Thursday, September 11, 2014

IoT: Jeremy Rifkin @ Singularity 1 on 1

Singularity 1 on 1: Jeremy Rifkin on the Zero Marginal Cost Society and the Decline of Capitalism:
"rise of a global Collaborative Commons" 
enabled by IoT and energy and communication revolutions



The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World: Jeremy Rifkin: 9780230341975: Amazon.com: Books

"The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future.

Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful “Third Industrial Revolution...”

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism: Jeremy Rifkin: 9781137278463: Amazon.com: Books

edu online: ms. of Data Science @ berkeley

datascience@berkeley:
"Now you can earn a degree in data science from anywhere in the world. The UC Berkeley School of Information offers the only professional Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) delivered fully online. "

MOOCs made full circle, coming back as real classes... but not free...

IoT: APIs will glue together the Internet of things

APIs will glue together the Internet of things | Application Development - InfoWorld:

"APIs are actually the glue and interesting part where the Internet of things starts to become useful and more than a buzzword. It isn't really about what one device can do, but what multiple devices can do together."