As part of my research and consulting work I have assembled a huge library of article references. They cover both specific technologies as well as the contextual societal trends. I have collated these for anyone and everyone to read.
The topics covered include: Mass personalisation, Inclusive and accessible design, Data-driven decision making, Generational change, Portfolio careers, Virtual workplace solution, Privacy, Resurgence in voice, On-the-go communications, Future of email, Virtual reality, Gaming and gamification, Sensor revolution, Sensual interfaces, Soundscaping, Wearables, Social robotics, Sentiment analysis, Anticipatory computing, Virtual assistants, Wireless and mobility, Distributed trust systems, Batteries and power, ‘Glomad’ workers, Home teleworking, Data destruction, Cybermeetings, Security as a service, Human productivity, Simplified security.
General technology trends
One in three jobs will be taken by software or robots by 2025 – ComputerWorld
Connections: Looking to the future of business communications – ComputerWorld
Future of Work – Frog Design
Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014 – New York Times
10 Breakthrough Innovations That Will Shape The World In 2025 – Fast Company
Many of the biggest tech tenants in SF are companies that didn’t exist 10 years ago
– The Information
Everything From This 1991 Radio Shack Ad You Can Now Do With Your Phone – Huffington Post
In 100 Years: Leading Economists Predict the Future – MIT Press
The tech utopia nobody wants: why the world nerds are creating will be awful – The Guardian
The UK Ministry of Defence Says Life in 2045 Will Be Unequal and Violent – Vice
The World is in Beta – PwC
A History of Books that Forecast the Future – Printer Inks
Botageddon – Global Guerillas
The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity – kk.org
Future Work Skills 2020 – Institute for the Future
2026 and All That – Flip Chart Fairy Tales
The Future of Work – A journey to 2022 – PwC
Computers will be like humans by 2029: Google’s Ray Kurzweil – CNBC
Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work – danah boyd
Researchers reveal their predictions for life in 2025 – Mail Online
Quantum Computing Is About To Be The Biggest Breakthrough Of The Century
– Business Insider
Gartner’s Predictions Of New Trends – Broadstuff
Could a big data-crunching machine be your boss one day? – BBC
Disruption is the Future of Work: The All Consuming Employee – Servant of Chaos
With New Updates, Evernote Aims to Rethink Work Itself – ReCode
‘Digital twins’ will make decisions for us – and even console loved ones after we die by 2020, futurist claims – Mail Online
Learning to learn about futures thinking – Edge Ryders
This Is What It Will Look Like When Robots Take All Our Jobs – New Republic
Civil Rights, Big Data, and Our Algorithmic Future – Robinson + Yu
‘Robot Overlords’ Job-Stealing Exaggerated: Jackson Hole Paper – Bloomberg
America, say goodbye to the Era of Big Work – LA Times
AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs – Pew Research
Futurism Videos
The birth of a word – TED
The Beaming Project – Advanced Virtuality
Smartwatches could be a perfect home for augmented reality –The Next Web
Netwars – (eponymous)
Flashback: What we said about mobile phones in 1983 – CBS News
Mariana Mazzucato – TED
Got a meeting? Take a walk – Nilofer Merchant
Self-Driving Car Test – Steve Mahan
A new way to stop identity theft –TED
Juan Enriquez: The next species of human – Juan Enriquez
6 ways mushrooms can save the world – TED
The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology – TED
Where’s Google going next? – TED
Radical Openness by Jason Silva – TED Global
Government — investor, risk-taker, innovator – TED
Microsoft Smart Home – Microsoft
The LSD-Inspired, Oculus Rift Game ‘SoundSelf’ – Kotaku
WebRTC enabled remote control of Lego Mindstorm robots via OpenMTC. – Tsahi Levent-levi
The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video –Abe Davis et al
The Future of Gesture Control — Introducing Myo: Thalmic Labs – TEDxToronto
Pointing to the future of UI –TED
InterDigital Vision 2020 – GigaOm
Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google – The Interconnected, Improving World – YouTube
GE: The boy who beeps – Ads of the World
Watch Old People Freak Out Trying Oculus Rift For the First Time – Gizmodo
Books worth reading
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect – Matthew D. Lieberman
The Domesticated Brain – Bruce Hood
The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity – Bruce Hood
The New Digital Age – Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen
Virtual Leadership –Ghislaine Caulat
Telephone Conversation –Robert Hopper
Why We Don’t Talk To Each Other Anymore: The De-Voicing of Society – John Locke
Voice User Interface Design – Michael H. Cohen, James P. Giangola, Jennifer Balogh
