This photo was taken at midnight at #awe2023 and I was the last one to leave. I go around the venue and count phones. Do you?
CULTURE
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iPhone dominance at tech conferences despite alternatives
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Hahahah. Meanwhile everyone I meet has iPhones. I just was at quite a few conferences. 90% iPhones. So keep on keeping on.
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GPT Dominates Public Perception of AI in Media
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Yeah, but for the past three months all the media has been talking about GPT. So, that's what most people think of as "AI" if they have tried anything at all.
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Technology Adoption Inequality: From Apple II to Modern Devices
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My dad bought an Apple II. It cost a LOT more than this device. And did FAR less. It launched the world's richest company. I study how people adopt technology. The poor never lead. Sorry to be so blunt.
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Technology adoption follows wealth: poor access comes later
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Technology revolutions always start with the money. Not with the poor. The poor will show up someday long after the first glasses appear and the costs come way down. And they will monetize at a far lower rate. And never bring the cool shit.
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Women Leading in Technology and Innovation
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Women Leading Tech and #Innovation https://
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Apple’s Generative AI Strategy Redefines Market Positioning
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They used generative AI in their keyboard. You totally are misreading everything Apple is doing and has done. Apple always comes in late with something that repositions everyone who came before as lame.
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Tim Berners-Lee’s Web: Foundation for Digital Giants
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Happy birthday to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Things besides the WWW that didn’t exist before TBL:
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Media Bias and Misleading Coverage of Geoffrey Hinton’s Statements
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I chuckled a bit at @geoffreyhinton being a little miffed about some of misleading bias in the media handling of his statements. Firsthand experience with that should cause you to update a whole lot of priors in your entire worldview that has been shaped by the media.
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Technology and Social Change: Present and Future Directions
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HOY a las 18:30h conversaré con @MilagrosPrezOli sobre tecnología y cambio social; sobre dónde estamos y hacia dónde vamos en este mundo en transformación, en el marco del 30 Aniversario de @lhespaidebat
. Zoom: https://
bit.ly/CICLECONVERSEM Youtube: https://
youtube.com/lhespaidedebat
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