Workplace Learning in the Digital Age
Dr. Donna Murdoch
“Instead of running a big booth on the show floor or unloading a bombastic keynote speech, Amazon made its presence known at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with decidedly more subtlety. It wedged a vending machine in between a Wells Fargo ATM and a scuffed-up door at the Las Vegas airport.”
via Kindle Vending Machine Shows How Amazon Could Take Over the World | Wired Business | Wired.com.
The Internet of Things is the focus of CES this year. “The future of computing is not just the ability to get push notifications to device you wear on your wrist, answer a phone call or take a picture. It is about gathering and using data to make your life better, easier and more productive. The machines should make life less complicated. Companies like Intel and Qualcomm are leading the charge in innovation by building the platforms, processors and tools that will fundamentally alter how people live their lives.”
via What CES 2014 Is Really About: Your Connected Future – ReadWrite.
Beyond quantifying yourself, wearable computing is on the verge of entering the mainstream. While we can’t know for sure how it will be used, it’s time to embrace the unknown.
via Wearable technology set to take the workplace by storm — Tech News and Analysis.
As the world’s cities get ever more crowded, the web sharing economy emerged into the mainstream this year. Next stop, booming cities in developing nations.
via An ode to a crowded planet and the sharing economy in 2013 — Tech News and Analysis. From GigaOm.
From Wired – The Rift is the brainchild of a 19-year-old tinkerer and VR enthusiast named Palmer Luckey. A collector of old VR headsets, Luckey was all too familiar with the shortcomings every system had faced—small fields of vision, unwieldy form factors, horrific resolution. He was also uniquely suited to do something about it: Years of modding videogame consoles and refurbishing iPhones for fun and profit had given him enough fine-soldering skills to start Frankensteining pieces from his existing headset collection.
via Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality | Game|Life | Wired.com.
The service asks five simple questions, such as who is involved in the project, what stake each has in the business if it makes money and what happens if it doesn’t. Once you’ve filled in the specifics, it generates a short PDF contract outlining the agreement for everyone in the group to sign and agree to.
via Back of a Napkin aims to get the specifics of building a startup out of the way – The Next Web.
Burkhard Bilger via The New Yorker: The Google car is an old-fashioned sort of science fiction: this year’s model of last century’s make. It belongs to the gleaming, chrome-plated age of jet packs and rocket ships, transporter beams and cities beneath the sea, of a predicted future still well beyond our technology.
via Burkhard Bilger: Inside Google’s Driverless Car : The New Yorker.
From TechCrunch – With the emergence of connected devices, the entire home is being reinvented as a data product, opening great opportunities to entrepreneurs. A whole new generation of startups is rushing in. Nest, with its beautifully-designed home products, has become the poster child for this phenomenon, but many others are producing exciting new connected devices and platforms, at an outstanding pace.
via The Battle For The Connected Home Is Heating Up | TechCrunch.
A bit chilling, from Wired: With our bodies hemmed in, our minds have only the cloud — and it is the cloud that has become the destination for an extraordinary mental exodus. Hundreds of millions of people have now migrated to the cloud, spending hours per day working, playing, chatting, and laughing in real-time HD resolution with people thousands of miles away … without knowing their next-door neighbors.
via Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.
From GigaOm – The role of Amazon’s web services in revolutionizing the startup ecosystem is well illustrated by the spectacular rise of Dropbox, an online storage service. Their symbiotic relationship shows why Amazon has such a massive lead over rivals in the ever evolving business of cloud computing.
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 