Tag: big data Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close Reality Mining: How Big Tech extracts value from reality By Martin Recke Big Tech is mining our reality to extract value, generating enormous wealth for their shareholders. Losses and waste are socialised. How Decentralisation Could Fix Digital By Martin Recke On top of a decentralised infrastructure, centralised control achieved a major comeback. Network effects and economies of scale are both strong drivers towards a digital platform economy dominated by only a few players. Digital is broken. Can decentralisation fix it? The Tech Trend landscape of 2018 By Martin Recke Trends don’t change overnight, and they don’t change year over year as well. Instead, they evolve over time, slowly or rapidly. A WiFi kettle and the quest for tea – and data By Adam Tinworth The internet of things is fascinating - but a little unreliable, as one Brighton resident found out when trying to brew a cup of tea. Earthquakes, sleepless cities and Jawbone’s big data By Adam Tinworth Jawbone is digging deep into its aggregate user data - and finding fascinating things about how we sleep. Joining the physical with the digital Talk by Jessi Baker, Designer & Technologist of The Provenance Project. Scott Smith: the internet knows us better than we do By Adam Tinworth We've only just started thinking about the implications of the tech we've developed, says Scott Smith. How intelligent will monitor tech get - and how comfortable are we with that? Your Festive Reading List By Adam Tinworth Six stories to get you back into the swing of the digital business after Christmas indulgence… Harper Reed’s ideas of the modern use of data By Juliane Hennig As a CTO of Barack Obama's re-election campaign Harper Reed is an expert for Big Data. And in his opinion Germany has to open his mind in their use of data. What’s next? By Adam Tinworth In an age of big data, of digital ubiquity and mass surveillance - what comes NEXT? The build up to NEXT 14 starts here… Alexander Baumgardt: the fractal future of service design? By Adam Tinworth The intersection of big data and big machines is an interaction of software and hardware. How do you design systems for this scale? You build a design system first… Can we design the smart cities of the future? By Adam Tinworth Traditional views of the smart city are very data-centric. Should we be thinking more about the human touchpoints? The seductive, dangerous illusions of Big Data By Adam Tinworth Big Data is a powerful tool. But if we lose sight of the human beings that underlie it, we run the risk of making inhuman decisions. Web observatories: they’re watching – but who benefits? By Adam Tinworth Could Big Data be used to manipulate online discussion and shape society? Perhaps… Why is there no photo archive for the web? By Adam Tinworth It's hard to give away photos on the web in a future-proofed fashion. Why is no-one pushing for a historic web, for the benefit of future generations? Louisa Heinrich – our quantified selves and the stories of our lives By Adam Tinworth What stories could we tell with the big data we're collecting? Human beings are narrative creatures, and we need to stop being afraid of what we might unleash, says Louisa Heinrich Does Apple have a service design problem? By Adam Tinworth People are suggesting that Apple's iOS Maps failure is a service issue - but could something deeper be at work? Knocking On Your Doorstep – How Big Data Will Transform Digital Messaging Social, interest and situation graph - how can you utilise all the data available about your customers? Christian Schönknecht explores how big data will revolutionise business. The Gartner Hype Cycle – a peak of expectations? By Adam Tinworth The 2012 edition of the Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies is out - and there's a huge cluster of technologies at the peak of hype right now. Big commutes, big trains, big data By Adam Tinworth One UK train operating company is taking tiny steps towards using the big data volumes generated by complaining commuters… The Post Digital Week – 29 Jan By Adam Tinworth The second in a weekly series of quick round ups of interesting posts around the idea of Post Digital. Big Data is a Big Problem, Says IBM’s Jeff Jonas By Martin Recke The Big Data meme has been on a rise for a couple of years now. Actually, there are…
