Security and internet of things
My thoughts:
In a recent reboot of Battlestar Galactica, The captain of the ship encourages his crew to “not network the Battlestar”, because it would save them from the hacking and cracking that might destroy them. In fact, their SaaS & Cloud solutions seemed to have made many people a lot of money…. it also brought about the end of the human race. Just an interesting fictional correlation… I am pretty sure Cloud, SaaS, and Internet of Things will make a lot of people rich & happy, until it doesn’t. I imagine some fairly big problems ahead, and as to security flaws and crack / hack attacks? It’s going to get worse. Far worse.
Security last thing on people’s minds with internet of things.
hacking the planet w/ internet of things – time to deal with flaws
Trump
Best peace on Donald Trump I have read… which is moderate and measured and interesting from a Euro perspective.
Sanctuary City and Partisan BS.
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21657408-politicians-hyperventilate-over-sanctuary-case-california-delicate-balance
TPP
Trans Pacific: Despite flaws, the trade deal will help the world and is very good news.
Silicon Valley
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great read on silicon valley’s oft admired but insular culture.
A cool interactive map of SV: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/07/daily-chart-mapping-fortunes-silicon-valley
Cool google trends data of job search trends by state: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/07/daily-chart-6
And a FANTASTIC shot from an article on Africa Telecoms: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21657378-two-african-business-giants-go-head-head-over-mobile-telecoms-and-payments-new-east-africa
