BOOK REVIEW
Television is the New Television, Author: Michael Wolff.
By Justin Fox – Within a year, Netflix will have more viewers than any of the three broadcast networks, a couple of analysts at FBR Capital Markets predicted this week.
So does this mean that Silicon Valley — where Netflix is based and with which it long self-identified — is conquering television? Or is it that Netflix has simply learned how to be a successful television network?
On the whole Wolff has a point: the news media and the music industry have been transformed and by some lights destroyed by digital disruption.
Television, on the other hand, remains its couch-potato-breeding, spectacularly profitable self, even when watched on tablets or phones. Along the way it has surpassed movies — which have survived the digital transition more or less intact but somewhat diminished — as the dominant entertainment medium. more> http://tinyurl.com/q46v9lt
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By Jermaine Dallas – An intelligent lighting system could be a central part of the healthcare infrastructure, serving as network through which hospital managers receive updates in real time about a patient’s location and status.
These examples are much more real that you might imagine. Networked 
