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Industrial Revolution Unravels, Collaborative Economy Rises Says Jeremiah Owyang

Pam Baker | FierceBigData | February 5, 2014

Just about anyone who works at analyzing social media knows the name Jeremiah Owyang. He was, after all, one of the first to accurately predict social media would take the world by storm--a contrarian view back in the day when nearly everyone was convinced social media was only a fad. Now he's predicting that the industrial revolution is about to completely unravel and be replaced by a new collaborative economy... Read More »

Oakland Biohackers Beat Funding Goal for Open Source Insulin Protocol

Isaac Smith | Oakland North | December 18, 2015

From day jobs at such powerhouse facilities as UC San Francisco, Amgen Inc., and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, they come to work on the project called Open Insulin. The project aims to accelerate development of a generic version of the lifesaving medicine while showing that citizen scientists and biohackers can contribute an alternative to methods now used by the for-profit pharmaceutical business model, says the group’s 33-year-old co-founder Anthony Di Franco of Berkeley...

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