Friday, October 23, 2015

Fwd: a16z weekly newsletter - invisible things, health, future media


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WEEKEND NEWSLETTER, 24 OCTOBER 2015 
10 Things We're Reading This Week
The invisible device that powers everything you do - Daniela Hernandez, Fusion 

How many other public clouds will be vaporized? - Timothy Morgan, The Platform

What comes after the smartphone? - Benedict Evans & Steven Sinofsky, a16z Podcast

Self-employment in the U.S.: demographics, trends, and more - Pew Research Center

The futility of (narrow) speculation about machines and jobs - Adam Elkus, Medium 

Just a brown hand - Diogenes Brito, Medium

How can we achieve age diversity in Silicon Valley? - Steven Levy, Medium Backchannel 

A brief history of 3-D printing (1860-2015) - Jon Turi, Engadget  

One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory has been confirmed - Bill Steele, Cornell Chronicle

Has the internet changed bullying behaviors? - Maria Konnikova, New Yorker
Software eats healthcare
Visions of media
Tech and media outlook 2016 - Michael Wolf, Wall Street Journal Live 

The future of news is not an article - Alexis Lloyd, NYT Labs

Are websites dead? - Ev Williams & John Battelle, I-Squared Publisher Summit 

Balancing analog and tech in the future of storytelling (including VR) - Melanie Ehrankranz on Frank Rose, PSFK
Virtual Reality & Other Immersions 
A glossary of basic virtual reality terms - Niel Schneider, Tom's Hardware

VR lets you experience the forest through an animal's eyes - Rebecca O'Connell, Mental Floss 

Structuring creativity: An examination of the simulation game Erika Bullock, The Georgian Voice

Claustrophobia goes digital in an immersive environment DJ Pangburn, The Creators Project

Measuring cognitive distraction in the automobile - David Strayer, Joel Cooper, Jonna Turrill, James Coleman, and Rachel J. Hopman, University of Utah/ AAA 
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This is a test to see how it publishes

I am conducting research for a book and several magazine articles about the state of internet-driven organisational learning in Australia, and I'd like to ask if you'd be an interviewee or participant this research, on or off the record. I'm hosting a discussion page about it on LinkedIn called The Learning Economy: http://bit.ly/SA_LE.

For the purpose of driving this conversation, I link here (http://bit.ly/SA_HT) to a short "how-to" describing a learning methodology I've just "open sourced" that I call "Investigative Learning". Its purpose is to give businesses a way to use the internet to get better use out of the intelligence most organisations already contain.

In an age of profound technological advance that may see many jobs simply wiped out (see beneath), I believe this will be a necessity of competitive survival.

There is a more detailed FAQ here: http://bit.ly/SA_IL

Aside from being a former Fairfax Media business journalist with postgraduate qualifications in this subject, I am also a director in Shiro Architects (hence the address of this email), through which one theme of my writing concerns not just organisational learning practices but the built spaces in which they occur, and the implications for those who provide them. (I have just had a piece on this subject published on the property industry web site, The Urban Developer: bit.ly/1DElDgA)

The hypothesis I wish to test through the opinions of interviewees, is whether by failing to explore the full range of intellectual capacities their people possess, companies routinely squander the value of the possible knowledge and insight available to them. In so doing, do they also fail to understand the opportunities to reconfigure their businesses around that potential knowledge?

I hope you will agree to participate in this research, and look forward to the prospect of discussing it with you.

Kind regards

Graham Lauren
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Investigative Learning will put to work knowledge your business didn't know it had.