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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth).

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Book: Digital Minimalism

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Newport is famous for being a millennial, computer scientist, and a book author who doesn’t have a social media account. Digital Minimalism is complementary to Jaron Lanier ‘s book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now , but I found Newport a lot more comfortable and convincing.

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Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

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I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. Bandwidth was busting — and this would continue beyond our children’s lifetimes. The balance between supply and demand of bandwidth was rapidly improving. Third, we developed a thesis around “Bandwidth Infrastructure”, a term we coined.

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