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“If human history is the story of a creature who molts from ape to angel – or, as Nietzsche claimed, from beast to Superman – then somewhere along the way it seems that we must become machines” Erik Davis.
Thx 2 Jason Silva.
posted on June 18, 2013 by
A Basketball Demonstration for the Internet of Everything
“How can connecting people, processes, data and things help the NBA score? Find out in this short video where Cisco SVP Rob Soderbery takes on NBA Rookie of the Year Kyrie Irving.”
Last week Sarah Rotman Epps talked about a connected basketball during her keynote session. This movie demonstrates what this means. It will change the game completely. Players become Quantified Self-ers and the public can become the coach.
posted on June 18, 2013 by
Economy of Experiences
It doesn’t make sense, does it? A camera that comes in a package, you have to build it yourself. Fastcompany said in their review on this camera “It creates the illusion of your own importance in the process of its existence”.
People like to buy stuff that’s not efficient, to create illusions. It makes sense, because it’s an experience. There’s an economy of experiences and an economy of efficiencies, and they both exists on this planet. But the economy of efficiencies is defeating the working class. Huge unemployment will strike the economy. In a recent article in The New York Times, Paul Krugman warned us once again for the fact that computers will steal our jobs.
But when they do, will it all be over? Or will we be able to create more illusions and will this be the start of the economy of experiences? Maybe we should all read the book on the economy of experiences to get a better understanding of how important experiences are for keeping the economy going.
The camera will be released end of June and costs $35. I’ve put it on my shopping list.
posted on June 18, 2013 by
There is no such ‘thing’ as the Internet of Things
When we talk about the Internet of Things, we talk about connecting the physical to the digital. With the promise that when these connected objects generate data through embedded technology, it will deliver us insights we have never had before. These insights will be helping us as humans (self-tracking) and also companies and organisations to reduce waste, and raise efficiency. But is there already such a ‘thing’ as the Internet of Things?. An article on ReadWrite:
“In its most basic sense, the Internet is just a network that connects any given device to any other given device. That connection alone, however, doesn’t mean that these gadgets will know how to talk to one another, much less that they’ll have anything to say”
“When devices can communicate, it’s generally via one or more “protocols,” or specialized languages for handling particular tasks. You’ve almost certainly encountered the most popular protocol on the Internet – the HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. (Yes, that’s the “http://” you sometimes see leading off Web addresses in your browser.) HTTP allows computers of all sorts to send files, images and videos to one another across the Web.”
An question I would like to ask is: “Through what type of protocol do you think the Internet of things will communicate?”
When you ask me, the Internet of Things is about adding meaningful scenarios to our life’s. Based on the idea that the immediate pop-up technology era will end and be replaced with a new wave of calm technology, where ‘things’ add meaning to our lives and where ‘things’ also makes our life more easy by being contextual. When I look at examples like Nest, the Learning Thermostat, Belkin’s WeMO and platforms like ThingWorx where you can connect revolutionary sensors devices together on a application development platform, we are on the right track.
“The protocol issue, by contrast, is a direct obstacle to the Internet of Things, because a bunch of siloed devices talking only to the companies that own them does not an Internet make. (Though maybe you’d end up with the CompuServe of Things. Catchy, no?)”
We are building an interconnected planet. This interconnected platform will support our lives in a (hopefully) positive way. But, a large part of me is agreeing with the writer of the article on ReadWrite. We are not where we want to be. An interconnected world is for a big part still a vision and not a reality. How long will it take? Maybe not as long as you think… When we look at this ‘connected devices revolution’, it reminds me of the very fast adoption of smartphones. Internet of Things is coming, very much like the iPhone was a breaktrough for the adoption of smartphones.
This can result in different shapes for the internet of things:
“Ultimately, the Internet of Things will take one of two shapes. If present trends continue, data to and from devices will largely be trapped within centralized silos, a la the home automation example above. Eventually, companies and vendors will interconnect those silos, rendering protocol differences all but irrelevant. And then economic incentives start to line up, too.”
We are going to have internetS! of things. But is that what we should aim for?
posted on June 17, 2013 by
A Time Machine with 4SQ data
The guys at Foursquare are known for their awesome data visualization. Foursquare began its life as a way to see what your friends are up to, but it has quickly evolved into a artificial intelligence / recommendation engine that knows you and your surroundings. Location and detecting patterns based on socially generated data are key to the company. With over 4 billion check-ins they sitting on a huge pile of SoLoMo data.
