Drew Bartkiewicz

Augmented reality (AR) is coming, not for flash or fashion (sorry Google Glass), but because of the overload of big data bombarding the human mind, in work and in our lives. We are about to reach a tipping point in the evolution of information technology, sparked by the intersection of big data and the natural capacity of the human mind and body to think, and accomplish our life's tasks. Since 1995, data is being produced, processed, and aggregated at such volumes that we are now reaching diminishing returns in our worker's ability to actually do something with it.  The average company doubles its data every year but us humans have not doubled our cognitive and critical thinking capacities at the same rate, nor have we learned to type, text, write, or tweet exponential paces either.   The data wave is above our head and we can barely breathe. We are admittedly fas... (more)

The Data Explosion. Are We Ready? (or Not)

Since the very beginnings of trade and commerce, it has been a commonality that most information exchange between buyer and seller, customer and business, was treated as a discrete, confidential, and almost intimate affair. Trust was earned, not given. Consider the not so distant history of the local American bank. Banks have been collecting personal information about their customers for decades, harkening back to consultations over a notepad, paper deposit slips, and hand-written applications. The reputations of applicant and banker, buyer and seller, were local reputations, wi... (more)

Cloud-Based Postal Service for Personal and Business Letters

Technology startup lettrs (http://www.lettrs.com) today announced the launch of its innovative "cloud letter" platform that revives and reinvents personal letters by making them social ... again. Fusing social media technologies and cloud computing with old-fashioned letter writing, lettrs revives personal correspondence by making letters accessible across a range of mobile and social platforms. Through the lettrs platform, users can: Create and deliver letters via the cloud as a personal "post office" Upload and preserve handwritten personal letters in a user's "shoebox" Display ... (more)

Risk Evaporation: Cyber Risk Visibility for Cloud Computing Futures

Financial Risks Patterns in Cyber Space Every aggregation industry in the world involves risk transfer and substantial (in the billions) insurance markets for catastrophic financial or legal events - except for cloud computing. Traditional industries that leverage insurance markets range from banking to property to energy to transportation- yes, even rental cars. However the cloud computing industry is an emerging aggregator industry with enormous promise and equally large unseen risks. Prediction: a massive risk transfer market for cloud-computing will soon take hold through the... (more)

The Web of APIs = the Web of the Future

In 2009 I attended an event with the World Economic Forum on the future of the Internet, both from an economic and technical perspective. Over the last 12 months two trends are becoming even more apparent: (1) the Internet will require more innovative forms of risk hedging beyond just security, and new concepts like CloudInsure will emerge for businesses depending irreversibly on digital technologies. And (2), the cost and complexity of Internet technology will be massively transformed downward by this little known technology advancement called APIs (application programming inter... (more)