Architecture from the Outside –Elizabeth Grosz
The Substance of Style – Virginia Postrel
Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext – Belinda Barnet
Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making –Venkatesh Rao
For The Win How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business
– Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter
Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness: Transcending the Legacy of Separation in Our Individual Lives – Miki Kashtan
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies – Nick Bostrom
Mass personalisation
Do we really need to learn to code? – New Yorker
Corrupt Personalization – Social Media Collective
Will WebRTC Fragment or Consolidate Voice Calling? – BlogGeek.me
Inclusive and accessible design
Squawk no more: Dolby, British Telecom aim to improve conference call audio quality
– PC World
SK Telecom Tests WebRTC for the Blind – Light Reading
Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss – Stanford
Speed reading software to revolutionise the way we read news – World News Publishing Focus
New Speech Device Aims to Help Parkinson’s Patients – Inside Indiana Business
Microsoft R&D produces real-time translation for Skype – Hanley Wood Marketing
Skype Translator: Breaking down language barriers – YouTube
The Development And Critique Of The Social Model Of Disability“ – University college London
The vOICe for Android – Seeing With Sound
A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition – ACM
5in5 Hearing: IBM Research Is Poised to Give Caretakers Insight Into the Sounds Babies Make
– IBM Systems Magazine
Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure – GPII
Memory Apps For Dementia – MAFD
In Touch: Blindness and bereavement – BBC
A Brain-Computer Interface for Speech | MIT Technology Review – Emergent Futures
These 7 Assistive Technology Users Will Leave Your Mind Blown! – Think Inclusive
Data-driven decision making
Data pioneers watching us work – Financial Times
Work 2.0: A Web-connected sticky note that bosses you around – Wired
Why Big Data Isn’t Enough: Tomorrow’s Technology Will Be Built Around Workflows –Wired
Microsoft acquires Capptain, a mobile analytics and push notification startup – The Next Web
Generational change
Internet Users by Region – ITU
Millennials Are Prime Offenders in Bring Your Own Devices Trend – Recode
China’s digital transformation – McKinsey
Why a deep-learning genius left Google & joined Chinese tech shop Baidu – Venturebeat
Global Demographic Trends and their Implications for Employment – Rand
How Will Changing Demographics in the U.S. Influence Business in the Coming Decade? – WSJ
Teens Fact Sheet – Pew Research
The Changing Demographics of America – Smithsonian
Three Reasons You Need To Adopt A Millennial Mindset Regardless Of Your Age – Forbes
Millennials Set to Radically Change Customer Service – Aspect
Teenagers have never been a smaller portion of our population – Washington Post
Why Millennials Don’t Want To Buy Stuff – Fast Company
Millennials leaving government over lack of innovation, study finds – Federal News Radio
How Millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers Can Work Together – Inc
2 dozen millennials explain why they’re obsessed with Snapchat and how they use it
– Business Insider
Millennials are ditching traditional television faster than ever – Independent
Forget Millennials. Gen Xers Are the Future of Work – Time
Gender vs. Generational Divide Tops Findings From The Social Consumer Study
– Leader Networks
This Is How Millennials Want to Be Managed – Entrepreneur
Portfolio careers
More than two in five new jobs created since mod-2010 have been self-employed
– Trades Union Congress
Self-employment in the UK at highest level since records began – The Guardian
Virtual workplace solution
The five forces shaping the future of the workplace landscape – The Guardian
4 Trends That Will Change the Way We Work – Business News Daily
The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class
– Fast Company
Privacy
IBM Research – Homomorphic encryption – IBM
Privacy can be lucrative – Silent Circle just pulled in $30M in funding – GigaOm
DP5: A Private Presence Service – University of Waterloo
Raspberry Pi for Speech Encryption – Tearcomm
How Yik Yak Keeps Its Anonymity App From Ruining People’s Lives – Wired
Sensory Introduces Combined Voice and Vision Biometric Authentication for Mobile Phones, Tablets and PCs – Yahoo Finance
CERN Scientists Launch Encrypted Email Service With a Difference – Coindesk
The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild – KU Leuven
t.co bypass for Greasemonkey & Chrome – Github
Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync – Whisper Systems
New app brings free encrypted voice calling to your iPhone – Yahoo News
The “NSA-proof” ProtonMail is getting a mobile app – Forbes
Maciej Cegłowski talk – Idle Words
