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More than 70% of online adults are Facebook users, but the popular social network is facing some slivers of competition as new digital destinations entice users. In 2013 we saw the rise of visual social media, with services such as Instagram and Pinterest reeling in fans with photos-first agendas. 
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Benjamin Bratton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD and Director of The Center for Design and Geopoltics at CALIT2, asks: Why don't the bright futures promised in TED talks come true? Professor Bratton attacks the intellectual viability of TED, calling it placebo politics, middlebrow megachurch infotainment, and the equivalent of right-wing media channels. Does TED falsely present problems as simply puzzles to be solved by rearranging the pieces?
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The next twenty years will see more technological change than we have seen in the last hundred years put together. My Dad would hitch up the wagon to drive seven miles to town in the 1920s. In twenty years the way we get around today will look just as quaint, though in different ways. Who was using the internet twenty years ago? Only early adopters had cell phones. The Human Genome Project was seen as an expensive joke unlikely to be completed in less than a few decades. Twenty years ago, robots were still very limited in scope, and AI had lost its mojo in the public eye. Only a few years earlier a serious Stanford physics professor said Qualcomm’s technology violated the laws of physics and was a hoax.
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4. In 2014, several young consumer tech companies are poised for explosive growth — and some will announce plans to go public. From taxi-hailing to ride-sharing to cloud-hosting and mobile payments, these new businesses are using the Internet and mobile devices to challenge entrenched industries. Upstart firms like Uber and Lyft are changing the way people travel in cities, disrupting incumbent taxi companies. Airbnb is challenging the hotel business model — and encountering pushback in some states. TaskRabbit has created a new online market for everyday tasks like mowing the lawn. Dropbox is making cloud storage and sharing accessible to the masses. Square is leading the booming mobile payments space.
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Based on the ATCA 5000 poll of key distinguished members in more than 150 countries around the world -- carried out by the mi2g Intelligence Unit in London -- we present to you the uncensored collective consciousness in regard to what are perceived to be the key trends for 2014 under the categories of Opposites, Opportunities, Autonomy, Climate Chaos, New Financial Paradigms and Cultural Metamorphosis. We trust this will start an enduring Socratic dialogue leading to concrete executive decisions amongst our distinguished members and the global community of world leaders, business decision makers and ordinary citizens to build a more equitable world in 2014 and beyond.
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As summer reflections on the past school year turn into aspirations for the next year, it's important to keep in mind the big picture of change in education. Five shifts in how we think about schools
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2014 should see a greater amount of awareness campaigns regarding online etiquette. This is already in action courtesy of Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, who have created an app which uses Google’s Hangouts section to keep people from being annoying. Us+ monitors your Google video chat through linguistic analysis. If you’re griping too much it will drop text hints to be more optimistic. If Us+ gets entirely bored of your verbose rambling it will shut the microphone off. Such initiatives will likely be on the increase in 2014 and you should make sure your company isn’t irritating customers with online content. One standard complaint is overdoing posts — keep activities concise, striking, and limited to avoid driving people away.
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Even after two decades of successfully forecasting spot-on international trends for consumers and corporations, I didn't see coming what I refer to as the Year of the Everyday Trendspotter (aka 2013). It's so easy to do up-to-the-minute searches and publish in real time online that everybody from daddy bloggers to CEOs is broadcasting pronouncements about what's next in their area of expertise. Which might mean a change in my own "next," but for now, here's what I see coming for 2014.
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According to an Oxford report, 47% of jobs will be taken over by computers sooner than you might think.
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Security experts have foreseen the future of cybercrime, and it's exceedingly grim. A report out today from the web security firm IID (Internet Identity) predicts that within the next two years we'll see the first person murdered through a "smart" object, the downfall of both Bitcoin and Tor, and other equally bleak examples of the dark side of technology's future.
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Mining big data to arrive at meaningful conclusions will change the way we work forever, says Kenneth Cukier, data editor at The Economist and co-author of the bestselling book Big Data. "Big data will mean for white-collar, professional labour in the 21st century, what machines, automation and the assembly line meant for blue-collar workers in the 20th century.
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The news is full of stories covering the major trends at CES. From wearables to the Internet of Things, Connected Cars and the usual plethora of giant TV’s. Robots are a new and growing category. But what are the most important trends that operators, especially mobile operators, need to understand?
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1 Open value accounting, open book accounting and open supply chains2 New open manufacturing methodologies3 Policy initiatives at city, regional and national scale4 Open technology cooperatives5 Commons-oriented cloudfunding and crowdfunding and other funding innovations6 Multiple currency innovations7 Critical and constructive voices on the sharing economy, and its legal empowerment8 Business models for open culture9 P2P open technical infrastructures
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... three ways to deal with the future. Accuracy is the most rewarding way to deal with what will happen tomorrow--if you predict correctly. Accuracy rewards those that put all their bets on one possible outcome.
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We have long since passed the age when we manufactured goods to meet our desires. We are now in a world hell bent on manufacturing desires to sustain the production of unnecessary goods. Ownership is a myth. We own nothing. What we do have is the right of storage, use and disposal. Nothing more. By cultivating an ownership illusion we support violence (or the threat of violence) for if someone were to use our supposed possession we can call in men and women with guns to get it back for us. Without this threat of violence, real or implied, ownership would not be possible. But why deluding ourselves. Let’s recognise the illusion and begin to appreciate the reality. We are all interconnected. Sharing is good. At a personal, societal and global level sharing is very, very good.
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From anti-austerity movements to middle-class revolts, in rich countries and in poor, social unrest has been on the rise around the world. The reasons for the protests vary. Some are direct responses to economic distress (in Greece and Spain, for example). Others are revolts against dictatorship (especially in the Middle East). A number also express the aspirations of new middle classes in fast-growing emerging markets (whether in Turkey or Brazil). But they share some underlying features.
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Everyone's talking about the "Internet of Things," but what exactly does that mean for our future?
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WatchGuard Technologies has revealed its annual security predictions for 2014, which predicts expected advances in ransomware, hacking of IoT (Internet of Things) devices, critical infrastructure exploits and a data breach of HealthCare.gov.
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Every year-end is a time for reflection and looking forward. And for generating lists of top tens — worst videos, greatest moments, best cars, biggest lies, etc. My favorite lists involve technology, and in particular thinking about associated social, economic, cultural and ethical implications.
Techstore's curator insight,
December 21, 2013 12:58 PM
The 10 Most Fascinating And Provocative If Not Alarming Technology Trends
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Over the last few years several trends have begun to take shape, among them has been the transformation of the Internet as a form of basic content or information delivery to a fundamental social system at the heart of modern society. SnapChat is just one example among many recent viral startup success stories. A quick stroll down any street, in any major city, and you’ll see the Internet has already become woven into modern life. Yet this convergence of our physical and digital realities barely scratches the surface of the opportunities it holds for us.
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Paris – Mobile, big data... these are just technologies and when you're trying to imagine "the next 10 years", that's too small a lens to look through. The further back you step, the more you have to look at humans and their eternal needs rather than passing technologies, explained famed venture capitalist Fred Wilson in LeWeb's keynote. "We don't think about technologies, we think about trends, what's happening with society, with people," he said.
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