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" Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living! "
Om Malik
You
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" In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers. "
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" Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems. "
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" A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform. "
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" While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that. "
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" We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century. "
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" In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things. "
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" Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger. "
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" Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features. "
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" Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work. "
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" Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems. "
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" As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day. "
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" Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths. "
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" QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality. "
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" Before we had the Internet, we would either call or write to our friends, one at a time, and keep up with their lives. It was a slow process and took a lot of effort and time to learn about each other. "
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Time
" If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going back into the labels. "
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You
" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "
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" As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing. "
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" Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted. "
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" Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it. "
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" Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery. "
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" Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon. "
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" The possibilities that come with thinking about the camera as a portal into the realm of information and services are attractive not only to Snap but also to every other big player in the tech world. Facebook, for instance, has slowly been enhancing the visual capabilities of its Messenger. "
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" Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it. "
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" The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical. "
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" I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog. "
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" The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context. "
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" Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone. "
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" Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner. "
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" For the longest time, computers have been associated with work. Mainframes were for the Army, government agencies, and then large companies. Workstations were for engineers and software programmers. PCs were initially for other white-collar jobs. "
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" Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us. "
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