext – Belinda Barnet
Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making –Venkatesh Rao
For The Win How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business
– Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter
Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness: Transcending the Legacy of Separation in Our Individual
Lives – Miki Kashtan
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies – Nick Bostrom
Mass personalisation
Do we really need to learn to code? – New Yorker
The 427 Nest recipes on @ifttt are a fascinating look at the future of interaction and –
automation with smart homes – IFTTT
Corrupt Personalization – Social Media Collective
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6. Will WebRTC Fragment or Consolidate Voice Calling? – BlogGeek.me
Inclusive and accessible design
Squawk no more: Dolby, British Telecom aim to improve conference call audio quality
– PC World
SK Telecom Tests WebRTC for the Blind – Light Reading
Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss – Stanford
Speed reading software to revolutionise the way we read news – World News Publishing Focus
New Speech Device Aims to Help Parkinson's Patients – Inside Indiana Business
Microsoft R&D produces real-time translation for Skype – Hanley Wood Marketing
Skype Translator: Breaking down language barriers – YouTube
The Development And Critique Of The Social Model Of Disability" – University college London
The vOICe for Android – Seeing With Sound
A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition – ACM
5in5 Hearing: IBM Research Is Poised to Give Caretakers Insight Into the Sounds Babies Make
– IBM Systems Magazine
Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure – GPII
Memory Apps For Dementia – MAFD
In Touch: Blindness and bereavement – BBC
A Brain-Computer Interface for Speech | MIT Technology Review – Emergent Futures
These 7 Assistive Technology Users Will Leave Your Mind Blown! – Think Inclusive
Data-driven decision making
Data pioneers watching us work – Financial Times
Work 2.0: A Web-connected sticky note that bosses you around – Wired
Why Big Data Isn’t Enough: Tomorrow’s Technology Will Be Built Around Workflows –Wired
Microsoft acquires Capptain, a mobile analytics and push notification startup – The Next Web
Generational change
Internet Users by Region – ITU
African Mobile broadband growth doubling each year, with three-quarters of all connections to
be 3G/4G by 2020 – Buddeblog
Millennials Are Prime Offenders in Bring Your Own Devices Trend – Recode
China’s digital transformation – McKinsey
Why a deep-learning genius left Google & joined Chinese tech shop Baidu – Venturebeat
Global Demographic Trends and their Implications for Employment – Rand
How Will Changing Demographics in the U.S. Influence Business in the Coming Decade? – WSJ
Teens Fact Sheet – Pew Research
The Changing Demographics of America – Smithsonian
Three Reasons You Need To Adopt A Millennial Mindset Regardless Of Your Age – Forbes
Millennials Set to Radically Change Customer Service – Aspect
Teenagers have never been a smaller portion of our population – Washington Post
Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff – Fast Company
Millennials leaving government over lack of innovation, study finds – Federal News Radio
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7. How Millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers Can Work Together – Inc
2 dozen millennials explain why they're obsessed with Snapchat and how they use it
– Business Insider
Millennials are ditching traditional television faster than ever – Independent
Forget Millennials. Gen Xers Are the Future of Work – Time
Gender vs. Generational Divide Tops Findings From The Social Consumer Study
– Leader Networks
This Is How Millennials Want to Be Managed – Entrepreneur
Portfolio careers
More than two in five new jobs created since mod-2010 have been self-employed
– Trades Union Congress
Self-employment in the UK at highest level since records began – The Guardian
Virtual workplace solution
The five forces shaping the future of the workplace landscape – The Guardian
4 Trends That Will Change the Way We Work – Business News Daily
The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class
– Fast Company
Privacy
IBM Research – Homomorphic encryption – IBM
Privacy can be lucrative – Silent Circle just pulled in $30M in funding – GigaOm
