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How to Tell When a Digital Technology Is Not Ready for You

The stages of digital technology readiness are viewed through the lens of three contemporary and widely discussed examples, namely distributed ledger technology, machine learning, and the internet of things. I use these examples to clarify when there is really just an old technology being re-branded...

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Autor principal: Crowcroft, Jon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33205078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100001
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description The stages of digital technology readiness are viewed through the lens of three contemporary and widely discussed examples, namely distributed ledger technology, machine learning, and the internet of things. I use these examples to clarify when there is really just an old technology being re-branded, when there is something genuinely new and useful, and whether there may be over-claiming.
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spelling pubmed-76603672020-11-16 How to Tell When a Digital Technology Is Not Ready for You Crowcroft, Jon Patterns (N Y) Opinion The stages of digital technology readiness are viewed through the lens of three contemporary and widely discussed examples, namely distributed ledger technology, machine learning, and the internet of things. I use these examples to clarify when there is really just an old technology being re-branded, when there is something genuinely new and useful, and whether there may be over-claiming. Elsevier 2020-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7660367/ /pubmed/33205078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100001 Text en Crown Copyright © 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660367/
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