While Michael is away flying thru the skies, Michael asks long time listener and all around excellent dude ePredator – AKA Ian Hughes, to join and talk about interesting events around gaming technology and CES 2019. Ian, is the founder of Feeding Edge and an analyst with 451 Research, where he focuses on enterprise use of emerging technology. In particular IoT and its impact across all industry. This includes AR VR and emerging interfaces and Industrial IoT. Researching, writing, presenting and advising on the subject. Selected Links Gaming now worth more than Video and music – https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46746593 Latest update on … Continue reading →
Marrying your best friend, when it is an AI bot, introduces more than one strange thing to your life. So does chatting with the dearly departed. VR/AR/MR stories, ionic drive & more. Continue reading →
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In this episode, so soon after the recent US election, Phaedra & Michael M discuss the nature of civic engagement, and how the model of open source software could lend itself to bringing more people into the civic process. Showing up is always the first step, and the model for commits made to open source software could be applied to policy, whereby contributions by citizens could be upvoited or downvoted for inclusion in emerging policy. The pair bring up the idea of cities with personality — if you’re in Chicago, you know how that city’s personality was expressed after the … Continue reading →