DP5: A Private Presence Service – University of Waterloo
Raspberry Pi for Speech Encryption – Tearcomm
How Yik Yak Keeps Its Anonymity App From Ruining People’s Lives – Wired
Sensory Introduces Combined Voice and Vision Biometric Authentication for Mobile Phones,
Tablets and PCs – Yahoo Finance
CERN Scientists Launch Encrypted Email Service With a Difference – Coindesk
The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild – KU Leuven
t.co bypass for Greasemonkey & Chrome – Github
Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync – Whisper Systems
New app brings free encrypted voice calling to your iPhone – Yahoo News
The "NSA-proof" ProtonMail is getting a mobile app – Forbes
Maciej Cegłowski talk – Idle Words
The App That Lets You Spy on Yourself and Sell Your Own Data – Wired
You’ve Been Doing It Wrong. Privacy Is Part of User Experience – Wired
Verizon's offer: Let us track you, get free stuff – CNN
It’s complicated: Why we need a new etiquette for handling what’s private and what’s public
– GigaOm
ISPs take GCHQ to court in UK over mass surveillance – The Guardian
The Right to Remember: A Speculative Community Informatics approach to “the Right to Be
Forgotten” – Michael Gurstein
With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility – ZDNet
U.S. search warrant can acquire foreign cloud, email data, judge rules – ZDNet
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8. The Age of ‘Infopolitics’ – Opinionator
Transparency and the EU's New "Right to Be Forgotten – Chilling Effects
Privacy by design – PbD
Skype: The wiretap-friendly communication tool that started out with great intentions
– Silent Circle
NSA man says agency can track you through POWER LINES – The Register
The airborne panopticon: How plane-mounted cameras watch entire cities – ArsTechnica
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control – The Guardian
The troubling truth about U.S. email encryption laws – Daily Dot
Snowden wants YOU – yes, YOU – to build spy-busting tech – The Register
Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face – The Atlantic
Children’s strategies of negotiation and resistance to parental surveillance via mobile phones
– Queen’s University
The magic of the camera in reestablishing civil/ethical behavior – Facebook
Noticing more – using lifelogging wearables in personal and social understanding
– Acuity Design
People are finally worrying about online privacy—and tech firms are already cashing in – QZ
‘Unhackable’: Russian firm develops totally surveillance-proof smartphone – We Are Change
Intellectual privacy vital to life in the digital age –Phys.org
Facebook signs users up to privacy policy that allows it to track you everywhere on the
internet – Independent
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless
Surveillance – Julia Angwin
Wearables open new avenues for security and privacy invasions – ZDNet
FTC Recommends Limits on Data Collection Via Internet of Things – WSJ
Ready for What’s Next? Envision a Future Where Your Personal Information Is Digital
Currency – Wired
Welcome To The Matrix: Enslaved By Technology And The Internet Of Things
– Western Journalism
22% of Americans Have Closed An Account Due to Data Privacy Concerns – Juntae Delane
Hidden devices scrutinize employees – Mercury News
"Big Data Ethics" Sound Great, But They Won't Stop The NSA—Or Facebook – Read Write Web
Why data privacy will become a competitive differentiator – Fortune
Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era – Pew Research
The Arab Spring of Privacy Is Upon Us – Wired
The Online Identity Crisis – Wired
Where’ve you been? Your smartphone’s Wi-Fi is telling everyone – Ars Technica
Privacy Tools: The Best Encrypted Messaging Programs – Pro Publica
World's Top Privacy Experts Worry About Internet Of Things – Forbes
The cookie is dead. Here's how Facebook, Google, and Apple are tracking you now
– Venture Beat
Dubai Police Will Wear Google Glass With Facial Recognition Software to ID Crooks – Slate
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control – The Guardian
The rise of the anti-facial recognition movement – Daily Dot
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9. Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet bill of rights to ensure greater privacy – The Guardian
iPhone? It's a spyphone: Apple devices can record your every movement – Mail Online
Privacy key to UK business opportunity, says KPMG – Computer Weekly
