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

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

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Peer-reviewed

Repository URI

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/313296

Repository DOI

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.60402

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Authors

Crowcroft, Jonathon

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7013-0121

Abstract

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.

Keywords

4611 Machine Learning, 46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4603 Computer Vision and Multimedia Computation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Journal Title

Patterns (N Y)

Journal ISSN

2666-3899
2666-3899

Volume Title

1

Publisher

Elsevier

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100001

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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Sponsorship

Alan Turing Institute (unknown)

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University of Cambridge Research Outputs (Articles and Conferences)