#Data Historian Market Overview

[jmg-digitalhistoryuta]

Text Mining, Digital Mapping, and Big Data

We live in a new world of technology, where almost everything you do on the internet is available for sale and some marketers encourage you to sell that data yourself. That data is tracked and developed from your posts on social media, the digital cookies you unknowingly granted permission, to even the ads you clicked on, yes including the one about erotic fan fiction on Senator Ted Cruz. And while there are steps you can take to protect your data, thousands of historic and archival works are publicly available now at anyone's fingertips. You can even listen to the tape recordings of President Nixon through his own presidential library. Now is a new frontier for digital humanities and the work historians can produce. The most daunting digital projects historians have developed are the digital maps, from the Malaysian Emergency, the Atlantic Slave Trade, to the Mapping of the Republic of Letters by Stanford University.

Historian of Capitalism Jo Guldi from Brown University and Harvard Historian David Armitage wrote The History Manifesto about this new era of big data and information overload.  Thanks to new software that can process millions of different esoteric data into their system, historians can have better overview on entire time periods.  Software like Paper Machines can construct visual presentations, showcasing a plethora of different patterns within historic texts, through an accessible graphical interface (91).  This can apply to not just the digital humanities but to the hard science as well, like climate data.  However, acquiring that data in an ethical matter provides their own hurdles as well, thus Universities need to teach their students on how to better accumulate data properly because gathering data through unethical means would undercut not just the chances of publication but their entire thesis as well (111-112).

Jo Guldi also wrote how universities should teach an ethical method for digital humanities through her book The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History.  In her book she again mentioned the benefits of the software Paper Machines and the free to use bibliography software Zotero (90).  For now, most of our past books are digitize through Google Books, and while that has been beneficial Google is a for profit company that prioritize money above all else.  For that reason, more Public and nonprofit entities need to work in digitizing past data to avoid having thousands of past works and research trapped in a cell conducted of digital paywalls, especially if their warden was someone with more incentive to keep such knowledge away from the public eye.  But we not in that complete dystopia just yet.  So, our current generation of Digital Historians simply need to make sure that they have ownership of their data and have acquired them through ethical means and not through immoral means that would lead the public to clicking on suspicious links that would give their computers malware.   

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[mercurygray]

do you have any advice for writing bob fics? i’d love to write one and yours is my absolute unconditional favourite, so i thought i’d come to you! just like in terms of keeping it as historically accurate as possible, but also keeping it original? stay safe!!

Gosh, Nonnie, that's...wow. That's a huge compliment. Thank you!

'Keeping it historically accurate' and 'keeping it original' are two different (and sometimes opposing) goals. For starters, the show itself takes historical liberties with the material, so...do we stick with show canon or history canon? 

We're very lucky that the very creation of this show sparked the collection and creation of more material about this unit. We're spoiled for sources about these men. But to be slavish to the facts presented in those books does your readers a disservice (because we may have read those already) and also...works against itself? Every one of those memoirs presents a slightly different version of events, because everyone remembers things differently. And there's been a lot of discourse in this fandom, and others, about how no one wants to 'read' the show over again, so being original is infinitely important!

I think there's something to be said for writing something that's 'historically grounded' rather than 'accurate.' I should also probably share that every single one of my writing projects for the last five years starts with a stack of books and associated movies, because that's...just how my mind works.

So, with that in mind: [below the cut, because I had a lot of thoughts]

Start with a little reading about World War Two in a bigger context. Hew Strachan, John Keegan, or Anthony Beevor are all highly respected military historians who have all written great 'overview' texts that can give you a feel for all the moving parts in world politics. 

A little reading about the United States during the Depression might be helpful as well. All of your characters grew up during this time, and it was a formative experience for them. How would living through an event like that change them?

If accuracy is your goal, reading all of the BOB memoirs feels like it needs to be on the list. (Disclaimer: I haven't done this.)  @lyselkatz has a complete list here.

If you're still looking for additional information, reading more books about paratroopers, D-Day, Market Garden, or the Battle of the Bulge could be helpful. (Again, I recommend Strachan, Keegan and Beevor, but there are dozens of possibilities here, honestly. Ed Ruggero is a historian who focuses on leadership and talks about the 82nd Airborne a lot. His books have been helpful to me.)

I bill my fic as an alternate history because I changed about 30 years of army policy prior to the war, so for me, knowing about Army policy for women in World War One was important. I have a whole shelf of books on this topic.

If you're planning on inserting an additional character into the story, having some specialist knowledge about the job they're doing, or other people who've done that job, is great. I have friends who are currently writing Russians, war correspondents, and resistance fighters, and all of these groups have some special knowledge that goes with them.

If you're planning on writing an OFC, reading books specifically on women in World War Two is a must. I have a reading list on that subject here. There's a lot of good fic food for thought in this list.

If you're looking for a list of suggestions for jobs your OFC can tackle, you can check out my list here.  I also wrote a random generator using some of these suggestions and some 1940s name data.

I also have a worksheet on OC development here.

I hope this helps! There’s a lot of cool uncovered ground where OCs are concerned and if you have questions or you want to bounce an idea off of me, my DMs are open!

[aboutanancientenquiry]

The problem of the nature of the economy of Pharaonic Egypt

“Theories on Ancient Egyptian Economy 

The economy of an ancient society—and one that is culturally very different from ours— such as Pharaonic Egypt is likely to display characteristics that do not have parallels in modern economies. Reconstructing such an ancient economy should therefore not exclusively proceed from modern economic observations and theories. Entirely devoid of preference for any specific theory is the important work by Wolfgang Helck, who arrived at his conclusions empirically, on the basis of extensive collections and a superb overview of ancient data (see mainly Helck 1960 – 1969, 1975). Helck argued that economic consciousness developed slowly in Egyptian history and that the development of this consciousness was hampered by the centralistic economy of the Old Kingdom; only from the First Intermediate Period onward would private individuals increasingly wrench themselves free from the allembracing redistributive state. 

Janssen (1975b: 137 - 139) argued that characteristics of the ancient Egyptian mindset exhibited in religion and art, such as the (supposed) absence of individualism, would also apply to the economy. He saw the economic mind of the Egyptians as “realistic” rather than “abstract,” and little concerned with the motive of making profit. The character of the Egyptian economy as a whole he saw as mainly redistributive—that is, dominated by taxation and tributes. Janssen based his discussion on general characteristics of peasant economies worldwide. In doing so, he showed himself a proponent of a broader movement in economic history that had begun in the 1940s and was especially influential in economic anthropology. One source of its inspiration was the emergence of economies (in Eastern Europe and Asia) that were different from the “capitalist” market economies. Another was the anthropological interest in “primitive” economies (Eichler 1993: 2 - 4). An early reflection of this movement in Egyptology was Siegfried Morenz’s study of conspicuous consumption (1969). 

The main inspiration for this “substantivist” or “primitivist” movement was the economic historian Karl Polanyi. He and his followers (mainly anthropologists) argued that economy was not to be seen as an autonomous phenomenon (that is, as a self-regulating market), but as embedded in a political and social context (Dalton 1971; Polanyi et al.  1957). This embeddedness shows itself in three different ways (also called “patterns of integration”): exchange (in commerce), reciprocity (in social structures, such as kinship), and redistribution (in politic centralism). This train of thought became influential in historiography (for example, in the work of Moses Finley) and in Near Eastern studies from the 1970s onwards. In Egyptology it found its clearest expression in Renate Müller-Wollermann’s discussion of trade in the Old Kingdom (1985). Authors discussing the nature of ancient Egyptian economy saw redistribution as its key feature (with or without specific reference to Polanyi: Bleiberg 1984, 1988; Janssen 1981). The Assyriologist and historian Mario Liverani used Polanyi’s theory to analyze international economic traffic as presented in Near Eastern sources (including the Egyptian) from the Late Bronze Age (Liverani 1990: 203 - 282). Liverani reached the important conclusion that the “patterns of integration” did not determine the actual economic processes, but rather their ideological presentation in texts and monumental depictions (ibid.: 22 - 24). 

Others have voiced skepticism of, and even sharp protest against, the Polanyi-inspired view of ancient economics (Silver 1995). The turning point in Egyptology was late in the 1980s, when more modernist views were brought forward, notably by Barry Kemp (2006; originally published 1989) and Malte Römer (1989). Kemp assumed (vs. Helck and Janssen) that there was no lack of economic consciousness in ancient Egypt, given the political and social competition clearly evident in the ancient records. He also pointed out that a redistributionist government would never have been able to meet the demands of an entire population—moreover, not even those of its own institutions. It follows that any economy is a compromise between state dominance and self-regulating market, in which private demand is an important stimulus and sets prices. Nonetheless, discussions in the 1990s still very much focused on redistribution (e.g., Eichler 1999), state service, and the absence of individualism (Bleiberg 1994). 