It's not too late for privacy – Constellation Research
Stalkers, Inc. – Economist
Artificial Intelligence Is Doomed if We Don't Control Our Data – Mashable
Software That Can See Will Change Privacy Forever – Technology Review
With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise – New York Times
Wearer be warned: your fitness data may be sold or used against you – Startup Smart
Indie Web Trend Future – Charles Bartlett
Dropbox was asked not to inform users of 80% of its government data requests – Pando Daily
60 percent of apps fail basic privacy tests, finds international cross-governmental study
– 9to5 Mac
Targeted Advertising Considered Harmful – ZPG
The Apple Privacy Watch Constellation Research
Why Privacy Policies Are So Inscrutable – The Atlantic
Facebook Generation Rekindles Expectation of Privacy Online – New York Times
Google Map Tracks Your Every Move. Check Your 'Location History' to Verify It
– The Hacker News
Hackers Could Use Your Smartphone’s Gyroscope as a Microphone to Listen In – Slate
Resurgence in voice
Lync and the Death of the Desk Phone – No Jitter
Business Conversations Need Voice and Visual Information Too – TMCNet
Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong – Both Sides of the Table
Oracle Partners With Nuance to Add Voice Features to Its Mobile Apps – Yankee Group
Domino’s Pizza launches voice ordering in mobile apps powered by Nuance – 9to5 Mac
Amazon Introduces Mayday – TechCrunch
Tim Cook Emphasizes Importance of Voice Messaging, Sparking iWatch Speculation
– MacRumors
Video Is Everywhere, But Is Anyone Using It? – No Jitter
Is Your Voice a Business Asset or a Liability? – Entrepreneur
Saving sound: Paul Allen-backed startup launches app that constantly records audio
– GeekWire
Mitel Takes Another Step Towards a Fully Unified Platform by Acquiring OAISYS – Nemertes
Evernote Wear Brings Note Taking Onto Android Wear Devices – Ubergizo
How Siri’s ultimate killer feature could be remembering – Mac Daily News
Google Stories, Your Memory And You: It's Complicated – Forbes
Business Conversations Need Voice and Visual Information Too – Unified Communications
U.K. Poll Finds 33% No Longer Talk on Their Phones – IP Carrier
Voice Control Will Force an Overhaul of the Whole Internet – Wired
Smartphone app enables deaf people to make phone calls – Disabled Go
‘Star Trek Communicator Startup’ Sets Out to Build a World Powered by Voice – Wired
Military could be using high-tech speech software by 2017 – USA Today
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10. The Future Of Voice-Activated AI Sounds Awesome – Get Prismatic
Speech Recognition Better Than a Human's Exists. You Just Can't Use It Yet – Global Tech
Voice – The Next Evolution In Search Marketing? – Invoca
With 100M users, Truecaller starts making call suggestions – GigaOm
Voiceitt Is Chosen Audience Favorite at WSJD Live Startup Showcase – WSJ
Apple's Siri fuels boom in voice technology – Mercury New
Directory App Truecaller Raises $60M At A $300M Valuation Led By KPCB, Atomico, Sequoia
– TechCrunch
Enabling Voice Input into the Open Web and Firefox OS – Mozilla
In 5 Years, 50% of Our Search Queries Will Be on Speech or Images According to Andrew Ng
– DataConomy
ZTE Teams Up With Industry Giants for the Rise of the “Smart Voice Alliance”
– Business Wire India
What Ozzie Sees — and Hears — Ahead – HP
Tablets with Voice Calling Functions Find Big Market In Asia – Realtime Communications World
Pattern Recognition Algorithm Recognizes When Drivers Are on the Phone
– Technology Review
On-the-go communications
Prepare For Cameras To Invade Your Car – ReadWriteWeb
Auto-Autonomy: Cars Are Racing Toward Disruption – Recode
Self-Driving Cars Will Mean More Traffic– Business Week
Connected cars: 2025, all cars to become 'mobile'? – Mobile World Capital
U.S. may mandate 'talking' cars by early 2017 – Reuters
Grow, peak or plateau – the outlook for car travel – University of the West of England
Future of email
Why Email Will Be Obsolete by 2020 – Inc
Slack, a team-talk tool that Just Works – Boing Boing
Google’s Inbox is A New Email App From The Gmail Team Designed Not To Be Gmail
– TechCrunch
Let’s ban the after-hours email culture from our bedrooms – The Times
Virtual reality
Ingress: The game that reveals Google's secret war to control London – The Guardian
I Wore the New Oculus Rift and I Never Want to Look at Real Life Again – Gizmodo
