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Selling hamburgers with AI? McDonalds loves it
McDonald's acquisition of machine learning startup Dynamic Yield has been widely reported. Below are some extracts from Engadget, BBC News, and WIRED. The purchase for...
The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years and was one of the early investors in Facebook. He has just published his new...
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Mar 2019
This is Silicon Valley (must-read by Gloria Liou)
Medium writer Gloria Liou is born-and-bred Silicon Valley. She describes her home as an idyllic location where” …people feast on $15 sushirritos and $6 Blue...
03
Mar 2019
The Apple Watch looks good – too good, actually: distractions + outsourced thinking spells digital obesity
Update: read this very much related Guardian article on why multi-tasking and constant task-switching is bad for our brains. So I looked at those cool...
12
Mar 2015
New opinion piece on CNN Money: “the disturbing consequences of ultra-connectivity” (Gerd Leonhard)
CNN Money just published a new opinion piece penned by me, and edited by Alanna Petroff, in connection with their Mobile World Congress Barcelona coverage. Here are...
03
Mar 2015
The future of ICT, Big Data or Big Brother, digital obesity: my presentation at Expotelecom Costa Rica, today
Here are the slides, as promised. More details on Expotelecom here big data big brother digital obesity gerd leonhard futurist expotelecom public-web Dropbox: High res...
31
Oct 2014
Episode 5 of TheFutureShow just went live: Offline is the new luxury
Because of the fact that I had a pretty bad mountain-bike accident last Saturday the release of this episode was slightly delayed – my apologies! So…...
26
Jun 2014
This is your brain on mobile (via Medium): obsession with eternalising the moment?
This is a MUST-READ piece This is your brain on mobile — Medium by Jeremy Vandehey. Best snippets: As a human being, many of these triumphs...
25
May 2014
The Pointlessness of Unplugging : The New Yorker (good read related to my Digital Obesity meme)
Interesting point below; yet I think of unplugging more like scheduling a diet – just having a few days where you eat less, and get...
21
Mar 2014
How Tech Is Creating Data “Cravability” To Make Us Digitally Obese (my guest post on Fast Co-Exist)
This just went online, here. Please add some fuel to this debate by spreading the word and commenting there. Thanks! Download the PDF: How Tech...
