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In 2006, co-authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel wrote Naked Conversations, a reserve that persuaded businesses to embrace what we have now call social media. Six years later they have teamed up again to report that social media is but one of five converging causes that promise to change virtually every part of our own lives. You know these other causes already: mobile, data, receptors and location-based technology. Combined with social media they form a new generation of personal technology that knows us much better than our closest friends. Armed with that knowledge our personal devices can predict what we'll need next and provide us much better than a butler or an professional assistant. The ensuing convergent superforce is so powerful that it's ushering within an era the authors call the Time of Context. On this new era, our devices know when to wake us up early since it snowed yesterday evening; they contact people we are supposed to meet with to warn them we're running late. They even find content well worth watching on tv set. They also promise to cure tumors and make it harder for terrorists to do their damage. Astoundingly, in the arriving age you might only receive advertisements you want to see. Scoble and Israel have spent greater than a year researching this reserve. They report what they have learned from interviewing greater than a hundred pioneers of the new technology and by examining hundreds of contextual products. What does it all mean? How does it change society in the foreseeable future? The authors are unabashed technical fanatics, but as they write, an elephant sits in the living room of our own book which is called privacy. We have been entering a period when our technology functions us best since it watches us; collecting data on what we do, who we consult with, what we check out. There is absolutely no doubt about it: Big Data is seeing you. The time to lament the loss of privacy has ended. The authors claim that the time is right to demand options that allow visitors to reclaim some portions of that privateness.