The App That Lets You Spy on Yourself and Sell Your Own Data – Wired
You’ve Been Doing It Wrong. Privacy Is Part of User Experience – Wired
Verizon’s offer: Let us track you, get free stuff – CNN
It’s complicated: Why we need a new etiquette for handling what’s private and what’s public
– GigaOm
ISPs take GCHQ to court in UK over mass surveillance – The Guardian
The Right to Remember: A Speculative Community Informatics approach to “the Right to Be Forgotten” – Michael Gurstein
With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility – ZDNet
U.S. search warrant can acquire foreign cloud, email data, judge rules – ZDNet
The Age of ‘Infopolitics’ – Opinionator
Transparency and the EU’s New “Right to Be Forgotten – Chilling Effects
Privacy by design – PbD
Skype: The wiretap-friendly communication tool that started out with great intentions
– Silent Circle
NSA man says agency can track you through POWER LINES – The Register
The airborne panopticon: How plane-mounted cameras watch entire cities – ArsTechnica
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control – The Guardian
The troubling truth about U.S. email encryption laws – Daily Dot
Snowden wants YOU – yes, YOU – to build spy-busting tech – The Register
Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face – The Atlantic
Children’s strategies of negotiation and resistance to parental surveillance via mobile phones
– Queen’s University
The magic of the camera in reestablishing civil/ethical behavior – Facebook
Noticing more – using lifelogging wearables in personal and social understanding
– Acuity Design
People are finally worrying about online privacy—and tech firms are already cashing in – QZ
‘Unhackable’: Russian firm develops totally surveillance-proof smartphone – We Are Change
Intellectual privacy vital to life in the digital age –Phys.org
Facebook signs users up to privacy policy that allows it to track you everywhere on the internet – Independent
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance – Julia Angwin
Wearables open new avenues for security and privacy invasions – ZDNet
FTC Recommends Limits on Data Collection Via Internet of Things – WSJ
Ready for What’s Next? Envision a Future Where Your Personal Information Is Digital Currency – Wired
Welcome To The Matrix: Enslaved By Technology And The Internet Of Things
– Western Journalism
22% of Americans Have Closed An Account Due to Data Privacy Concerns – Juntae Delane
Hidden devices scrutinize employees – Mercury News
“Big Data Ethics” Sound Great, But They Won’t Stop The NSA—Or Facebook – Read Write Web
Why data privacy will become a competitive differentiator – Fortune
Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era – Pew Research
The Arab Spring of Privacy Is Upon Us – Wired
The Online Identity Crisis – Wired
Where’ve you been? Your smartphone’s Wi-Fi is telling everyone – Ars Technica
Privacy Tools: The Best Encrypted Messaging Programs – Pro Publica
World’s Top Privacy Experts Worry About Internet Of Things – Forbes
The cookie is dead. Here’s how Facebook, Google, and Apple are tracking you now
– Venture Beat
Dubai Police Will Wear Google Glass With Facial Recognition Software to ID Crooks – Slate
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control – The Guardian
The rise of the anti-facial recognition movement – Daily Dot
Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet bill of rights to ensure greater privacy – The Guardian
iPhone? It’s a spyphone: Apple devices can record your every movement – Mail Online
Privacy key to UK business opportunity, says KPMG – Computer Weekly
It’s not too late for privacy – Constellation Research
Stalkers, Inc. – Economist
Artificial Intelligence Is Doomed if We Don’t Control Our Data – Mashable
Software That Can See Will Change Privacy Forever – Technology Review
With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise – New York Times
Wearer be warned: your fitness data may be sold or used against you – Startup Smart
Indie Web Trend Future – Charles Bartlett
Dropbox was asked not to inform users of 80% of its government data requests – Pando Daily
60 percent of apps fail basic privacy tests, finds international cross-governmental study
– 9to5 Mac
Targeted Advertising Considered Harmful – ZPG
The Apple Privacy Watch Constellation Research
Why Privacy Policies Are So Inscrutable – The Atlantic
Facebook Generation Rekindles Expectation of Privacy Online – New York Times
Google Map Tracks Your Every Move. Check Your ‘Location History’ to Verify It
– The Hacker News
Hackers Could Use Your Smartphone’s Gyroscope as a Microphone to Listen In – Slate
Resurgence in voice
Lync and the Death of the Desk Phone – No Jitter
Business Conversations Need Voice and Visual Information Too – TMCNet
Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong – Both Sides of the Table
Oracle Partners With Nuance to Add Voice Features to Its Mobile Apps – Yankee Group
