Category Archives: Own Your Data

Google Knows What Makes Your Heart Beat Faster

“He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows if you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness sake” – from Santa Claus is Coming to Town, by Haven Gillespie / J. Fred Coots   Stephen Wolfram made headlines back in 2012 when he revealed that he had been “life … Read more

Amazon Echo, and The End of Remembering

‘Never memorize something that you can look up’ – Albert Einstein. Amazon recently announced the Echo, a personal digital assistant that you converse with – see the video below for some slightly contrived examples. What the Echo and competing technologies like Google Now really highlight for me is that we are entering an age where the act … Read more