{"id":26568,"date":"2016-12-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3961081"},"modified":"2016-12-09T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:00:00","slug":"ai-vs-digital-technologies-in-2017-cloudexpo-ai-digitaltransformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ai-vs-digital-technologies-in-2017-cloudexpo-ai-digitaltransformation\/","title":{"rendered":"AI vs Digital Technologies in 2017 | @CloudExpo #AI #DigitalTransformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago, I wrote these words, &#8220;Technology has reached the tipping point for me, it moved from a help to a hindrance.&#8221; The plethora of adrenaline- and endorphin-inducing mobile apps, 24&#215;7 news, notifications, alerts and updates, drip fed my brain and hindered my &#8220;deep work and deep thoughts.&#8221; In Cal Newport&#8217;s new book titled, Deep Work he posits that most knowledge workers need concentration and substantial time, dedicated and uninterrupted, to produce their best work. He argues that a lot of technologies and open office layouts today inhibit creativity, &#8220;deep work&#8221; and &#8220;deep thoughts,&#8221; and are the very things that are most highly valued, and one of the key differentiators between humans and robots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3961081\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago, I wrote these words, &#8220;Technology has reached the tipping point for me, it moved from a help to a hindrance.&#8221; The plethora of adrenaline- and endorphin-inducing mobile apps, 24&#215;7 news, notifications, alerts and updates, drip fed my br&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}