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Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting.
- Jeff Bezos Predictions from 20 Years Ago that Were Right on the Money. (BusinessInsider)
- Imagining the Smart Cities of 2050. (SingularityHub)
- Secrets of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. (CNN)
- How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games. (Nautilus)
- CRISPR Gene Editing: Why We Need Slow Science. (The Conversation)
- Why Companies like Lyft and Uber are Going Public without Having Profits. (Re/code)
- Are Animal Spirits Making a Comeback? (Bloomberg)
- This is What the Average American Spends in a Day. (Fool)
- The AI-Art Gold Rush is Here. (The Atlantic)
- Who Wants to See a Movie about High-Frequency Trading? High-Frequency Traders. (Wall Street Journal)
Social Media Is Changing Everything: A Reprisal
I came across a post from 2009 about social media. 10 years later, with the knowledge of how much data we use today, it's quite a read.
Here it is in its full glory.
Social Media Is Changing Everything: October 18th, 2009
My son won't use e-mail the way I did. So how will people communicate and collaborate in the next wave of communications?
Here is a peek into the difference that is taking hold. I was looking at recent phone use. The numbers you are about to see are from the first 20 days of our current billing cycle.
How can that be? That level of emotional sluttiness makes porn seem downright wholesome.
But, of course, that isn't how he sees it. He is holding many conversations at once. Some are social; some are about the logistics of who, what, when, where and why ... some are even about homework. Yet, most don't use full sentences, let alone paragraphs. There is near instant gratification. And, the next generation of business people will consider this normal.
Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?
Welcome to the World of Socialnomics. This video has a bunch of interesting statistics ... and is fun to watch.
Other Resources:
Social Media Is Changing Everything: April 20th, 2019
Looking at the stats from 2009 is pretty funny
For some context, I looked up the comparative numbers for 2018.
Here's what happens every minute of every day on the internet
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A little different than 2009 ...
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