Next generation Oculus Rift DK2 with 1080p and positional tracking starts shipping
– Pocket Lint
Being in Augmented Multi-Modal Naturally-Networked Gatherings – Beaming
Grand challenges in virtual environments – Frontiers
An Animated Avatar Could Screen Humans For National Security – Popsci
Augmented Multi-Party Interaction – AMI Project
Web-ifying the real world – Science Daily
Avegant Glyph is the VR headset that looks like headphones – Wareable
How Magic Leap Is Secretly Creating a New Alternate Reality – Gizmodo
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11. 3 Oculus Rift Apps That Prove Virtual Reality Goes Far Beyond Gaming – Bloomberg
EON Reality Releases Upgraded Augmented Reality – 4-traders
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap raises $542M – Fierce Wireless
Oculus Rift in the classroom: Immersive education's next level – ZDNet
Oculus' new prototype is where VR should be right now – The Verge
Finally: Meta begins shipping its augmented reality glasses to developers – GigaOm
Virtual-Reality Headset Is Reinventing Exposure Therapy – Scientific American
Gaming and gamification
Beyond Badges: The New Rules of Gamification – Inc
What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter – Polygon
Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms – Technology Review
Play it again – Island Letters
Future Of Work: Using Gamification For Human Resources – Forbes
Andreessen Horowitz invests $20M in startup Improbable to build massive simulated game
worlds – VentureBeat
Gartner is Soooooo Wrong about Gamification… – JoSeK
In E-Sports, Video Gamers Draw Real Crowds and Big Money – New York Times
Sensor revolution
Heartphones: headphones that measure your heart rate – LG
Forget Wristbands, FreeWavz Brings Fitness Monitoring To Your Earphones – TechCrunch
Will you be able to take a picture with Google Glass by just thinking about it?
– Washington Post
MEMS startup snags $37M to make accelerometers smaller and cheaper – GigaOm
Skinput turns your hand into a touchscreen and your fingers into a keypad – Gizmag
Forget "OK Glass," MindRDR Is A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts
– TechCrunch
Chips designed specifically for wearables starting to appear – EE Times
Close encounter of the haptic type – EE Times
Sensors And Sensitivity – TechCrunch
Extracting audio from visual information – MIT
How a Sensor-Filled World Will Change Human Consciousness – Scientific American
The future of biosensing wearables – Rock Health
5 ways Apple could push headphone technology forward – GigaOm
Wearable Computers Will Transform Language – IEEE Spectrum
Contextualised Self? Using #wearabletech for more than quantification – Acuity Design
Devices That Know How We Really Feel – New York Times
How digital technology is transforming our relationship with sound – Noodle
Wearable Technology in the Classroom – Innovation Excellence
Wearable Computing Will Forever Alter Collaboration, But Not How You Might Think
– Current Analysis
We combined 5G WiFi, #wearables & indoor location tech to create a new way to measure
sports performance – Broadcom
"Is wearable computing the next big thing in air travel?" – Aircraft Interiors
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12. The rise of data and the death of politics – The Guardian
How I walked 18.5 miles in a single day without losing productivity at my computer
– Venture Beat
How wearables are driving the rethinking of notifications – Venture Beat
How Your Sensor Data and The Internet of Things Can Save You A Lot Of Money
– Big Data Startups
The Internet Of Things Will Radically Change Your Big Data Strategy – Forbes
The Internet of Things Is Bigger than Texting Refrigerators and Fitbit – IT Business Edge
The Internet of Things is running up an $80 billion energy bill – Forbes
Microsoft Tackles Internet-of-Things With New Data Stream Processing Service – InfoQ
Google puts a Dropcam in it's Nest, for $500m. Home automation will be bigger than
wearables – Recode
Google’s Nest launches network technology for connected home – Rawstory
Into the Age of Context – Medium
Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy – Robert Scoble
We Are a Camera – The New Yorker
Sensual interfaces
Microsoft Research crafts wrist-worn device that tracks hand gestures in 3D space – Edgadget
Microsoft's wearable Alice band is not a rival to Google Glass– ZD Net
Google Gesture concept sees real time translation of sign language- Android Central
Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper – Wired
Next generation of games not about body as means of control, it'll be defined by experiences
between self & software – Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Why People In London Are Walking Around Wearing Blindfolds – Buzzfeed
The Future is Micro – The Heretic
How Using Emoji Makes Us Less Emotional – New Republic
LG Unrolls a TV Screen That Rolls Up – Scoop.it
What a $120,000 TV Looks Like – The Atlantic
Foldable, Bendable And Bright: The Future Of Displays – Forbes
Why floors, walls and ceilings are the next interface – ComputerWorld
Forget emojis, Yahoo says sensors in smartphones and watches could add REAL EMOTIONS to
our emails – Mail Online
The Communication Of The Future Is So Real You Can Touch It – Benton Foundation
Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin – New York Times
Spearcons (speech-based earcons) improve navigation performance in advanced auditory
menus – PubMed
The IoT startup using 3D interfaces to control smart cities – ZDNet
Will Quantum Dots Dominate Displays? – IEEE
Soundscaping
Google Patents Steerable Audio Beam for Google Glass – Glass Almanac
Dolby's Crazy Atmos Surround Sound Comes to ... – DTV Audio Group – Dolby
Wearables
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13. 5 Futuristic Wearable Devices That Will Blow Your Mind – MD+DI
Fin : Wearable Ring Make your Palm as Numeric Keypad and Gesture Interface – IndieGoGo
This augmented reality motorcycle helmet could save your life – Endgadget
Nod Gesture Control Ring Is Designed For Continual Wear, Starts Selling Today For $149
– TechCrunch
The TV you can only watch when you're smiling – CNet
The smart bracelet that can read your emotions – BBC
Sense: Know More. Sleep Better – KickStarter
Hands On With The Production Version Of The Myo Gesture Control Armband – TechCruch
These Vibrating Smart Shoes Tell You Where To Turn – Huffington Post
Razer’s sub-$100 Nabu wearable device integrates WeChat, behaves much like a smartwatch
– The Next Web
Forget Glass. Here Are Wearables That Protect Your Privacy – Forbes
Why wearables' success depends on being like Yo – The Guardian
Takahito Iguchi: the visionary who sees beyond Google Glass – The Guardian
Virtual keyboard on a #SmartWatch? Minuum makes that possible – Phone Area
AirType Concept Promo – Vimeo
SENSORY UX – Sensory UX
ARM developing processors to make wearables 'invisible' – Infoworld
How Salesforce.com Could Change the Market for Wearable Technology – Motley Fool
Intel Perceptual Computing – Intel
Microsoft secures patent for object-recognizing Augmented Reality smart glasses – Into Mobile
Some of the problems with the whole wearables trend – WDC
Wearable intelligence – Establishing protocols to socialize wearable devices – O’Reilley
4 Reasons Nobody Cares About Smartwatches – Time
Hello, wearable technology. Nice to meet you. (Or was it?) – Amdocs
Don’t Get Terminated: Adapting to Wearable Technology – Desk
Assuring that trust wears well – Diginomica
Wearable Computing is Not Calm Technology, Yet – BigThink
The Evolution Of Neurocentric Wearables – WT VOX
Get Naked with Nearables –Demo Helsinki
The Apple Watch as the Ultimate Communication (and Customer Care?) Device – Aspect Blogs
Ousting and Taking Over | Cynaps Mint Replaces the Need for Headphones – Tech Zulu
The World's First Smart Earplug – Hush
Mobile phone inventor says wearables will replace smartphones – Wareable
Wearable tech lets boss track your work, rest and play – New Scientist
How's Your Enterprise Wearables Strategy? – Information Week
From wearables to … invisibles – Venture Beat
The Problem With Wearable Technology, According To "Blade Runner" Designer Syd Mead
– Fast Company
Bracelet could protect user herds from lurking PREDATORS – The Register
The Digitization of Everything: Wearables Rising – Value Creator
The scary Apple Watch future – Salon
Apple Watch – A new Era of Wearable Computing? – Wearable Technologies
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14. Report: Wearables need makeover to maximize market – Atmel
Ineda planning mass production of low-power chips for wearables in 2015 – Fierce Wireless
Intel poised to launch luxury smart bracelet at Barneys – C|Net
A Year With Google Glass Will Turn You Into an Obnoxious Monster – The Atlantic
Is the Player Nervous? Just Ask His Shirt – New York Times
