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I think there should be an UBER competitor ,that really helps cities build their own clone effectively.

If that's possible politically , it would be interesting : the cities would have regulatory power to win over UBER, this very critical business that's might just be the future of transport will be in public hands and hopefully will be guided to the good of the community, and drivers will be compensated fairly.

But getting the politics right is very difficult.

"The continuing trend towards fewer people being employed in manufacturing, and greater automation of service jobs, will continue: our current societal model, whereby we work to earn money with which to buy the goods and services we need may not be sustainable in the face of a continuing squeeze on employment. But since when has consistency or coherency or even humanity been a prerequisite of any human civilization in history? We'll muddle on, even when an objective observer might look at us and shake her head in despair."

He wrote very little about that subject, although there's decent likelihood that will be the issue(together with AI,VR and possibly medical innovation) that will make 2034 very different from out time.

Here they describe it in detail:

http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/proof.pml

Basically they plugged a lot of the possible holes, but it's not done yet.

Even if they lose, won't the laws change to give them these powers ? I don't see something as potentially risky as drones running around unregulated.

Like the author says ,it's a pretty forced explanation, but just to get more money out of them, the excel table shows how much:

http://stratechery.com/2014/amazons-whale-strategy/

We're probably the last population targeted by this phone. It probably targets seniors or heavy prime users.

Since there are actor libraries like akka targeting the JVM and claiming to offer similar benefits, why should someone prefer erlang?

What about http://commoncrawl.org/? Why not use it?

Great project. I do wonder , why are 100 people involved ? is it very complicated ? or just the fact they volunteer so they can't give their 100% attention to this?

Teachers would probably have bigger problems.

According to clay christensen , the guy behind "the innovator's dillema" , more than 50% of colleges will go bankrupt soon(until 2020/2024).

YZF,why can't we start from an optimized FPGA - i.e. small memory blocks spread all around with massive bandwidth and low latency, and find a way to give decent enough access to the cpu to all that memory ?

And yes i know that the cpu will be the bottleneck, but it will be the bottleneck anyway.

Cover looks cool. Seems like the sort of thing amazon would like to launch next - with a quick launch button to it's flow app - as a way to spread the new firefly button("push to visual search") functionality faster.

What's your opinion on the new xilinx c-base design tools, and altera's opencl tools for doing compute acceleration ?

Thanks. Interesting paper.

Further ,this increases total cost of ownership by 30%, So the performance improvement is just about 70%.

Maybe the reason amazon prices that way, is that it's really expensive ?

It seems that the most expensive thing here would be the mayday service. And maybe it's the killer feature here?

One big reason why seniors buy the iphone is that there are classes in the apple store which help them learn to use the device and overcome their fear of tech.So mayday could work well for that segment.

Also, many tech people hate coming home after work and doing tech support for their family. They could have a strong influence on their family members phone purchase decision.

And i'm sure amazon has got data from their mayday on tablet to estimate the value of mayday.

I agree about the mayday. One big reason why seniors buy the iphone is that there are classes in the apple store which help them learn to use the device and overcome their fear of tech.So mayday could work well here.

Also, many tech people hate coming home after work and doing tech support for their family. They could have a strong influence on their family members phone purchase decision.

I know. They are supposed to be unique in that regard according to pcmag.

Recently i've been interested in buying a noise cancelling headphones. There's the new bose quietcomfort 20i, which are claimed at least by some reviewers to almost cancel talking sound.

Assuming they work well, since they are controlled using software, it might open the way to a more "programmable" noise environment. For example you could set them to hear only the team members you want at any given time, thus giving you the best of both worlds.

Another thing that amazon can do with a phone is offer better service:

1. It could deploy it's mayday service , to get you a customer support rep on your mobile , which will help you install that TV. Rep would also have access to the phone's camera , so he could "see" the problem.

2. Amazon could develop an augmented reality app to make this process even more efficient and simple. Having 3D augmented reality might also make it simpler and more effective.

3. Combine 1+2 to gain better cost efficiencies in support.

If this succeed, amazon could implement another step in it's mission of being a complete business infrastructure solution.

Convey computer has something that looks like a useful FPGA development model. Basically you move critical sections of your code into the hardware using a hardware description language(with some help from the sdk), and when writing the software , you just call that section almost normally , and convey system manages this transfer of control between cpu and FPGA as needed.

Using that you create a unique "instruction set" that can generally fit a number of applications in the same area. With that programmers can program normally and still benefit from a decent speedup.

BTW it seems that convey has a deal with DELL, and also has developed a memcached acceleration kit. This stuff will probably be available only to big cloud providers, giving them another big advantage on the DIY guys.

I'm all for proper regulation.

But on the other hand, recent technological advancements hold potential for huge improvements in almost every important industry(for ex. healthcare), but in many cases, are blocked by regulation.

Looking at the amount of value such innovations will create , it sometimes seem greatly unethical not to use that loophole.

See :

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=76498&view=next...

Money could flow to robots' owners. You can always buy better food and stuff.

Paying for someone to say nice things about you is pretty similar to paying to a prostitute to sleep with you ,and eating junk food instead of eating decent food.

We as a society should aim for more, and not diminish ourselves to satisfy the market.

There was a research that has shown that in places in cs, software innovation contributed to far greater improvements than moore's law. There's no reason why software improvements should stop.

Why will money making projects will be so rare ? people have a certain amount of attention=money and money to give to entertainment. That probably won't drastically change.

And from that pile of money, the industry has quite an efficient ways to find superstar projects. On the other hand, on the surface your way doesn't seem efficient or profitable , and it even goes against improvements we made in that process like using big data.

And with regards to kickstarter, i haven't yet though about how it and the future.

First , the problem is that this won't happen in an utopian world, this will happen in our materialistic world.

We're quite far from that utopian world.That will take long political struggle. My guess is that when we're there , machines will probably surpass humans even in the arts.

Even if not,as far as i know ,the "youtube economy" i.e. people who earn full time salary on you tube is quite small. So i'm a bit pessimistic about it filling the economy.

It's really hard to make money on those fields.Very very few do, and i don't expect it to become any better.

> The main fields of human endeavor will be culture, arts, sciences, creativity, philosophy, experimentation, exploration, and adventure.

Some of those , like arts and philosophy and exploration and adventure would not generate an income, and would be done for free/fun.

Some others like science[1] and large parts of creativity[2] might be highly automated, requiring only a few experts.

Fields that aren't highly repetitive(like many types of programming) and things that require a human touch(which computers also seem to attack[3]) might be more resistant to automation.

[1]http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/5/148614-automating-scien...

[2]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/453386/no-mans-sky-proc...

[3]http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/a-video-ga...