Technology is replacing human labor like never before. In 1979, General Motors employed over 800,000 people. Yet today, just a small fraction of that number works at places like Google, Microsoft and Facebook, even though they earn far more. …
future
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As it is with most future value creation, the success of smart home services cannot be driven by a single company, or even a single Industry. In order to truly create value from smart home applications, competitors must become collaborators. …
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1. Privacy The biggest headlines didn’t go to the hottest start up or the next big thing in product or communications, though Samsung was everywhere. They went to Privacy. SXSW secured landmark sessions with not one but three of the…
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That’s the funny thing about the future. It’s never as fantastic as we hope nor as horrible as we fear. The one thing that’s for sure is that times will change and we will have to adapt. While there is…
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energy & eco
Stunning Photographs Show How We are Using And Abusing The World’s Water by Adele Peters
6 April 2014Views: 979Since water covers most of the Earth’s surface, the filmmakers had to carefully choose a handful of stories to tell. “It was like a design process–we opened with research and development of the idea of water and reduced it to…
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In order to reach 98% of the world’s online users, businesses today must translate their content into 48 different languages. Supplying content in English limits them to about a third of the world’s consumer base, cutting them off from a…
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tech for life
The Future of Medtech , Applying the Power of Innovation by Anders Johansson and Björn Axling
26 March 2014Views: 1,396The share of profits from new products is particularly high in medtech compared to other industries; and Arthur D. Little’s recent global Innovation Excellence study demonstrates that a high performance innovation system generates significant and quantifiable effects on profitability and…
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In Back to the Future II, a holographic shark leaps from an advertisement promoting the fictional movie, Jaws 19. In Minority Report, displays scan the retinas of passersby and deliver ads that shout their names. Now interactive, targeted ads like…
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What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant, no matter how loud? Or for a memory chip,…
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talk the trends
22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago by Attila Nagy
11 March 2014Views: 1,126These amazing, almost 100-year old covers of the weekly French magazine Le Petite Journal are from the online collection of the french National Library. They show what were the most exciting innovations of the 1920s, and how people in Europe…