Domino’s Pizza launches voice ordering in mobile apps powered by Nuance – 9to5 Mac
Amazon Introduces Mayday – TechCrunch
Tim Cook Emphasizes Importance of Voice Messaging, Sparking iWatch Speculation
– MacRumors
Video Is Everywhere, But Is Anyone Using It? – No Jitter
Is Your Voice a Business Asset or a Liability? – Entrepreneur
Saving sound: Paul Allen-backed startup launches app that constantly records audio
– GeekWire
Mitel Takes Another Step Towards a Fully Unified Platform by Acquiring OAISYS – Nemertes
Evernote Wear Brings Note Taking Onto Android Wear Devices – Ubergizo
How Siri’s ultimate killer feature could be remembering – Mac Daily News
Google Stories, Your Memory And You: It’s Complicated – Forbes
Business Conversations Need Voice and Visual Information Too – Unified Communications
U.K. Poll Finds 33% No Longer Talk on Their Phones – IP Carrier
Voice Control Will Force an Overhaul of the Whole Internet – Wired
Smartphone app enables deaf people to make phone calls – Disabled Go
‘Star Trek Communicator Startup’ Sets Out to Build a World Powered by Voice – Wired
Military could be using high-tech speech software by 2017 – USA Today
The Future Of Voice-Activated AI Sounds Awesome – Get Prismatic
Speech Recognition Better Than a Human’s Exists. You Just Can’t Use It Yet – Global Tech
Voice – The Next Evolution In Search Marketing? – Invoca
With 100M users, Truecaller starts making call suggestions – GigaOm
Voiceitt Is Chosen Audience Favorite at WSJD Live Startup Showcase – WSJ
Apple’s Siri fuels boom in voice technology – Mercury New
Directory App Truecaller Raises $60M At A $300M Valuation Led By KPCB, Atomico, Sequoia
– TechCrunch
Enabling Voice Input into the Open Web and Firefox OS – Mozilla
In 5 Years, 50% of Our Search Queries Will Be on Speech or Images According to Andrew Ng
– DataConomy
ZTE Teams Up With Industry Giants for the Rise of the “Smart Voice Alliance”
– Business Wire India
What Ozzie Sees — and Hears — Ahead – HP
Tablets with Voice Calling Functions Find Big Market In Asia – Realtime Communications World
Pattern Recognition Algorithm Recognizes When Drivers Are on the Phone
– Technology Review
On-the-go communications
Prepare For Cameras To Invade Your Car – ReadWriteWeb
Auto-Autonomy: Cars Are Racing Toward Disruption – Recode
Self-Driving Cars Will Mean More Traffic– Business Week
Connected cars: 2025, all cars to become ‘mobile’? – Mobile World Capital
U.S. may mandate ‘talking’ cars by early 2017 – Reuters
Grow, peak or plateau – the outlook for car travel – University of the West of England
Future of email
Why Email Will Be Obsolete by 2020 – Inc
Slack, a team-talk tool that Just Works – Boing Boing
Google’s Inbox is A New Email App From The Gmail Team Designed Not To Be Gmail
– TechCrunch
Let’s ban the after-hours email culture from our bedrooms – The Times
Virtual reality
Ingress: The game that reveals Google’s secret war to control London – The Guardian
I Wore the New Oculus Rift and I Never Want to Look at Real Life Again – Gizmodo
Next generation Oculus Rift DK2 with 1080p and positional tracking starts shipping
– Pocket Lint
Being in Augmented Multi-Modal Naturally-Networked Gatherings – Beaming
Grand challenges in virtual environments – Frontiers
An Animated Avatar Could Screen Humans For National Security – Popsci
Augmented Multi-Party Interaction – AMI Project
Web-ifying the real world – Science Daily
Avegant Glyph is the VR headset that looks like headphones – Wareable
How Magic Leap Is Secretly Creating a New Alternate Reality – Gizmodo
3 Oculus Rift Apps That Prove Virtual Reality Goes Far Beyond Gaming – Bloomberg
EON Reality Releases Upgraded Augmented Reality – 4-traders
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap raises $542M – Fierce Wireless
Oculus Rift in the classroom: Immersive education’s next level – ZDNet
Oculus’ new prototype is where VR should be right now – The Verge
Finally: Meta begins shipping its augmented reality glasses to developers – GigaOm
Virtual-Reality Headset Is Reinventing Exposure Therapy – Scientific American
Gaming and gamification
Beyond Badges: The New Rules of Gamification – Inc
What’s the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter – Polygon
Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms – Technology Review
Play it again – Island Letters
Future Of Work: Using Gamification For Human Resources – Forbes
Andreessen Horowitz invests $20M in startup Improbable to build massive simulated game worlds – VentureBeat
Gartner is Soooooo Wrong about Gamification… – JoSeK
In E-Sports, Video Gamers Draw Real Crowds and Big Money – New York Times
Sensor revolution
Heartphones: headphones that measure your heart rate – LG
Forget Wristbands, FreeWavz Brings Fitness Monitoring To Your Earphones – TechCrunch
Will you be able to take a picture with Google Glass by just thinking about it?
