Tuesday, March 8, 2016

2015 Analysis (including 2014)

Last year I did an analysis of the coverage of topics. Doing that again I can include a comparison with 2014.


2015 Coverage of technology regulatory issues

Counts
Regulation issues & commentary 7
European laws & courts 3
Uber 2
Autonomous vehicles 2
Energy 2
Patents copyright etc 2
cybersecurity and dark net 2
Bitcoin 1
Space mining 1
Tax digital companies 1
Cloud computing 1
Wearables 1


What is noticeable about this list and was actually clear during the year 'regulation' as topic emerged as its own topic very clearly. The obvious omission as I look back over the year is that I didn't cover the drones as much as was present in the press.


Comparison 2014-2015



Here is the table comparing the two years. 







2014




2015
Cybersecurity 4 2
Drones 4 X
New vehicles 3 2
Policy issues and analysis 3 7
Nanotechnology 2
Digital and data law 2 3
Uber 2 2
Mining / space mining 1 1
Labour markets 1
Bitcoin 1 1
Energy 2
Patents / copyright 2
Cloud computing 1
Wearables 1
Taxing digital companies 1


2015 Rate, Direction and Coupling



Economist cover topics for 2015


As an added bonus this year I have conducted an analysis of Economist cover page technology topics during 2015. Only stories on the cover are mentioned here + highlighted points = a link to the cover picture.

3-01-2015
  •     Workers on Tap
  •   Hacking and the Hermit Kingdom
  •    Betting the Farm on Faming
  •    Silicon Valley’s robber barons

10-01-2015
  •       How microeconomics got hot (story about internet shopping etc)
  •    The internet’s hidden benefits

31-01-2015
  •        Gold & delicious: Apple’s profits

21-02-2015
  •        The tech talent war

28-02-2015
  •     Planet of phones
  •        America’s oversold manufacturing boom

14-03-2015
  •      Apple and the age of wearables

28-03-2015
  •  The whole world is going to university
  •   Coal’s dark future

04-04-2015
  •     Sexism in Silicon Valley

11-04-2015
  •       The promise of Sky-Fi

18-04-2015
  •       Europe v Google: The gloves come off
  •       A Robot can do the cooking

02-05-2015
  •     How to down a drone

09-05-2015
  •      Artificial Intelligence
  •     The self-service economy
  •      Why humans cause heatwaves

30-05-2015
  •       The weaker sex

13-06-2015
  •     Where Uber goes next
  •      The robots are coming slowly

20-06-2015
  •      Computers make a quantum leap

27-06-2015
  •      Electricity without wires

04-07-2015
  •     Uber jobs in the modern worker

18-07-2015
  •   The Internet of Things, a hacker’s paradise

25-07-2015
  •    Empire of the geeks

08-08-2015
  •   Set innovation free – time to fix the patent system
  •    Regulators: masters of the universe

15-08-2015
  •   Google does a Buffett

22-08-2015
  •    Editing humanity

29-08-2015
  •    The scam of pay-as-you-go government
  •     Spycraft and corporate security
  •     Visions of virtual reality

12-09-2015
  •     Learning to love Siri

19-09-2015
  •   Electric aircraft on the runway

26-09-2015
  •     Car industry’s dirty secrets
  •    Welcome to the drone age
  •     Pornography and generation XXX

10-10-2015
  •     Kill seven diseases, save 1.2m lives per year
  •     An end to corporate tax dodges

17-10-2015
  •    Piggy in your middle: gene edited organs
  •     Dell, EMC and the cumulus effect

24-10-2015
  •     Reinventing the company
  •    Online reviews: five star fakes

31-10-2015
  •   The trust machine: How the technology behind bitcoin could change the world

14-11-2015
  •    Softbank: a rare risk taker in Japan

21-11-2015
·         Does German industry do digital (not on the cover- displaced by Paris shootings)
28-11-2015
  • Tech unicorns, a species in trouble

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