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
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 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
Outside
This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry
9 min · · Alt meat isn't going to stay alt for long, and cattle are looking more and more like stranded assets · Shared by 162, including dunschtig, Katja Evertz, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Gerrit Eicker, Arnie Kuenn, Jane, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, dankim@androiddev.social, MrChad 🔮, Howard Getson, Rajesh Kasturirangan
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
Fast Company
This is the computer you’ll wear on your face in 10 years
4 min · · Snap’s new Spectacles 3 camera glasses are an important step toward the augmented reality glasses that could one day replace the smartphone as our go-to computing device. · Shared by 154, including Jelan Ong, Ines Bieler, Yvette Dubel, Josep M. Ganyet, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck
MIT Technology Review
Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all
2 min · · Bird boasts that its dockless electric scooters allow customers to “cruise past traffic and cut back on CO2 emissions—one ride at a time.” Its rival Lime claims the vehicles “reduce dependence on… · Shared by 148, including Moritz Meenen, Vikram Dutt, Dr. Nettra Pan 👁, Bernhard Huessy, Tom Connor, Charles Baldwin, Gerrit Eicker, Bertrand Maltaverne, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Mike Butcher, Esther Schindler, Ian M Calvert, Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, DonDahlmann, Frederic Filloux, Fabrizio Bianchi
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
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 📯
VICE
Americans Are Making Phone Farms to Scam Free Money From Advertisers
10 min · · Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate cash to buy food, diapers, and beer through ad fraud. · Shared by 129, including George M 🇪🇺, Mark Kaigwa, elpocas, Marsha Collier, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jane, Gerrit Eicker, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Mike Butcher, Warren Whitlock
The Guardian
Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone
2 min · · Fifteen-year-old resorts to drastic measures after mom takes action ‘so I’d pay more attention to my surroundings’ · Shared by 102, including Luca Hammer, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Mark Kaigwa, Lukas Stickelberger, Gerrit Eicker, John Koetsier, Jessica Gioglio, Dean Anthony Gratton, Bernhard Huessy, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Andy Sporring - 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Essays
avc
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
The Guardian
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?
10 min · · People born in the late 1970s are the last to have grown up without the internet. Social scientists call them the Last of the Innocents. Leah McLaren ponders a time when our attention was allowed to… · Shared by 87, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ines Bieler, Fern, Ste Davies, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mike Davidson, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
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
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