Internet of Bling: Samsung Buys SmartThings for $200 Million – Recode
Wearable devices to support Parkinson's disease research – Telegraph
Wearable technology is the new healthcare craze – Wearable News
This Guy Tracks Everything About Himself And Puts It Up Online For Everyone To See
– TechCrunch
Disney Magic Bands In-depth review at Disney World – MouseChat
What Will It Take to Make Your Grandma’s Wearable? – UX Magazine
Social robotics
Are we ready for the rise of social robots? – BBC
Quantum Robotics will Create Artificial Intelligence 'Capable of Creativity'
– International Business Times
Sentiment analysis
Smartphone app detects mood swings via voice analysis – University of Michigan Health
App Tells You How You Feel – WSJ
Voice Sentiment Analysis Startup Saygent Raises $1 Million – TechCrunch
Computers Are Getting Better Than Humans Are at Facial Recognition – The Atlantic
This algorithm can detect rare genetic disorders from regular Facebook pics – Wired
This Smart Cat Feeder Uses Facial Recognition to Exclude Greedy Kitties – Smithsonian
What happens when your friend’s smartphone can tell that you’re lying – Washington Post
Twitter invests $10 million in MIT’s new Laboratory for Social Machines – Beta Boston
Dell Plans To Release A Mood-Reading Product By 2017 – NeuroGadget
Beyond Verbal Raises $3.3 Million to Read Emotions in a Speaker’s Voice – WSJ
Moodies voice analysis app arrives for Android to show you how you come across to others
– The Next Web
Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate – New York Times
Anticipatory computing
Smart Assistants, Anticipatory Computing and the slow Death of Search – Meetup
IBM Aims to Make Medical Expertise a Commodity – Technology Review
IBM exec: Watson has plenty of IQ, not enough EQ (yet) – Fortune
IBM's Watson: Cognitive or Sentient? – BigThink
Apple Buys Cue For Over $40M To Compete With Google Now – TechCrunch
Newsle Joins The LinkedIn Family – LinkedIn
Computers That Know What You Need, Before You Ask – NPR
THE COMING ERA OF MAGICAL COMPUTING – FastCompany
Artificial intelligence has an amazing future. Dystopian movies get it wrong – WashingtonPost
2014 mobile trends: Anticipatory computing – Cezary
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15. Inside Story: LinkedIn’s VP of Mobile on Driving in the Snow, Houzz and Anticipatory
Computing – LinkedIn
Forget Lean and Agile – It’s Time to be Anticipatory – LinkedIn
Companies Are Tracking Employees to Nab Traitors – Bloomberg
Startup Altocloud scores $2M and launches its ‘predictive communications’- Venture Beat
Artificial intelligence experts sign open letter to protect mankind from machines – C|Net
Get ready to get more acquainted with A.I. in 2015 – CNBC
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World – Wired
Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge
Engineering Efforts – IEEE
Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ – Washington Post
The Future Of AI Will Be Stacked – TechCrunch
RecSys 2014 Keynote by Jeff Dean: Large Scale Machine Learning for Predictive Tasks, Pt. 1
– YouTube
Love or Hate It, Why Predictive Analytics Is The Next Big Thing – Inc
A Cambrian Explosion In AI Is Coming – TechCrunch
Iterations: Calendar Frenzy, Google Now, and Apple’s “Anticipatory Computing” Problem
– TechCrunch
Nick Bostrom: The AI pioneers for the most part did not countenance the possibility that their
enterprise might involve risk. – IoT Council
Why Nvidia thinks it can power the AI revolution – GigaOm
Virtual assistants
'Cortana-gate' ruins Satya Nadella's Microsoft honeymoon – Channel Register
Why #Siri Is Apple's Most Important Footnote – Fast Company
Tony Stark’s Jarvis Voice Recognition Software Now A Reality – Bit Rebels
Artificial Intelligence Is Already Controlling Humans – Huffington Post
New developments in quantum physics could lead to technologies from electric airliners to
artificial intelligence – Raw Story
Heresy of the week: There is no such thing as artificial intelligence and there never will be
"Artificial intelligence: the next step in evolution?" – The Age
Paperclip maximizer – Less Wrong
Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk – Yudkowsky
By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem
– Business Insider
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock
– The Guardian
The uncanniest valley: what happens when robots know us better than we know ourselves?
