Perambulation

Thoughts on data, society, and other things that don't fit neatly into buckets.

February 26, 2015 – 2:54 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

When data lets us optimize everything, the sub-optimal will be novel. Is optimization the enemy of taste?

February 23, 2015 – 11:38 am by Alistair 0 Comments

Saavn shows us how much music we consume, when.

February 20, 2015 – 11:10 am by Alistair 3 Comments

In ten years, we’ll run every aspect of our lives with a personal timeline. That’s a slippery slope into walled gardens and towards the singularity.

January 2, 2015 – 1:28 pm by Alistair 1 Comment

From Mozart’s flourishes to today’s music streaming, I’m going to spend part of 2015 looking at how data is transforming music.

November 26, 2014 – 11:46 am by Alistair 0 Comments

Hipster-wearing Glassheads aside, the real future of AR is blue collar work. Just wait until the unions figure out that’s a Trojan Horse for robots.

November 3, 2014 – 12:32 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

Instead of writing new laws to deal with tech, maybe we need to adapt the existing ones.

Pot Luck

Big Data is our generation's civil rights issue, and we don't know itJuly 31, 2012Data doesn't invade people's lives. Lack of control over how it's used does. What's really driving so-called Big Data isn't the volume of information. It turns...Read more
The selfish economics of Big DataSeptember 23, 2012
I think a quantified, connected society will have some interesting consequences for businesses based on managing uncertainty. As we get better at prediction, the economics...Read more