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Above the Fold
Insights for information professionals in a changing world
27 January 2016 | Vol. 9, No. 2 | 1943-1457
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In this issue:
How Barbie Brought Attention to Securing the Internet of Things
The Future of Work: Empowering the Data-driven Worker
How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
This Italian Company Pioneered Innovative Startup Culture-in the 1930s
Neuromyth, Lithium, NEAT
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0df52356002146146d6dbe7e406c29502
b35867119895dc8d4> How Barbie Brought Attention to Securing the Internet of
Things
Bigthink.com . Jason Thomas . 31 December 2015
Barbie raises a real public policy issue. This article describes the release
of the
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0daf6e62da939df6f80406ac0c2e9f893
cf61a7362618e762e> Hello Barbie doll and the aftermath that churned with
concerns about hacking, privacy and Big Brother spying on children. This is
the version of the doll capable of engaging in two-way conversation over a
WiFi network (and companion app), with up to 8,000 lines of dialog to choose
from. Children can ask Barbie questions, participate in co-created stories,
and engage in conversations on a wide variety of topics. And since it can
connect to the Internet, it has become a target for hackers.
We've written about the Internet of Things (IoTH)
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d4d6081de354bceb75837841cb86683d
33d47e3c596e40420> here in the past. What's interesting about this article
is that the legitmate security concerns raised by all those cheap
interconnected chips have until just recently been debated only among
information technology professionals. But bring in Barbie and somebody's
children and you've now gotten a motivated slice of the citizenry (parents)
involved and aware. At the most recent membership meeting of the Coalition
for Networked Information Julie Brill, a Commissioner of the Federal Trade
Commission, gave the
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d12de22b118d94c13b108d0b28f18ba8
824ddf08dbab63d90> closing keynote. In the Q&A the longest exchange was
devoted to privacy and security concerns associated with the IoTH. The FTC
report Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d1a75ffa392058dfe4140b21a4887ea2
628d509faf6960b9d> press release) is worth a look. The executive summary may
be enough (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0dc923fe540d7123e6afb3c9bc1233c67
44b18b807e303edbc> pdf). (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d9d44ed4e886cff42493c5421fc33295
66839bf4257f31af1> Michalko)
P.S.
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d82b9e8fdf9931014c3fa8b20de1b7a3
194966b007569dc9e> David Rosenthal was Ms. Brill's principal interlocutor
about the IoTH and security. His blog is full of commentary about
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0df9a653438dd800f6e50142b3a5cd044
a2f0da6415e781ea5> this topic. When he talks he has my attention.
P.P.S. Barbie's full name is
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d3ad007268ac018e3c797eaa899c289c
c64476ecd28b0de95> Barbara Millicent Roberts. She has her own
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d893fe0683a54939dc267e9baf802d25
d6a067e83af50f5d6> WorldCat identity.
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251f98d3f02f4e538> Comments?
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d091fc87db93240710d04d0875e28a7b
c39d39b4c19bbed44> The Future of Work: Empowering the Data-driven Worker
Pacific Standard psmag.com . Gina Neff . 10 November 2015
What happens to innovation when the evidence stays in the trailer? Dr.
Neff's commentary explains with some good examples "that, too often, those
in the technology sector who push companies to adopt data-driven
decision-making equate data with solutions, ignoring the gap between the
data and implementation, which depends on "real world" practices of workers.
Identifying problems and generating solutions is less of a problem for most
companies than figuring out how to put those solutions into action."
She's got this right. Her work on the data and implementation gap is part of
a very interesting series of investigations that were pursued as part of a
project titled "The Future of Work and Workers." The project was a
collaboration between
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0de4f7b97bd2cccc26d774cdde74686b4
9295944bda544a84c> The Rockefeller Foundation,
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d7d9f040028724f5ccb6f27429da9e3c
9fd3dad966a9bb21d> The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
(CASB) at Stanford University and
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d5c7125b8c019640cba6aebef8b3c648
62da9c97a1b40c46d> Pacific Standard. You can see all of the project work
strands
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d12c03805564b79146488a57d47d6331
2d69356e0d4fa6204> here. I was particularly taken with the commentary
assembled in the pages titled
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0df3711eb23b46e114622630c396fddd1
a109745b9c0398cee> The Future of Work: This Is Your Job in 20 Years-Pacific
Standard. (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d9d44ed4e886cff42493c5421fc33295
66839bf4257f31af1> Michalko)
P.S. The CASB has a fabulous campus high on a hill overlooking the Stanford
golf course and campus. It was designed by William Wurster (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d01fc39269b0fd334e6df94e323e638a
907e6b4351156bf78> buildings) who is largely responsible for the look modern
northern California.
