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How Will Adding Intelligence to Everyday Things Change Your World? 
On a global level, we are adding connected intelligence to both machines and objects using chips, micro sensors, and both wired and wireless networks to create a rapidly growing “Internet of things” sharing real-time data, performing diagnostics, and even making remote repairs. Many jobs will be created as we add intelligent connected sensors to bridges, roads, buildings, homes, and much more. By 2020, there will be well over a billion machines talking to each other and performing tasks without human intervention.
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“She’s in another Castle…
You’ve probably never heard of it.”
Hipster Mario is so underground.Purchase your very own print here.
Basically.
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Pretty sure I just discovered a subculture of people on Instagram who have roleplay accounts set up for their Sims so if you need me I’ll be quitting my job and writing academic papers about it.
Check me out in the top right livereacting to Christine’s findings.
(via thisistheverge)
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RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment. Bringing a new meaning to the phrase “experience is the best teacher”, the goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behaviour, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction. (via What is RoboEarth ?)
(via emergentfutures)
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Russia to spend billions on asteroid defense 
Moscow believes an operable national defense against threats from outer space can be built within 10 years’ time. The 500-kiloton explosion of a space bolide above the Urals region has sped-up allocation of some $2 billion to prevent future threats.
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“ Connecting the Cloud With the Crowd”
By 2020 everything will have moved into the cloud: content, media, health records, education. Connecting the cloud with the crowd will become a huge business. Related to this, access will replace ownership in almost all forms of media. Future media ‘consumers’ will simply have music, films, TV shows, games, etc. in the cloud, paid ‘with attention,’ i.e., advertising and data mining (Facebook cloud), subscription (Apple new iTV), and bundles (i.e., with mobile operators). Most importantly, many consumers will not pay for ‘content’ per se, but for all the added values around the content, such as curation, packaging, design, social connections, interfaces, apps, etc. Finally, all media that is not social and mobile will shrink; all that combines with their current models will prosper.” Gerd Leonhard, Futurist”—9 Bold Predictions for the Digital World of 2020
” Connecting the Cloud With the Crowd” My contribution:)
(via emergentfutures)
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myNoSQL: Issue #1: Quo Vadis, Big Data? A lot of people like to make predictions. I don’t. But I love filling them for later reference.
Here’s a roundup of predictions for 2013. Most of them are about the Big Data market, very few mentioning NoSQL databases. Why?
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The Rise of Big Datums: Of Course 'Data' Can Be Singular Singular or plural?
I’ll quickly clarify what’s wrong with it: “big data”, even for the most furious of the “‘data’ is always plural” warriors, simply has to be a mass noun. As Geoff Nunberg says in the Language Log post, “if you construe big data as a plural then it has to denote a collection of large things, in the same way that big elephants denotes a set of elephants that are each large”. But, of course, the bigness of “big data” refers to the sheer number of datums*, not each datum’s size. It’s far from clear what “a big datum” would even mean. “Big data” can only be a singular noun.
Anyways:
If you prefer to use “data are”, by all means do: it’s not wrong, although it will probably sound a bit precious to most people. But 1) “data is” isn’t wrong either and 2) if you mindlessly apply “‘data’ is always plural”, in the manner of a word-processor grammar checker, you’ll end up with hideous infelicities like “big data are helping banks”, and you’ll look stupid as well as precious. So don’t do that.
I’ll stick with data is.
Original title and link: The Rise of Big Datums: Of Course ‘Data’ Can Be Singular (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
