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Even whistleblowers nowadays are as likely to leak sensitive information to the Internet as they are to call up a reporter. Once their testimony becomes data, Narrative Science can work its magic. “If the data is there, and a human can write that story using the data, then we can write that story.” NYU Journalism professor Clay Shirky predicted the rise of robot-journalism in 2009, and wrote that its success will depend on whether audiences can trust a robot to be as authoritative a source as, say, Walter Cronkite. Your Tweets Are Why The Next Walter Cronkite Will Be A Robot

Even whistleblowers nowadays are as likely to leak sensitive information to the Internet as they are to call up a reporter. Once their testimony becomes data, Narrative Science can work its magic. “If the data is there, and a human can write that story using the data, then we can write that story.”

NYU Journalism professor Clay Shirky predicted the rise of robot-journalism in 2009, and wrote that its success will depend on whether audiences can trust a robot to be as authoritative a source as, say, Walter Cronkite.

Your Tweets Are Why The Next Walter Cronkite Will Be A Robot

We speak with CNN’s chief business correspondent, Ali Velshi, about how he manages his downtime (whenever he can get it), what keeps spenders and savers together, and which one he is.

For more tips on building your personal brand and working smarter, see Amber Mac’s Work Flow series.

We recently created a daily news website about world changing ideas and innovations. It’s a place focused on ideas that are going to change the way we live and the resources we use. And it’s time to buck convention and find solutions that people haven’t thought of yet. With this in mind, we’d like YOU to submit your ideas for what we’ll be reading about decades from now. What do you think Co.Exist will write about in 30 years? Create your own vision of tomorrow right here (or click on the picture). We’ll round up the best ones and feature them on our site! We’ve uploaded a few on Facebook to get the creative juices flowing. We’re excited to see what you come up with. Spread the word!

We recently created a daily news website about world changing ideas and innovations. It’s a place focused on ideas that are going to change the way we live and the resources we use. And it’s time to buck convention and find solutions that people haven’t thought of yet.

With this in mind, we’d like YOU to submit your ideas for what we’ll be reading about decades from now. What do you think Co.Exist will write about in 30 years? Create your own vision of tomorrow right here (or click on the picture). We’ll round up the best ones and feature them on our site!

We’ve uploaded a few on Facebook to get the creative juices flowing. We’re excited to see what you come up with. Spread the word!

The War Between Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple»

Check out interview highlights with Farhad Manjoo on toady’s NPR Fresh Air where they talk about the great tech war or 2012.

In the old days, Amazon sold books, Google was a search engine, Facebook was a social network and Apple sold computers.

But that’s not the case anymore.

Google and Apple now sell phones. Amazon has gotten into the server business. Apple sells music. Facebook and Amazon provide online payment services. And that’s just the beginning.

Each of these buildings is held together with thousands of tiny wooden pegs. What if the principles of an Ikea store were actually used to build a real-life development? In London, the recently announced Strand East project, a 2,000,000-square-foot development to be built by LandProp (the development arm of the Inter Ikea Group, which owns Ikea’s intellectual property) gives us a hint. Continued…

Each of these buildings is held together with thousands of tiny wooden pegs. What if the principles of an Ikea store were actually used to build a real-life development?

In London, the recently announced Strand East project, a 2,000,000-square-foot development to be built by LandProp (the development arm of the Inter Ikea Group, which owns Ikea’s intellectual property) gives us a hint.

Continued…

This GPS Shoe restores at least a little bit of dignity to Alzheimers patients. It’s a simple way to always know where someone is, and it has applications beyond the elderly, too: small children and runners should get some.

This GPS Shoe restores at least a little bit of dignity to Alzheimers patients.

It’s a simple way to always know where someone is, and it has applications beyond the elderly, too: small children and runners should get some.

A Street View-Style Tour Of National Parks Hiking Trails, Courtesy Of Nature Valley To create Trail View, granola bar makers Nature Valley and McCann Erickson sent a rag tag team of creatives and developers on a 45-day hike to get couch potatoes interested in the real thing and raise awareness of the national parks’ plight. “This initiative lets [Nature Valley] stand for something,” says Leslie Sims, executive creative director at McCann. “They aren’t just pushing granola bars on hikers.”

A Street View-Style Tour Of National Parks Hiking Trails, Courtesy Of Nature Valley

To create Trail View, granola bar makers Nature Valley and McCann Erickson sent a rag tag team of creatives and developers on a 45-day hike to get couch potatoes interested in the real thing and raise awareness of the national parks’ plight.

“This initiative lets [Nature Valley] stand for something,” says Leslie Sims, executive creative director at McCann. “They aren’t just pushing granola bars on hikers.”