Who Owns Big Data? | MIT Technology Review

  Aggregate data and decision making are being hoarded by a few technology companies with powerful data infrastructure. Does it have to be this way? Or could we create a future in which this data infrastructure is available for use by anyone in the world? Source: www.technologyreview.com See on Scoop.it Leia mais… »

Quantifying the Internet of Things

Should you believe the hype on the Internet of Things? Can it really be the (NBTE) Next Biggest Thing Ever? Gartner thinks there will be 26 billion “Internet of Things” units by 2020. Not to be outdone, IDC predicts 212 billion “things”. Source: linkis.com See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Leia mais… »

Why “smart cities” should be an Internet of People, not Things

Adam Greenfield proves again that he’s one of the best writers and thinkers on “smart cities,” explaining how the top-down, expensive, tech-centered approach produces unlivable corporate dystopias in which people are just another “thing” to be… Source: boingboing.net See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab