Excerpts:
From DSC:
That last one reminded me of why I think the Living from the Living [Class] Room vision is so powerful…
On 06/01/2019,
in Blockchain, change, colleges, community colleges, corporate / business world, credentialing, data related items, disruption, emerging technologies, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, tools, universities, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Salesforce launches blockchain channel — from techradar.com Anthony Spadafora
Salesforce brings low-code blockchain to CRM
Excerpt:
At its fourth annual TrailheaDX developer conference, Salesforce announced its new low-code platform called Salesforce Blockchain that enables organizations to share verified, distributed data sets across a trusted network of partners and third parties.
By bringing blockchain to its CRM platform, the company is enabling organizations to create blockchain networks, workflows and apps that have the potential to deliver entirely new customer experiences.
Also see:
The D/SRUPTION Blockchain 50 — from disruptionhub.com
Excerpt:
What are the most impactful applications of blockchain in business?
Blockchain is changing how we keep records, manage relationships, and do business. Decentralised, automated systems powered by the blockchain increase the security of operations, as well as breaking down barriers to business by creating trust between diverse parties.
As the concept of blockchain becomes ever more familiar to business leaders, its real world applications are growing in number and impact.
In this exclusive report, D/SRUPTION analyses 50 game changing uses of blockchain technology in business. The range of industries featured include:
Shipping
Charity
Ecommerce
Real Estate
Finance
Government
Energy
Healthcare
On 05/30/2019,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Amazon, Apple, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Asia, Australia, bots, Canada, change, consortiums, corporate / business world, data related items, emerging technologies, Europe, Facebook / Meta Platforms, future, game-changing environment, Google, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, India, IT in HE, law schools, leadership, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, Microsoft, pace of change, platforms, political science, society, tools, trends, UK, United States, vendors, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
10 things we should all demand from Big Tech right now — from vox.com by Sigal Samuel
We need an algorithmic bill of rights. AI experts helped us write one.
Excerpts:
- Transparency: We have the right to know when an algorithm is making a decision about us, which factors are being considered by the algorithm, and how those factors are being weighted.
- Explanation: We have the right to be given explanations about how algorithms affect us in a specific situation, and these explanations should be clear enough that the average person will be able to understand them.
- Consent: We have the right to give or refuse consent for any AI application that has a material impact on our lives or uses sensitive data, such as biometric data.
- Freedom from bias: We have the right to evidence showing that algorithms have been tested for bias related to race, gender, and other protected characteristics — before they’re rolled out. The algorithms must meet standards of fairness and nondiscrimination and ensure just outcomes. (Inserted comment from DSC: Is this even possible? I hope so, but I have my doubts especially given the enormous lack of diversity within the large tech companies.)
- Feedback mechanism: We have the right to exert some degree of control over the way algorithms work.
- Portability: We have the right to easily transfer all our data from one provider to another.
- Redress: We have the right to seek redress if we believe an algorithmic system has unfairly penalized or harmed us.
- Algorithmic literacy: We have the right to free educational resources about algorithmic systems.
- Independent oversight: We have the right to expect that an independent oversight body will be appointed to conduct retrospective reviews of algorithmic systems gone wrong. The results of these investigations should be made public.
- Federal and global governance: We have the right to robust federal and global governance structures with human rights at their center. Algorithmic systems don’t stop at national borders, and they are increasingly used to decide who gets to cross borders, making international governance crucial.
This raises the question: Who should be tasked with enforcing these norms? Government regulators? The tech companies themselves?
On 05/24/2019,
in business, collaboration, corporate / business world, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, pace of change, society, technology (general),
by Daniel Christian
Law’s Looming Skills Crisis — from forbes.com by Mark Cohen
Excerpts (emphasis DSC):
The good news is that legal professionals have more career paths, lifestyle options, and geographic nimbleness than ever before. The bad news is that relatively few in the industry are prepared to fill the new roles.
A growing list of clients demand transformed legal services. What does that mean? Legal professionals must meld law, technology, and business and apply principles of digital transformation to the legal function. They must be proactive, data-driven, client-centric, and collaborative*. They must appreciate that clients want solutions to business challenges, not legal tomes.
