Jon Bruner oversees O’Reilly’s publications on hardware, the Internet of Things, manufacturing, and electronics, and has been program chair along with Joi Ito of the O’Reilly Solid conference, focused on the intersection between software and the physical world. Before coming to O’Reilly, he was data editor at Forbes Magazine, where he combined writing and programming to approach a broad variety of subjects, from the operation of the Columbia River’s dams to migration within the United States. He studied mathematics and economics at the University of Chicago and lives in San Francisco, where he can occasionally be found at the console of a pipe organ.
The Imitating Nature Game
Session Description: Will insect swarm logic be the key to better energy management? Can slime mold and mushrooms end our reliance on blacktop and cement? From packaging to turbulence, urban planning to leadership, what can we learn from the problem-solvers of the natural world?
The Promise of an Interconnected World
With intelligence migrating further and further into devices and systems all around us, what does an endlessly connected world look like? Can the intelligent connection of people, processes, data and things create its own economy? Will it be open and accessible to innovators? How does connecting everything change the role of people, and of existing institutions? Jon Bruner of O'Reilly Media, Cisco's Carlos Dominguez, Dmitry Grishin of Grishin Robotics, Alex Hawkinson of SmartThings, and GE's Bill Ruh discuss. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
Andreessen Horowitz
Opportunities in the IoE Economy
Vast potential awaits entrepreneurs and investors as everything and everyone gets interconnected. Where will we see the most exciting innovation?
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
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Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
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LAB: IOE 13
The Internet of Everything. Machine-to-Machine. The Internet of Things. The Industrial Internet. A new language is emerging to describe a fundamental shift in the tech landscape.
