Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Netflix is guaranteed to make the cable industry nervous with its plan to disrupt the industry. “The traditional entertainment ecosystem is built on (managed dissatisfaction), and it’s a totally artificial concept,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tells GQ’s Nancy Hass. “The point of managed dissatisfaction is waiting.”
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There is no black and white answer concerning consumers’ online privacy.
More and more each day the internet infiltrates commerce and social life and consumers are becoming more aware that their personal information is becoming less and less personal. Some websites and apps have transparent sharing policies. Some of them state exactly what information they will use for advertising but others aren’t so clear.
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Study shows it’s okay to let children fail.
When Jessica Lahey was a fairly new teacher thirteen years ago she had to call a students’ mother to let her know that she would be initiating disciplinary measures against her daughter for plagiarism and that her daughter would receive a zero for the plagiarism.
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The death of traditional retailers.
Sarah Lacy, founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily spoke with Marc Andreessen yesterday about ShoeDazzle’s rapid decline and subsequent rapid turn-around, She asked Andreessen if he has seen anything quite so dramatic in the startup world.
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DARPA plans to pre-select the smartest recruits using newly available brain-scanning methods.
Long before Rin Tin Tin, dogs have been been an important part of military operations—from bomb-sniffing to supply-delivery. But training military working dogs is an expensive and time-consuming process. Anyone who’s spent any time trying to get a dog to even follow the “sit” command knows that some dogs are sharper than others.
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Facebook made two pennies per user per month.
A billion people offer their two cents every month to Facebook, literally. That’s about how much income Facebook generated per user each month over the last quarter.
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Traditional retailers are successfully using mobile apps to attract the lion’s share of consumer attention. The retailers’ share of consumer time spent in shopping apps grew to 27 percent of the total in December, up from 15 percent a year prior, according to Flurry.
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Online education will have an enormous transformative impact on billions of people around the world.
The single most important technological development of the millennium is the advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs). The first reason it is so important is the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. And the second reason is for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry.
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The process of creating art can take less than an hour or go well into extra innings, extending across years as the artist returns to a work that isn’t complete. Da Vinci’s beguiling Mona Lisa was a work in progress when he died.
Raymond Alvarez: Professionals and students alike may wonder what interest an artist/writer has in learning Ruby on Rails. My quick answer is it can’t hurt. The real answer is coming to me.
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The State Grid Corporation of China is running the smart-grid project using passive optical networking technology.
Smart-grid technology testing has begun in China hat could eventually be deployed nationwide to make the delivery of electricity more reliable and efficient. It might also serve as a way to deliver high-speed Internet, TV, and telephony to the farthest reaches of the country.
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A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future.
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Facebook took a look at football fandom across the country as the Super Bowl gets closer.
The National Football League is one of the most popular sports in America with some incredibly devoted fans. At Facebook we have about 35 million account holders in the United States who have Liked a page for one of the 32 teams in the league, representing one of the most comprehensive samples of sports fanship ever collected. Put another way, more than 1 in 10 Americans have declared their support for an NFL team on Facebook.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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