The relative importance of government and market and the ways in which these were interrelated seems to dominate the present discussion of ancient Egyptian economy (see also Kemp 2006: 302 - 335). David Warburton, partly inspired by the theories of John Maynard Keynes, concentrates on government concern with production and employment (Warburton 1991, 1997, 1998). An economist recently characterized the role of the state in the economy of ancient Egypt as a “risk consolidating institution” (Wilke 2000).”

Source: the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, entry “Economy”- https://escholarship.org/content/qt2t01s4qj/qt2t01s4qj.pdf?t=qxvbyl

[antoine-roquentin]

What are the key drivers of economic prosperity? Why do societies that were at one point world economic leaders often end up falling behind? What role do factor markets play in this process? These are the questions addressed in Bas van Bavel’s fascinating entry into the “big think” literature, The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies Have Emerged and Declined since AD 500. In this book, van Bavel proposes a theory of cyclical economic growth and decline, and he supports this theory with three case studies: early medieval Iraq (c. 500-1100), high medieval northern Italy (c. 1000-1500), and the late medieval and early modern Low Countries (c. 1100-1800).

Van Bavel’s framework can be conceptualized as an economics counterpart to Ibn Khaldun’s political cyclical theory of empires. The (somewhat neo-Marxian) argument suggests that economic decline is a natural consequence of the type of economic growth that happens via factor markets. In other words, the growth of factor markets is a self-undermining process. This is a fairly significant departure from conventional economic history accounts, which largely view the development of market economies as more of a linear process.

Van Bavel’s argument can be summarized as follows. In societies with some sufficiently high level of personal and economic freedom as well as some degree of prosperity (due to non-market mechanisms of exchange for land, labor, and capital) factor markets are likely to emerge. In the process, a positive feedback loop occurs in which underutilized resources are more productively used, specialization and division of labor arise, economic growth results, which results in greater use of factor markets, and so on. However, with factor market growth comes inequality — both economic and political. As those who own the factors of production gain more political power, they use this power to dominate the markets for land, labor, and capital, as well as financial markets, making these markets less free in the process. This precipitates the economic decline of the society, as vested interests squeeze the little remaining productive power out of the economy, leaving little for the rest of society. The decline that van Bavel proposes is therefore endogenous to the very processes that contributed to the rise in the first place.

Perhaps the most ambitious aspect of The Invisible Hand? is the cases to which van Bavel applies the theory: early Islamic Iraq, Commercial Revolution Italy, and the late medieval and early modern Low Countries. These are not randomly plucked cases: one could make the case that they represent the world’s (or, at a minimum, western Eurasia’s) economic frontier from about 750 to 1700. Van Bavel must be commended for picking these three cases: few scholars have the breadth of knowledge to dig so deeply into three such vastly disparate cases. And indeed, the cases work quite well for the theory. Iraq of the Abbasid period was probably the wealthiest and most advanced region of the world. Indeed, in 800 the population of Baghdad was greater than the top thirteen Christian cities of Western Europe combined! Yet, it clearly started to fall behind at some point well before the Mongol invasion crushed what remained of the Abbasid Empire in 1258. Van Bavel convincingly points to the rise and decline of factor markets as a culprit. Although the evidence is scanter than it is for the others cases, van Bavel makes a strong case that the development of markets in labor, capital, finance, and especially land (and land lease) played an important role in the region’s growth, while the accumulation of these factors of production in a small number of hands ended up stifling growth and, ultimately, the very markets that spurred growth in the first place. Indeed, van Bavel presents data indicating that the Gini coefficient on wealth inequality in tenth century Iraq was a startling 0.99, making it one of the most unequal societies in world history.

Similar evidence is provided for the cases of northern Italy during and after the Commercial Revolution and the Low Countries in the late medieval and early modern periods. For these cases, the data and secondary sources are much more complete and the narratives are quite compelling. Indeed, one might suspect that the Low Countries case that van Bavel has researched so deeply was the motivating example behind the book (and it is indeed a good example). In both of these cases, societies that were wealthier than their neighbors — but not by much — saw a growth in factor and financial markets, with the resulting proceeds initially being relatively widely distributed. Over time, it was precisely access to these factor and financial markets that enabled the accumulation of wealth in a small amount of hands. This gave the economic elites access to political power and the capacity to buy up most of the rural hinterlands, which ultimately led to the (relative) decline of factor markets and, more generally, these economies. Seen from this perspective, the cultural achievements of the Renaissance or the Dutch Golden Age — funded as they were by the ultra-wealthy — were a symptom of decline, not vibrancy.

As one is reading the book, it is natural to think, “an economic rise followed by the accumulation of factors of production in a small amount of hands sounds a lot like the modern day U.S.” While historians are often hesitant to make such conjectures on more recent events, van Bavel provides a quite welcome chapter overviewing (in only slightly less depth) the trajectories of the UK and U.S. since the eighteenth century. Not surprisingly, he argues that both are reflective of the cyclical theory of economic development propounded throughout the book. These are important insights, as they suggest that modern day inequality may be a structural feature of the American and British economic rise.

[chitrakullkarni]

Batch Management Software Market Worldwide Trends, Revenue Drivers Analysis & Forecast Research Report, 2022

The global Batch Management Software Market research report provides complete insights on industry scope, global trends, regional estimates, key application, competitive landscape and financial performance of prominent players. It also offers ready, data-driven answers to several industry-level questions. This study enables numerous opportunities for the market players to invest in research and development.

Market Overview:

Batch management software market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 7%. Rising demand for enhanced production and importance to quality is expected to drive the market growth over the period. Food and beverages, chemicals, Pharmaceutical and biotech industries are the major users of batch management systems. However this software is also significant in mining and metals, cement and glass, pulp and paper.

To maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty in order to reduce the risk of product recall is anticipated to drive the batch management software market. The growing importance of social media through which consumers can easily share their opinions and criticism regarding the quality of the product. This may affect the reputation of the company and can be an important differentiation in a very competitive market.

Increase importance of time to market is also expected to stimulate the demand for batch management software. In a time based competition, length of time taken from generation of an idea to the finished product is critical for a reduced production cycle time. By reducing the total time needed for a product to reach the market the consumers will be able to purchase it, thus making the company more profitable in a short span of time. Batch management software helps in reducing the time to market and reduce the speed to market for development of new products which is very efficient in pharmaceutical and biotech industries particularly.

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Increased regulation on food and drug safety play a major role in the market. According to title 21 Part 11 of the food and drug administration (FDA) which implies that all the processes audits, controls, system validations, electronic signatures and documentation are to be maintained in electronic format by all the pharmaceutical industries, biotech companies, medical device manufacturers and other FDA regulated industries. Through the batch management software, all the companies will be able to make traceability information of products available to the authorities on demand.

Maintaining the system would be a major restraint for the batch management software. One on staff expert or two can maintain a simple batch application, however it becomes difficult to manage the software or the codes with a single expert as the complexity increases .Non availability of skilled workforce can restraint the company to proceed with the processes. Batch manufacturers need to shift to more advanced batch applications to be more efficient and cost effective. They need to be more responsive to the consumer needs and produce products more economically.

Evolution of business system integration will help the batch management software products and their market size. Closer integration with business systems, implementing analytical technologies and use of different working models and workflow engines anticipate major changes that will shape batch management products.

Governments in developed economies are replacing custom batch solutions with other basic software. The manufacturers are enhancing the use of their systems while associating production by attempting to maintain product flexibility. There is a continuous growth in consumer goods and durables which leads to high demand for quality and variety increasing the implementation of Batch management software. Many of the manufacturing facilities have little to no automation infrastructure and are primarily operated manually. These factors enhance the deployment of BMS systems globally.

Batch management software can be segmented on the basis of their functionalities which includes recipe management and execution, production scheduling, historian and reporting, quality management, resource and inventory management. Wonderware Inbatch is a control system independent batch management system introduced to deploy BMS to run new product recipes, reducing the time to market and recipe validation efforts in regulated industries.

