Vint Cerf: We Still Have 80 Per Cent of the World to Connect
“By 2010 we will have run out of IP addresses if we don’t do something about it,” Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist and the man commonly referred to as “the father of the Internet,” told RWW last month.
intrinsi on February 21st 2009 in Information Science
Report: Info overload costs $900 billion, blame Mr. Rogers
Between checking your Twitter feed, responding to an IM from an old college friend, and reading frivolous articles at tech news sites, you’re already less productive than you could have been today. But how much does such behavior actually cost your company, or the economy as a whole? One consulting firm thinks it has the unsettling answer: about $900 billion annually.
intrinsi on January 14th 2009 in Information Science, Media Theory
Luis von Ahn: The Pioneer of “Human Computation” – BusinessWeek
MacArthur Fellow Luis von Ahn’s programs harness human abilities to solve large-scale, complex problems
intrinsi on November 13th 2008 in Information Science