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Legal culture responds to the warp speed change—when it does at all– with buzzwords, denial, and self-congratulation. The packed calendar of industry award dinners celebrating pioneers, innovation, diversity, and other self-declared advances belies data exposing law’s dreadful scorecard on diversity, gender pay equality, advancement opportunities for non-white males, and other legal guild cultural holdovers. Then there’s the disconnect between the lawyer and client view of industry performance. Law’s net promoter score lags other professions and almost all industries. Legal culture needs a jolt; client-centricity, the ability to respond rapidly and effectively to new risk factors and challenges, data-driven judgments, and agile workforces are among law’s transformational musts.
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Legal culture is slow to embrace data, technology, new delivery models, multidisciplinary practice, regulatory reform, collaboration, diversity, gender pay equality, the distinction between the practice of law and the delivery of legal services, client-centricity, and digital transformation. Law is rooted in precedent; it looks to the past to prepare for the future. That is no longer the world we live in.
From DSC:
*And I would add the ability to look into the future, develop some potential scenarios and some responses to those potential scenarios…in other words, practice some methods used in futurism.
I would encourage my colleagues within the legal education world — which includes the American Bar Association (ABA) — but also judges, lawyers, legislators, attorney generals, public defenders, and many others to realize that we need to massively pick up the pace if we are to help tame the wild west of emerging technologies these days!
On 04/26/2019,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, career development, computer science, corporate / business world, data related items, platforms, vendors, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public — from techcrunch.comby Sarah Perez
Excerpts:
Walmart this morning unveiled a new “store of the future” and test grounds for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a working concept called the Intelligent Retail Lab — or “IRL” for short — operates out of a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y.
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Similar to Amazon Go’s convenience stores, the store has a suite of cameras mounted in the ceiling. But unlike Amazon Go, which is a grab-and-go store with smaller square footage, Walmart’s IRL spans 50,000 square feet of retail space and is staffed by more than 100 employees.
…
The cameras and other sensors in the store pump out 1.6 TB of data per second, or the equivalent of three years’ worth of music, which necessitates a big data center on site.
From DSC:
I was pleased to see that 100+ human beings were still employed/utilized in that store location.
On 04/25/2019,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, adjunct faculty, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, blended learning, Blockchain, change, changing business models, colleges, community colleges, credentialing, curriculum, data related items, digital learning, distance education, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, face-to-face, faculty/staff, formal learning, future of higher education, higher education, hybrid learning, ideas, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, internet, law schools, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, Mixed Reality (MR), mobile learning, new business models, online learning, personalized/customized learning, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, technology (general), tools, trends, United States, user experience (UX), XR - extended reality,
by Daniel Christian
The finalized 2019 Horizon Report Higher Education Edition (from library.educause.edu) was just released on 4/23/19.
Excerpt:
Key Trends Accelerating Technology Adoption in Higher Education:
Short-Term—Driving technology adoption in higher education for the next one to two years
- Redesigning Learning Spaces
- Blended Learning Designs
Mid-Term—Driving technology adoption in higher education for the next three to five years
- Advancing Cultures of Innovation
- Growing Focus on Measuring Learning
Long-Term—Driving technology adoption in higher education for five or more years
- Rethinking How Institutions Work
- Modularized and Disaggregated Degrees
On 04/17/2019,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Amazon, analytics, Apple, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, dangers of the status quo, data related items, ethics, Facebook / Meta Platforms, global / globalization, Google, human-computer interaction (HCI), intelligent systems, internet, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, society,
by Daniel Christian
Example articles from the Privacy Project:
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James Bennet: Do You Know What You’ve Given Up?
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A. G. Sulzberger: How The Times Thinks About Privacy
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Samantha Irby: I Don’t Care. I Love My Phone.
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Tim Wu: How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy
On 04/03/2019,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, data related items, emerging technologies, future, intelligent systems, internet, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
10 predictions for the future of the IoT — from bbntimes.com by Ahmed Banafa
Also see:
- How Artificial Intelligence will kickstart the Internet of Things — from bbntimes.com by Ahmed Banafa
Excerpt:
Examples of such IoT data:- Data that helps cities predict accidents and crimes
- Data that gives doctors real-time insight into information from pacemakers or biochips
- Data that optimize productivity across industries through predictive maintenance on equipment and machinery
- Data that creates truly smart homes with connected appliances
- Data that provides critical communication between self-driving cars
On 03/28/2019,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, bots, business, data related items, digital audio, digital video, emerging technologies, intelligent systems, law schools, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, pace of change, platforms, technology (general), tools,
by Daniel Christian
Map of fundamental technologies in legal services — from remakinglawfirms.com by Michelle Mahoney
Excerpt:
The Map is designed to help make sense of the trends we are observing:
- an increasing number of legal technology offerings;
- the increasing effectiveness of legal technologies;
- emerging new categories of legal technology;
- the layering and combining of fundamental technology capabilities; and
- the maturation of machine learning, natural language processing and deep learning artificial intelligence.