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[ishubhampatil09]

Smart Factory Market Is Expected To Witness CAGR Of 13.3 % During The Forecasted Period (2019-2027)

Overview

A smart factory is a production environment, in which production facilities and logistics systems are organized without human intervention. The primary basis of the smart factory is cyber-physical systems that communicate with each other by utilizing the Internet of Things and services. This allows a more efficient connection of supply chain and better organization within any production environment. These factories can run autonomously on a large scale with the ability to self-correct. A smart factory offers visibility, autonomy, and connectivity. Although companies have already employed automation, smart factories are a step further and run without human intervention. Moreover, smart factories can learn and adapt in real-time, making them more flexible than their predecessors, as they use modern technologies.

The global smart factory market is estimated to account for US$ 116.3 Bn in terms of value in 2019 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13.3% during the forecasted period 2019-27.

Market Driver

Growing emphasis on fulfilling consumer demands are expected to boost the global smart factory market growth over the forecast period

A number of factories are becoming increasingly customer-centric, delivering products that offer more benefits and meet specific needs, in order to meet the range of consumer requirements. Currently, consumers demand new varieties of products and have little tolerance with regard to quality issues. Furthermore, a smart factory allows optimized individual customer product manufacturing via intelligent collation of an ideal production system, which affects product properties, logistics, costs, security, reliability, time, and sustainability considerations. Thus, these factors are expected to support the global smart factory market growth during the forecast period.

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Market Opportunity

Rising adoption of IIoT and cyber-physical systems can present significant growth opportunities

Adoption of industrial internet of things (IIoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS) is expected to revolutionize the global smart factory market. IIoT allows connectivity all along the value chain for better communication among manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers. CPS-optimized production processes at factories enable manufacturers to determine and identify various activities, offers several configuration options under different conditions as well as allows independent and wireless communication between factories.

Market Restraint

High initial cost requires for installation is expected to hinder the global smart factory market growth over the forecast period

Implementation smart factory measures require a high initial investment. Although smart factories are beneficial in the long-term, initial installation is extremely expensive, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. As a result of this, SMEs are reluctant to adopt smart factories, which in turn, is expected to hinder the global smart factory market growth over the forecast period.

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Market Trends

Europe Trends

Increasing investments in smart manufacturing is a major trend in the region

In Europe, governments are taking proactive initiatives to support development of new innovative production technologies, in order to sustain a highly competitive global market. For instance, The European Commission is investing around US$ 2 Bn on “Factories of The Future 2020” initiative, along with The European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) in the form of a public-private partnership to develop the blueprint for the smart manufacturing sector in the European Union.

Asia Pacific Trends

Asia Pacific market share is expected to increase

Increasing investments by key players in the region are expected to expand the Asia Pacific smart factory market share in the near future. The revenue contribution is expected to remain the highest during the forecast period. According to Coherent Market Insights’ analysis, by 2015 end, APAC dominated the global smart factory market with a 38.5% market share and US$ 23.7 Bn in terms of market value.

Middle East & Africa (MEA) Trends

Expanding market share

Currently, MEA commands a small share in the global smart factory market. However, according to Coherent Market Insights’ analysis, by 2025, the market share is expected to increase gradually. Many global players consider this region to be an emerging market with high growth potential. According to CMI, in terms of revenue, smart factory market in MEA is expected to gain 110 BPS over the forecast period.

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Competitive Section

Key players operating in the global smart factory market are Oracle Corporation, ABB Group, Atos SE, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Accenture PLC, General Electric Co., PTC Inc., Siemens AG, SAP SE, and IBM Corporation.

Key Developments

Major companies in the market are involved in mergers and acquisitions, in order to enhance the market presence. For instance, in April 2019, Accenture PLC acquired Zieplus, a Germany-based technology consultant, to expand capabilities of Accenture Industry X.0, which produces smart products and services for automotive companies.

Key companies in the market are focused on business expansion, in order to gain a competitive edge in the market. For instance, in December 2018, General Electric Co. announced to establish a new, independent, company focused on building comprehensive Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) software portfolio with an investment of US$ 1.2 billion.

Key players in the market are focused on product launches, in order to expand product portfolio. For instance, in May 2018, Siemens AG launched four MindSphere application centers across India to expand its Industry 4.0 offerings.

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Market Taxonomy:

By Component

Hardware

Software

Services

By Market Structure

To Connect

Wired and Wireless Networking

Wide Area Networking (WAN)

Local Area Networking (LAN)

Machine-to-Machine Network

To Collect

Sensors

Digital Measurement Devices

Auto Identification Hardware

To Analyse

Data Historian

Reporting

Complex Event Processing

Predictive Algorithm

To Control

Actuators

Programmable Logic Controllers

Smart Robotics

Additive Manufacturing Equipment

By Manufacturing Vertical

Automotive & Transportation

Food & Beverage

Electrical and Electronics

Aerospace & Defense

Oil & Gas

Garment & Textile

Chemical & Material

Others ( Healthcare & Pharmaceutical)

By Region

North America

Latin America

APAC

Europe

MEA

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[thebrewstorian]

Pop Culture Conference 2017: Beer Culture: Session 5: What does a brewer look like?

I put a lot into this talk: thinking, words, interviews, time. And I didn’t get to finish it at the Pop Culture Conference last week. I’ve tightened it up so the post was SUPER long, but I’m glad to have this forum to share the last bit. I think you’ll see why when you see that the end, the part that was cut, was the words of the women I interviewed. 

Being an archivist means promising to be objective – or at least trying. In the past, we might have been passive collectors, gathering materials with a level of personal distance. When archivists are also oral historians, those lines start to blur. We are not simply collectors, but creators and history shapers. And when an archivist, curator, and oral historian focuses on an underrepresented group within a larger industry, it’s a short step towards political action, advocacy, and a shaping of the objective historical record in very subjective ways.

I didn’t start my career intending to be a brewing archivist or an oral historian, nor did I intend to focus on community archiving or gender politics, but here I am. And today I’m going to talk about my work documenting women in the brewing industries: the archives, the industry, feminism, my own background, how it’s changed me, and how I think oral histories have the potential to change the industry’s own narrative.

I started the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives in 2013, the first of its kind in the country. I collect, preserve, and share materials that tell the story of Northwest brewing, focusing on materials related regional hops and barley farming, craft and home brewing, cider, and mead. Cornerstones are the university research dating to the 1890s, papers of beer historian Fred Eckhardt and Oregon Hop Growers Association, extensive industry periodicals, book collections, newsletters, photographs, memorabilia, advertising materials, and of course an ever-expanding collection of oral histories.

At its core, OHBA is a community archiving project, and I’m lucky to work with people who have changed the industry in such significant ways. I am also situated in the Northwest, a fascinating spot to study the cultural and social aspects of a region so identified with hops and brewing.

Like many Oregonians, my family history is connected to farming and I have deep Oregon roots dating to the 1850s. My great-great grandpa and his brother grew hops before mildew wiped out their crops and they planted sour cherries in the 1940s. Despite this, and the fact that my first legal beer was a Widmer Hefeweisen, I am an outsider with a unique perspective as an observer.

And I had a lot to learn.

I came away from my first year with some good connections, more knowledge, and a great pile of coasters, but also a few important epiphanies. I had my fair share of requests for Henry Weinhard recipes, but also about lesser known stories of pickers, family farms, or small pre-prohibition breweries. People love history, especially local beer history, but most don't quite get what goes into an archive or how I'm different from a journalist. People downplayed the importance of their own stories or the things they’ve saved. The people who started these industries are still in these industries and their archives are actually still business records – companies had valid concerns with privacy and for most farmers this is family history.

I began to see how gathering oral histories could be a way to record the history without actually taking stuff. It seems to be working – over the past three years I’ve had a lot of informal conversations and meals, and I’ve gathered nearly 70 oral histories with brewers, farmers, scientists, journalists, and advocates.

But before I talk about those, I want to share my third epiphany, one that was actually more of a confirmation: these industries tend to be white and male dominated. So if I wanted to represent the industry, the majority of the people I’d be talking to would be white men. If I wanted to document people outside of the norm, I’d have to be intentional in my interview selections and questions.

It’s important to look at the demographics of people in the brewing industry because I think it’s good to frame the more theoretical, yet oftentimes personal, with numbers. Although you can find decent analyses of analysis of consumers based on gender and race/ethnicity, finding actual statistics on the number of women brewing or owning companies – let alone details on job categories – is basically impossible.

In my own research I came across plenty of articles making sweeping statements about “an increase of women in commercial brewing” or variations on the theme of “women breaking the glass ceiling” or “these ladies brew.” When I reached out to the Pink Boots Society, the non-profit education and outreach organization for women who earn income from the brewing industry, the Executive Director expressed frustration that she didn’t have these numbers nor had she been able to get a broader industry group together to gather them.

