What if the companies that profit from your data had to pay you?
Personal data is sold, bought and traded among companies all the time. But what if the companies profiting from your data had to pay you a share of that earning?
The Future, This Week 16 March 2018
This week: fixing the web, the farmer wants a bot, and big gigs and solar in the rain in other news.
Classy Facebook
Facebook patents an algorithm that determines social status: your class is its business.
I spy with my data eye…
Strava snafu exposes the risk of big data.
Fashion out of fashion
The economics of fashion on show at Davos and it ain’t pretty.
The Future, This Week 19 January 2018
This week: Instagram is loving nature to death and a recap of last year’s Instagram stories.
Marketing a powerful tool for philanthropy
As philanthropists consider their options regarding what social needs to support, or continue to support, the more successful not-for-profits use marketing to help them decide.
The Future, This Week 01 September 2017
This week: privacy (what privacy?), mind control games, and boring innovation.
The Future, This Week 05 May 2017
This week: do wearables deserve to die, why Netflix is resilient to hackers, and the challenge of building a great social network.
The Future, This Week 03 March 2017
This week: why the tax office is interested in social media, robots in education and why phones that are not so smart are suddenly appealing.