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"Rarely in our fiction and entertainment do we look at the future through a lens of progress. We usually envision something far bleaker, dystopian ... [But] Our likely future will be one in which the technologies powered by digital data will fit into our lives like a puzzle piece. No, not all will be happy days; but, by and large, we will use digital data - and it will use us - where need provides the greatest fit."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:54PM
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Jenny
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"Riley [the 2014 Riley v. California decision] is a foundational ruling. There has been the sense that 'of course the police can't search my phone,' but until Riley that wasn't legally true. Indeed, Riley's legacy will be seen one day as the beginning of the great debate over how we interact with digital data and with another over the next fifty years of digitization and connectivity."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:48PM
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Notes for me: Boatbound is Airbnb for boat rentals. Uber is ridesharing. Postmates delivers to your door in under an hour. Wattpad is a writing community. Yerdle is for free giveaways.
— Oct 21, 2015 06:34PM
Jenny
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"But I can safely predict one thing. As Hal Varian said in 2009, the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. Carrying this logic further, the role of data scientists will redefine nearly every job -- sexy or not -- in the next decade."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:31PM
Jenny
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"The first and second industrial revolutions [esp. mechanized cotton spinning and electrification] brought us mass production of products and services ... [with] a consistency of quality ... The third industrial revolution we are now entering...is being driven by digital data [not mechanical improvements] ... Just as in the first two industrial revolutions, every aspect of daily life will be impacted."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:25PM
Jenny
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"What if drug companies could produce a drug tailored specifically to your body, via your health data and genetic make-up? This is an example of personalized medicine - a developing field of medicine ... [P]hysicians could use a patient's genetic sequence to determine the best treatments currently available, as opposed to the trial-and-error process that guides most treatment decisions today."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:21PM
Jenny
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"From The Sopranos to Mad Men to Breaking Bad, television is experiencing something of a Golden Age in quality of content. Producers, who for decades had to create shows that were 'good enough' for most people, can now create shows that are 'amazing' for a small number of people ... Unbound by the confines of mass-market appeal, content creators can focus on serving a specific market."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:17PM
Jenny
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"June 12, 2009 ... marked the conclusion of a project that had started nearly thirty years earlier, when a U.S. consortium of private and public interests developed the best digital television standard in the world. As [Gary] Shapiro, who had been involved with the HDTV effort from the very beginning, said, the DTV transition [going from analog to digital TV] was 'the equivalent of putting a man on the moon.'"
— Oct 21, 2015 06:13PM
Jenny
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"'[S]hopping' could be a thoroughly in-home experience. When you shop online for some things you won't be buying physical goods anymore - you'll be buying 3D blueprints, specifications that you download from the manufacturer to your 3D printer ... The items in your home, in essence, will be custom made for you - but without the price of bespoke."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:09PM
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"[T]he home, through its connected objects, will be attuned to our individual preferences ... The Internet will be there, but in the background, like a power source ... We likely will have some sort of PC, but so many other objects will replace the need to use this PC for Internet activities ... These things will be compartmentalized...as opposed to mashed together the way they are today whenever we go 'online.'"
— Oct 21, 2015 06:05PM
Jenny
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"[Clifford Winston] criticizes the Obama administration's focus on high-speed rail at the expense of better, more innovative highways. It's not that there isn't a future in high-speed rail; it's more that whatever future there will be will pale in comparison to our driverless-car future."
— Oct 21, 2015 06:00PM
