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How Will Our Future Cities Look?
Excerpt: “Cities are reaching breaking point,” says Prof David Gann, who heads up Imperial College‘s Digital Economy Lab. “Traffic jams are getting worse, queues longer and transport networks more prone to delays, power outages more common.”…Technology companies such as Siemens, IBM, Intel and Cisco, believe that the cleverest cities will be those that are hooked into the network.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20770518
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12 February 2013: Enterprise Irregulars
Paul Krugman, Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We Have Big Data But Do We Also Have the Big Picture?
Excerpt: Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times today about a quixotic attempt by some in congress to cut funding for social research, which, to my mind, is akin to eliminating the quality control steps in manufacturing. “How do we know what we know?” is an age old question made essential in a complex world where claims and counter claims make the rounds and interested consumers of information seek a handhold on reality.
Read more: http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/58623/we-have-big-data-but-do-we-also-have-the-big-picture/
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