A few months ago I wrote a post called BIG DATA IN THE BIG APPLE: UNDERSTANDING NEW YORK USING MILLIONS OF FOURSQUARE CHECK-INS, here they visualized NYC check-ins that show how people flow to the city. Now they have this new dataviz-toy: Time Machine.
A visualization of your personal check-ins trough time. At the end you get this personal infographic. If your are a 4SQ-user, hop in the time machine. Here’s mine:
posted on June 14, 2013 by
VINT SYMPOSIUM. @FedericoPistono: Exponential Innovation
Federico Pistono is an award-winning journalist, author, social entrepreneur, scientific educator, activist, and filmmaker. He is author of the book “Robots Will Steal Your Job, but that’s OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and be Happy”, and the science fiction novelette “A Tale of Two Futures”. He lectures at TEDx events, conferences, universities, and symposia, such as TEDxVienna, and TEDxBologna. He was at our Symposium to talk about how exponential growth in technology needs to be accompanied by exponential innovation in business.
Pistono argues that innovation in 3D printing, Robotics and A.I. are so rapidly that we are at the dawn of a whole new economy and a whole new role for us humans. These disruptions are coming at high-speed.
- 3D Printing: we will soon be able to to print out human body parts. And not only that: every product that is going to be produced in the next ten years will be shared on the Pirate Bay. This will have huge impact on how businesses make money.
- Robotics: we will soon have robots that can take over our jobs. Baxter is such an example; a easy to use robot that’s designed to cost just $22,000, which is about an order of magnitude cheaper than usual industrial robots. Baxter works at the assembly line.
- A.I.: Innovations in A.I. will be the reason robots will also be able to do ‘knowledge work’. If a car gets so smart that it can drive itself, it shouldn’t be long for smart robots to fill up positions at an office.
Following the example of the driverless cars, this will have huge impact on the amount of people employed in the automotive industry. This image shows the difference in people needed to produce current cars, and the people needed to produce driverless cars.
This shift will happen in every industry according to Pistono. He closes off with 3 tips for businesses to survive this shift:
- Digitize: turn everything into a digital object
- Democratize: share knowledge, products and services
- Distribute: focus on smart distribution. Not even half of the world’s population is online yet, so there are new markets to win
Check out the slides for more on technology disruption:
Exponential Innovation | Federico Pistono @ VINT symposium THINGS 2013 from VINTlabs | The Sogeti Trendlab
For more coverage of our VINT symposium follow the blog. We got more blogs coming up in the next couple of days. You might also want to download the Dutch report: Your Big Data Potential: The art of the Possible. Photos of the event are on Facebook.
posted on June 14, 2013 by
VINT SYMPOSIUM. ESA Astronaut Andre Kuipers Demonstrates How To Think Out Of The Box
The European Space Agency ESA, which also happens to be very much into the Internet of Things, on two occasions had the honor of sending Dutch astronaut André Kuipers (@Astro_Andre) into space.
Mr. Kuipers appeared as the first keynote speaker at the VINT Symposium 2013, to demonstrate the ultimate way for human beings of literally thinking out of the box. That is what merging the Internet with Things is all about.
Today, Mr. Kuipers said, some 80,000 people want to be launched to Mars on a life-long survival mission to explore the possibilities of establishing human colonies on other planets in our solar system. In space, very practical things have to be dealt with. One marvellous example is urine/water recycling. Thanks to space trips distant visions become tangible, for instance creating clean energy through nuclear fusion with Helium-3 mined from the moon. This idea is already decades old.
Mr. Kuipers concluded his inspiring breath-taking talk with this video: Sky-Walking on Thin Air – How Space Station Sees Earth.
For more coverage of our VINT symposium follow the blog. We got more blogs coming up in the next couple of days. You might also want to download the Dutch report: Your Big Data Potential: The art of the Possible. Photos of the event are on Facebook.
posted on June 14, 2013 by
VINT Symposium. Sarah Rotman Epps (@srepps): “There will be InternetS! of Things”
Sarah Rotman Epps is a Senior Analyst at Forrester. She studies the evolution of personal computing: how devices are changing, the new consumer behaviors they produce, and the industries they disrupt. Sarah also graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in visual and environmental studies. She cross-registered at MIT and wrote her thesis on tangible interfaces and alternatives to keyboard and mouse computing. She was at our symposium to talk about wearable computing and started with a provoking statement: there is NO internet of things. Yet.
