One third of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says.
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Libraries That Create Their Own Economy: Opening the Door to Premium Services
Futurist Thomas Frey: Yesterday my wife Deb and I took a tour of the amazing Queensland Library in Brisbane, Australia and were thoroughly impressed with both the size and scope of their facility.
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Smart machines will replace millions of jobs within 15 years
People will adapt to smart machines in their lives.
Coming to the business world: smart machines. But don’t tell that to the CEO’s. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research say the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a “futurist fantasy.”
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The programmable world begins in our homes
Your home will start thinking and be able to detect the presence of people, pets, cars, smoke, humidity, moisture, lighting, temperature, vibration, angle, and movement.
It will be possible to communicate with nearly every device in your home sometime in the near future. The value people will get from communicating with these previously dumb, lifeless things will far outweigh the costs of learning their language. They will be able to capture data, communicate vital information to us that we wouldn’t otherwise know and even act when different events take place.
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Google is killing off the keyword, unless you pay for it
Web marketing has been completely turned upside down.
Google announced back in October 2011 that it was going to start blocking valuable data about which keywords consumers use to discover your content. By encrypting all searches, Google would instead dump visits from natural search into the nebulous “not provided” category in web analytics software.
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People are leaving rural Scotland because the internet is too slow
Is everyone leaving rural Scotland because of a very sluggish internet?
Population shifts are driven by all sorts of social factors, but the Scottish government appears to have pinpointed a new population shift: direly sluggish Internet connections.
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New record as online ad revenues jump 18% to $20B in first 6 months of 2013
Apparently, new certainties in life are death, taxes, and Internet ad revenues going up. Online ad revenues in the U.S. jumped 18 percent from 2012′s numbers to hit a new record, $20.1 billion, just for the first half of 2013. Mobile revenues were the fastest-growing, soaring 145 percent to $3 billion, and digital video ads, crucial to the growth of visual media online such as YouTube, rose 24 percent to $1.3 billion.
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The Rise of Fat Venture Capital
Andrew Chen: In 2007, before YCombinator and AngelList had changed the industry, I worked in a nondescript office park in the heart of the venture capital industry off Sand Hill Road. Amid the leafy sprawl of buildings next to 280 and Stanford University, billions of dollars were and are invested out of the fancy offices of VC/PE firms you’ve never heard of. The whole industry has been shrouded in opaqueness since it was created decades ago, built on relationships from business schools, professional networks, and investor referrals. In 2007, I worked at a big firm as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and did my best to make sense of this world.
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Nielsen-Twitter TV ratings report shows 38% increase in tweets about TV
Tweeting about TV is a large and growing phenomenon.
The first Nielsen-Twitter TV ratings report has just been released by Nielsen, showing that there has been a 38 percent increase in tweets about TV in the US over the last year — from 190 million in Q2 2012 to 263 million in Q2 2013. The number of Twitter TV authors in the US has also risen 24 percent, from 15 million to 19 million in the same period. (Infographic)
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Pay TV as we know it will be dead by 2025
Kevin Spacey in House of Cards
What could possibly happen between now and the year 2025 to transform “over-the-top” video services like Netflix and Amazon into some of the most powerful players in TV land—and conversely, to recast today’s biggest networks as supporting actors?
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60% of Americans suffer from Silicon Valley Syndrome: Infographic
Do you have Silicon Valley Syndrome?
Do you sit at a computer all day? Are you achy, your back hurts, you have trouble sleeping, and your head is pounding? You could have Silicon Valley syndrome.
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Relationship between hours worked and productivity: Chart
Some research shows that higher pay does not, on net, lead workers to do more.
The English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, was not a fan of work. In his 1932 essay, “In Praise of Idleness”, he reckoned that if society were better managed the average person would only need to work four hours a day. Such a small working day would “entitle a man to the necessities and elementary comforts of life.” The rest of the day could be devoted to the pursuit of science, painting and writing.
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