In 2014, Stanford researchers Sarah Soule and Shelley Correll were commissioned by the Brewers Association to study the industry. Out of 2,536 breweries, 20% had at least one female founder, 17% had at least one female CEO (typically wife/husband team), and only 4% had a female lead brewer. The following year Martin O’Neill and Erol Sozen of Auburn University studied brewers’ primary motivation for getting into craft brewing – it reported that 29% of brewery workers were women, but I didn’t find details on the jobs they were they doing or why gender was a data point.

I wanted some data on Oregon, which also proved challenging. In 2016 there were 230 breweries employing 8,500 full and part-time people. One of my students looked through the web sites for all 230 breweries and found a total of 43 women with roles as brewers or owners, with only 13 in brewer positions. If we use O’Neill and Sozen’s 29% brewing industry staff finding, that means only 13 out of the 2,465 women employed are brewing. Even guestimating 250 brewers in the state, that’s 5% female brewers and only slightly above the national average for lead brewer.

I thought “there must be more to the story."

I’m not a feminist scholar, but I want to give a brief overview of some trends as they pertain to oral history.

Most early radical feminist oral history projects of the 1970s were community-based, set against the backdrop of political action fighting for equality. Interviewers were part of the community, and they saw their recordings as both a form of political activism and a means for empowering both the narrator and interviewer. The high tide raised all boats when “the personal is political" and "identity politics" ruled, and the more voices were represented and the more they learned from each other the higher that tide was.

Two decades later, feminists of the 1990s focused more on the intersectionality of gender, race, class, sexuality, but also recognized ambiguity, rejected the constructs of categories as well as their us-versus-them nature. Many refused to identify as feminists because they saw the word itself as limiting and exclusionary. At the same time, they moved their projects – and naturally their scholarship – into the academy as they took university teaching positions jobs, generally generating more theories than activism. They turned towards a discourse-based analysis, focusing on words for universal themes rather than on shared community stories. And though interviews were removed from the community, there was a growing “approval” by the academy of oral history as a legitimate historical source.

In the 2010s, feminism is moving from the academy and back into the realm of public discourse. Some projects focus on individual women’s stories and harken back to feminism of the 1970s. Yet there are many others that reject the gender binary as exclusionary and see in the “for women only” a subtext that perpetuates a gendered society. This is no longer about just the struggles of women—it’s a call for gender equity for all genders.

However, certain things have not changed. At its core feminist oral history has always been about personal connections, community, and giving voice. It’s also been about deconstructing power relationships in patriarchal systems, aiming to understand the nature of gender inequality, allowing us to look at how we define the “historical record,” and at the complex relationship between interviewer and narrator.

How have these gender theories impacted my own career? I went to university in the 1990s and got an English Literature MA at a Midwestern school, when it felt like the race/class/gender lit theory discussions were hitting a fevered pitch. I came from a liberal Pacific Northwest family, but I didn't know enough about the subtleties (or not) of power relationships to understand why we talked so much about lit theory in class and why we weren’t reading actual literature.

Over time, age, education, life experiences, being a mother who wants a strong daughter, and working in academia for most of my career have exposed the imbalance of power relationships, as well as how powerful the collectors and keepers of history are. I’ve always been interested in the multiple perspectives of history - not just the top 100, not just the most famous, but the taciturn, contradictory, messy, underrepresented stories. And I’ve stubbornly pushed students and researchers to complicate the standard narrative.

So maybe it’s actually not surprising that I loved oral histories, gravitated towards community-based archiving, and over time began to explore feminist theories of oral history. It was natural to think about sexist marketing practices and an unequal gender distribution in the industries, but also the inherent subjectivity of the oral historian and the power dynamics of an interview.

But when I submitted this paper proposal last fall I assumed when I gave my talk we’d have the first woman president. We know how that turned out.

During the campaign we talked more about gender than I can remember since I was in graduate school – both pro and anti-women rhetoric – and it was kind of exhilarating. Nonetheless, despite the confusion of my co-workers and consternation of my 13-year-old proud feminist daughter – even in the midst of this historic election I couldn’t label myself as a feminist. And I still I tiptoed around gender, asking vague questions or avoiding gender because maybe it wasn’t a big deal.  

And then the election happened. And then the narrative changed. And I couldn’t absorb that we had a president who bragged about groping women. So while I still felt I needed to be a “professional chameleon,” not wearing my politics on my sleeve, being polite and/or professionally distant, I didn’t know how to think about gender without bringing up politics.

Before I started doing brewing interviews I had done a sum total of one interview — I did most of the talking, I froze when the interviewee said something racist, and I swore I would never do an interview again. I say this not to diminish myself or my work, but I admit that when I started interviewing again I was flying a bit by the seat of my pants. As long as I could ask some decent questions and listen more than talk, I felt pretty okay.

I thought being an oral historian meant acting “professional.” Despite my “powerful position” as interviewer, advice and books I’d read suggested the interviewer should be quiet, do a lot of nodding, and generally avoid of too much self-disclosure. But I wanted to ask questions that might be uncomfortable, and it seemed unfair it was one-sided and unnatural to be silent when I was asking for so much self-disclosure. And as I did more interviews and moved beyond “story gatherer,” I noticed I naturally broke these rules.

I learned people seemed more at ease if I talked about myself before the interview. I learned it was okay to sit quietly when people cried. I learned I didn’t need to force stories out of people and that it was okay to get flustered during the uncomfortable bits of interviews. I also learned that my laugh can be really loud when I’m closest to the camera. I learned I wanted to be Terry Gross. Imagine my delight when I realized this was a way to reimagine the power dynamic of interviews, and by sharing who I was turned out to be part of why I was successful at I was doing.

What if sharing, honesty, and intimacy positively impacted the historical record?

So while I'd never labeled myself a feminist, I found myself pondering gender and representation, and looking critically at my own role and subjectivity.

Over the past three years I've interviewed 70 people, with 22 since the beginning of 2017. My interviewees come from a wide variety of backgrounds and ages: farmers, academics, brewers, cider and mead makers, authors, marketing staff, chemists, and many people with ties to the Pink Boots Society. Of those 70 people, 24 have been women, roughly 35%; but of the 43 interviews with people linked to brewing, 21 have been women, so nearly half.  

As you might expect, in these interviews there were certain themes like “you might like something lighter/lower calorie/from the wine list,” or “I’ll lift that for you,” or “Where’s the brewer?” or to the hops chemist who worked on the Cascade hop at her first convention “So what does your husband do?”

Many said they feel pressure to combat these assumptions, to be a representative for women or a translator for a broader audience. Lee Hedgmon, home and commercial brewer, said she has been a professional mentor for many women, knowing that brewing is a hard industry to break into since it’s often based on word of mouth referrals. She also staffed tables at home brew events or participated in public programs because she knew “if you see someone who looks like you, you can see yourself doing that job.” It can be uncomfortable to be the only woman in the room, but showing up and being a visual reminder of something other than the stereotype could ultimately make a space for new people.

The ideas of visual representation and appearance are actually pretty important. Though I know that we picture a stereotypical a male brewer, and I have been known to sprinkle in references to “bro culture” or beards somewhat boorishly when I talk, for women in brewing appearance and their bodies are infinitely more complicated topics. Some women say they’d love to be able to lean into a kettle without their breasts getting in the way or wish they had more upper body strength, but there are also subtler differences that effect feeling like a “professional.” For instance, I had one woman tell me that a brewers’ shirt is a sort of signifier, but in a men’s shirt you don’t look professional if your buttons are gaping open.

If you look at commercials showing women serving rather than making beer – or drinking it half-naked �� and it’s not a big leap to assume women might not feel welcome if they see consumers supporting a sexist culture.

But not everyone embraces the idea that there has to be a “standard” appearance for any brewer. Some women purposely embrace the “feminine” as a marker of difference. To quote Teri Fahrendorf, founder of the Pink Boots Society and one of the first women I interviewed, “I have felt that my whole career, there were times I was a judge at the Great American Beer Festival or the World Beer Cup and I’m the only woman judge in the room and I would wear dresses, because I’m like ‘I gotta balance this testosterone man, I’d better wear a dress today,’ because it’s a beard festival.” Other women embrace tattoos, a flannel, and steel-toed boots. Some are married, to men and women, and some have kids, advanced degrees, spikes in their ears or purple hair or red lipstick. In other words, if being a woman already defies stereotypical expectations for what a brewer looks like, it’s fascinating to examine the ways they defy and embrace the expectations for “what a woman looks like” and “what a brewer looks like.”