– Washington Post
MEMS startup snags $37M to make accelerometers smaller and cheaper – GigaOm
Skinput turns your hand into a touchscreen and your fingers into a keypad – Gizmag
Forget “OK Glass,” MindRDR Is A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts
– TechCrunch
Chips designed specifically for wearables starting to appear – EE Times
Close encounter of the haptic type – EE Times
Sensors And Sensitivity – TechCrunch
Extracting audio from visual information – MIT
How a Sensor-Filled World Will Change Human Consciousness – Scientific American
The future of biosensing wearables – Rock Health
5 ways Apple could push headphone technology forward – GigaOm
Wearable Computers Will Transform Language – IEEE Spectrum
Contextualised Self? Using #wearabletech for more than quantification – Acuity Design
Devices That Know How We Really Feel – New York Times
How digital technology is transforming our relationship with sound – Noodle
Wearable Technology in the Classroom – Innovation Excellence
Wearable Computing Will Forever Alter Collaboration, But Not How You Might Think
– Current Analysis
“Is wearable computing the next big thing in air travel?” – Aircraft Interiors
The rise of data and the death of politics – The Guardian
How I walked 18.5 miles in a single day without losing productivity at my computer
– Venture Beat
How wearables are driving the rethinking of notifications – Venture Beat
How Your Sensor Data and The Internet of Things Can Save You A Lot Of Money
– Big Data Startups
The Internet Of Things Will Radically Change Your Big Data Strategy – Forbes
The Internet of Things Is Bigger than Texting Refrigerators and Fitbit – IT Business Edge
The Internet of Things is running up an $80 billion energy bill – Forbes
Microsoft Tackles Internet-of-Things With New Data Stream Processing Service – InfoQ
Google puts a Dropcam in it’s Nest, for $500m. Home automation will be bigger than wearables – Recode
Google’s Nest launches network technology for connected home – Rawstory
Into the Age of Context – Medium
Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy – Robert Scoble
We Are a Camera – The New Yorker
Sensual interfaces
Microsoft Research crafts wrist-worn device that tracks hand gestures in 3D space – Edgadget
Microsoft’s wearable Alice band is not a rival to Google Glass– ZD Net
Google Gesture concept sees real time translation of sign language– Android Central
Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper – Wired
Next generation of games not about body as means of control, it’ll be defined by experiences between self & software – Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Why People In London Are Walking Around Wearing Blindfolds – Buzzfeed
The Future is Micro – The Heretic
How Using Emoji Makes Us Less Emotional – New Republic
LG Unrolls a TV Screen That Rolls Up – Scoop.it
What a $120,000 TV Looks Like – The Atlantic
Foldable, Bendable And Bright: The Future Of Displays – Forbes
Why floors, walls and ceilings are the next interface – ComputerWorld
Forget emojis, Yahoo says sensors in smartphones and watches could add REAL EMOTIONS to our emails – Mail Online
The Communication Of The Future Is So Real You Can Touch It – Benton Foundation
Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin – New York Times
Spearcons (speech-based earcons) improve navigation performance in advanced auditory menus – PubMed
The IoT startup using 3D interfaces to control smart cities – ZDNet
Will Quantum Dots Dominate Displays? – IEEE
Soundscaping
Google Patents Steerable Audio Beam for Google Glass – Glass Almanac
Dolby’s Crazy Atmos Surround Sound Comes to … – DTV Audio Group – Dolby
Wearables
5 Futuristic Wearable Devices That Will Blow Your Mind – MD+DI
Fin : Wearable Ring Make your Palm as Numeric Keypad and Gesture Interface – IndieGoGo
This augmented reality motorcycle helmet could save your life – Endgadget
Nod Gesture Control Ring Is Designed For Continual Wear, Starts Selling Today For $149
– TechCrunch
The TV you can only watch when you’re smiling – CNet
The smart bracelet that can read your emotions – BBC
Sense: Know More. Sleep Better – KickStarter
Hands On With The Production Version Of The Myo Gesture Control Armband – TechCruch
These Vibrating Smart Shoes Tell You Where To Turn – Huffington Post
Razer’s sub-$100 Nabu wearable device integrates WeChat, behaves much like a smartwatch
– The Next Web
Forget Glass. Here Are Wearables That Protect Your Privacy – Forbes
Why wearables’ success depends on being like Yo – The Guardian
Takahito Iguchi: the visionary who sees beyond Google Glass – The Guardian
Virtual keyboard on a #SmartWatch? Minuum makes that possible – Phone Area
AirType Concept Promo – Vimeo
SENSORY UX – Sensory UX
ARM developing processors to make wearables ‘invisible’ – Infoworld
How Salesforce.com Could Change the Market for Wearable Technology – Motley Fool
Intel Perceptual Computing – Intel
Microsoft secures patent for object-recognizing Augmented Reality smart glasses – Into Mobile
Some of the problems with the whole wearables trend – WDC
Wearable intelligence – Establishing protocols to socialize wearable devices – O’Reilley
4 Reasons Nobody Cares About Smartwatches – Time
Hello, wearable technology. Nice to meet you. (Or was it?) – Amdocs
Don’t Get Terminated: Adapting to Wearable Technology – Desk
Assuring that trust wears well – Diginomica
Wearable Computing is Not Calm Technology, Yet – BigThink