– Singularity Hub
Software That Augments Human Thinking – Technology Review
Chimpanzee language: Communication gestures translated – BBC
IBM Buys Deep Learning Startup To Boost Watson – Top Tech News
The Looming Threat Of Artificial Unintelligence – Popular Science
Julie Desk Is An Email-Based Virtual Assistant To Help You Schedule Meetings And
Appointments – TechCrunch
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16. Siri’s Descendants: How intelligent assistants will evolve – Medium
It’s Like I’m Talking to a Machine: Psychology of Talking to Virtual Assistants – Medium
Siri Is Only The Beginning – TechCrunch
Evernote's CEO: Siri and wearables are doing it wrong – Engadget
With The Rise Of Wearables, Virtual Assistants Will Disrupt Marketing As Usual – Fast Company
BlackBerry Assistant Takes ‘Natural Language’ to the Next Level – Brand Channel
Lifelong Virtual Assistants Will Know Your Most Intimate Secrets – Factor Tech
Siri Creators Have a Much Smarter Bun in the Oven – Tech News World
Wireless and mobility
SK Telecom planning 'hyper-connected infrastructure' for 5G – Fierce Wireless
Stanford engineers aim to connect the world with ant-sized radios – Stanford News
Distributed trust systems
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy – Melanie Swan
These Guys Are Creating A Whole New Internet Using Bitcoin And They Are Having Surprising
Success – Business Insider
Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective – Stripe
Explaining Ethereum – Chain.com
...And The Good News: Banks Will Be Obsolete Within 10 Years – Zero Hedge
Weekend Read: The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution – WSJ
Bitcoin is Gamification – Medium
Batteries and power
Charging while you drive? It’s not as crazy as it sounds – Qualcomm Halo
Starbucks to Offer Wireless Caffeine for Smartphones – Scientific American
Massive breakthrough in battery technology – UCR Today
Next Big Thing You Missed: Bigger, Cheaper Fuel Cells Will Eliminate Power Outages – Wired
New Rechargeable Cell Has 7 Times Higher Energy Density Than Li-ion Cells – Nikkei
Flexible Printed Batteries Coming Soon To Power Wearable Devices – The Tech Journal
Ultrapak external battery packs can grab a full charge for a standard smartphone in 15
minutes – New York Times
Breakthrough Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar Energy in Half – Big Think
Better Batteries: How Nanotech Could Charge Your Smartphone in Seconds, and Keep it
Running for a Month – Book of the Future
The Battery Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting for? – WSJ
Wireless charging set for huge growth in next 10 years – C|NET
New Batteries Could Last 20 Years and Take Just Minutes to Charge – Small Business Trends
This everlasting battery is made from recycled vanadium and ready to plug in – GigaOm
Ultra-fast charging batteries that can be 70% recharged in just two minutes – Science Daily
Tech World Vexed by Slow Progress on Batteries – WSJ
StoreDot lands $42m for novel battery technology that enables 30-second smartphone
charges – TechEU
Soon, Europe Might Not Need Any New Power Plants – Think Progress
Oh, This Bracelet? It's Just My Wearable Device Charger – Mashable
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17. ‘Glomad’ workers
New tribes preparing to move in next door – Telegraph
7 ‘digital nomads’ explain how they live, work and travel anywhere in the world – TheNextWeb
How To Succeed At Becoming A Digital Nomad – Forbes
Digital nomads travel the world while you rot in your office – Mashable
Home teleworking
Telework Research Network – Global Workplace Analytics
Remote Work, Distributed Teams & Independent Worker Statistics – WorkingRemote.ly
Telework Adoption and Energy Use in Building and Transport Sectors in the United States and
Japan – Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 – U.S. General Services Administration
Firms downsizing property dramatically as agile working takes hold, claims new report
– Workplace Insight
Does Telecommuting Kill Company Morale? – Inc
Data destruction
Self-destructing selfie app – Wickr unveils the latest service after Snapchat hack – Mirror
The Ephemeral App Ecosystem – Over $180M Raised – CB Insights
Snapvoice Is Like Instagram For Photos With Attached Voice Recordings – Addictive Tips
The case for an absent-minded Internet – Boston Globe
