Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy explores the convergence of five technological factors – mobile, social media, data, sensors and location – and their present and future impact on everything from commerce to medicine to transportation.
FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz review the book in the context of an earlier FIR interview we conducted with the authors, and two book launch events including one in London in which Neville recorded Robert and Shel’s presentation as an FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast.
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Age of Context: Mobile, Data, Sensors and the Future of Privacy by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
248 pages (print edition)
Published: September 5, 2013
Price: US: $22.49 (print edition), $10.43 (Kindle edition); UK: £13.55 (print edition), £6.43 (Kindle edition).
About the Authors
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. As a startup liaison for Rackspace, the Open Cloud Computing Company, he travels the world looking for what’s happening on the bleeding edge of technology.
Robert has interviewed thousands of executives and technology innovators, and reports for Building 43 and in social media.
He is the co-author, with Forbes columnist Shel Israel, of Age of Context. Their previous book, Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, published in 2006, has been called a watershed work in introducing business to social media.
Shel Israel helps businesses tell their stories in engaging ways, as a writer, consultant and presentation coach.
He is the author and co-author of five books including Age of Context – his latest book, co-written with Robert Scoble and released in September 2013 – Naked Conversations and Twitterville.
Shel currently writes the Contextual Beat column for Forbes.com. Previously he has contributed to BusinessWeek, Dow Jones, Fast Company and American Express Open Forum.
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