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Connectedness / the downside, but upside too?

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Robert Kaplan writes about foreign policy, but his warning about connectedness also cuts into our dreams of free-flowing connectedness at home in cities.

From Sunday’s New York Times review of his new book, The Return of Marco Polo’s World:

After the Cold War, many of us naively assumed that the communications revolution would be the vehicle through which the West would spread its values, attitudes and tastes to the rest of the world. We forgot that the revolution worked in the opposite direction as well: that for every Google executive fighting for political liberalization in Cairo, there might also be an alienated young Islamist in the West learning how to build a bomb by reading Inspire, Al Qaeda’s slick online magazine.

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AI / Apple to acquire autonomous-dog startup DogGone / HomeKit’s “best friend”

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Back when autonomous cars first scratched at reality’s doorstep, someone loaded six labradors into a self-driving Prius. It rolled down the freeway and became one of the best pranks of the day. But laugh no more. Datadoodle’s bloodhound reporters have caught wind of a so-far unannounced Apple acquisition that enables self-walking dogs.

DogGone, a secretive Oakland, CA startup, has done it. If DogGone’s trail leads to an actual product, it would be the greatest labor saving tool known to man. It’s certainly what dog owners have dreamed of.

DogGone founder Jake Tipperary said what you’d expect from a startup owner who just cashed in.… Read the rest “AI / Apple to acquire autonomous-dog startup DogGone / HomeKit’s “best friend””

Smart cities / Cisco’s smart pipes plus Teradata’s scary-smart tech

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Cisco’s plumbing will soon feed Teradata’s brains, according to last week’s announcement. That’s a no-brainer of a partnership, since everyone knows that Cisco’s good at data plumbing and Teradata’s good at data analytics. But the news release lets the interesting part go unexplained.

To get a glimpse, you have to do look at Teradata’s newish Customer Journey. It’s a bundle of technology that monitors and guides customers along each person’s path from flirtation to commitment.

To see the city application, just skew it away from large commercial organizations, which are the current users, and point it toward cities. Call this repurposed bundle Citizen Journey and you have an urban designer’s wet dream.… Read the rest “Smart cities / Cisco’s smart pipes plus Teradata’s scary-smart tech”