David Nadas

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  • If you don’t want data centers in your back yard, stop taking pictures!

    Humanity captures approximately 5 billion to 5.3 billion photos every single day. But this number increases to 14 billion images a day through sharing and reposting across messaging and social media. In data terms, this is 50 petabytes of photos, every, single, day! Adding video to the equation completely blows the doors off the numbers.…

  • The Bleeding Edge of IT is at Sea: A Futurist Look at Cruise Tech

    Back in the 1990s, when I was working in Information Technology on Wall Street, I was actively testing early RFID technologies. We were looking at the clear benefits of tracking loaner equipment assigned to investment bankers, and I saw firsthand how that tech could completely automate the inventory accounting industry. Fast forward to today, and…