Year: 2018

I have spend more time talking about #cybersecurity and #automation in the last few months than in the last 10 years…

Maybe, when the experience is frictionless (effortless and instantaneous), people are more inclined to use it to capture ephemeral feeling (like feeling hungry in front of a delicious dish).

Interesting how removing friction from photography (aka smartphones have become so great that your camera is always with you) has led to a shift of focus in photographic subjects. Imagine the DSLR generation taking all food pictures that Instagram generation takes…

George Orwell on meaningless words in 1946. Cogent. > “Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different.” https://t.co/GPoSM1Kv44

Maybe reviewing Facebook operational costs would clarify what it means to run a social network for 1/3 of the planet and put things in perspective @ingridlunden > UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook https://t.co/z5cOsymbfU

“The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of raising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately – and against ordinary experience – vanishes.” [Ubik]

I’m starting to be doubtful about the value of X. When a customer starts to be doubtful about the value of X, that customers is already lost.

Ohhh the irony… ‘Legacy system’ exposed Black Hat 2018 attendees’ contact information https://t.co/g0sSYtToZ8

This is great @Kyle_L_Wiggers @IBMResearch. Just yesterday I was chatting with @jkriggins about the criticality of open source transparency in #AI to mitigate bias at a @RedHat press gathering. > IBM researchers propose ‘factsheets’ for AI transparency https://t.co/obkB1JAdXK

@peterl True. However, don’t forget that this is the age of Instagram selfies…