Anonymized Analytics: Unleash the Power of User Data with Aircloak – Aircloak
Devices being remotely wiped in police custody – BBC
Poor privacy and data security policies are hurting innovation, says Intel – Engadget
Microsoft and Other Firms Pledge to Protect Student Data – New York Times
Cybermeetings
Virtual Leadership: Learning to Lead Differently – Ghislaine Caulat
Work skills of the future: constructive uncertainty – GigaOm
Why Some Company Offices Are Virtual – Business Week
Virtual Reality's Vomit Problem – Bloomberg
Virtual Reality Is Happening, But Like For Real This Time – Gizmodo
Bill Gates: Microsoft is developing a killer meeting-room app – PC World
Security as a service
Voice Biometric Authentication With Twilio – Twilio
New Biometric Software Bringing Ear Recognition To Smartphones – Find Biometrics
Could our behaviour be turned into a password? – BBC
Researchers Use #Bigdata to Get Around Encryption – WSJ
Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones – Scientific American
Sensory Introduces Combined Voice and Vision Biometric Authentication for Mobile Phones,
Tablets and PCs – Yahoo Finance
Sensory Unveils Multi-Modal Biometric Authentication for Mobile Devices – Voice Bio Con
Apple looking into ways to change iPhone's security level and UI settings based on user's
location – Into Mobile
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18. The Growing Threat Of Network-Based Steganography – Technology Review
AT&T joins MasterCard battling fraud with phone location – Naples News
Trustev's Pat Phelan on the challenge of verifying mobile customers – Wired
Phone Swindlers Tap Into Fear and a Sense of Duty – New York Times
Personal details removed from site over ‘identity theft’ concerns – Irish Times
Patent to recognise web behaviour such as typing and browsing styles to stop fraud – V3
Internet of Things needs to be encrypted to offer proper security – HITBSecNews
You have been hacked! – Economist
Human productivity
Against the Insufferable Cult of Productivity – New Republican
Nadella’s Challenge Is to ‘Reinvent Productivity’ — and Microsoft – Wharton
Work seriously damages your health, say scientists – The Idler
ALARM FATIGUE: Study finds doctors, nurses overwhelmed by noise – My FOX Twin Cities
Walking for 5 min/hour prevents negative health effects of sitting – Boing Boing
Mindfulness is the New Definition of Success – BigThink
Does Mindfulness lead to neuroplasticity? – Neuroscience
A Social Network Designed to Combat Depression – Wired
A Team of Biohackers Has Figured Out How to Inject Your Eyeballs With Night Vision
– Science.Mic
Navy’s Exoskeleton Could Make Workers 20 Times More Productive – Wired
Could Deep-Brain Stimulation Fortify Soldiers’ Minds? – Scientific American
Building Mind-Controlled Gadgets Just Got Easier – IEEE
FDA Approves World's First Artificial Retina – American Society of Retina Specialists
New Biological Technologies Will Grant Troops Super Powers – National Defense Magazine
Telepathy is now possible using current technology – Vox
UC Berkeley researchers develop technology to correct screens for visual impairments
– Daily Californian
DARPA’s tiny implants will hook directly into your nervous system, treat diseases and
depression without medication – ExtremeTech
Simplified security
The Password Is Finally Dying. Here's Mine – Wall Street Journal
The future of passwords really is no passwords – QZ
Ping takes a swing at replacing passwords with mobile devices – Fierce Enterprise
“Voice Biometrics”: The first circle of Hell – PandoDaily
Biometrics in smartphones need more control – ex-GCHQ boss – BBC
The biometrics revolution is already here — and you may not be ready for it – Washington Post
South Korea identity thefts forces ID overhaul – CNS News
Researchers in China Develop 99.8% Accurate Face Recognition System as Substitute to Online
Payment Method – DataConomy
European football clubs eye biometrics goal – Planet Biometrics
The Gospel of IRMA: Attribute Based Credentials in Practice – CCC
Cisco: The Internet Needs More Control – New York Times
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19. Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police, even with search warrants
– Washington Post
Safeguarding the pedigree of personal attributes – Lockstep
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