by Erik Kain on February 13, 2012
Jeff Jarvis has some interesting meditations on the future of our information economy: I have been arguing that vertical industries will be replaced by horizontal ecosystems made up of three layers: (1) platforms that enable (2) entrepreneurial ventures to be created at low cost and risk and (3) networks (e.g., ad networks) that, when needed, [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 17, 2011
Outside of its remarkable sales, the real star of the iPhone 4S show has been Siri, Apple’s new voice recognition software. The intuitive voice recognition software is the closest to A.I. we’ve seen on a smartphone to date. Over the weekend I noted that Siri has some resemblance to the IBM supercomputer, Watson, and speculated [...]
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