Hands-free driving.
Many people dream of owning an autonomous car where they can relax with completely hands-free driving that is both seamless and safe, unlocking new time for us to work, talk, and learn while going from point A to point B. According to a recent report from Telefónica Digital found the percentage of cars with built-in connectivity will jump from 10 percent today to 90 percent by 2020.
Continue reading… “90% of cars will be connected by 2020”
Not just a trendy word anymore, social media marketing is fast becoming and in some cases already is a viable acquisition channel for most businesses. In fact, Hubspot reports that 70% of business-to-consumer marketers have acquired a customer through Facebook.
Global energy storage market share chart via Navigant Research
Due to government funding, energy storage technology is seeing serious returns on investments around the world with distinctly focused industries taking shape in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Continue reading… “Worldwide there are 633 energy storage projects now underway”
Futurist Thomas Frey: By 2025, over 75% of the workforce will be comprised of Millennials, a group many refer to as the Facebook generation. That’s just over 11 years away.
Continue reading… “The Great Freelancer Movement: 8 Reasons Why your Next Job will be a Project”
Social scoring isn’t the future of influencer marketing – far from it, according to this recent study sponsored by ArCompany and Sensei Marketing.
Continue reading… “Why social scoring isn’t the future of influence marketing”
E-books are more akin to audio books — a compliment to print, not a replacement.
An Association of American Publishers report says sales of e-books rose just 5 percent in the year ending in the first quarter of 2013, a big drop from the year earlier when sales grew 28 percent, and an enormous drop from two years ago, when sales jumped a crazy 252 percent.
Continue reading… “E-book sales are starting to fizzle out”
Printing kidneys.
3-D printing has grown over the past two decades from a niche manufacturing process to a $2.7-billion industry, responsible for the fabrication of all sorts of things: toys, wristwatches, airplane parts, food. Now scientists are working to apply similar 3-D–printing technology to the field of medicine, accelerating an equally dramatic change. But it’s much different, and much easier, to print with plastic, metal, or chocolate than to print with living cells.
Continue reading… “3D printing body parts will revolutionize medicine”
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Soon, plants may have robotic counterparts. Barbara Mazzolai from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa and colleagues tips that grow by unwinding material and a mechanism to reduce friction when penetrating the soil. The artificial system will be equipped to detect gravity, water, temperature, touch, pH, nitrate and phosphate.
Continue reading… “Robot plants can learn how to grow just like the real thing”
Shane Snow and his cofounders started Contently in 2010 because they saw the world of journalism shifting. Where newspapers and magazines once provided stable, salaried jobs for reporters, writers and editors, they now largely shun fixed costs for an employment model that relies on an increasing percentage of freelancers.
Continue reading… “6 reasons why half of us may soon be freelancers”
Sixty-one percent of Internet users bank online.
Sixty-one percent of Internet users in the US now access their bank accounts on the Web. While, 35 percent of cell phone owners in the US bank using their mobile phones.
Continue reading… “51% of adults in the U.S. now bank online”
Fear of failure and lack of self confidence holds women from entrepreneurship.
One reason there are significantly fewer women entrepreneurs than men entrepreneurs is because women often don’t think they are capable of launching their own businesses, according to a new report released by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 Women’s Report.
Continue reading… “What holds women back from entrepreneurship?”
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, was arrested in 1977 for a traffic violation.
We see entrepreneurs as successful, self-made men and women. We value their innovation and charitable endeavors. Yet we also associate plenty of negative characteristics with entrepreneurs,stereotyping them as selfish and out to make a profit at whatever cost.
Continue reading… “Entrepreneurs were more likely to cheat and shoplift when the were teens: Study”
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