Intellectual Ventures - Longterm.

Little late, but read Bloomberg article about Intellectual Ventures. All thought provoking. Most of the criticism seems to come from large entrenched players. Wonder what the long play really is? What is in the mind of Nathan Myrvold?
[Probably same as wondering about Amazon, Google, IBM and so forth.]

Trends. Industry and World Watchers.

Was recently directed to PSFK regarding Internet of Things industry trends. Interesting group overall. Great content. Like the PSFK business model. Fortune has nice things to say about PSFK. PSFK labs.

Adding PSFK to group of other "watchers" followed:
IdTechEx, the Gartner, Forrester crowd, the Big Three MBB, as well as various viewpoints from direct industry leaders like Intel, GE, IBM, and so on.

ABCD commodities, Big Data and IoT.

ABCD commodities companies:
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus.
In the news regarding agribusiness technology.

Big data comes to agriculture. Monsanto and Climate Corporation.
FLIR and Big Data... Precision Planting.
IoT meets real world...
FLIR ONE  Lepton core (or Seek) on every fence post?
Or perhaps even more ubiquitous applications are at hand?