predictions

“The Bible Code,” a 1997’s book by the reporter Michael Drosnin popularized the idea. His book claimed to use the earliest parts of the Bible to predict the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Gulf war, and…

More than half of us have chosen to live in cities, a figure that is expected to rise to 70% by 2050. In economic terms, the results of urbanization have been nothing but impressive. Cities are accountable for 80% of…

In 2018, expect to see companies employ AI in increasingly creative ways on social media. Already, ad platforms are capable of testing hundreds of variations at once–tweaking imagery and wording to automatically identify which ads are performing best and put…

Here’s how one online dictionary defines trends: “A trend is what’s hip or popular at a certain point in time.” Framed that way, it’s easy to understand why so many people have a knee-jerk distrust of trends. Read more in…

Most major developers of powered exoskeleton suits have now adapted technology originally conceived for mobility to industrial applications. Sarcos is now bringing two exoskeletons to market that have a good shot at being the first blockbuster powered industrial exoskeletons, the Guardian…

In 2018, expect to see companies employ AI in increasingly creative ways on social media. Already, ad platforms are capable of testing hundreds of variations at once–tweaking imagery and wording to automatically identify which ads are performing best and put…

Consumers will be expecting a more tailored experience as well as services. Delivering these requires an agile platform that can provide both analytical and operational processing Read more in enterprise innovation  Top 6 predictions for data and analytics in 2018…

An explosion in renewables and digital technologies is changing the way we generate and consume power, ownership has become fragmented, with international investors buying and selling energy assets, and policy is being shaped by a pressing need to tackle climate…

80% of the predictive value for a startup has to do with externalities–market, customers, competitors, et cetera. Only about 20% of our algorithm looks at the startup itself Read more in Fast Company  This Prediction Algorith Will Tell Yo If…

Ray Kurzweil is called  “a prophet of both techno-doom and techno-salvation.” The author, inventor, computer scientist, futurist, and director of engineering at Google provides, a full 86 percent of his predictions — including the fall of the Soviet Union, the…