Eric Schmidt, in New Book: China Could Contribute to Fracturing the Internet into Pieces

Fisher, Max. "Eric Schmidt, in New Book: China Could Contribute to Fracturing the Internet into Pieces." The Washington Post, February 3, 2013. 

From the article: "Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s new book, co-authored with a former State Department superstar named Jared Cohen, doesn’t come out until April. But The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Gara got a hold of an advance copy and has been going through some of its ideas about the future of the Web. Particularly interesting are Schmidt’s comments on China, which, according to Gara’s reading, seem to portray the country as a rising threat not just to Web freedom but to the Internet itself.

Schmidt and Cohen write that China is the world’s “most sophisticated and prolific” hacker, according to Gara. Their book reads, ”It’s fair to say we’re already living in an age of state-led cyber war, even if most of us aren’t aware of it.” But their predictions for where that might lead the Internet, according to the Journal’s report, include the dark possibility that it could split apart entirely." Read more
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Can Twitter Predict the Future? Pentagon Says Maybe

Lim, Dawn. "Can Twitter Predict the Future? Pentagon Says Maybe." Mashable, January 14, 2013. 

From the article: "The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts predict the future and make decisions faster.

The search is part of the Office of Naval Research's "Data to Decisions" program, a series of three-to-10-year initiatives that will address the volume of information that threatens to overwhelm planners in the digital age, contract databases indicate. The goal is to build an open source system that can unite various tools that collect, manage and draw relationships between data sets." Read more

Tech and the Digital Economy 2012: A Retrospective Roundup

“Fast Track to the Future: The 2012 IBM Tech Trends Report.”IBM Center for Applied Insights, 2012.

Grush, Andrew. “TopMobile Technology Innovations of 2012.” Mobile Magazine,December 12, 2012.

  

Higginbotham, Stacey. “2012: the Year Software-DefinedNetworking Sold Out.” GigaOm, December 17, 2012.

Loshin, David. “TechnicalObjectives for High Performance Information: Broadening Data Accessibility.”Attunity Blog, December 20, 2012.

O’Brien, Matthew, Thompson, Derek, and Jordan Weissmann. “The10 Things We Learned About Business and Economics in 2012.” The Atlantic,December 14, 2012.

Tech Forecasts for 2013

Platt, Peter. "6 Trends that Will Shape Digital in 2013." iMedia Connection, December 10, 2012.

McKendrick, Joe. "7 'Half-Baked Ideas' on Where Cloud Will Take Us in 2013 and Beyond."  Forbes, December 16, 2012. 

Kosner, Anthony Wing. “The Appification Of Everything Will Transform The World's 360 Million Web Sites.” Forbes, December 16, 2012.

Ben-Yehuda,Gadi. “Predictions for 2013; Keep an Eye on Privacy” TechPresident, December14, 2012.

Schybergson, Olof. “5 Trends That Will Shape Digital Services in 2013” Fast Company, no date.

Ad Spending Tops $800 Million; On Pace to Reach or Come Close to $1 Billion

Montanaro, Domenico. "Ad Spending Tops $800 Million; On Pace to Reach or Come Close to $1 Billion." NBC News, October 17, 2012.

From the article: "Ad spending in the presidential campaign has now topped $800 million and is on pace to reach or come close to $1 billion, according to an NBC analysis of data provided by ad-buying firm SMG Delta." Read more

Intelligence Agencies Turn to Crowdsourcing

Weinberger, Sharon. "Intelligence Agencies Turn to Crowdsourcing." BBC, October 10, 2012.

From the article: "Research firm Applied ResearchAssociates, has just launched a website that invites the public—meaning anyone, anywhere—to sign up and try their hand at intelligence forecasting. The website is part of an effort, sponsored by the IntelligenceAdvanced Research Projects Activity (Iarpa), to understand the potential benefits of so-called crowdsourcing for predicting future events. Crowdsourcing aims to use the “wisdom of crowds” and was popularised by projects like Wikipedia." Read more