Mark Stanley
@markstanley
Internet of Things geek, still trying to use tech to improve our lives. Personal safety, happier towns, water health, renewable energy...
Also loves cats, homebrewing, living by the sea. Avid reader, obvs x
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This is brilliant - literally weaving a story... https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7150775234902556672/
Isn't it incredible how *really* complex problems like climate change can be distilled into a simple, memorable image that millions of people immediately "get"?
And then the image gets shared, and people align themselves with i
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13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe
AI is not a singular phenomenon
Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more
“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”
-Kevin Ashton
I've recently started fishing again. I used to fish as a kid and like 40 years later I live by the sea again.
The joy isn't just in catching fish. Which is fortunate because I'm not very good at that. I think the rod gives me a legitimate reason to stand on the shore watching the waves for an hour or two.
Got me thinking - what if I was fishing for
... See more“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with
IoT in 2024 - waiting for the great leap forwards?
8 years ago experts were predicting the IoT market would be worth $6 trillion next year. That means it has to quadruple in 2024 - that's a bold new year's resolution!
Even the experts have rolled back. McKinsey now forecasts the IoT market might reach $5 trillion by 2030. So what went wrong?
Key ba
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