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This exploding demand means the technologies around outputting data in a useable, understandable format, ingesting it into storage so that it’s manageable and searchable, and the analytics to parse that data so it’s useable will only grow.

via The next big data challenge: More data, more speed, more, more… - Tech News and Analysis

Esther Dyson, “People find themselves fascinating.”

via We Know One of the Spring TechStarsNY Companies Already and We Got an Interview | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.

There have been three saltational leaps — next, next things — that stand out in the history of modern computing: Interactive, general purpose, personal computers; graphical user interfaces; and the Web.

via The Next, Next Thing | TechCrunch

Good engineering is often about incremental improvement. Good business is often about finding product/market fit, while good design is often about giving users an interface that is easy to understand.

via The Next, Next Thing | TechCrunch

Interesting investor take on where a large chunk of tech talent is right now …

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• BI:  I’ve read that you think we have so many stupid companies such as group buying companies that are being built. Is that sucking up all the good talent?
• ED: Yes, and I still believe that.
• BI: What’s a solution to that?
• ED: Time. It will become apparent eventually.

via Famed Investor Esther Dyson Knows How To Make Big Bucks About What’s Coming Next. So What’s Next? - Business Insider

This exactly the kind of customer loyalty you want - people so attached to the devices that they fear having them taken away.

“Even doctors who are using an iPad for the first time often become attached, Fishman says. ‘Their biggest fear is what if we took it away.’”

via Apple’s Secret Plan to Steal Your Doctor’s Heart | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

I couldn’t agree more.

“Computers and the Internet now are in a sense creating a global brain where you can access information almost instantaneously and anyone has access to it.”

via The Internet: Triumph of human evolution - Science - Salon.com

Wow, I wasn’t aware of China’s ambitious supercomputing agenda. The race to the first exascale supercomputer will be an interesting one to watch.

“Already, it has 74 of the 500 biggest supercomputers in the world, up from zero a decade ago and second only to the U.S., which has 263. And while the U.S. struggles to fund new development, China seems to have limitless resources to pursue its ambitious goals.”

via In Race for Fastest Supercomputer, China Outpaces U.S. - The Daily Beast

According to comScore, 92 million unique visitors hit LinkedIn’s site world-wide in October and spent an average of 15 minutes on the site. Facebook had 790 million unique visitors who spent more than six hours on the social network.

via HEARD ON THE STREET: The $100 Billion Question for Facebook Fans - WSJ.com

It is critical to recognize that the pace of our reliance on pervasive connectivity via our wireless devices is rapidly outstripping our ability to deal with the absence of those services.

via 96 hours to the stone age: How quickly our connected lives crumble when the power goes out — Tech News and Analysis