Science Envy

Physics Looking for the GOD particle Medicine Curing cancer Internet Serving more porn

Mid-life Crisis
We are the plumbers Industry ignores us Our Large Hadron Colliders are privately owned Most interesting publications Patents!

Why?
Ubiquitous communication and low-barrier to information is CHANGING society
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Work Commerce Organize

Traditional constraint (primarily geography) no longer hold Historic artifacts no longer fit
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state sovereignty local laws

Theory Experimental Validation

We dont have a FIXED base
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Except maybe for basic human behavior Behavior is often constraint by technology Emerging behavior is often chaotic

Measurements - Danger to predict the PAST

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Running out of Business Model

Mobile operators dont have a business model in a few years Need to change the way they operate Very interested in FI ideas and solutions Need to take advantage of all the information they collect or could collect

Lots of DATA!!

Privacy
Protecting Privacy is the WRONG way Personal data is a tradable commodity What are the right mechanisms?

Big Data An Education Issue

We need 100,000s researchers who can extract value We need 1,000,000s of knowledge workers to be able to ask good questions