Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2016

Over the weekend, Joi Ito (the director of the MIT Media Lab among a long list of other awesome things) announced that the MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS*. How Open Source software works: “Free” user-to-user assistance. Joi’s punch line says it all.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

They didn’t just “grow up with social media,” they grew up with “social media that constantly changes.” ” In fact, not only do they keep up with the changes on a particular social media service, they are always exploring the latest new services.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2012

Each company gets $20k in funding, mentorship from top entrepreneurs, investors and Microsoft executives, $60K in Azure credit, office space, training and support, and demo day to pitch to investors, media, and industry influentials. Most notably it’s much more open source focused. Want to run Linux? No problem.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones. If costs come down, are there other barriers? Will self driving cars be legal?

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