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Sharing my life story from a virtual perspective

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. Hi, welcome to The Virtual Excellence Show. So I thought it’d be worth sharing my story of the virtual.

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How social justice slideshows took over Instagram

Vox

But in a time of social unrest, these text-based slideshow graphics have found new resonance and an eager audience on the platform, which has been notorious for prioritizing still images over text. How to protest virtually. Defunding the police. Mail-in voting. Turkey’s concerning femicide rate. The crisis that’s afflicting Lebanon.

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Google Acquires Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

CTOvision

Two examples: this year, Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus in an effort to develop new communication lines, and Google purchased DeepMind, pushing into the artificial intelligence sphere. Like Google’s hot air balloons, the drones can beam the Internet down to Earth, but unlike balloons, the drones are not disabled by bad weather.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub.

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

CTOvision

We are already seeing the use of the Internet as a reference to law, but consider it being delivered in a tailored way to inform. By 2030 we should expect to have virtual adjudication in many cases. The Internet is changing the DMV and most every other state, federal and local government office. This is just one domain.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

Its algorithms and architecture make it resistant to tampering and, thus, ideal for storing financial records, medical data, or other sensitive information. Blockchain Opportunities Decentralization: Blockchain advocates hope to realign control of the Internet by taking away the power held by big technology companies seen as gatekeepers.

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

With the rise of remote and hybrid work in the past few years, adversaries and other bad actors have been given a virtual buffet of new ways to launch their harmful attacks, as more documents than ever are shared across the Internet. Develop a plan to protect personally identifying information (PII). Provide access control.

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