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Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster | Con... - 0 views

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  • you have to innovate faster and faster in order to avoid the collapse
  • The system will collapse, because eventually you would have to be making a major innovation, like you know, IT every six months. Well, that's completely crazy.
  • There's a theorem you can prove that says that if you demand continuous open growth, you have to have continuous cycles of innovation. Well, that's what people believe, and it's the way people have suggested that’s how you get out of the Malthusian paradox. This all agrees within itself but there is a huge catch.
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  • We have open-ended growth, increase in pace of life, and the threat of collapse because of the singularity. But there's a big catch about this innovation. Theory says, sure, you can get out of collapse by innovating, but you have to innovate faster and faster.
  • It's great on the one hand that you have this open ended growth. But if you kept going, of course, it doesn't make any sense. Eventually, you run out of resources anyway, but you would collapse
  • One of the bad things about open-ended growth, growing faster than exponentially, is that open-ended growth eventually leads to collapse. It leads to collapse mathematically because of something called finite times singularity.
Benno Hansen

Media Companies Must Become Trusted Data Hubs » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Jo... - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Advertising and journalism do not complement each other the way they used to.
  • successful media companies of the future have to build an infrastructure that turns them into reliable data hubs, able to analyze even very large and complex datasets internally and to build stories on their insights
  • machine can assemble large portions of articles through structured data
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  • computers are getting ever closer to mastering the subtleties of human communication
  • Any event can be described by fundamental data: latitude, longitude, time and date and importance.
  • the fundamental role of journalism will remain the same: searching for truth, and demanding accountability of those in power
  • the majority of online journalists are stuck working with outdated or unimaginative tools
  • Trust, not information, is the scarce resource in today’s world. Trust is something that is hard to earn and easy to lose. And it is a core element of journalism
  • The trust market is still up for grabs. Most media players are still competing in the “attention market.”
  • fact collection will be organized rather than done by journalists
  • In the future, many journalists will resemble project managers, aggregating resources around platforms like Ushahidi rather than dashing adventurers
  • In an era where more and more users have a camera phone and a way to put that content online, the journalist becomes the one who’s best able to curate and validate material from the data deluge, not just adding to it. Crowdsourcing should allow media organizations to devote more resources to vetting information produced by others, and thereby gaining trust.
  • Many investigations will be led behind a computer as journalists organize a community of users and a team of developers to get stories out.
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