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Today, the most convenient way to have access to something you want is to own it and keep it where you live. That's because the process of having something delivered is too costly, cumbersome, and slow to do every time you need it.

Still, people don't want things soon. They want them NOW. A 30-minute Amazon Prime Air is the closest approximation of “now” we've seen yet.

Yet the greatest impact of robotic delivery might not be owning things quicker, but rather not having to own them in the first place. That's because once you can have something approximately now, the functional difference between ownership and rental disappears

Netherlands first to establish nationwide Internet of Things network

Three initial projects give a sense of the scope and types of application that will make up the Internet of Things. At the port of Rotterdam, depth sounders have already been outfitted with sensors and network connections. An experiment at Utrecht will connect all railway switches so they can be monitored centrally. And at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, a major European hub busier than JFK and Miami International combined, tests with baggage handling are already underway. If you think of the number of pieces of luggage moving through the worlds sixth-busiest international airport you begin to get a sense of the scale of applications for IoT. If each piece of luggage has an IoT tag, nothing should be unaccounted for.

my attention monopolized at that moment by an electronic screen.

offers endlessly updating possibilities.

for many children growing up today, digital reality is the only reality.

NEW EDUCATION MODELS

education will become an "on-demand service" where people "pull down a module of learning" when they need it.

"School kids will learn from short bite-sized modules, and gamification practices will be incorporated in schools

the new technology kills off the old jobs and that allows people to go and do something different

We’ve not got to make sure that the new technologies create jobs. Because that’s not what they do. Rather, they free labour to go do something else.

It simply isn’t true that the new technologies create jobs. That’s not what leads to us all still having jobs at least. What does happen is that we all go find other things to do. And it’s a basic tenet of economics that human desires and wants are unlimited while the resources we have to sate them are limited and scarce.

. The future of identity lies in digitizing the physical world, and the context in which we collect data about identity needs to become transparent.

Will consumers understand that better identity data equals higher-quality messaging to them throughout their lives? Context will allow us to exchange value better and build deeper networks in physical world data collection.

We need better systems to understand and provide access to individuals’ identity by service and by object

сервис подтверждения платежей с помощью селфи в 15 странах

MasterCard Identity Check

биометрические данные — отпечаток пальца и распознавание черт лица.

A company has created a set of ears that apparently respond to the wearer’s emotions via a sensor on the forehead.

According to the National Association of Theatre Owners, US movie attendance peaked in 2002 and has been steadily declining ever since. To compensate, theatres have rolled out new technologies such as 3D, Imax and premium large-format cinemas, raising their ticket prices and thus keeping the box office at record-breaking levels

The majority of us are increasingly staying home.

At Cannes this year, the studio with the most films in competition

OpenBCI, a Kickstarter project by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, aims to fill this need by offering makers, hobbyists, and other geeky tinkerers a fully open-source prototyping platform for designing whatever mind-control UIs they can dream up

100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized

The only thing that will lead to the tipping point of BCI practicality is simultaneous and rapid hardware and software iteration; Joel and I both believe that this type of rapid technological innovation cannot take place behind closed doors, hence our unfaltering mission to keep OpenBCI totally open source and include as many people of varying disciplines as possible

computers' strengths lie in speed and accuracy, while humans' strengths are all about flexibility

There are three types of work that humans do really well but computers cannot (yet):

1) Unstructured problem-solving

Though characters like Woody and Buzz Lightyear are wonderfully realistic and lovable, the relationship that kids have with them is largely one-sided. Kids can hear these characters talk—not only through movies, but games, toys, and other movie merchandise—but they can’t engage them.

It was this idea that inspired Jacob to team up with his former Pixar colleague, Martin Reddy, and launch a new company, ToyTalk. The San Francisco-based outfit develops mobile games that let kids have conversations with animated characters—dialogues that can last for hours

Known as PullString, it’s equal parts speech recognition engine and script writing tool, and it’s quite a departure from other speech rec tools developed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Apple. It’s tailored specifically to kids, whose sentence structure, pitch, and vocal tone have posed challenges for traditional tools.

Microsoft’s own virtual assistant Cortana, aim to help pave the way for the future of communication, productivity, and interactions with businesses and brands.

In Skype, the company showed off rich Cortana integration which put the assistant directly into the app where she could help users do things like identify the persons, places and things in your messages, underline them, and then display more info in a card-like interface when clicked.

She is also able to help you perform a variety of tasks, like adding items to your calendar, booking travel or hotel rooms, or even pre-populating conversations to friends with text.

If you create something with the Rift, the Terms of Service say that you surrender all rights to that work and that Oculus can use it whenever it wants

Oculus can collect data from you while you’re using the device

Furthermore, the information that they collect can be used to directly market products to you

Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives.

In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.

Shopping? I can't really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.

Multiplayer Online Survival Arena – is something the team believes offers a truly unique experience.

ost eSports are really regimented, there are rules you have to know to play the game and there is a much more different mindset behind a controlled match. Whereas for us, there’s not really rules – it’s a sandbox and anything can happen.

In our first three tournaments, we watched a lot of people get killed by monkeys and piranhas, and there were all sorts of random things happening. And yet the same person won all three tournaments – for us, that validated everything because there’s obviously a skill to being prepared for whatever scenario happens