Month: May 2017

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Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Future, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, Intellectual Property, Latest Trend, Marketing

7 Historic Changes That Have Transformed the Future Of Entrepreneurship

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Steve Blank:  I’ve spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it.

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. And that’s where my plane ticket ought to take me to install some computer equipment.

39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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Airbus, Automobiles, Aviation, Breakthrough Thinking, cutting edge, drones

Introducing Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Flyer

The Kitty Hawk Flyer is a sort of a flying car except it’s not a car at all – it’s much more like a flying ATV, which is probably more legitimately all-terrain than most. Linguistics aside, it’s a very cool piece of tech that’s backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, and it’s already in the ‘working prototype’ phase of development.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Big Data, brain hacking, brain-computer interfaces, Breakthrough Thinking, Futurist, Historical Perspectives

A.I and the Road to Superintelligence

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“We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.” -Vernor Vinge

If you’re like me, you used to think Artificial Intelligence was a silly sci-fi concept, but lately you’ve been hearing it mentioned by serious people, and you don’t really quite get it. Here’s why it’s so incredibly important.

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AI, brain-computer interfaces, Breakthrough Thinking, People Making a Difference

Walt Mossberg’s thoughts on the disappearing computer

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Walt Mossberg:  This is my last weekly column for The Verge and Recode — the last weekly column I plan to write anywhere. I’ve been doing these almost every week since 1991, starting at The Wall Street Journal, and during that time, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know the makers of the tech revolution, and to ruminate — and sometimes to fulminate — about their creations.

Now, as I prepare to retire at the end of that very long and world-changing stretch, it seems appropriate to ponder the sweep of consumer technology in that period, and what we can expect next.

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Automation, Automobiles, Breakthrough Thinking, Elon Musk, New Inventions, People Making a Difference

Elon Musk’s tunnel company and the high speed cars that will be traveling underground

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It’s rather ironic that a boring company is becoming one of the most fascinating new companies in the world.

Elon Musk’s Boring company published new images of concept vehicles that could one day be used in its underground tunnels.

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3D Printer, Animals, Biotech, Breakthrough Thinking, Hacking, Health & Fitness, Hot Issues

World’s first 3D-printed ovaries allow infertile mice to give birth

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Infertile mice have given birth to healthy pups after having their fertility restored with ovary implants made with a 3D printer.

Researchers created the synthetic ovaries by printing porous scaffolds from a gelatin ink and filling them with follicles, the tiny, fluid-holding sacs that contain immature egg cells.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Latest Trend, Robotics

The world’s first autonomous zero-emissions ship

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The vessel “YARA Birkeland” will be the world’s first fully electric and autonomous container ship, with zero emissions. Operation is planned to start in the latter half of 2018, shipping products from YARA’s Porsgrunn production plant to Brevik and Larvik in Norway.

Autonomous and 100% electric, “YARA Birkeland” will be the world’s most advanced container feeder ship.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Business, Latest Trend

Was the telecommuting craze a failed experiment?

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Remember the time Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting at Yahoo and started a media firestorm? Some thought she’d flipped her lid. Others said she’d made a grave mistake that would kill morale. Well, she hadn’t and it didn’t. That was one of the few things she did right in her ill-fated attempt to turn around the hapless internet portal.

While the former Googler didn’t intend to start a trend, she did. HP followed suit a few months later. Then came Best Buy, Bank of America, Aetna and others.

Last week, IBM gave thousands of virtual workers an ultimatum: either show up in the office, or go work somewhere else. Considering that Big Blue pioneered the “anytime, anywhere workforce” decades ago, that sort of closes the books on what has turned out to be yet another overhyped management fad.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Future, Latest News

Does your employee benefits package include cryogenic freezing?

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Generous employee perks are as much a part of the tech industry as long work hours, office Nerf gun battles, and people overusing the word “disruption.” But while most firms only go so far as free meals, on-site yoga classes, and maybe the occasional indoor climbing wall, an artificial intelligence-driven hedge fund is taking things to the next level.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Automation, Batteries, Battery, body antenna, brain-computer interfaces, Breakthrough Thinking, drones, Latest Trend, Robotics, Robots

Enhanced robo-humans have arrived

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Much of the talk surrounding robotics in the workplace centers on the job losses caused by automation. However, there are also great benefits of robots to humans who perform dangerous or labor intensive tasks that could possibly be mitigated with the help of technology.

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Biotech, Future, Futurist, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Robotics, Robots, Science & Technology News, Science Fiction

Kurzweil: By 2030, Nanobots Will Flow Throughout Our Bodies

Ray Kurzweil, Google’s director of engineering, is a well-known futurist who seems to have a penchant for accurate predictions. Most recently, he has again reiterated his prediction that the so-called technological singularity will happen by 2045. For Kurzweil, this doesn’t translate to an end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenario courtesy of artificially intelligent (AI) machines. Rather, it means human beings will become powered by machines.

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