Author: Ryan Neudorf
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My week with Alexa
For Christmas, Santa brought me an Amazon Echo Plus, a gift I didn’t know I wanted. Over the holiday break I’ve been taking a deep dive into most of its features – including dabbling with writing an app skill. It’s a great device, here are the highlights. Privacy & Security Even though I’ve become accustom…
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Is shadow work ruining the job market?
A recent episode of the Every Little Thing podcast discusses the rise of self-checkout machines. It’s a fascinating tale, one that I would have never guessed started over 100 years ago with the opening of the Piggly Wiggly chain. Self-checkout is a commonly used example of the impending threat of automation. I know I personally…
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Reconsidering Net Neutrality
When Net Neutrality concerns started to rise up 5 – 10 years ago, it seemed like an open and shut case. Obviously we want the net to remain neutral, but at what cost? The Internet is humanity’s most powerful instrument of free speech and commerce, legislation that has power over the content of internet traffic…