Big Data in Creative Fields

Interesting article in Forbes discussing how big data and analytics are being used in creative fields where human intuition has traditionally been used to make decisions. 

Thanks Hazel Yang for the link!

Jobs of the Future

Interesting article on the uncertain and fascinating future of jobs and the workforce. This article suggests that technology will free up human beings from mundane and routine tasks, so they can spend their time on more creative and artistic pursuits. Sounds like a wonderful future but raises important questions about who will lose their jobs first, and how will wealth be shared between the skilled" and unskilled citizens of the future.

Thanks Pierre Dennery for the link!

Tech companies VS Government on Privacy

Thanks everyone for a great debate in class today. To build on the points discussed in class today, here are two articles that talk about the growing tension between technology companies and governments about access to consumer data. The first article talks about Twitter suing the government, while the second discusses a new approach taken by Google and Apple to protect user privacy.

Thanks Phil Gara for the articles!

Some more on Privacy

In advance of our upcoming lecture on Privacy, here is a great article in AdAge stating the importance of "Privacy-by-Design", but discussing how its neither easy nor cheap.

Thanks Hari Won for the article!

eBay and PayPal split up

We all heard the news that eBay spun out PayPal as a separate business. A lot of analysts have discussed both positive and negative aspects of this deal. The timing is certainly interesting, with Apple Pay getting a lot of positive interest from consumers and media these days.

Twitter + MIT = Understand social Impact of Tweets!

Here is the latest - Twitter just gave $10M to the Media Lab to analyze every tweet and study it's social impact through visualizations. Very cool!