The Evolution Of Neurocentric Wearables – WT VOX
Get Naked with Nearables –Demo Helsinki
The Apple Watch as the Ultimate Communication (and Customer Care?) Device – Aspect Blogs
Ousting and Taking Over | Cynaps Mint Replaces the Need for Headphones – Tech Zulu
The World’s First Smart Earplug – Hush
Mobile phone inventor says wearables will replace smartphones – Wareable
Wearable tech lets boss track your work, rest and play – New Scientist
How’s Your Enterprise Wearables Strategy? – Information Week
From wearables to … invisibles – Venture Beat
The Problem With Wearable Technology, According To “Blade Runner” Designer Syd Mead
– Fast Company
Bracelet could protect user herds from lurking PREDATORS – The Register
The Digitization of Everything: Wearables Rising – Value Creator
The scary Apple Watch future – Salon
Apple Watch – A new Era of Wearable Computing? – Wearable Technologies
Report: Wearables need makeover to maximize market – Atmel
Ineda planning mass production of low-power chips for wearables in 2015 – Fierce Wireless
Intel poised to launch luxury smart bracelet at Barneys – C|Net
A Year With Google Glass Will Turn You Into an Obnoxious Monster – The Atlantic
Is the Player Nervous? Just Ask His Shirt – New York Times
Internet of Bling: Samsung Buys SmartThings for $200 Million – Recode
Wearable devices to support Parkinson’s disease research – Telegraph
Wearable technology is the new healthcare craze – Wearable News
This Guy Tracks Everything About Himself And Puts It Up Online For Everyone To See
– TechCrunch
Disney Magic Bands In-depth review at Disney World – MouseChat
What Will It Take to Make Your Grandma’s Wearable? – UX Magazine
Social robotics
Are we ready for the rise of social robots? – BBC
Quantum Robotics will Create Artificial Intelligence ‘Capable of Creativity’
– International Business Times
Sentiment analysis
Smartphone app detects mood swings via voice analysis – University of Michigan Health
App Tells You How You Feel – WSJ
Voice Sentiment Analysis Startup Saygent Raises $1 Million – TechCrunch
Computers Are Getting Better Than Humans Are at Facial Recognition – The Atlantic
This algorithm can detect rare genetic disorders from regular Facebook pics – Wired
This Smart Cat Feeder Uses Facial Recognition to Exclude Greedy Kitties – Smithsonian
What happens when your friend’s smartphone can tell that you’re lying – Washington Post
Twitter invests $10 million in MIT’s new Laboratory for Social Machines – Beta Boston
Dell Plans To Release A Mood-Reading Product By 2017 – NeuroGadget
Beyond Verbal Raises $3.3 Million to Read Emotions in a Speaker’s Voice – WSJ
Moodies voice analysis app arrives for Android to show you how you come across to others
– The Next Web
Computer Eyesight Gets a Lot More Accurate – New York Times
Anticipatory computing
Smart Assistants, Anticipatory Computing and the slow Death of Search – Meetup
IBM Aims to Make Medical Expertise a Commodity – Technology Review
IBM exec: Watson has plenty of IQ, not enough EQ (yet) – Fortune
IBM’s Watson: Cognitive or Sentient? – BigThink
Apple Buys Cue For Over $40M To Compete With Google Now – TechCrunch
Newsle Joins The LinkedIn Family – LinkedIn
Computers That Know What You Need, Before You Ask – NPR
THE COMING ERA OF MAGICAL COMPUTING – FastCompany
Artificial intelligence has an amazing future. Dystopian movies get it wrong – WashingtonPost
2014 mobile trends: Anticipatory computing – Cezary
Inside Story: LinkedIn’s VP of Mobile on Driving in the Snow, Houzz and Anticipatory Computing – LinkedIn
Forget Lean and Agile – It’s Time to be Anticipatory – LinkedIn
Companies Are Tracking Employees to Nab Traitors – Bloomberg
Startup Altocloud scores $2M and launches its ‘predictive communications’– Venture Beat
Artificial intelligence experts sign open letter to protect mankind from machines – C|Net
Get ready to get more acquainted with A.I. in 2015 – CNBC
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World – Wired
Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.’ – Washington Post
The Future Of AI Will Be Stacked – TechCrunch
RecSys 2014 Keynote by Jeff Dean: Large Scale Machine Learning for Predictive Tasks, Pt. 1
– YouTube
Love or Hate It, Why Predictive Analytics Is The Next Big Thing – Inc
A Cambrian Explosion In AI Is Coming – TechCrunch
Iterations: Calendar Frenzy, Google Now, and Apple’s “Anticipatory Computing” Problem
– TechCrunch
Nick Bostrom: The AI pioneers for the most part did not countenance the possibility that their enterprise might involve risk. – IoT Council
Why Nvidia thinks it can power the AI revolution – GigaOm
Virtual assistants
‘Cortana-gate’ ruins Satya Nadella’s Microsoft honeymoon – Channel Register
Why #Siri Is Apple’s Most Important Footnote – Fast Company
Tony Stark’s Jarvis Voice Recognition Software Now A Reality – Bit Rebels
Artificial Intelligence Is Already Controlling Humans – Huffington Post
Heresy of the week: There is no such thing as artificial intelligence and there never will be
“Artificial intelligence: the next step in evolution?” – The Age
Paperclip maximizer – Less Wrong
Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk – Yudkowsky
By 2045 ‘The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,’ And That Could Be A Problem
– Business Insider
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock
– The Guardian
The uncanniest valley: what happens when robots know us better than we know ourselves?
