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The speed with which information hurtles towards us is unavoidable (and it’s getting worse). But trying to catch it all is counterproductive. The faster the waves come, the more deliberately we need to navigate. Otherwise we’ll get tossed around like so many particles of sand, scattered to oblivion. Never before has it been so important to be grounded and intentional and to know what’s important.
Via HBR Blog Network
In the world of high speed browsing, no one waits for answers. But a desire of speedy information has made Americans impatient for just about everything.
It’s no secret that there’s big money to be made in violating your privacy. Companies will pay big bucks to learn more about you, and service providers on the web are eager to get their hands on as much information about you as possible.
Via Lifehacker
Demos, talks and a paper-plate dinner buffet were the fare at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, Calif., and the subject was the high-tech future of health care. The technologies on display were impressive, often inspiring — like the wearable-robots, or mechanical exoskeletons, made by Ekso Bionics, to enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again; or I.B.M.’s Watson question-answering computer that is being morphed into a doctors’ smart assistant.
Full story at The New York Times
Back in the old days, we used libraries and encyclopedias to find information, we memorized facts, and we creatively found ways to get the answers to our questions. Our brains had to work for it so to speak. The skills we used to obtain the information we needed kept us sharp and intelligent.
Via Bit Rebels
You probably underestimate how much of yourself you casually pour into texts each day. Every single iMessage to and from this man’s iPhone—his friends call him Wiz—has been sent to us by accident.
Link Gizmodo
Google has released a report on how governments and police agencies are accessing information about web users.
By showing how many requests Google gets for user information — and exactly how many users and accounts are under some kind of surveillance — the company hopes to have a positive effect on public policies around government access to citizens’ online activities.
Full story at Venture Beat
Big Data—the ability to collect, process and interpret massive amounts of information—is one of today’s most important technological drivers. While companies see it as a way of detecting weak market signals, one of the biggest potential areas of application for society is health care.
Historically, health care has been delivered by one doctor looking at one patient with only the information the doctor has at that time. But how much better if the doctor had access to information about thousands, or even tens of thousands, of people?
Full story at The Wall Street Journal
