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Digital natives include anyone who was born after 1980 and never knew a life without technology and the internet. Other people, who have adapted, are typically digital settlers. They are older, have learned the digital technology, but continue to rely on older, analog methods. Digital immigrants are people who have learned how to email and use social networks late in their life.

Digital natives are growing up in a world where digital technology has changed their lives. It has effected their identity development, privacy expectations, safety considerations, knowledge creation, equality issues, learning strategies, and social activism.

#digital natives

Being a human in the digital world

Tech developers are telling the story of the future. Their job is to anticipate change based on the past. Humans like a good story, it gives us motivation to embrace the future. Scifi is a major method of delivery for these stories. What makes us human?

There are 5 static core values that define us as humans. We are social creatures, we have a need for friends and family. We want to belong to a community. Want to have meaning in our lives. We use object to talk about who we are. And we need to keep secrets and tell lies.

There are also 5 dynamic core values of humans that are constantly changing. We worry about our reputations. We need to be bored, we want to be surprised. We want to be different. We want to feel time. We want to be forgotten.

Considering these core values of humans and applying them to the digital world; is everything really changing? Because our values remain the same.

-Genevieve Bell, Intel

#core values #human #scifi

Rod Smith of IBM and I had a call the other day to prepare for our onstage conversation at O'Reilly's upcoming Solid Conference, and I was surprised to find how much...

The internet of things is not really the internet of things but rather these things and humans. How does a smart object make it possible to change the entire workflow and experience of a job we do in the real world? By creating a system between humans and sensors that uses these sensors, cloud intelligence, and actuators we are making it possible to do things differently. For now, most of these actuators may be other humans but either way it is still changing a human interaction to do something in our world.

#IoT #humans

CEO Jeff Immelt is pushing to turn jet engines, locomotives, and other giant machines into data-spewing computers.

GE is fitting things with a multitude of sensors to optimize performance. This allows for very valuable analysis. Analytics sell themselves, people realize the importance. One example of the industrial internet is the Trip Optimizer for freight companies such as BNSF or Norfault Southern that allows for maximum efficiency.

Over the years, GE's service agreement has evolved from if it breaks, we fix it up till the 1980's, to performance and regular maintenance through the 1990's. Now it is entering an era where it is an agreement on an outcome, "selling thrust not engines".

Platform failures: if a cell phone tower drops a call you are annoyed, if the power goes out you are angry, or even scared.

Now we are evolving smart machines that have the ability to tell when they will break. GE has a vision of brilliant machines that will, in the future, fix themselves.

#industrial internet #brilliant machines #history

A computational model finds common ground between biology and computer science.

The brain has structure that allows it to encode variables and generate things that never happened before.

#memory

Activity in pre-frontal cortex and basal ganglia precede the filtering of irrelevant items. The filter process may be a result of attention. Attention can act as a biasing function, encoding the most relevant items. Dopamine, in the basal ganglia, may act as gating stabilization against distraction by enhancing select memories.

#dopamine #pre-frontal cortex #basal ganglia #attention

Through explaining 3 different theories of sensory perception this article argues that none of them are completely true. Humans create understanding of the world around them via our sensory organs. Perceived features of an object will vary depending on the sensory organs involved in detecting that object. The use of one sense insinuates a whole set of information relating to what kind of information you perceived from that experience. This information then has a direct effect on the judgements or actions that a human will follow through with after this section of the experience. In conclusion, perception of what an object can be and what one can perceive about it depends on how one perceives it (senses involved).

#senses #human #perception #understanding vs accepting

Shows how people perceive visual data and provides good info for further research on how the brain works with quantitative and visual cortex vs. conscious parts of the brain. The comments feed has a lot of good information from other people in the field

#visualdataperception #braindata

Data management is a national concern and management can be applied to different fields.

#applications #national

by CHRIS ANDERSON Author of the bestseller The Long Tail

How the maker revolution can possibly re-rev the american economy by small batch production. Online communities have become an extremely powerful tool that help develop ideas into products. The author of this book, Chris Anderson met someone in one of these communities who was interested in similar projects, they would then post links for other people to build, this created a community around their projects which eventually developed into their company: 3D Robotics.

#opensource #communities

As we enter the second half of 2014, it would be fair to say that big data has gone mainstream, attracting coffee table books, multiple industry landscapes,..

What it takes to become a successful lasting big data company in todays environment

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