Apr 11, 2018
Home digital assistants are ready to serve
These days my house feels like Downton Abbey. I have a maid, butler or secretary in just about every room. These are all home digital assistants.
Wayne MacPhail
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Mar 14, 2018  Measuring the pace of progress with technologies of the pastIt's easy to look back on older technologies: cassettes, carbon paper or acetates and shake our heads in amusement. But the shape of the obsolescence curve hasn't changed, just the slope. |
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Feb 12, 2018  Disruptive innovation could set hearing aid industry on its earHearing aid companies are in a classic disruption space. They are incumbents in an industry that offers a high-cost product and are dependent on that high cost and the business models that support it. |
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Jan 5, 2018  We can't imagine what real artificial intelligence will be like, and it doesn't careGrasping the true potential of artificial intelligence is like trying to understand how a mantis shrimp sees the world. |
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Dec 20, 2017  Augmented reality is building a world of digital exclusion If the developers of new technology don't have a worldview that encompasses the society beyond R&D labs, their blindspot will mean that all but the most affluent will be stumbling about. |
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Nov 16, 2017  Darkness comes to San JoseA visit to Silicon Valley conjures up images of Dickensian-level poverty. |
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Mar 15, 2017  CIA spying and the Theatre of PrivacyHow gadget paranoid do we need to be given last week's Wikileaks dump about how the CIA is spying on us via our smartphones and TV sets? |
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Mar 1, 2017  Facebook's track record makes its starry-eyed manifesto hard to swallowMark Zuckerberg says it's time for Facebook to eschew the current zeitgeist of nationalism, and become a tool for uniting global communities. Say what? |
