Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 3, 2011

On Tuesday I gave the opening keynote on The Future of Information Infrastructure at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium. CIO magazine did a nice article titled IIIS: Big Data driving new trends which reviews my keynote and the one immediately after from Steve Duplessie , one of the world’s top analysts on data and storage. It says: Speaking at the event, co-hosted by Storage Networking Industry Association A/NZ and Computerworld Australia, strategy advisor, author and fu

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Nutanix

AUGUST 2, 2011

Shrinking server infrastructure to a fraction of its original size has been the biggest infrastructure advancement in the last decade.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

'Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. The ability to mash together a bunch of different expensive individual servers and shrink the company’s IT footprint down by a factor of 5x while reducing power and cooling costs at the same time sure seems to be a miracle cure for IT bu

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 2, 2011

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (slogan: Creating and Preventing Strategic Surprise) is offering $42 million in funding for “revolutionary&# research into social media in strategic communication. The DARPA announcement states: The conditions under which our Armed Forces conduct operations are rapidly changing with the spread of blogs, social networking sites, and media?

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 4, 2011

The centrality and ease of use of the Circles feature means Google+ is a significant step forward in social networking. It has been a key platform in its initial success. The Circles feature enables people to selectively share content. Someone can send work-related discussions to their public stream, photos of their children to their family, and information about a boating event to their yacht club friends.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 4, 2011

Continuing our series of conversations between fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, here is our session on the future of television. Here are a few of the ideas we share in the session: * Video will be everywhere: video walls, ceilings, floors, tables and more, giving space for the vast amount of video we are creating. * Participatory TV is an expression of the broad shift from hub and spoke media to co-created media. * Examples include CBS’s What’s Trending, Al-Jazeera’s

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 1, 2011

One of my key themes is that of governance as enabler. As I proposed in my keynote on the transformation of business at the recent AICD conference, ‘Governance should focus as much on enabling innovation and taking useful risks as about managing and mitigating risk’ Over 93% of the 600 or so company directors present agreed with me. . Today I’m at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium , where I earlier gave the opening keynote on The Future of Information Infras

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 2, 2011

Continuing our series of conversations between friend and fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, here are some discursive thoughts on open versus closed systems. Given this issue’s central role in virtually all business strategy today, we find that our clients are consistently asking us about how to think about and build strategies in this context.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 1, 2011

Directly following my opening keynote on The Future of Information Infrastructure at Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium was Steve Duplessie , who is recognized as one of the top people in the world on information infrastructure. . Here are some notes taken from his excellent keynote: One of the key values for tagging data is to differentiate between the value of information.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 1, 2011

The Smithsonian Institute and Pew Research Center recently did a survey of Americans on what they thought would happen by the year 2050. Good created a nice infographic, below, summarizing some of the data. Click on the image for the full size version. Image source : Good. The Smithsonian magazine has also created a nice animation from the results. Here are some of what the American people believe will (or is likely to) happen by 2050: Computers will be able to converse like humans: 81%.

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