Virtual reality lonely days

http://www.latimes.com/ct-virtual-reality-loneliness-20161230-story.html

Probably true.

Blockchain for gold

http://www.coindesk.com/global-banks-pilot-blockchain-gold/

Sounds promising, but will big banks push it forward or lock it down. 

Cyber attacks get worse in 2017

http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/11/heres-how-cyber-attacks-get-worse-in-2017/

The "not secure " internet of things won't help matters at all. 

Gopro struggles

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/ct-gopro-staff-cuts-blm-bsi-20161130-story.html

Go figure a company that is clueless in the people they hire is struggling. 

Not accurate at all

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/11/18/big-data-predict-future/

This predictive world site is pretty cool, but mostly inaccurate.   It took some Facebook info and whatever else it could find , but if I need to go in and edit almost every category, it's kind of useless.  And even then it was so variable it's not funny.

If you change the salary from say $50 to $200 the life expectancy goes up 10+ years.  And they say money doesn't buy happiness.  Well according to the predictive site just making more money means living 10+ more years. 

Bad data is bad data.

http://www.pymnts.com/big-data/2016/the-seven-deadly-data-sins-of-the-2016-american-election-for-president/

Blockchain developer shortage.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-blockchain-developer-shortage-emerging-trends-and-perspectives-1477930838