Do car radios have a future? - Media Report - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Tuning in to local radio stations on long family car trips, listening closely to traffic and news reports on commutes to work, and cruising around with friends, flicking the dial in search of the best tunes available—the radio is the soundtrack to many of our car travelling experiences. But is the future more about pre-programmed music and downloaded podcasts than the serendipity of flicking on to a radio station at just the right time?

Interesting piece on how GPS, 4G and social media apps may change how we listen to information in the car.

smarterplanet: How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search – ReadWrite As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there’s another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we’re going to be swimming in more data than we will know what to do with. The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them.
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How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search – ReadWrite

As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there’s another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we’re going to be swimming in more data than we will know what to do with.

The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them.

The Future Of Work In A Social World – Part 1 — GigaOM Pro

stoweboyd:

I posted the first half of a two part series summarizing my recent Social Now keynote over at GigaOM Research. 

Stowe Boyd, The Future Of Work In A Social World – Part 1


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Work — at the level of the economy, business, and individual — is changing more quickly that it has ever changed before. We all need to understand the forces impacting us as a society, as participants in businesses, and as individuals making our way in this world. Where is it headed, and why?

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I’m starting with the bottom line first. This is where we are headed in this talk: this is in fact one of the final slides, the conclusion. My purpose is to get across that these tightly interlinked terms represent a break with the ‘present of work’, not as a fad, but as a necessary adaptation to economic and societal changes that are larger than business, like urbanization, the rise of the social web, and the increased levels of competition in a globalized world economy, and what that means for us all as business leaders, professionals, and individuals.

 [… 20 something slides and comments]

That’s one half of the talk. I will post the second half early next week, but here’s a teaser: Based on the narrative above, I will take a close look at the differences between the postmodern institution of business processes and the emerging postnormal reliance on social networks, which I believe are being displaced. Lastly, I propose the 3C Model of Organizational Culture, a psychosocial approach to characterizing the changes in our organizations as we struggle to thrive in a fast-and-loose postnormal world that relies on networks and pull rather than processes and push.

Here’s a peek, without the juicy details:

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fastcompany: A really great post about robots and journalism! futurejournalismproject: Can Robots Tell the Truth? Hi, I am a student in journalism and am preparing an article about robots (like the Washington Post’s Truth Teller) validating facts instead of journalists. I am curious to know the Future Journalism Project’s point of view of about this. What are the consequences for journalists, journalism and for democracy? — Melanié Robert Hi Melanié, Many thanks for this fascinating question and my apologies for the delay in getting back to you. Here’s what happened: I started thinking about this, and then I started writing about it. And then I started thinking that what I really needed to do was some reporting. You know, journalism. I didn’t know much about the Washington Post’s Truth Teller project. For others that don’t, it’s an attempt to create an algorithm that can fact check political speeches in real time. Since I didn’t know much about it about I got in touch and interviewed the two project leads: Steven Ginsberg, the Post’s National Political Editor, and Cory Haik, the Post’s Executive Producer for Digital News. They gave me background on Truth Teller and how it came about, and then where they hope it leads.  But that doesn’t really get to the sociocultural and philosophical questions you pose. So I called upon someone else. His name is Damon Horowitz. Damon’s spent his career in both artificial intelligence and philosophy. He’s currently Google’s In-House Philosopher (seriously, it’s on his business card) and Director of Engineering. He also teaches philosophy at Columbia University. So, after talking to these people, and thinking about it some more, I wrote a fair bit.  You can find your answer at theFJP.org and I hope it answers some of what you’re looking for. — Michael Have a question? Ask Away. Image: Marvin the Paranoid Android, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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fastcompany:

A really great post about robots and journalism!

futurejournalismproject:

Can Robots Tell the Truth?

Hi, I am a student in journalism and am preparing an article about robots (like the Washington Post’s Truth Teller) validating facts instead of journalists. I am curious to know the Future Journalism Project’s point of view of about this. What are the consequences for journalists, journalism and for democracy? — Melanié Robert

Hi Melanié,

Many thanks for this fascinating question and my apologies for the delay in getting back to you. Here’s what happened:

I started thinking about this, and then I started writing about it. And then I started thinking that what I really needed to do was some reporting. You know, journalism.

