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Security of Things: Who Will Save Us?

By now, we’ve all heard of the “Internet of Things” (if you haven’t, educate yourself because it is the future), but what exactly will keep our “things” safe from hackers? In his Friday SXSW Interactive session, Nicholas Percoco, VP of Strategic Services at Rapid7, explained what the government is doing, what the industry has done, […]

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Preview: Interstellar Social Media - A Talk With Tony Darnell

As part of whetting your appetite for all things cosmic at SXSWi, I had the opportunity to talk with one of my former colleagues from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci). Without further ado below is the little chat I had with Tony Darnell. As part of our full disclosure that we worked together, he […]

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Preview: Cloud Robotics: Instant Scalability & Capability

“Do you have a minute to talk about robots?” is probably not a question one is accustomed to hearing. But when you’re looking into the future of technology, robots are certainly an area of interest. At SXSWi the concepts of the future are quickly becoming reality. One panel, Cloud Robotics: Instant Scalability & Capability will […]

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Preview: The State of Social Marketing

“The State of Social Marketing” will look at current and future trends in social, and how companies can best utilize these trends for growth.  Brad McCarty, the North American editor of The Next Web, will give a 10 minute presentation on the three most essential changes in social marketing over the next year, and then a panel […]

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SWTSU JC Kellam 1983

Some questions don’t have immediately apparent answers, but are important because of the expanding array of open-ended questions that result from them.  Many who routinely deal with such topics are well-versed in rote knowledge and empirical data – but (perhaps even more importantly) they also act as facilitators for the fluid, polydirectional discussions of these […]

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Imagineering the Future

“It is 6a.m. and you are dreaming of electric sheep,” said Dan Willis, of SapientNitro.  In the imagined future, when one wakes up from dreamland, he or she will simply thrust a hand into the air and digital sensors will project onto the hand an assortment of information including time, weather, family vital information, and […]