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- Bridj Laziness; Deciding In Public; Terrible Tools … Of course, most mass transit systems realise that they provide a service of immeasurable value to those who, say, can't drive, and that those without transport options …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … In the case of the former, a reader who's been involved in public transport information better makes a persuasive case that mobile technology *has* made public transport …
- Here In My Car … Car manufacturers aren't necessarily selling cars, they're selling freedom of movement or transportation. Changing the automotive/car business into a personal transport business that has to …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … public transport, or at least the ideal of public transport shares a requirement of (somewhat) universal service. It's the same reason why the post office has to …
- The Machine; Route Around Failure; The Most Expensive Selfie … But then also the transport of that data. And the computation involved in figuring *out* the transport of that data. And then do you count the environmental and …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … Ostensibly, the reason for the $20 price increase was fuel and transportation costs, for which, fair enough, really. But you can't help but wonder what's funding …
- Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit … First, some data points: - Uber obviously wants to replace all of its drivers with self-driving cars[1] - Google is designing self driving cars / autonomous transport units[2 …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … Of course, if we actually get matter transportation, then all this goes out the window. I wonder what the long hedge against that sort of transportation is. [1 …
- "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House … a protocol for the transport of information (the Hypertext Transfer Protocol part of the web) and a set of standards about how you define and display that information …
- Learning the world … In an aside, the phrase “Department of Transportation” is hyperlinked on the CBS Local news story, but it does not lead to the NYC Department of Transportation, instead …
- Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3) … This is the same kind of bizarro thinking that leads US startups to say that they're remaking public transport, when that public transport is more expensive and …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … just because you're transporting (note: transporting, not delivering) a metric buttload of iMessages every day does not mean you get "cloud" and services, it just means you …
- Adjust Your Register; The Curse of The Next Generation; Some Sort Of Tinkerbell; Your AI Pharmacy … FAA’s Next Generation Air Transport System (NextGen)? 6 Anyway, I have not read the report about NextGen UBE. I will save that for another time. It just …
- "Everybody"; The Webb Scale; Algorithms … Leap - from looking at their website - is the latest attempt of what I'll loosely call "the tech industry" or "startups" to "disrupt" the transportation industry. The job …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … what are the transport jobs in a society with *completely* commoditised on-demand transport? Are drivers in that world the archetypal "driver" who's discreet and will transport …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow … The counter-reckon against this sort of SlowFast disruption is that for all those in transport-related employment, there's a big bunch of entrenched interests that will …
- Eating The World; And A Question … The last time I talked about this, I was mainly concerned about the loss of jobs in the transportation business. Having never worked in haulage, I'm fully …
- Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014 … The internet, a massive communications network now over 40 years old, reaches tendrils into underground mass transport networks and into passenger planes in the sky, all delivered through …
- Yes, And... … smartness is grafted on to 20C ways of thinking and doing, which is why we all still have to go to work every day and public transport is …
- Yellow Means Get Ready To Go; Middle Class Administrative Burdened; Google’s Fault … Traffic lights are also… relatively single dimensional in their objective? (This is where urban planners and transport planners roll their eyes at me and I am very, very …
- To Serve; Odds … there's evidence that the promise made between you and the transportation service provider is being fulfilled - I'm asking for a car, and you're sending it …
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … on-demand, just-in-time ground transport through Uber and, depending on your need for point-to-point hundred-mile plus transport either fractional jet ownership or Diamond …
- Net-Native Storytelling, Selling The Future, Always On … YouTube is more transport mechanism than medium, its benefit is mainly in enabling distribution of video to audience, the trappings of interactivity that it does have are baubles …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … I would like, in a world where my dreams and wishes come true, Uber to co-exist in a city alongside good public transport options. I would like …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … The lower your income, the greater a proportion of your take-home pay you expend on essentials, like housing, heating, transport, food and healthcare. Each and every one …