Given the exponential nature of the technologies, the Fundamental Technologies Map can only depict the landscape at the current point in time.
Information processing in legal services (PDF file)
Also see:
Delta Model Update: The Most Important Area of Lawyer Competency — Personal Effectiveness Skills — from legalexecutiveinstitute.comby Natalie Runyon
Excerpt:
Many legal experts say the legal industry is at an inflection point because the pace of change is being driven by many factors — technology, client demand, disaggregation of matter workflow, the rise of Millennials approaching mid-career status, and the faster pace of business in general.
The fact that technology spend by law firms continues to be a primary area of investment underscores the fact that the pace of change is continuing to accelerate with the ongoing rise of big data and workflow technology that are greatly influencing how lawyering gets done. Moreover, combined with big unstructured data, artificial intelligence (AI) is creating opportunities to analyze siloed data sets to gain insights in numerous new ways.
On 03/28/2019,
in Augmented Reality (AR), data related items, education technology, emerging technologies, future, Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, visualizing information, XR - extended reality,
by Daniel Christian
Data visualization via VR and AR: How we’ll interact with tomorrow’s data — from zdnet.comby Greg Nichols
Excerpt:
But what if there was a way to visualize huge data sets that instantly revealed important trends and patterns? What if you could interact with the data, move it around, literally walk around it? That’s one of the lesser talked about promises of mixed reality. If developers can deliver on the promise, it just may be one of the most important enterprise applications of those emerging technologies, as well.
Also see:
- 10 key benefits of VR in education — from vrfocus.com by Steve Bambury
Steve Bambury discusses the benefits of using VR for teaching.
On 03/23/2019,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, change, data related items, health, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, pace of change, society,
by Daniel Christian
Gradually, then suddenly: Lessons from Silicon Valley for the future of healthcare — from slideshare.net by Tim O’Reilly
Excerpted slides:
On 03/21/2019,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, change, collaboration, communications, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, data related items, digital audio, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, future, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, IT in HE, multimedia, Natural Language Processing (NLP), online learning, platforms, presentations, telecommunications, tools, TVs, United States, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, voice recognition / voice enabled interfaces, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Collaboration technology is fueling enterprise transformation – increasing agility, driving efficiency and improving productivity. Join Amy Chang at Enterprise Connect where she will share Cisco’s vision for the future of collaboration, the foundations we have in place and the amazing work we’re driving to win our customers’ hearts and minds. Cognitive collaboration – technology that weaves context and intelligence across applications, devices and workflows, connecting people with customers & colleagues, to deliver unprecedented experiences and transform how we work – is at the heart of our efforts. Join this session to see our technology in action and hear how our customers are using our portfolio of products today to transform the way they work.
On 03/11/2019,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assessment, computer science, data related items, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, Microsoft, productivity / tips and tricks, programming, student-related, tools, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Law schools escalate their focus on digital skills — from edtechmagazine.com by Eli Zimmerman
Coding, data analytics and device integration give students the tools to become more efficient lawyers.
Excerpt:
Participants learned to use analytics programs and artificial intelligence to complete work in a fraction of the time it usually takes.
For example, students analyzed contracts using AI programs to find errors and areas for improvement across various legal jurisdictions. In another exercise, students learned to use data programs to draft nondisclosure agreements in less than half an hour.
By learning analytics models, students will graduate with the skills to make them more effective — and more employable — professionals.
“As advancing technology and massive data sets enable lawyers to answer complex legal questions with greater speed and efficiency, courses like Legal Analytics will help KU Law students be better advocates for tomorrow’s clients and more competitive for tomorrow’s jobs,” Stephen Mazza, dean of the University of Kansas School of Law, tells Legaltech News.
Reflecting that shift, the Law School Admission Council, which organizes and distributes the Law School Admission Test, will be offering the test exclusively on Microsoft Surface Go tablets starting in July 2019.
From DSC:
I appreciate the article, thanks Eli. From one of the articles that was linked to, it appears that, “To facilitate the transition to the Digital LSAT starting July 2019, LSAC is procuring thousands of Surface Go tablets that will be loaded with custom software and locked down to ensure the integrity of the exam process and security of the test results.”