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d79bbddcf4d6dd8c4ddeaa36c3ba50ad
b8d77527210c74519> Comments?
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0dbd68b6c9028964585806edbc106b3e9
11c673bc291a54195> How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
MentalFloss.com (hat tip
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d9f658a86eee55285ba9fa6a4471ef3e
b714a0885e8f45988> www.Teleread.com) . Andrew Shaffer . November 2015
Shaffer provides an entertainingly crisp short history of the paperback in
the US.
I knew the Penguin story in the UK and about the emergence of the 'trade
paperback' via Jason Epstein and Anchor Books in the US but was unclear
about what happened in between. Here it is. I was amused to hear how the
Brits thought we required the lurid early paperback cover art - "The general
intention of our covers is to attract Americans, who, more elementary than
the Britishers, are schooled from infancy to disdain even the best product
unless it is smoothly packaged and merchandised," Victor Weybright of
Penguin USA wrote to his boss. (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d9d44ed4e886cff42493c5421fc33295
66839bf4257f31af1> Michalko)
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d7d575ffdb8927faa3512978cc1ef4ba
48dd45c687060f31d> Comments?
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d0d370d85a77b67e2e3a25f4b6234786
00efed309f22a260f> This Italian Company Pioneered Innovative Startup
Culture-in the 1930s
Quartz.com . Annalisa Merelli . 28 July 2015
Good design was good business way before Apple. Merelli says that Silicon
Valley may be the seat of innovative business culture today, "but the model
for this arguably dates back to Italy in 1932, the year Adriano Olivetti
took over his father's typewriter business."
I knew some of this story but it's great to see the photos accompanying this
essay and remember how beautiful and innovative their products were. She
makes a compelling case that when they abandoned the holistic culture that
Olivetti had fostered they began their decline to irrelevance. I had the
pleasure of visiting the original Olivetti campus in Ivrea some years ago
when it was briefly the home of
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0dcabe48d097171217d1f6f4548b2c93a
10a6491850d33a4e1> Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. It's also the home of
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d69e0f4835e4bab77f033c1118d03a52
e9b5f46b970348880> The Battle of the Oranges festival. (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d9d44ed4e886cff42493c5421fc33295
66839bf4257f31af1> Michalko)
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3870fbd3615bc5e9a> Comments?
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0ddd0cd71553a615919cd8ef311559c0a
4b1c494aaae5c3cf4> Neuromyth, Lithium, NEAT
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0da2ab0bd2760d2f806f71c9f877b1098
4191841c4cf8eca66> The Concept of Different "Learning Styles" Is One of the
Greatest Neuroscience Myths
Quartz . 3 January 2016
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0dd999cbfe5dbbaccd1ec972196dbf75d
526388a81c4216535> The Creation of the Modern Laptop
Ars Technica . 16 June 2015
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d15da23d85f509bc53e2828a0fe45f04
d5e880702c927b70c> Art and Tech Have a Really Cool Baby at a San Francisco
Museum
Re/code . 11 November 2015
TThe first because I was always baffled by the question "Are you a visual
learner?" Sometimes.
The second because its ubiquity blinds us to the stunning complexity of the
most advanced machine ever made.
The third because you can use it to create beauty without knowing how it
works. (Be sure to click through to see the work of
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0da7263ece6675c8888056c31ddb5c96c
592693bb2c18a6281> Alan Rath. The feathers are marvelous.) (
<http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=eeb318d121135d0d9d44ed4e886cff42493c5421fc33295
66839bf4257f31af1> Michalko)
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