Hello and welcome to our monthly newsletter, ICEbreaker from ICE, the travel technology IT consultants. We’re sending you this because we already work for you, or because we’d love to have a conversation with you.
We’ve been thinking a lot about invisible technology recently. We don’t think you should have to think about it. Technology should be there in the background empowering you, your teams and your boss so you can all do your jobs better.
This month’s highlights include a comprehensive review of potential security issues for 2016, tips on how to carve out space for deep thinking at work and a cruise ship of the future that looks like a floating lizard. Then there’s the stats, infographics, quotes and latest processes and thinking for you to borrow and steal for conversations, presentations and anything else. And then a look backwards – this is what happens when you try to send a telegram in 2016.
Thanks,
Ian Richardson (Richie) and Conor Byrne
(ICE’s founders)
PS We’re looking forward to Travel Tech Europe on 24-25 February. Come and see us on Stand T280. Richie will be speaking on the UK Travel Technology Spend Analysis – Exclusive Research Launch panel on Wednesday at 2:30, come and join the conversation.
Quote of the month
“Deep learning is killing every problem in AI.”
― Rémi Coulom, a programmer in Lille on Google’s AI algorithm defeating a human professional for the first time in ancient Chinese game, Go..
Number of the month
94% of Chinese travellers consider their smartphone an important travel companion.
In fact, travellers consider it to be the single most indispensable item they carry with them when they travel, ahead of their toothbrush, deodorant and driver’s license.
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Articles of the month
Say no to that meeting
The collaboration curse, by The Economist. When deep work needs no phones, no distractions and no meetings. Sound familiar? More…
CES 2016
Everything you need to know. It’s almost like being there. Awesome tech from human-carrying drones to Parrot Disco.More…
Is this the cruise ship of the future?
Architect and engineer, Gianluca Santosuosso has created a floating system modelled on the idea of individual vertebrae strung out and connected in a line. More…
Managing yourself
What you need to work on and how to go about it. Eight self-assessments to improve at work this year from the Harvard Business Review. More…
The sea, the sea
How German shipbuilder Meyer Werft is using a 3DEXPERIENCE platform to help its design and engineering teams monitor the entire lifecycle of a ship. More…
A peace of data
How data forensics is unravelling conflict from Gaza to Guatemala. Lessons on mining online data from WIRED magazine. More…
Hackers beware
A comprehensive review of the security issues we’ll all face in 2016, from more back doors to attacks that manipulate data. More…
Sending a telegram in 2016
STOP. It didn’t work. How an astonishing piece of technological ritual is all but forgotten. Like the screech of a dial-up modem and that singsong Nokia tone. More…
Message in a bottle
The story of what happened when one man made it his mission to track down the senders of messages in a bottle washed up on a beach. More…
Until next time… Stay curious..
We are Ian Richardson and Conor Byrne, the founders of ICE, an IT consultancy that specialises in the travel industry. We’re sending you our monthly newsletter ICEbreaker because we already work for you, or because we’d love to have a conversation with you. Please email us if you’d like to get in touch.
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