There is no internet of things.
The main reason for this according to Sarah, is that “Smart” Things today are fragmented, with limited utility. She also rather speaks of systems of engagement. Within that system it’s not necessary a thing that gets smarter, it’s us.
We should think of these systems of engagement that they function like an organism. Each organ on its own isn’t that smart, the intelligence comes from the entire organism functioning together. Within this system data takes the role of blood, it’s the driver. She illustrates this with the smart parking meters in San Francisco; it’s not about a parking meter, it’s not about the people, it’s about the system. Check out Sarah’s presentation that is embedded below this post for more examples of how a system works.
There is also business value in these system of engagement. Things will help businesses:
- Increase revenue
- Reduce inefficiencies
- Improve customer experience
- Build competitive advantage
- Shift toward services
There will be InternetS! of things
Things today are fragmented and limited in utility and that’s not the only problem. The market for things will get enormous, but it will be really heterogenous. This is a serious issue from a consumers perspective; if the devices and services (API’s) can only talk to other API’s that share the same brand logo, functionally will remain limited.
So what does this all mean according to Sarah:
- Things, and the systems of engagement that activate them, will impact every industry
- Every business can seize competitive advantage by harnessing the power of Things
- But so can your (new) competitors: Expect competition from adjacent markets
She also has some advice: Think big, Think sideways, Think systems, not just Things.
There Is No Internet Of Things | Sarah Rotman Epps @ VINT symposium THINGS 2013 from VINTlabs | The Sogeti Trendlab
For more coverage of our VINT symposium follow the blog. You might also want to download the Dutch report: Your Big Data Potential: The art of the Possible. Photos of the event are on Facebook.
posted on June 13, 2013 by
VINT SYMPOSIUM. Sander @Duivestein: Things are a Necessary Pillar for the Internet of Scenarios
After an introductory dialogue with VINT Director and host of the day Menno van Doorn (@MennoVanDoorn), VINT analyst and trend spotter Sander Duivestein (@Duivestein) actually disqualified the notion of Internet of Things. Instead, and therewith setting the stage for the whole VINT Symposium 2013, he spoke of an Internet of Scenarios in which Things are a natural and necessary component.
Sander, who had stunned the audience already with a demonstration of his quadcopter AR.Drone2.0 steering capabilities, ultimately concluded that in the context of Things privacy, adoption and business relevance remain THE three internet-related scenario issues.
You can view the complete slide deck here.
Internet of Scenarios | Sander Duivestein @ VINT symposium THINGS 2013 from VINTlabs | The Sogeti Trendlab
For more coverage of our VINT symposium follow the blog. We got more blogs coming up in the next couple of days. You might also want to download the Dutch report: Your Big Data Potential: The art of the Possible. Photos of the event are on Facebook.
posted on June 13, 2013 by
VINT SYMPOSIUM. @SimonHania (TomTom): “We Profile Roads, Not People”
Simon Hania, Chief Privacy Officer at navigation services company TomTom, stated that Cloud Computing, Location Services, Big Data and the Internet of Things are today’s main technology trends to threaten trust.
Location privacy is top of mind with bloggers, press, regulators, enforcers, legislators and users as connected cars with downloadable apps are quickly becoming the norm. TomTom is in the business of profiling roads, and sharing that information among its users. The company uses community input with permission to provide realtime navigational information at several levels.
Every TomTom customer remains in control of their personal data. As soon as anyone turns his TomTom navigation device off all data delivered cannot be traced anymore. Avoiding re-identification is key. In this context, every company must be able to truthfully and correctly answer five privacy questions, which stem from the overarching issue of how personal data is legitimately acquired, processed, stored, shared (if applicable) and destroyed:
1 WHAT personal data are we processing?
2 WHY do we do that?
3 WHEN can we destroy personal data?
4 WHO will have access and will be accountable?
5 WHERE do we process and store personal data?
The answers to these questions serve as the key ingredients for a sound Privacy-by-Design and Security-by-Design approach of every digital solutions and services portfolio.
For more information, check out Simon Hania’s slides.
Tom tom – Location services and privacy | Simon Hania @ VINT symposium THINGS 2013 from VINTlabs | The Sogeti Trendlab
For more coverage of our VINT symposium follow the blog. We got more blogs coming up in the next couple of days. You might also want to download the Dutch report: Your Big Data Potential: The art of the Possible. Photos of the event are on Facebook.