I didn’t know much about the Washington Post’s Truth Teller project. For others that don’t, it’s an attempt to create an algorithm that can fact check political speeches in real time.

Since I didn’t know much about it about I got in touch and interviewed the two project leads: Steven Ginsberg, the Post’s National Political Editor, and Cory Haik, the Post’s Executive Producer for Digital News.

They gave me background on Truth Teller and how it came about, and then where they hope it leads. 

But that doesn’t really get to the sociocultural and philosophical questions you pose. So I called upon someone else. His name is Damon Horowitz.

Damon’s spent his career in both artificial intelligence and philosophy. He’s currently Google’s In-House Philosopher (seriously, it’s on his business card) and Director of Engineering. He also teaches philosophy at Columbia University.

So, after talking to these people, and thinking about it some more, I wrote a fair bit. 

You can find your answer at theFJP.org and I hope it answers some of what you’re looking for. — Michael

Have a question? Ask Away.

Image: Marvin the Paranoid Android, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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Source: futurejournalismproject

The social revolution is about deeply rethinking the value of human effort. An increase in value can only occur if the “parts” of a system can do something in interaction that they cannot do alone. Social business may be more about complementarity than collaboration.

An enterprise that is conceptualized as a social business should serve the purposes of all its constituents. It should enable its parts to participate in the selection of both the ends and the means that are relevant to them personally. If the parts of a system are treated as purposeful, they must have the freedom to choose and to act. This means that the defining characteristic of a social business is the increased variety of behaviors that is available. It is not necessarily about common goals or shared purposes any more.

Espo Kilpi, People, machine and the future of work

I think Kilpi comes the closest to my thinking about the future of work and the social revolution.

I responded to his post, 

I think the answer is cooperation rather than collaboration, a looser and faster way for people to work together, in ‘connectives’ instead of the tight and slow collectives implied or required by collaborative work.

More to follow, brother.

I am at work on a report at GigaOM Research, right now, that will touch on this and related topics.

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Authenticity Is The New Hypocrisy

stoweboyd:

Brands are strip-mining the artisanal for cues and props to use against us, but it is we, ourselves, in our relentless desire for authentic experience that allows them to hoodwink us.

Steven Poole, Why are we so obsessed with the pursuit of authenticity?

Picture the tragic scenes in Crouch End, north London, early this year. The patrons of Harris + Hoole, a local coffee shop, had just learned to their horror that the supermarket chain Tesco owns a 49 per cent stake in the company. Shaken caffeine-guzzlers told the Guardian that they felt “duped” and “upset” because they’d thought it was an “independent” coffee shop. A rival coffee hawker sneered that Tesco was “trying to make money” out of “artisan values” – although, presumably, so was he.  Most charmingly, the manager of the café confided that head office had instructed her to make the store feel as independent as possible. “We try to be independent,” she said. “We want to be independent. We want to have that feel.”

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new-aesthetic: “Stop The Cyborgs’ was founded in response to the Google Glass project and other technology trends. The aim of the movement is to stop a future in which privacy is impossible and corporate control total.” About | Stop The Cyborgs NB Addendum: “Two things are quickly lost in any internet debate: humor and nuance. So in retrospect we should have guessed that people would find it hard to read past the name ‘Stop The Cyborgs‘. We thought it would be a bit of fun – a suitably cyberpunk sounding opposition group. However we have been variously accused of hating technology & hating anyone who isn’t 100% biological. This is not the case. We love technology and we love people. Indeed we even wear clothes and create technology ourselves. Some of us might even have metal bits.” Read more…
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“Stop The Cyborgs’ was founded in response to the Google Glass project and other technology trends. The aim of the movement is to stop a future in which privacy is impossible and corporate control total.”

About | Stop The Cyborgs

NB Addendum: “Two things are quickly lost in any internet debate: humor and nuance. So in retrospect we should have guessed that people would find it hard to read past the name ‘Stop The Cyborgs‘. We thought it would be a bit of fun – a suitably cyberpunk sounding opposition group. However we have been variously accused of hating technology & hating anyone who isn’t 100% biological. This is not the case. We love technology and we love people. Indeed we even wear clothes and create technology ourselves. Some of us might even have metal bits.” Read more…

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Source: stopthecyborgs.org