– Singularity Hub
Software That Augments Human Thinking – Technology Review
Chimpanzee language: Communication gestures translated – BBC
IBM Buys Deep Learning Startup To Boost Watson – Top Tech News
The Looming Threat Of Artificial Unintelligence – Popular Science
Julie Desk Is An Email-Based Virtual Assistant To Help You Schedule Meetings And Appointments – TechCrunch
Siri’s Descendants: How intelligent assistants will evolve – Medium
It’s Like I’m Talking to a Machine: Psychology of Talking to Virtual Assistants – Medium
Siri Is Only The Beginning – TechCrunch
Evernote’s CEO: Siri and wearables are doing it wrong – Engadget
With The Rise Of Wearables, Virtual Assistants Will Disrupt Marketing As Usual – Fast Company
BlackBerry Assistant Takes ‘Natural Language’ to the Next Level – Brand Channel
Lifelong Virtual Assistants Will Know Your Most Intimate Secrets – Factor Tech
Siri Creators Have a Much Smarter Bun in the Oven – Tech News World
Wireless and mobility
SK Telecom planning ‘hyper-connected infrastructure’ for 5G – Fierce Wireless
Stanford engineers aim to connect the world with ant-sized radios – Stanford News
Distributed trust systems
Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy – Melanie Swan
These Guys Are Creating A Whole New Internet Using Bitcoin And They Are Having Surprising Success – Business Insider
Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective – Stripe
Explaining Ethereum – Chain.com
…And The Good News: Banks Will Be Obsolete Within 10 Years – Zero Hedge
Weekend Read: The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution – WSJ
Bitcoin is Gamification – Medium
Batteries and power
Charging while you drive? It’s not as crazy as it sounds – Qualcomm Halo
Starbucks to Offer Wireless Caffeine for Smartphones – Scientific American
Massive breakthrough in battery technology – UCR Today
Next Big Thing You Missed: Bigger, Cheaper Fuel Cells Will Eliminate Power Outages – Wired
New Rechargeable Cell Has 7 Times Higher Energy Density Than Li-ion Cells – Nikkei
Flexible Printed Batteries Coming Soon To Power Wearable Devices – The Tech Journal
Ultrapak external battery packs can grab a full charge for a standard smartphone in 15 minutes – New York Times
Breakthrough Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar Energy in Half – Big Think
Better Batteries: How Nanotech Could Charge Your Smartphone in Seconds, and Keep it Running for a Month – Book of the Future
The Battery Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting for? – WSJ
Wireless charging set for huge growth in next 10 years – C|NET
New Batteries Could Last 20 Years and Take Just Minutes to Charge – Small Business Trends
This everlasting battery is made from recycled vanadium and ready to plug in – GigaOm
Ultra-fast charging batteries that can be 70% recharged in just two minutes – Science Daily
Tech World Vexed by Slow Progress on Batteries – WSJ
StoreDot lands $42m for novel battery technology that enables 30-second smartphone charges – TechEU
Soon, Europe Might Not Need Any New Power Plants – Think Progress
Oh, This Bracelet? It’s Just My Wearable Device Charger – Mashable
‘Glomad’ workers
New tribes preparing to move in next door – Telegraph
7 ‘digital nomads’ explain how they live, work and travel anywhere in the world – TheNextWeb
How To Succeed At Becoming A Digital Nomad – Forbes
Digital nomads travel the world while you rot in your office – Mashable
Home teleworking
Telework Research Network – Global Workplace Analytics
Remote Work, Distributed Teams & Independent Worker Statistics – WorkingRemote.ly
Telework Adoption and Energy Use in Building and Transport Sectors in the United States and Japan – Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 – U.S. General Services Administration
Firms downsizing property dramatically as agile working takes hold, claims new report
– Workplace Insight
Does Telecommuting Kill Company Morale? – Inc
Data destruction
Self-destructing selfie app – Wickr unveils the latest service after Snapchat hack – Mirror
The Ephemeral App Ecosystem – Over $180M Raised – CB Insights
Snapvoice Is Like Instagram For Photos With Attached Voice Recordings – Addictive Tips
The case for an absent-minded Internet – Boston Globe
Anonymized Analytics: Unleash the Power of User Data with Aircloak – Aircloak
Devices being remotely wiped in police custody – BBC
Poor privacy and data security policies are hurting innovation, says Intel – Engadget
Microsoft and Other Firms Pledge to Protect Student Data – New York Times
Cybermeetings
Virtual Leadership: Learning to Lead Differently – Ghislaine Caulat
Work skills of the future: constructive uncertainty – GigaOm
Why Some Company Offices Are Virtual – Business Week
Virtual Reality’s Vomit Problem – Bloomberg
Virtual Reality Is Happening, But Like For Real This Time – Gizmodo
Bill Gates: Microsoft is developing a killer meeting-room app – PC World
Security as a service
Voice Biometric Authentication With Twilio – Twilio
New Biometric Software Bringing Ear Recognition To Smartphones – Find Biometrics
Could our behaviour be turned into a password? – BBC
Researchers Use #Bigdata to Get Around Encryption – WSJ
Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones – Scientific American
Sensory Introduces Combined Voice and Vision Biometric Authentication for Mobile Phones, Tablets and PCs – Yahoo Finance
Sensory Unveils Multi-Modal Biometric Authentication for Mobile Devices – Voice Bio Con
Apple looking into ways to change iPhone’s security level and UI settings based on user’s location – Into Mobile
The Growing Threat Of Network-Based Steganography – Technology Review
AT&T joins MasterCard battling fraud with phone location – Naples News
Trustev’s Pat Phelan on the challenge of verifying mobile customers – Wired
Phone Swindlers Tap Into Fear and a Sense of Duty – New York Times
Personal details removed from site over ‘identity theft’ concerns – Irish Times
Patent to recognise web behaviour such as typing and browsing styles to stop fraud – V3
Internet of Things needs to be encrypted to offer proper security – HITBSecNews
You have been hacked! – Economist
Human productivity
Against the Insufferable Cult of Productivity – New Republican
Nadella’s Challenge Is to ‘Reinvent Productivity’ — and Microsoft – Wharton
Work seriously damages your health, say scientists – The Idler
ALARM FATIGUE: Study finds doctors, nurses overwhelmed by noise – My FOX Twin Cities
Walking for 5 min/hour prevents negative health effects of sitting – Boing Boing
Mindfulness is the New Definition of Success – BigThink
Does Mindfulness lead to neuroplasticity? – Neuroscience
A Social Network Designed to Combat Depression – Wired
A Team of Biohackers Has Figured Out How to Inject Your Eyeballs With Night Vision
– Science.Mic
Navy’s Exoskeleton Could Make Workers 20 Times More Productive – Wired
Could Deep-Brain Stimulation Fortify Soldiers’ Minds? – Scientific American
Building Mind-Controlled Gadgets Just Got Easier – IEEE
FDA Approves World’s First Artificial Retina – American Society of Retina Specialists
New Biological Technologies Will Grant Troops Super Powers – National Defense Magazine
Telepathy is now possible using current technology – Vox
UC Berkeley researchers develop technology to correct screens for visual impairments
– Daily Californian
DARPA’s tiny implants will hook directly into your nervous system, treat diseases and depression without medication – ExtremeTech
Simplified security
The Password Is Finally Dying. Here’s Mine – Wall Street Journal
The future of passwords really is no passwords – QZ
Ping takes a swing at replacing passwords with mobile devices – Fierce Enterprise
“Voice Biometrics”: The first circle of Hell – PandoDaily
Biometrics in smartphones need more control – ex-GCHQ boss – BBC
The biometrics revolution is already here — and you may not be ready for it – Washington Post
South Korea identity thefts forces ID overhaul – CNS News
Researchers in China Develop 99.8% Accurate Face Recognition System as Substitute to Online Payment Method – DataConomy
European football clubs eye biometrics goal – Planet Biometrics
The Gospel of IRMA: Attribute Based Credentials in Practice – CCC
Cisco: The Internet Needs More Control – New York Times
Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police, even with search warrants
– Washington Post
Safeguarding the pedigree of personal attributes – Lockstep
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