It also was interesting to learn how “personal responsibility” played out for different people. This long passage is a tightened up version of a quote from Fahrendorf and it’s really thought-provoking. She says “It’s your responsibility. There was some concern about my ability to do the job, but if I’m 5 foot 6 [and] 120 pounds, somebody looks at me and says ‘well here’s somebody she’s got brewing school training. But I just need somebody to lift sacks of grain, muck out the mash, and here’s my nephew Louie and he’s a body builder.’ People are going after Louie a lot more than me, but it didn’t take me long to get a job and there are women today who say ‘oh I tried and no one hired me because I’m a woman,’ and I’m like ‘you didn’t try very hard then or you kept barking up the wrong trees, so keep going!’ I refuse to admit there’s a gender based glass-ceiling, the men have always embraced me, we are peers, I’m one of the boys sometimes, thus the pink boots to represent my gender. The only glass-ceiling in this industry is an education glass-ceiling, don’t blame it on a gender thing.”

Honestly at that point I really didn't get it, because she seemed to gloss over inequalities that I see woven into the fabric of the industry. When I asked her directly about sexism, Fahrendorf said “the answer to that is that yes there was some, but I chose to ignore it. I figure, I have something to offer and if somebody doesn’t want to hire me, then that’s just not the right fit.” And she said this with a matter-of-fact shrug of her shoulders.

As I did more interviews I heard more women saying similar things about personal responsibility – and resilience. Lisa Morrison, author, home brewer, co-owner of a bottle shop, and one of my most recent interviews, said “I don’t let it bother me, I grew a thick skin.” Robyn Schumacher, a brewer in Seattle, told me she felt really lucky to work in the Pacific Northwest and hadn’t dealt with a lot of crap. At the same time, she gets tired of being called on to speak as a “female brewer.” Another frustration being asked what it is like to be a woman in the industry. She knows she’s supposed to say it’s an accepting community and that she’s never had any problems, and though for the most part that’s true she also wants to be honest and say it’s not always great.  

It’s complicated.

So I’ve learned a lot and reconsidered a lot, but the one thing that continues to surprise me is how many women say “Beer has no gender” and “It’s not an issue if you don’t make it one.” And so I wonder what having a documentary project like mine does to the industry – do I change the way we have conversations about and within the industry? I don’t mean to over-inflate my impact or suggest that women are in any way dishonest when reporting their experiences, but there is a BIG disconnect between the comments section on articles about labels or marketing and reports of a relatively accepting and egalitarian community.

And at times I’ve also been guilty of wanting a single “us versus them” narrative, a simple answer to the gender question, or a shared set of values – a sort of monochrome female subculture. At times I also thought I had a level of “special access” because I am a woman. Did I assume that all women would open up about discrimination or sexism, sharing something so personal, possibly deeply humiliating, and oftentimes subtle or vague with a stranger who has a camera in their face? I also thought it was weird when gender didn’t come up, as if it was an essential part of why we were doing the interview and that my job was to ask. A few months ago I also wondered why I was only asking women about gender? We all need to talk about gender, and more holistically about demographics.

As I said at the beginning of this talk: I was not part of the beer culture before I started OHBA. I’ve done a lot of listening, a lot of thinking, and a lot reading. I still have my pre-determined narratives and feel conflicted a lot of the time about the fact that these interviews are becoming my research project. I’m still bothered by the masculine nature of it all, the drinking and watching football, the showing off equipment, the public sexism that flairs when labels or marketing is criticized.

But these interviews have changed me, my view of my state and these industries. I didn’t go on the strip club tours when the Craft Brewers Conference was in Portland in 2015, but I did go to a rodeo bar for lunch after an oral history and I liked it. I’ve met great people and been amazed by their willingness to talk to me, their support of their peers, and their work trying to get past the macho stuff.

Ultimately, in the end, I’m giving women the opportunity to have their own voice, to reflect on their own complicated and oftentimes contradictory experiences or observations. I am literally giving them the power of creating their own story or record of their experiences. Story-telling and autobiography is powerful for raising agency, and perhaps even opposition. We don't need to replace one truth with another – these stories can co-exist as multiple ways of knowing and understanding.

It’s easy to pick at answers or think about how I wished they had answered — or how I would have answered myself. My job might be to choose interviewees and ask questions, but it’s not my job to judge their answers. In gathering oral histories around an activist topic I am shaping the historical record and bending it towards… I don’t know, something else, something more? And that’s okay.

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How can food manufacturers reduce recalls?

The consumption of safe and nutritious food is a basic human right, with safe being a key word. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for the safety of food to be called into question, leading to recalls and extensive investigation. Here, George Walker, managing director of food automation specialist Novotek UK and Ireland, explains how food manufacturers can use industrial automation to supercharge traceability.

According to law firm RPC, recalls of unsafe food products in the UK skyrocketed by 40 per cent in 2018. Many of these recalls were due to allergy-related incidents in which undeclared allergens were present in products marketed as being allergy-free — something that put consumer lives at risk and prompted the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to open consultation on its guidance on food traceability, recalls and withdrawals in January 2019.

This guidance was subsequently published in February, and it offers advice on what it considers to be best practice for food businesses. Unsurprisingly, the best practice is that every segment of a supply chain can effectively trace all products received and dispatched, providing end-to-end insight. Manufacturers must also be able to quickly trace ingredients and packaging materials, citing genealogy and sources, as required.

This sounds simple enough and with few data points to consider that a single plant manager with a notepad could keep a record of. However, the manufacturing requirements are more complex than the best practice advice implies.

As raw ingredients and food traverse the production line, they will be subject to a number of processes, ranging from washing and cooking to cutting and handling. Each of these processes has several recordable considerations that must be monitored to provide reliable traceability data.

For example, if a food picking robot moves a product from one particular conveying system to another, you’ll want to have data available on when that robot was last maintained and cleaned, as well as information on how recently the conveyors themselves were washed down. This minimises the risk of cross-contamination at this particular part of the process. But, keeping track of all this information requires a robust system.

Luckily, collecting this data doesn’t need to be an impossible task. Whether you invest in smart sensors for devices or wirelessly connected systems, many pieces of equipment in factories are connected to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to collect performance data. Plant managers can integrate these systems with industrial automation software to unify all data required for traceability into one system.

For example, GE Digital’s Plant Applications software, which is part of the company’s wider Predix manufacturing execution software (MES) application suite, can oversee and manage production operations by integrating SCADA inputs into the system. This not only allows engineers to control processes and operations from the software, but also supports full traceability of individual products throughout the entire process. With this, you have a comprehensive, auditable record.

In addition to this, Novotek UK and Ireland often recommends GE Digital’s Historian software to create an end-to-end historical record of ingredients, environmental conditions, equipment performance and product quality. With this, alongside the Predix MES, plant managers can develop a complete overview of a product’s journey so that you always know when a product is safe and can verify accordingly.

Not only does introducing these systems help create a watertight system for tracing products and ingredients, but the analysis offered by the Predix MES can help businesses make operational improvements. After all, the more information available, the more informed a decision you can make to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Access to safe food is a fundamental human right, so it’s vital that manufacturers can deliver this in a verifiable way. By introducing more comprehensive ways of monitoring a product’s journey from farm to fork, businesses can safeguard themselves against the legal and cost threats of a recall and improve operations in the process. 

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The hardware segment led the electrical SCADA market in 2016. The hardware segment is followed by the software and services segments in terms of market share. Rising investments focused on automated devices in power infrastructure are expected to drive the hardware segment. The growth will be mainly driven by the increasing investments in electrical networks and government initiatives toward the adoption of industrial automation.The electrical SCADA market, by component, is segmented into Master Terminal Unit (MTU), Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), Human Machine Interface (HMI), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), communication systems, and others that includes Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), Historian, system software, and supervisory system. The global Electrical SCADA Market is valued at xx million US$ in 2018 is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of 7.5% during 2019-2025.

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“The book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were 15, it will tell it to you again when you’re 50, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

Every year, Bill Gates goes off-grid, leaves friends and family behind, and spends two weeks holed up in a cabin reading books. His annual reading list rivals Oprah’s Book Club as a publishing kingmaker. Not to be outdone, Mark Zuckerberg shared a reading recommendation every two weeks for a year, dubbing 2015 his “Year of Books.” Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, joined the board of Room to Read when she realized how books like The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate were inspiring girls to pursue careers in science and technology. Many a biotech entrepreneur treasures a dog-eared copy of Daniel Suarez’s Change Agent, which extrapolates the future of CRISPR. Noah Yuval Harari’s sweeping account of world history, Sapiens, is de rigueur for Silicon Valley nightstands.

