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Emerging EcoNomics

If you enjoy the ‘Emerging new economy’ article this one is a must as it goes beyond our current monetary system by offering wider perspectives about what we are witnessing emerge. 

ECONOMICS THAT PUTS MONEY IN ITS PLACE

Finally, there are major theoretical breakthroughs that support all of these approaches and “de-monetize” both economic activity and our very ideas of what constitutes “value” and “wealth”. In addition to theories of “the commons”, equity, and slow-growth noted in Alperovitz’s essay, we see the following ideas also emerging:

Your House: The Next Great Digital Network

Connected boxes Twine and Ninja Blocks, card-like Electric Imp, and stand-alone sensor hub Knut all use sensors to communicate information about objects or the environment around them to the Internet — a concept known as “The Internet of Things.”

The Internet of Things has been around for a while. It includes gadgets like connected scales and the Nike+ shoe, as well as identifying technologies as simple as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Over the last few years, however, the hardware involved in putting objects online has become more accessible — and The Internet of Things has made a beeline toward the mainstream.

“Trying to determine the market size of the Internet of Things is like trying to calculate the market for plastics, circa 1940,” Nelson explained in a report by consulting firm the Hammersmith Group. “At that time, it was difficult to imagine that plastics could be in everything.

Knut internet-connected sensor keeps you in the know via email

Much like the Twine device that we saw last November, and the more recent Electric Imp, the Knut is a small sensor-equipped module that enables you to remotely monitor equipment and spaces in your home. The Knut comes equipped with a temperature sensor so that you can monitor the temperature of your wine refrigerator, humidor, basement, etc. It connects to the internet via Wi-Fi and can send out alerts and information to its owner by way of email and text message.

Too Much Information: Monitoring Becomes a Big Data Problem

In a keynote address this week at EMC World, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talked about the growing monitoring challenge as system pools and the sheer amount of information these systems generate grows ever larger.

To put it another way, monitoring has become a big data problem.

He claimed that the number of devices connected to the Internet is going up by a factor of 10, and the growth is not just being fueled by humans, but also by an increasing number of internet-enabled devices feeding more and more data into the system.

This ‘Internet of Things’ will interact with the virtual world in a fundamentally different way than we do and they will be feeding us vast quantities of information, which we in turn have to process to build a better understanding of our world. These tools could be even baked into the systems we need to monitor.

Commons Economy Rising

by @Connoropolous

Hyperconnected Bodies the rising cloud of selfaware data

Put all this data in the cloud, (privacy not included) and personal medicine becomes a reality, tracking our mood, skin temperatures and the analysis of correlated data becomes a new picture we have of ourselves, and a new image we can project unto the world.

“They’re really external extensions of our mind,” said Joseph Tranquillo, associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering at Bucknell University. (referring to all our networked devices- CNN)

So, vast amounts of data, self-tracking, personal information stock exchange, our own memories in the cloud, implants under our skins transmitting the data continuously.

by @Wildcat2030

Heads-On: MindWave Lets You Control Mobile Games With Brain Waves

The Mindwave Mobile Brainwave Headset is a $130 EEG headset that’s compatible with iOS devices, Android phones, and, yes, even desktop computers. The headset measures brainwaves from your forehead — changes in electrical activity, really — which it then filters with complex algorithms to eliminate any interference from other electronic sources, and narrow down what those brainwaves really mean. Currently, the system can detect concentration, meditation and blinks, and uses these cues to control simple iOS and Android games.

City Dashboard: Aggregating All Spatial Data for Cities in the UK - information aesthetics

CityDashboard [citydashboard.org] aggregates various spatial data of about 8 different cities around the UK, and displays this data on a dashboard and a map.

Developed by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis of the University College London, it exemplifies one of the dreams of the smart city movement: to provide a single, open overview of almost all available data streams that a modern city of today creates.

Gmail and iPhone alums create Electric Imp, connect your toaster to the web

Electric Imp is about to make your wireless control / monitoring fantasies a reality with its soon-to-be-released, $25 web interface. It works much like an Eye-Fi card, and communicates with cloud services as well as other connected devices like your Android or iPhone via WiFi. The company is working hard to get the slots that work with the cards into many of the machines that we usually don’t link up to the good ol’ www — but have often wanted to — and it hopes to have everything in place later this year.

Gmail and iPhone alums create Electric Imp, connect your toaster to the web

Electric Imp is about to make your wireless control / monitoring fantasies a reality with its soon-to-be-released, $25 web interface. It works much like an Eye-Fi card, and communicates with cloud services as well as other connected devices like your Android or iPhone via WiFi. The company is working hard to get the slots that work with the cards into many of the machines that we usually don’t link up to the good ol’ www — but have often wanted to — and it hopes to have everything in place later this year.