Thesis

Digital natives are growing up in a world where digital technology has changed their lives.  It has effected their identity development, privacy expectations, safety considerations, knowledge creation, equality issues, learning strategies, and social activism. 

-Genevieve Bell, Intel

The internet of things is not really the internet of things but rather these things and humans.  How does a smart object make it possible to change the entire workflow and experience of a job we do in the real world?  By creating a system between humans and sensors that uses these sensors, cloud intelligence, and actuators we are making it possible to do things differently.  For now, most of these actuators may be other humans but either way it is still changing a human interaction to do something in our world.  

Now we are evolving smart machines that have the ability to tell when they will break.  GE has a vision of brilliant machines that will, in the future, fix themselves.  

The brain has structure that allows it to encode variables and generate things that never happened before.  

Activity in pre-frontal cortex and basal ganglia precede the filtering of irrelevant items.  The filter process may be a result of attention.  Attention can act as a biasing function, encoding the most relevant items.  Dopamine, in the basal ganglia, may act as gating stabilization against distraction by enhancing select memories.  

Through explaining 3 different theories of sensory perception this article argues that none of them are completely true.  Humans create understanding of the world around them via our sensory organs.  Perceived features of an object will vary depending on the sensory organs involved in detecting that object.  The use of one sense insinuates a whole set of information relating to what kind of information you perceived from that experience.  This information then has a direct effect on the judgements or actions that a human will follow through with after this section of the experience.  In conclusion, perception of what an object can be and what one can perceive about it depends on how one perceives it (senses involved).  

Shows how people perceive visual data and provides good info for further research on how the brain works with quantitative and visual cortex vs. conscious parts of the brain.  The comments feed has a lot of good information from other people in the field 

Data management is a national concern and management can be applied to different fields.

How the maker revolution can possibly re-rev the american economy by small batch production.  Online communities have become an extremely powerful tool that help develop ideas into products.  The author of this book, Chris Anderson met someone in one of these communities who was interested in similar projects, they would then post links for other people to build, this created a community around their projects which eventually developed into their company: 3D Robotics.  

What it takes to become a successful lasting big data company in todays environment