Our belief is that the near future of media is visible right now in the forces shaping the media landscape, because the point of ‘media convergence’ is already with us. The purpose of this framework is to help us navigate convergence right now and for the next 5 years.
The large amount of behavioral data that we can collect by digital means is starting to converge with technologies for shaping the world in response. Will we notify people when their environment is being subtly transformed? Is it even ethical to use data-driven techniques to persuade and influence people this way? These questions remain unanswered as technology leads us toward this augmented world.
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Users who have the Open Garden app can connect to a local mesh network, which automatically routes traffic through the strongest link to the Internet. That would allow multiple devices to get connectivity in one location, even if they’re not paying for local hotspot access or mobile broadband through a cellular carrier. That is going to raise some eyebrows with operators and Wi-Fi providers, who are not keen to see their commodity shared among users. But it means that mobile users may have a better shot at getting online at various locations, provided enough users are willing to share their 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi connections.
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“The way to regard any tech disruption — from cloud to big data to flash storage — is that the first generation of companies are always infracture companies, the second generation are application companies. We’re right at the cusp of moving from infrastructure to applications … Maybe international money transmissions.”
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The project itself changed when it became a Kickstarter campaign. In addition to inviting viewers to think more deeply about how the Internet works and online tracking, it also poses a question: If data is valuable to companies, why shouldn’t the people who create that data be able to sell it?
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For those of you who don’t normally think in data, what that means is that past a certain point, your return on adding more data diminishes to the point that you’re only wasting time gathering more.
One reason: The “bigger” your data, the more false positives will turn up in it, when you’re looking for correlations. As data scientist Vincent Granville wrote in “The curse of big data,” it’s not hard, even with a data set that includes just 1,000 items, to get into a situation in which “we are dealing with many, many millions of correlations.” And that means, “out of all these correlations, a few will be extremely high just by chance: if you use such a correlation for predictive modeling, you will lose.”
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While he did not characterize Azure IaaS as an “Amazon killer,” Azure GM Bill Hilf did say Microsoft will match AWS on price for any of its base-level infrastructure — storage, compute instances, etc. — continuing a price war that flared last November when AWS, Google and Microsoft traded price cuts on their respective cloud storage offerings.
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‘as a connected, sensing object, it is capable of recording and transmitting photos, video and sound directly through content analysis or indirectly through proximate connected devices, other data such as location, temperature, trajectory and so on. In other words, in a worst/best case scenario it could record and measure “everything,” and associate that data to a person. How will this play out?’
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As CEO Erik Huggers told attendees at the All Things D media conference in February, this isn’t a service for cord-cutters or anyone who wants a cut-rate cable package. Rather, it’s a better cable experience that is designed for (and will be marketed to) the kind of young, affluent and connected consumer who would like a TV service that works as well as their tablet or iPhone.
(Source: adage.com)
The firm also sounds a note of caution about whether the search giant will ever embark on a nationwide effort: it could cost up to $11 billion to build out gigabit Internet and TV service to another 20 million homes to achieve a medium-to-large rollout to compete with other providers.
(Source: TechCrunch)