This obsession with literature isn’t limited to founders. Investors are just as avid bookworms. “Reading was my first love,” says AngelList’s Naval Ravikant. “There is always a book to capture the imagination.” Ravikant reads dozens of books at a time, dipping in and out of each one nonlinearly. When asked about his preternatural instincts, Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe advised investors to “read voraciously and connect dots.” Foundry Group’s Brad Feld has reviewed 1,197 books on Goodreads and especially loves science fiction novels that “make the step function leaps in imagination that represent the coming dislocation from our current reality.”

This begs a fascinating question: Why do the people building the future spend so much of their scarcest resource — time — reading books?

Image by NiseriN via Getty Images. Reading time approximately 14 minutes.

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Do innovators read in order to mine literature for ideas? The Kindle was built to the specs of a science fictional children’s storybook featured in Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age, in fact, the Kindle project team was originally codenamed “Fiona” after the novel’s protagonist. Jeff Bezos later hired Stephenson as the first employee at his space startup Blue Origin. But this literary prototyping is the exception that proves the rule. To understand the extent of the feedback loop between books and technology, it’s necessary to attack the subject from a less direct angle.

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is full of indirect angles that all manage to reveal deeper truths. It’s a mind-bending novel that follows six different characters through an intricate web of interconnected stories spanning three centuries. The book is a feat of pure M.C. Escher-esque imagination, featuring a structure as creative and compelling as its content. Mitchell takes the reader on a journey ranging from the 19th century South Pacific to a far-future Korean corpocracy and challenges the reader to rethink the very idea of civilization along the way. “Power, time, gravity, love,” writes Mitchell. “The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”

The technological incarnations of these invisible forces are precisely what Kevin Kelly seeks to catalog in The Inevitable. Kelly is an enthusiastic observer of the impact of technology on the human condition. He was a co-founder of Wired, and the insights explored in his book are deep, provocative, and wide-ranging. In his own words, “When answers become cheap, good questions become more difficult and therefore more valuable.” The Inevitable raises many important questions that will shape the next few decades, not least of which concern the impacts of AI:

“Over the past 60 years, as mechanical processes have replicated behaviors and talents we thought were unique to humans, we’ve had to change our minds about what sets us apart. As we invent more species of AI, we will be forced to surrender more of what is supposedly unique about humans. Each step of surrender—we are not the only mind that can play chess, fly a plane, make music, or invent a mathematical law—will be painful and sad. We’ll spend the next three decades—indeed, perhaps the next century—in a permanent identity crisis, continually asking ourselves what humans are good for. If we aren’t unique toolmakers, or artists, or moral ethicists, then what, if anything, makes us special? In the grandest irony of all, the greatest benefit of an everyday, utilitarian AI will not be increased productivity or an economics of abundance or a new way of doing science—although all those will happen. The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us who we are.”

It is precisely this kind of an AI-influenced world that Richard Powers describes so powerfully in his extraordinary novel The Overstory:

“Signals swarm through Mimi’s phone. Suppressed updates and smart alerts chime at her. Notifications to flick away. Viral memes and clickable comment wars, millions of unread posts demanding to be ranked. Everyone around her in the park is likewise busy, tapping and swiping, each with a universe in his palm. A massive, crowd-sourced urgency unfolds in Like-Land, and the learners, watching over these humans’ shoulders, noting each time a person clicks, begin to see what it might be: people, vanishing en masse into a replicated paradise.”

Taking this a step further, Virginia Heffernan points out in Magic and Loss that living in a digitally mediated reality impacts our inner lives at least as much as the world we inhabit:

“The Internet suggests immortality—comes just shy of promising it—with its magic. With its readability and persistence of data. With its suggestion of universal connectedness. With its disembodied imagines and sounds. And then, just as suddenly, it stirs grief: the deep feeling that digitization has cost us something very profound. That connectedness is illusory; that we’re all more alone than ever.”

And it is the questionable assumptions underlying such a future that Nick Harkaway enumerates in his existential speculative thriller Gnomon:

“Imagine how safe it would feel to know that no one could ever commit a crime of violence and go unnoticed, ever again. Imagine what it would mean to us to know—know for certain—that the plane or the bus we’re travelling on is properly maintained, that the teacher who looks after our children doesn’t have ugly secrets. All it would cost is our privacy, and to be honest who really cares about that? What secrets would you need to keep from a mathematical construct without a heart? From a card index? Why would it matter? And there couldn’t be any abuse of the system, because the system would be built not to allow it. It’s the pathway we’re taking now, that we’ve been on for a while.” 

Machine learning pioneer, former President of Google China, and leading Chinese venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee loves reading science fiction in this vein — books that extrapolate AI futures — like Hao Jingfang’s Hugo Award-winning Folding Beijing. Lee’s own book, AI Superpowers, provides a thought-provoking overview of the burgeoning feedback loop between machine learning and geopolitics. As AI becomes more and more powerful, it becomes an instrument of power, and this book outlines what that means for the 21st century world stage:

“Many techno-optimists and historians would argue that productivity gains from new technology almost always produce benefits throughout the economy, creating more jobs and prosperity than before. But not all inventions are created equal. Some changes replace one kind of labor (the calculator), and some disrupt a whole industry (the cotton gin). Then there are technological changes on a grander scale. These don’t merely affect one task or one industry but drive changes across hundreds of them. In the past three centuries, we’ve only really seen three such inventions: the steam engine, electrification, and information technology.”

So what’s different this time? Lee points out that “AI is inherently monopolistic: A company with more data and better algorithms will gain ever more users and data. This self-reinforcing cycle will lead to winner-take-all markets, with one company making massive profits while its rivals languish.” This tendency toward centralization has profound implications for the restructuring of world order:

“The AI revolution will be of the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution—but probably larger and definitely faster. Where the steam engine only took over physical labor, AI can perform both intellectual and physical labor. And where the Industrial Revolution took centuries to spread beyond Europe and the U.S., AI applications are already being adopted simultaneously all across the world.”

Cloud Atlas, The Inevitable, The Overstory, Gnomon, Folding Beijing, and AI Superpowers might appear to predict the future, but in fact they do something far more interesting and useful: reframe the present. They invite us to look at the world from new angles and through fresh eyes. And cultivating “beginner’s mind” is the problem for anyone hoping to build or bet on the future.

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/16/the-best-fiction-for-building-a-startup/

[fmservers]

How to read fiction to build a startup

“The book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were 15, it will tell it to you again when you’re 50, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

Every year, Bill Gates goes off-grid, leaves friends and family behind, and spends two weeks holed up in a cabin reading books. His annual reading list rivals Oprah’s Book Club as a publishing kingmaker. Not to be outdone, Mark Zuckerberg shared a reading recommendation every two weeks for a year, dubbing 2015 his “Year of Books.” Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, joined the board of Room to Read when she realized how books like The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate were inspiring girls to pursue careers in science and technology. Many a biotech entrepreneur treasures a dog-eared copy of Daniel Suarez’s Change Agent, which extrapolates the future of CRISPR. Noah Yuval Harari’s sweeping account of world history, Sapiens, is de rigueur for Silicon Valley nightstands.

This obsession with literature isn’t limited to founders. Investors are just as avid bookworms. “Reading was my first love,” says AngelList’s Naval Ravikant. “There is always a book to capture the imagination.” Ravikant reads dozens of books at a time, dipping in and out of each one nonlinearly. When asked about his preternatural instincts, Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe advised investors to “read voraciously and connect dots.” Foundry Group’s Brad Feld has reviewed 1,197 books on Goodreads and especially loves science fiction novels that “make the step function leaps in imagination that represent the coming dislocation from our current reality.”

This begs a fascinating question: Why do the people building the future spend so much of their scarcest resource — time — reading books?

Image by NiseriN via Getty Images. Reading time approximately 14 minutes.

Don’t Predict, Reframe

Do innovators read in order to mine literature for ideas? The Kindle was built to the specs of a science fictional children’s storybook featured in Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age, in fact, the Kindle project team was originally codenamed “Fiona” after the novel’s protagonist. Jeff Bezos later hired Stephenson as the first employee at his space startup Blue Origin. But this literary prototyping is the exception that proves the rule. To understand the extent of the feedback loop between books and technology, it’s necessary to attack the subject from a less direct angle.

