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How to keep smart cities safe

The Human Factor
Friends using a phone while riding in a bus
Any time you connect devices to a network, there are privacy concerns. And that becomes ten-fold with smart cities. Critical infrastructure combined with emerging technologies, like virtualization and sensor networks, improve services and help municipalities run more efficiently for their citizens. This might include systems to manage and improve the... Read More

Trailer for the Futurithmic Podcast

The Podcast
The Futurithmic Podcast is hosted by Editor-at-Large, Michael Hainsworth, veteran news reporter and lifelong geek. In the podcast, Michael talks with the most influential people of our time who have or are directly impacting our future. Upcoming guests include Galit Ariel (AR futurist), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Founder), and Rory Sutherland (Ogilvy Vice Chairman). Read More

Future trends in the connected home

The Research
connected home header illustration
This article was originally published to the Nokia blog by Laszlo Gyalog on April 26, 2019. Remember those futuristic predictions of domestic life we saw in movies and cartoons from the 1950s and 60s? All flying cars, robot servants and remote-controlled everything. While there were varying degrees of (in)accuracy about... Read More

Debunking myths in the post-truth era

The Human Factor
man reading news header image
Truth and plain ol’ facts as we know it, changed in 2016. Donald Trump became the President of the United States. With the Brexit referendum, UK citizens voted to leave the European Union. In both instances, truth and objective facts did not sway public opinion. Clickbait “news stories” –  that... Read More

Predicting our habits using big data

The Human Factor
michael hainsworth alex pentland MIT
Our smartphones know more about us than our spouses, partners and friends. It’s no surprise we guard them with more than just screen protectors, considering the secrets they hold. But if we were to hand over the metadata to our devices and those of about 3 million of our neighbors,... Read More

Designing loveable robots

The Technology
cute robot illustration
On March 2, a tech journalist posted a video he pulled from a Jibo Owners Facebook Group. It was heartbreaking to watch the little “social robot” announce that his servers were about to be shut down and he would not function any longer. He even thanked his human owners for... Read More

What we can learn from quantifying our lives

The Human Factor
woman using smart watch fitness monitor
From the moment we wake up in the morning to the time we throw our heads back down on our pillows at night, we’re organizing our lives into little quantifiable bits; counting how many days until an upcoming vacation, marking down important dates, managing household budgets – the list goes... Read More

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