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Your online life, permanent as a tattoo

Not that I agree with this – but always good to have many views.

Growth from more data and more machines

As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it’s simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy. A riveting case for why big innovations are ahead of us … if we think of computers as our teammates. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Robert Gordon.

Questions that I cannot see Personal Lockers addressing

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If data is…. My transaction data. Data from any, all and every transaction – spending, investment, bills, gifts, selling and free – www.mint.com Environment Data.  Where you are, what your environment is like, wind speed, temperature, gas usage, petrol consumption – everything.   www.efergy.com , www.theowl.com www.eco-eye.com www.diykyoto.com  :   Quantified self . Sensor Data from Google Glass , Nike+ sportwatch , Zeo sleep manage , Omron blood pressure monitor , Accu-Check blood glucose meter ,  Fitbit Flex wristband , Sportline heart rate monitor , MoodScope log and 1,000’s of sport apps on your smartphone.  Should the data be in silo or under my control or both? Routes and Routine data.   All your geo data www.waze.com , https://foursquare.com Content Data.   All data about how you create, use, consume, generate, recommend, share, about you, generate for any and all types of media and content – too many to mention Medical data. You and your

The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020 or just more dilemmas?

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Image : http://www.ethics4adigitalworld.org/ Source of viewpoint: http://www.wfs.org/futurist/july-august-2012-vol-46-no-4/secret-life-data-year-2020 This post at The Futurist is by Brian David Johnson (worst linkedIn profile ever!) who is a futurist for Intel and writes about how geotags, sensor outputs, and big data are changing the future. He argues that we need a better understanding of our relationship with the data we produce in order to build the future we want. Personally I am not sure that anyone will think about sensors and the data that is shared but I do think that there will be debate about who decides.  The classic of this is the fictional scenario of the self drive car, a narrow bridge and a school child. Scenario 1.  You and I are being driven by the auto drive and as you cross the narrow bridge the child jumps out in front of us – the sensors go mad and realise that you cannot stop and you are driven through the wall into the raging river bel

congratulations to Cllr Tony Fish elected The Mayor of Thurrock

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  Source: http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/councillors/mayor/   http://www.yourthurrock.com/2013/05/23/new-mayor-is-elected-after-a-ten-year-wait/    

Teens, Social Media and Privacy

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Pew Internet  have released a new report  on Teens, Social Media and Privacy. Download Summary of Findings Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites; indeed the sites themselves are designed to encourage the sharing of information and the expansion of networks. However, few teens embrace a fully public approach to social media. Instead, they take an array of steps to restrict and prune their profiles, and their patterns of reputation management on social media vary greatly according to their gender and network size. These are among the key findings from a new report based on a survey of 802 teens that examines teens’ privacy management on social media sites: ·          Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they did in the past. For the five different types of personal information that we measured in both 2006 and 2012, each is significantly more likely to be shared by teen social media use

"To be The Most Trusted Provider of Brilliant Digital Experiences" - which Brand Vision?

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Here’s a presentation  from James Morgan , Telefonica UK’s head of information strategy for business intelligence. Telefonica new ‘vision’: “To be The Most Trusted Provider of Brilliant Digital Experiences”   My problem is that this is all about control aka the Apple model and not an open model – implicit is that they know better than you about what you want!