From Cisco’s Connected World Everything is connected Cisco’s ambition sounds a bit like science fiction. The company estimates that 99.4% of all physical objects in the world remain unconnected — all but 10 billion out of 1.5 trillion things. The value (net profit) of connecting all of those things: $14.4 trillion. Cisco sees this potential […]
From The Purpose of Education Chomsky defines his view of education in an Enlightenment sense, in which the “highest goal in life is to inquire and create. The purpose of education from that point of view is just to help people to learn on their own. It’s you the learner who is going to achieve […]
I have been thinking about a new initiative on Teaching Kids. It is driven by several (self) discoveries. I am slowly discovering that I love teaching. But I constantly fight for student’s attention and keeping my teaching interesting and useful. A few experiments with a Social Causes Club at KCGTech convinced me that we can […]
From RDF Data Cube Vocabulary. This document was published by the Government Linked Data Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation. There are many situations where it would be useful to be able to publish multi-dimensional data, such as statistics, on the web in such a way that it can be linked to related data sets […]
From The Organization Ontology This ontology is designed to enable publication of information on organizations and organizational structures including governmental organizations. It is intended to provide a generic, reusable core ontology that can be extended or specialized for use in particular situations. Will be interesting to watch the adoption rate. Can certainly help improve the […]
From Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy We estimate that, together, applications of the 12 technologies discussed in the report could have a potential economic impact between $14 trillion and $33 trillion a year in 2025. This estimate is neither predictive nor comprehensive. It is based on an in-depth […]
A few great recent links from Cognitive Design Will baby Watson Create a Cognitive Revolution? IBM believes success with Watson in multiple domains will trigger a new computing revolution, one focused on cognitive computing systems. Such systems will do for knowledge work what the early data oriented systems did for transactional work. The goal is […]
From The Little Big Idea A lot of people, when they have that Big Idea moment, throw themselves into writing it all down, planning it out, and doing things about the thing. Not the thing itself.
From McKinsey’s Internet of Things and the Future of Manufacturing In what’s called the Internet of Things,1 the physical world is becoming a type of information system—through sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects and linked through wired and wireless networks via the Internet Protocol. In manufacturing, the potential for cyber-physical systems to improve productivity […]
From Jay’s From Learning Out Aloud “Learning in advance” doesn’t work in a realtime world, so learning and work have converged. Learning is simply an aspect of getting the job done. Learning new things — sometimes by inventing them — is an obligation of corporate citizens. Most of this learning takes place in the workplace. […]