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MH370 Hunt: IoT Sharks with Laser Beams?
MH370 and Crowdsourced Sharks with Laser Beams? The disappearance of MH Flight 370 has revealed a major gap in the Internet of Things: most of the world is water and lacks decent broadband coverage due to the ocean’s relative inability to transmit radio waves. Austin Powers fans will recall Dr. Evil’s obsession for “Sharks with Laser Beams” and we’ll see what MH370 has to do with them in a bit. Crowdsourcing rapid technological innovation in emergencies During the hunt for the plane, innovative technological solutions were crowdsourced that later were used in the investigation (perhaps through independent discovery by very qualified experts or perhaps as result of the crowdsourced suggestions). Proposals such as using the doppler shift to fine-tune the Inmarsat data, combine Inmarsat data with radar data, and use military antisubmarine sonar buoys were all proposed in online forums, days or even weeks before they were official announced by investigators as novel techniques used in the investigation.… Read the restWhy the Singularity Might Not Happen: Predictive Apocalypse Analytics
Singularity or Apocalypse? We’ve mentioned the concept of the Singularity a few times in these pages, but it’s not a foregone conclusion that this is the destiny of humanity. The NYPost did a sensationally-titled review last week on Eric H. Cline’s book about the fall of ancient Egypt. (We can’t quite resist including this work of art of an article plug line: “Ancient civilizations fell almost simultaneously & it could happen again.”) The Singularity is not a foregone conclusion, here’s why. Click To Tweet Although Cline’s book (and the NY Post review of it) are interesting and thought-provoking, there are better ways, more analytical ways to think about the repeated suddenly collapse of past civilizations. Required reading for mathematical archaeologists … and predictive modelers We have two recommendations. The first off is physicist Geoffrey West’s classic Ted Talk, “The surprising math of cities and corporations.” Although Prof. West explains his observations on scale in a simple and straightforward way in a short ten-minute talk, his insights have profound importance on everything from: neuron speed in elephants vs.… Read the restSocial Progress Index and Big Data Analytics: government by computer?
Data driven governance via metrics like the Social Progress Index? In his recent op-ed, NYT managing director and Pulitzer Prize-winner Nicholas Kristof essentially argues that a metric such as the Social Progress Index rather than GDP should be used to guide US public policy. The Harvard economist that created the Social Progress Index (whom Kristof feels the need to immediately point out is a Republican) says he became increasingly aware social factors (which we should call social investments) support a country’s long-term economic prospects. We couldn’t quite resist the big analytics aspects of all this. Analytics ultimately will produce metrics that are better than short-term GDP, together with models that can optimize public policy. Policy wonks have doing this on a small scale for years, but new technologies, related new insights from industrial applications, and perhaps the related development of better metrics make this possible on a larger scale than previously thought.… Read the restGeoengineering and Terraforming Artificial Earthquakes Through Fracking to Save Lives?
Geoengineering Artificial Earthquakes to Save Lives? This blog has focused primarily on practical solutions to the problems of PM2.5 air quality pollution. Things like inexpensive dust particulate sensors for your home, ultra-cheap DIY air purifiers made from duct tape. We’ve run a fashion section with inexpensive masks that are handy to keep stockpiled not only for air pollution and wildfires but also in case of Ebola and Bird Flu panics (both happening at this writing). We just wrote a blog article on big data analysis of earthquakes, and recommended only the cheapest and most-practical immediate crowdsourcing solutions. Can Artificial Earthquakes Save Lives? Click To Tweet But frequent readers will not that we have not been afraid to speculate or address controversial topics. We know of no other corporate blogs that discuss geoengineering, astroengineering, or terraforming. (If you know of one, get in touch.) If we don’t do it, who will? Cosmos and Sagan on Astroengineering A re-make of the Cosmos TV series is currently being aired.… Read the restRecent Comments
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