Do you want to live in a Smart City

Stephen Poole in the The Guardian has written a very interesting and thought provoking long article The truth about smart cities: In the end, they will destroy democracy that presents both sides of the vision of the future smart city; the benefits of a highly connected society and infrastructure and the potential pitfalls. With online privacy and data security such hot topics at the moment its certainly easy to see how the smart city of the future could be fraught with dangers. I recommend you read it.




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Do you want a computer for 9

Cant afford a Raspbery Pi ($35), well they have a competitor now. The ultra cheap CHIP; a 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, with 4GB storage, WiFi, Bluetooth, support for most monitors and even a mobile capacity. It runs Linux and therefore supports many free productivity apps. As you can see from the picture its very small and so can be easily embedded in pieces of equipment. CHIP is a Kick Starter project and be honest for just $9 (US) can you not afford to own one.

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Amazon at 20 what has the online giant ever done for retail

You may not have noticed but Amazon recently celebrated its 20th birthday. You may or not be a regular user (I certainly am). It was originally billed a the "Earths Biggest Bookstore" featuring over one million titles. Twenty years later it has over 270m active accounts and claims to have more than 2m third-party vendors selling millions of products through its marketplace platform. Amazon is comfortable with the term "disruptive." Its disrupted the bookshop and publishing industries and is disrupting other retail industries. The Guardian recently published an interesting article about the impact Amazon has had - recommended.




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