Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review
http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2012/10/why-data-will-never-replace-thinking.html?cm_mmc=SocialHub-_-3271-_--_-7214359940150094404&utm_source=socialhub&utm_medium=3271&utm_content=7214359940150094404&utm_campaign=
A repost from another blog about the value of the time you spend in college and the alternatives you could take.
Especially wish to highlight the point that trying to start your own venture into your own interests is one of the greatest things you could do for your self-development (as opposed to college or an MBA): http://tynan.com/hustleHighlights:"...9. Start a business after two years. With a full two years of self-education under your belt, you should have something useful to contribute to society. School makes you go from sheltered learning mode straight into real-world career mode. I think a better way is to have a transition, and to couple productivity with learning. Having that habit will ensure that you continue to perfect your craft as you get older. Your business can be anything-- a tech startup, publishing books you've written, giving speeches, making clothing and selling it online, whatever you're into. Read some business books before starting it and try to make money. One of the most common complaints I hear from graduates of traditonal school is that nothing they learned was actually applicable to real ife. Everything you learn from starting a business IS...""...Will this work for you? There's no guarantee, but I see people work pretty hard at school, and if that same effort were put towards the Hustler's MBA, I thnk the chance of being self-sufficient and prepared for "real life" is about 90%. I'd estimate that non-laywer/doctor college is somewhere around 50-70%. So, like anything, this plan is not totally foolproof, but I think it's a lot better and cheaper than the alternative..."
Especially wish to highlight the point that trying to start your own venture into your own interests is one of the greatest things you could do for your self-development (as opposed to college or an MBA): http://tynan.com/hustleHighlights:"...9. Start a business after two years. With a full two years of self-education under your belt, you should have something useful to contribute to society. School makes you go from sheltered learning mode straight into real-world career mode. I think a better way is to have a transition, and to couple productivity with learning. Having that habit will ensure that you continue to perfect your craft as you get older. Your business can be anything-- a tech startup, publishing books you've written, giving speeches, making clothing and selling it online, whatever you're into. Read some business books before starting it and try to make money. One of the most common complaints I hear from graduates of traditonal school is that nothing they learned was actually applicable to real ife. Everything you learn from starting a business IS...""...Will this work for you? There's no guarantee, but I see people work pretty hard at school, and if that same effort were put towards the Hustler's MBA, I thnk the chance of being self-sufficient and prepared for "real life" is about 90%. I'd estimate that non-laywer/doctor college is somewhere around 50-70%. So, like anything, this plan is not totally foolproof, but I think it's a lot better and cheaper than the alternative..."
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/hardware-is-dead/
"...I think this leads to an important conclusion: No one can make money selling hardware anymore. The only way to make money with hardware is to sell something else and get consumers to pay for the whole device and experience.
Obviously, Apple sells more than just hardware. It sells iOS. It sells the Apple Brand. It sells the ability to give someone over 60 an iPad and not require nightly IT support calls from that person. It sells a bit of magic. And people will pay $400+ for that.
Amazon is also clearly way ahead on this model. At the Kindle launch event last week, Jeff Bezos highlighted that Amazon does not make money on the Kindle, it makes money on the content it sells on top of the Kindle. There is a growing awareness of this model in the web..."
Warren Ellis » How To See The Future
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314
"In the last ten years, we’ve discovered two previously unknown species of human. We can film eruptions on the surface of the sun, landings on Mars and even landings on Titan. Is all of this very boring to you? Because all this is happening right now, in this moment. Check the time on your phone, because this is the present time and these things are happening. The most basic mobile phone is in fact a communications devices that shames all of science fiction, all the wrist radios and handheld communicators. Captain Kirk had to tune his fucking communicator and it couldn’t text or take a photo that he could stick a nice Polaroid filter on. Science fiction didn’t see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn’t see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make amazing things happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards."
Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings. What Happens Next? | TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/stock-market-drops-vcs-hold-partner-meetings-what-happens-next/
Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology
http://mobile.technologyreview.com/computing/38034/
Such scenarios can and must be repeated en masse in the States. Kudos to the young scientist. Now America needs to replace the standardized and outdated math and science teams prevalent throughout its high schools with more focused and relevant bioscience efforts, teams and competitions...all to get a leg up on foreign competition in the technology education and high tech start-up space. We just need to introduce the subjects to the students and get them excited about the potential of this scientific space. Mr President, this is the tech space which may hold achievements as significant as a man walking on the moon and where the young generation should look forward to and be excited about, not the saturated Internet startup space with its tiny (if any) impact on benefiting civilization. Watch for more detailed proposals in future entries...
Original source:
http://www.livescience.com/14138-teen-cystic-fibrosis-drug-cocktail-contest.html
Smartphones are Local Search and Shopping DevicesGigaOM
http://gigaom.com/2011/04/26/smartphones-are-local-search-and-shopping-devices/