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8/24/15

Links and Quotations for August 24, 2015: IBM’s schools open for business, the Emotional Internet, Infomania, and more

Welcome back to your workweek; here’s what’s news in business, science, and tech.

China fears wipe quarter of a trillion euros off Europe’s blue-chips – Reuters 

I joined Google at 19. Here’s what I learned – FastCompany

IBM’s School Could Fix Education—And Tech’s Diversity Gap – Wired 

There Is No Silicon Valley Crash Coming — For A While – TechCrunch – “Unlike the housing market and the previous Silicon Valley burst that started the 21st century, the sky is not falling here and Chicken Little should be put on mute at this stage in the tech startup game. Lessons have been learned from the past, and today’s investors and entrepreneurs do not plan on repeating history.

Tapping Into The Emotional Internet – TechCrunch – “Think ‘wearables that can detect patterns in how you feel when you engage in certain activities’ — telling you, for example, that you feel happiest after a rigorous workout or depressed a few days after you’ve had a bit too much to drink.”

World Is Catching On That Creativity And Creative Jobs Have Been Growing, Not Disappearing, Post-Napster – TechDirt 

Why You Can’t Get Rich Inventing The Banana Split – FastCompany

Robots Will Steal Our Jobs, But They’ll Give Us New Ones – Wired– 

Humans must build these machines and program them and repair them. But they must also train them. This is true of “deep learning” AI, and it’s true of robots like Baxter. Baxter must be programmed to perform certain tasks, and that involves physically moving his limbs back and forth.

IBM is touting the arrival of Watson, a broad collection of online tools that use artificial intelligence to help diagnose disease, among other things, and so many others are exploring similar work. But whatever the message from IBM, such tools operate alongside humans, not in lieu of them. “Watson is like a robotic colleague,” says Gownder. “It’s job transformation, not job replacement.” […]

This is the larger message of Gownder’s report. Robotics and AI will change the way we work, but it won’t necessarily take away our work. Today’s warnings over the rise of AI, he says, are reminiscent of that handwringing over so many other technological advances in the past—and after all these centuries, the workforce is still there.

Are Smartphones Making Us All Infomaniacs? – Re/code – 

“Nomophobia is considered a modern-age phobia introduced to our lives as a byproduct of the interaction between people and mobile information and communication technologies, especially smartphones,” Caglar Yildirim, one of the study’s authors, told The Huffington Post in an email. “It refers to fear of not being able to use a smartphone … [and] it refers to the fear of not being able to communicate, losing the connectedness that smartphones allow, not being able to access information through smartphones, and giving up the convenience that smartphones provide.”

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