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is full of indirect angles that all manage to reveal deeper truths. It’s a mind-bending novel that follows six different characters through an intricate web of interconnected stories spanning three centuries. The book is a feat of pure M.C. Escher-esque imagination, featuring a structure as creative and compelling as its content. Mitchell takes the reader on a journey ranging from the 19th century South Pacific to a far-future Korean corpocracy and challenges the reader to rethink the very idea of civilization along the way. “Power, time, gravity, love,” writes Mitchell. “The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”

The technological incarnations of these invisible forces are precisely what Kevin Kelly seeks to catalog in The Inevitable. Kelly is an enthusiastic observer of the impact of technology on the human condition. He was a co-founder of Wired, and the insights explored in his book are deep, provocative, and wide-ranging. In his own words, “When answers become cheap, good questions become more difficult and therefore more valuable.” The Inevitable raises many important questions that will shape the next few decades, not least of which concern the impacts of AI:

“Over the past 60 years, as mechanical processes have replicated behaviors and talents we thought were unique to humans, we’ve had to change our minds about what sets us apart. As we invent more species of AI, we will be forced to surrender more of what is supposedly unique about humans. Each step of surrender—we are not the only mind that can play chess, fly a plane, make music, or invent a mathematical law—will be painful and sad. We’ll spend the next three decades—indeed, perhaps the next century—in a permanent identity crisis, continually asking ourselves what humans are good for. If we aren’t unique toolmakers, or artists, or moral ethicists, then what, if anything, makes us special? In the grandest irony of all, the greatest benefit of an everyday, utilitarian AI will not be increased productivity or an economics of abundance or a new way of doing science—although all those will happen. The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us who we are.”

It is precisely this kind of an AI-influenced world that Richard Powers describes so powerfully in his extraordinary novel The Overstory:

“Signals swarm through Mimi’s phone. Suppressed updates and smart alerts chime at her. Notifications to flick away. Viral memes and clickable comment wars, millions of unread posts demanding to be ranked. Everyone around her in the park is likewise busy, tapping and swiping, each with a universe in his palm. A massive, crowd-sourced urgency unfolds in Like-Land, and the learners, watching over these humans’ shoulders, noting each time a person clicks, begin to see what it might be: people, vanishing en masse into a replicated paradise.”

Taking this a step further, Virginia Heffernan points out in Magic and Loss that living in a digitally mediated reality impacts our inner lives at least as much as the world we inhabit:

“The Internet suggests immortality—comes just shy of promising it—with its magic. With its readability and persistence of data. With its suggestion of universal connectedness. With its disembodied imagines and sounds. And then, just as suddenly, it stirs grief: the deep feeling that digitization has cost us something very profound. That connectedness is illusory; that we’re all more alone than ever.”

And it is the questionable assumptions underlying such a future that Nick Harkaway enumerates in his existential speculative thriller Gnomon:

“Imagine how safe it would feel to know that no one could ever commit a crime of violence and go unnoticed, ever again. Imagine what it would mean to us to know—know for certain—that the plane or the bus we’re travelling on is properly maintained, that the teacher who looks after our children doesn’t have ugly secrets. All it would cost is our privacy, and to be honest who really cares about that? What secrets would you need to keep from a mathematical construct without a heart? From a card index? Why would it matter? And there couldn’t be any abuse of the system, because the system would be built not to allow it. It’s the pathway we’re taking now, that we’ve been on for a while.” 

Machine learning pioneer, former President of Google China, and leading Chinese venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee loves reading science fiction in this vein — books that extrapolate AI futures — like Hao Jingfang’s Hugo Award-winning Folding Beijing. Lee’s own book, AI Superpowers, provides a thought-provoking overview of the burgeoning feedback loop between machine learning and geopolitics. As AI becomes more and more powerful, it becomes an instrument of power, and this book outlines what that means for the 21st century world stage:

“Many techno-optimists and historians would argue that productivity gains from new technology almost always produce benefits throughout the economy, creating more jobs and prosperity than before. But not all inventions are created equal. Some changes replace one kind of labor (the calculator), and some disrupt a whole industry (the cotton gin). Then there are technological changes on a grander scale. These don’t merely affect one task or one industry but drive changes across hundreds of them. In the past three centuries, we’ve only really seen three such inventions: the steam engine, electrification, and information technology.”

So what’s different this time? Lee points out that “AI is inherently monopolistic: A company with more data and better algorithms will gain ever more users and data. This self-reinforcing cycle will lead to winner-take-all markets, with one company making massive profits while its rivals languish.” This tendency toward centralization has profound implications for the restructuring of world order:

“The AI revolution will be of the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution—but probably larger and definitely faster. Where the steam engine only took over physical labor, AI can perform both intellectual and physical labor. And where the Industrial Revolution took centuries to spread beyond Europe and the U.S., AI applications are already being adopted simultaneously all across the world.”

Cloud Atlas, The Inevitable, The Overstory, Gnomon, Folding Beijing, and AI Superpowers might appear to predict the future, but in fact they do something far more interesting and useful: reframe the present. They invite us to look at the world from new angles and through fresh eyes. And cultivating “beginner’s mind” is the problem for anyone hoping to build or bet on the future.

Via Danny Crichton https://techcrunch.com

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[cryptochurp]

The Ultimate Guide To Cannabis Tokens

Disclaimer: The author does not provide investment advice. This article has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for investment advice.

By now, Bitcoin is as famous as can be.

But deep down, Bitcoin is just blockchain technology disrupting our concept of money.

Blockchain is rapidly revolutionizing more and more industries. And it’s all thanks to tokens, tools that aim to do more than just to replace money.

Nowadays, the legal cannabis industry is just another stage for the blockchain to rock in.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a cannabis enthusiast yourself, an investor or just an up-to-date citizen of the world, the speed at which social and political perception of cannabis are shifting is a sight to behold (see USA and Canada).

Last year, several tokens and coins tied to cannabis emerged, meeting this fast-growing market. Analysts point to an even better development for 2018. Both tokens and the industry are truly flying high.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a user, connoisseur, business-owner or investor, you absolutely must understand how this game will play out.

So, buckle up, because here we are about to break down the cannabis industry, then discuss the most important tokens that will stick to its unstoppable growth. We’ll also get to highlight some talking points along the way.

Because the hard part of this popularity peak of cannabis tokens has led to so many projects and start-ups that choosing the right one has become a huge hassle; so we’ve taken the liberty to do the homework.

Here’s what’s going down.

Cannabis industry

Recreative cannabis was first legalized in 2014 in the state of Colorado. In the following years another 9 states joined the legalization initiative in the US (1). Since then the market has experimented an ongoing boom, creating thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue.

Some years down the line, historians may well call it the green rush.

An enormous user base and no previous legal competition make this a market ripe for investment. The industry of legal cannabis is expected to grow at least by 16% each year until 2025.

By then, it’ll have reached a market cap of $24 billion.

And the growth is fast. Dispensaries’ monthly revenue has increased from $10 million in 2014 to above $70 million in 2016.

This has impacted cannabis price. In that same timeframe, average price per gram has plummeted from $45 to $12.77 in Washington for example (2). This has been ideal to keep a steadily growing demand.

Credits to Frontier Financial Group

But this infant market could grow faster. Indeed, the tricky legal status of the plant hinders the growth of this industry.

Not only do they have to fight against social prejudices and federal laws in conflict with state regulation. Cannabis businesses still have no access no banking. Their multi-million dollar industry runs mostly on cash.

Besides, there are no standards for product quality, use of pesticides and origin.

It is wild.

But where governments and regulation have failed to make room for a strong, growing industry, blockchain has come to the rescue. Many tokens and solutions have sprung last year, ready to give the cannabis market a turbo boost.

First, let’s check why tokens can be catalyzers for change.

The Tokens: An Overview

  You’re probably asking yourself how on earth can a big business flourish without access to banking.

Picture gas stations, fast food chains or pharmacies working on cash only.

Sadly the federal ban on cannabis prevents banks from servicing cannabis dispensaries and related businesses.

That’s why many cannabis tokens are basically payment solutions like bitcoin is.

This means they’re straightforward ways to facilitate payments between industry players like dispensaries, clients and growers. In a way, then, most cannabis tokens are basically cannabis-related money.

Thanks to a reliable, secure, digital tradable value coin, the logistics nightmare of cash-only dealing may be over.

We can call these tokens cannabis-money.

But there are others which aim even higher.

Projects like Paragon, Hemp Coin, Smoke Exchange and Budbo are trying to not just solve major hurdles in logistics and management. They want to tangibly improve the infrastructure of the whole cannabis industry.

How? By

Making supply chains more efficient and manageable,

Allowing payments between different parties

Increasing transparency when it comes to the origin of seeds and produces

And of course, there’s the odd one out. There’s one blockchain project from AgroTechFarm, that is about cannabis production.

