How Gigabit Fiber to the Home Will Transform Education Way Beyond MOOC’s
The post below caught my attention because of the current industry debate and competitive battle over deployment of much higher Gigabit Internet bandwidth via optical fiber to consumers, known as Fiber...
View ArticleShould Digital Skills Be Required For A Management Degree?
What About Digital Skills For Management Students? I have a UBC Management student who is an excellent coder. He picked up his skills on his own, probably as far back as junior high school. But in...
View ArticleGoogle's Schmidt blasts NSA over fiber-optic snooping
Reblogged from Gigaom: Google, a company that's taken some lumps itself for treading heavily on users' privacy, is not at all amused by reports that the National Security Agency tapped fiber-optic...
View ArticleA breakthrough in quantum cryptography could make financial markets of the...
Reblogged from Quartz: Demonstrating a feat that was until recently thought to be impossible, researchers in Geneva, Singapore, Cambridge and Waterloo, Ontario have "unconditionally guaranteed" the...
View ArticleNSA Spying Is Freezing Cisco, Google And Other Companies Out of Trillion...
The good news today is Cisco‘s new focus on the Internet of Things, which I have been reporting as the new Mega Global Market War. But frankly, the damage to U.S. companies like Cisco Systems by the...
View ArticleSpeedy qubits lead the quantum evolution
Reblogged from Gigaom:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fls523cBD7E&w=610&h=344] There are a few defining moments of innovation that we can point to that changed the future. Quantum...
View ArticleThe internet of everything--annihilating time and space
Reblogged from Gigaom: Which modern technology “enables us to send communications…with the quickness of thought, and to annihilate time as well as space”? If you answered “the internet,” you’re right....
View ArticleSplinternet: The Web is fracturing into regional internets
David Mayes:Over the last few months there has been a flood of reports from a host of journalists as well as me, predicting the imminent fragmentation of the Internet we have all known” an unrestricted...
View ArticleEnergy Aware Riding Wave of Innovation and Investment in Energy Efficiency
Energy Aware Neurio Sensor/Data Collection Technology In October of 2013, I first met Energy Aware’s management team, led by UBC alumni founders Janice Cheam and VP of Software, Ali Kashani in their...
View ArticleFCC To Propose Strong Net Neutrality Rules
Rule Would Ban Practice Known as Paid Prioritization, Say Sources U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Tom Wheeler In an extraordinary turn of events, the U.S. Federal Communications...
View ArticleBIG IDEAS: Physics At The Crossroads
This is another in my occasional series on Big Ideas. Last night I had my first opportunity to watch Particle Fever, the acclaimed 2014 documentary on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the discovery...
View ArticleGoogle’s Quantum Dream May Be Just Around The Corner
In 1981, Richard Feynman, probably the most famous physicist of his time asked the question: “Can we simulate physics on a computer?” At the time the answer was “theoretically yes,” but practically...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things: The Promise Versus the Tower of Hacked Babbling Things
The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) is being loosely tossed around in the media. But what does it mean? It means simply that data communication, like Internet communication, but not necessarily...
View ArticleBig Data, Cloud, Smart Mobile And Even AR Morph Into One Mind Boggling Thing
IEEE Talk: Integrated Big Data, The Cloud, & Smart Mobile: Actually One Big Thing by David Mayes This IEEE Talk discusses the three biggest trends in online technology and proposes that in fact,...
View ArticleIntegration of AI, IoT and Big Data: The Intelligent Assistant
The Evolution of These Technologies Is ClearerThe IoT Tower of Proprietary Babble Is Slowly CrumblingThe Rise of the Intelligent AssistantFive years ago, I wrote a post on this blog disparaging the...
View ArticleInternet of Things At A Strategic Inflection Point
IoT Technology And Market Requirements Convergence Current Long-Term Market Projections Are Based On The Emergence Of Technology Solutions This Mayo615 YouTube Channel video focuses on a particularly...
View ArticleThe Critical Need to Integrate The Humanities With Deep Technology
Human Oversight of Deep Technology Development Is Playing Catch-up Systems Similar To Those In Place for Medical Science Are Urgently Required After watching “The Great Hack” on Netflix I am appalled...
View ArticleIoT Has Major Unresolved Challenges Ahead
It’s Still a Tower of Babble Privacy and Security Remain the Thorniest Problems I want to focus on the Internet of Things, particularly the yet unresolved challenges constraining projected exponential...
View ArticleExploiting Social Media Marketing Automation
Projecting Your Company’s Brand, Generating Leads, Building Partnerships How can a new small company create market momentum, and fill its sales pipeline? Social media marketing has rapidly established...
View ArticleThe internet of everything–annihilating time and space
An excellent discussion of the deeper social implications of the Internet of Everything. Perhaps difficult for some to grasp, but consistent with many other futurists’ views. The current world of...
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