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The Fifth Estate
2 min · · Mark Zuckerberg, in his speech last week at Georgetown University, called social media “the Fifth Estate.” The first three “estates” of society, classically, are the clergy, the nobility, and everyone… · Shared by 90, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Gerrit Eicker, Martin Zwilling, Balaji, Sachin Rekhi, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power
Gizmodo
Here's the Internet's 'Birth Certificate' From 50 Years Ago Today
4 min · · Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in… · Shared by 64, including zeldman, Matt Lieberman, Chris Skinner, Ines Bieler, Katja Evertz, Gerrit Eicker
WIRED
The Danger of Thinking We’re All ‘Addicted’ to Tech
15+ min · · Opinion: Telling ourselves that tech 'hijacks' our brains plays right into tech's hands. · Shared by 164, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Gerrit Eicker, Cyrill Schmid, Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ines Bieler, venkat - bala, Raul Tiru 🌎, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Nir Eyal, Matthias Lampe, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Glyn Britton
The New York Times
There Is No Tech Backlash
7 min · · Worse, we think there is one. · Shared by 79, including Keith Rabois, Thomas Power, Michael (मुकेश), Gerrit Eicker, Matthias Lampe, Benedict Evans, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, Vikram Dutt, felix salmon, Evan Selinger
Forbes
The Worlds Of AI And Blockchain Are Colliding
3 min · · As more people become aware of how valuable their information is to companies, and how easily it can be used and sold, people are beginning to wonder just how easily they should give over their… · Shared by 154, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Ines Bieler, Nicolas Babin, Yves Mulkers, Ronald van Loon, Lord Travis Wright, Shelly Kramer, Gerrit Eicker, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Bertrand Maltaverne, Thomas Billeter, Damir Kusar, Francesco Corea, Daniel Newman, Kathleen Walch, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, William Toll, Ian M Calvert, Thomas Power
Gartner
5 Trends Appear on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019
3 min · · The Gartner Hype Cycle highlights the 29 emerging technologies CIOs should experiment with over the next year. · Shared by 154, including Paolo Sinelli, Niklaus Gerber, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Gerrit Eicker, Tom Connor, Jonathan Kogan, Remy Bataille, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Ines Bieler, Bernhard Huessy
Vox
Now the states are coming after Google and Facebook, too
3 min · · Investigations into Big Tech are all the rage right now — including among state attorneys general. · Shared by 14, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gerrit Eicker
Entrepreneur
7 Tech Trends to Watch Out for In 2020
4 min · · With innovations developing fast, we predict the sector's most significant coming changes. · Shared by 387, including Raphael Bratschi, Vikram Dutt, Yvette Dubel, LARRY ELKAN, Ines Bieler, Daniel Nova, Johannes Dornisch, Elinor Stutz, Stephan Werner, Real Marsha Wright®, Gabriele, Brandon Uttley, Gerrit Eicker, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, Leo Blazquez, Johannes Lenz, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Thomas Power
Ars Technica
Unix at 50—it starts with a mainframe, a gator, and three dedicated researchers
4 min · · Today, Unix powers iOS and Android—here's how it grew from passion project into legend. · Shared by 137, including Nico Lumma, Elena Neira, Justin Jackson, Chris Gledhill, Gerrit Eicker, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, luis antónio santos, Ser Jeff Garzik, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Fast Company
Inside Amazon’s long game to put Alexa in your car
9 min · · Competing with Apple and Google when you don’t have your own smartphone platform is tough. But Amazon has a plan—and lots of patience. · Shared by 31, including Thomas Power, Jean Decherf, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, tektology, Remy Bataille, Gerrit Eicker, Chris Messina
The Guardian
Douglas Adams was right
4 min · · Supercomputers are solving complicated problems but we often don’t know how · Shared by 77, including 瑞拿頭, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerrit Eicker, Graham Brown-Martin, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bob E. Hayes
Fast Company
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
5 min · · In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law. · Shared by 138, including Klaus Eck, Martin Ford, Gerrit Eicker, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Neeraj K Agrawal, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, 💥 Katie Martell, Christophe Jean, Charles Baldwin, Mathew Ingram, Faik Ersoy, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Thomas Power, Björn Ognibeni, Michael Gass, Claudia Sommer, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Lord Travis Wright, John Nosta, Chris Gledhill
WIRED
To Power AI, This Startup Built a Really, Really Big Chip
4 min · · Many computer chips are smaller than your fingernail. Cerebras' new chip for AI systems is bigger than a standard iPad. · Shared by 50, including Marsha Collier, Bob E. Hayes, Backchannel, Gerrit Eicker, Iain Brown, PhD, Sebastien Meunier, Tamara McCleary
Gizmodo
The Planet Needs a New Internet
12+ min · · When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we’ll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts.… · Shared by 173, including Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Gerrit Eicker, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Bruce Lawson, ExApologist, Jane, Sébastien Bonset, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Power, Tauno, Lluís Codina, Marius Bleuer, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Lukas Stickelberger, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
WIRED
The Raspberry Pi 4 Can’t Quite Replace a PC, but It Tries
4 min · · You can buy the latest Raspberry Pi as a kit with a mouse and keyboard if you want, making it more useful than ever. · Shared by 26, including Gerrit Eicker, Sebastien Meunier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
TechCrunch
Nvidia breaks records in training and inference for real-time conversational AI
1 min · · Nvidia’s GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests has achieved some key milestones and broken some records that have… · Shared by 64, including Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Power, Beto Esquivel, Chris Messina, Mike Tamir, PhD