That’s how we will divide the guide: production, cannabis-money, and infrastructure

Production

You’re probably wondering how can a token affect cannabis production. Although it’s not so straightforward, you’ll see that blockchain can be used in many ways.

The cool part: changing how cannabis is produced will transform the industry. Especially if it can disrupt the distinction between industrial producers and individual users.

AgroTechFarm

  AgroTechFarm occupies a blue ocean in the cannabis industry. The aim of the project is to provide a zero-chemical, zero-environmental impact way to grow cannabis and other crops.

Their product uses aeroponics in their smart appliance for organically growing cannabis, tomatoes, peppers and other large crops at home. The appliance allows people to become self-sufficient and produce their own fruits and vegetables. Everything is automated, the yield is optimized and less resources are used.

Since everything grows in the user’s kitchen there is no need for transportation neither for farming land. Considering that these two are among the biggest contributors to global warming.

We could not find any other cannabis token that was dealing with production. And it’s a nice combination of the cannabis industry with organic farming. In one sense, it implies diversification (the art of not putting all your eggs in one basket).

This means that in case the cannabis industry goes down, their other clients will be intact.

More about it in their whitepaper or on their website.

Industry Boosters: Infrastructure

[HempCoin][Paragon][Budbo]

Infrastructure is the backbone of all industries.

A market’s growth potential is worthless without proper infrastructure. Without it, nothing can happen. Think about it this way: even if you have the fastest car in the world, it would be good for nothing if there were no roads.

That’s why some visionary projects want to create a stronger base for all cannabis-related businesses to flourish.

The boost can come in many ways, as we’ve seen. And some projects focus one some over others, but each has something to contribute. This showcases blockchain’s amazing capability to change our markets!

Let’s jump in and see what these projects can offer.

Budbo

Budbo has created a global cannabis blockchain, on which any ancillary service or cannabis related business can utilize and harness its immutable ledger.  

Budbo has been an operating company since 2015, offering an enterprise level suite of business products.  Budbo has a consumer mobile application that focuses primarily on product discovery, a dispensary and product manufacturer dashboard that breaks down predictive AI consumer analytics, and a GPS enabled program it calls Budbo Trax that monitors commercial cannabis shipments through geofencing technologies and electronic documentation.

Their app already has 75,000 individual active users and 2,000 dispensaries within their network. Their application has an interface similar to “Tinder”, in the way it allows users to quickly swipe through 100s of locally available strains and products.  Allowing for online ordering, or getting directions to the dispensary that has the desired product.

Budbo wants to integrate all players in the industry, with a stated mission of bringing together a solid global community.

Their platform currently involves seed suppliers, growers, dispensaries, users, and patients.

The platform will provide not just information, but tracking as well to help with complex local, state, and federal compliance regulations, which will benefit all recreational and medical cannabis users and patients.

Budbo is currently closing out their token sale, having sold more than 130,000,000 utility tokens. The tokens act as the API key for access to the transactions stored on the ledger.

Learn more about them from their whitepaper or on their website

HempCoin

The Hemp Coin project is a bit of a hybrid. It combines a payment solution with a mission to rebrand the industries they serve. In contrast with Dope Coin and Smoke Exchange, this project is one whole thing.

Their eight-page whitepaper does not shed much light on what they mean by this rebranding. The only explanation we get in their roadmap is that implies: “Connecting with agriculture industry to accept HempCoin’’.

A user on Reddit defended the team saying that the information was not made public due to pressure from competitors.

So, what we can make out of this is that they seek to develop a community of people who will be actively pushing pro-cannabis materials like artwork, blog posts and articles. This would, in turn, improve the image of cannabis and its industry.

Paragon

Paragon intends to put the cannabis industry on blockchain through its extensive suite of solutions

Paragon successfully launched its initial platform and functionality in late 2017 and is now progressing towards a fully-fledged release in mid 2018.  

Importantly, Paragon aims to do a lot more than just solve part of the cash problem that the cannabis industry currently faces. Paragon is developing a seed-to-sale tracking solution for cannabis products. All users and governments will be able to verify the entire life cycle of a product for free and be certain that no data was manipulated or deleted. These solutions are all made possible by smart-contracts and fueled by PRG to incorporate all elements of the supply chain.

On top of the extensive blockchain-based solutions that Paragon is creating, the company is also launching Paragon Spaces – these are co-working spaces that serve the cannabis industry with flex desks and office space – all paid for in PRG.

Learn more about them from their whitepaper or on their website

Payments Solution

[PotCoin][Cannabis Coin][Canna Coin][Dope Coin]

All of these tokens are peer-to-peer cash systems devoted to payment within the cannabis industry. The -coin in their names says it all.

But do we really need a cannabis-bitcoin?

As we explained earlier, the industry is handicapped without access to banks. Security becomes a headache, logistics are nightmarish and your consumer base is hindered. This is all because of bad policy.

Crypto has always been praised as a way to go around governments and banking institutions. It’s even how most illegal trading is paid for, sadly.

So it’s inevitable that this new tech can now serve as the safe, easy to use money this industry so desperately needs.

As a bonus, a specialized payments solution allows for reward programs and community building and integration. So, if they become widely used, they do offer some benefits over money.

Let’s take a look at this new cannabis money!

Cannabis Coin and Canna Coin

We bundled these two together since we found them to be quite similar in terms of what they do, when were they launched and how they perform.

Both projects market themselves as the peer-2-peer cash systems for cannabis and aim to facilitate payments to cannabis businesses in a secure way. Similar to a cannabis bitcoin.

Yet, their websites do not offer enough information about the projects or the teams. Information is good, always.

We could not find a dedicated whitepaper for either of them. Whitepapers have become the bread and butter of tokens market for a reason: they’re professional tools that explain all aspects of any token-venture.

The main issue is that dispensaries may not benefit from a dedicated token only for them. They have to pay for for most of their supplies and logistics in cash. It is possible that they will need something more widely used or more liquid.

If you are interested in the code, you can take a look over at Github, where you’ll find both.

Pot Coin

Pot Coin stands out among other tokens in this section. Their website looks professionally made and contains all the information you’ll need.

Also, its whitepaper is well laid out and there is a thorough explanation of how the company aims to reach every milestone on their roadmap.

PotCoin offers some key bonuses: it aims to tokenize seeds and strains through a reward program. People will be able to convert their PotCoins into real cannabis seeds. Also, those who develop a new strain will have the opportunity to sell it on their platform and earn tokens.

These two reward options sound like good incentives to prefer Potcoins over bitcoin or fiat money.

The resources we found were conflicting, one quoting them as the best among the cannabis bitcoins and another that was not so flattering.

So, what can we make out of them? It seems Pot Coin’s success or failure will largely depend on their skill and effort at creating and maintaining an engaged community.

Dope Coin/ Smoke Exchange

Just as the name suggests, Dope Coin is made to serve the underground world.

Their mission is to provide a payment solution for both the legal cannabis market and the illicit one like the darknet silk road.  

Since last year, when governments around the world announced they could now track bitcoin, privacy coins have been big. For example, the price of Monero (a secrecy-oriented cryptocurrency) skyrocketed from around $50 to around $300. This came about because the darknet was switching from bitcoin to Monero, to avoid wary eyes.

Just recently the Dope Coin team announced that they are starting a new project called Smoke Exchange that aims to be a marketing and advertising platform specifically for cannabis businesses. They will integrate dope coin and bitcoin as payments on this platform.

Smoke Exchange is to release a working demo in Q1/2018.

Get more information about Smoke Exchange from their whitepaper. Sadly, Dope Coin does not have one.

The future is even wilder

The cannabis industry is a wild place.

Cannabis tokens have come as a much-needed relief for its main issues, a powerful boost to its infrastructure, and as a new paradigm in its production.

These tokens are definitely a good buy in 2018.

But be cautious when it comes to projects without a working product or that have too much hype around them. We all know that sometimes huge profits can come from investing in tokens with a lot of FOMO surrounding them. Other times, it’s just a loss.

There are many ways to improve your decisions, but the key to all is basically the same: acquire as much reliable information as you can.

Pro tip: look at the whitepaper!

Think about the product, the solution they offer. Whatever your plans for the future, make sure to keep an eye out for the legal cannabis industry. It’s size, its potential and individual characteristics make it one of the most interesting of our times.

And if you’re looking to invest, think about real-world problems and real-life solutions.

Often the not so flashy looking projects turn out to be, you know, the big hits.

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