Futurist Thomas Frey: What images come to mind when you think about the future? Do you think about near-term futures with 3D printers, driverless cars, and robotics, or do you think about more distant futures of space travel, human cloning, and teleportation devices?
Continue reading… “Inspiring a Better World Ahead, the Museum of Future Inventions”
Ignore negative people and move on from them when you must.
There are some people that are so entrenched in seeing the negative side of things that they leave zero room for positive things to grow. People like this inhabit our families, work environments and social circles. It can be emotionally draining just being around them, and you must be careful because their negative attitudes and opinions are venomous and contagious. Negativity perpetuates itself, breeds dissatisfaction and clutters the mind. And when the mind is cluttered with negativity, happiness is hard to come by.
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“You are what you eat.”
Life is different for the rich and the poor. Rich people relax by eating oysters. Poor people relax by smoking cigarettes. Based on a new study about how the presence of certain chemicals can indicate how rich or poor a person is.
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Technology trends will transform higher education.
Higher education is facing an onslaught of disruptive forces right now. Technologies such as MOOCs and mobile devices are disrupting institutional structures from the classroom and across entire campuses. As tech transforms these learning environments, universities must decide whether to resist the change or get out in front of it. To choose the latter option, however, we need to envision what universities of the future will look like—if they exist at all.
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We like to watch TV.
We like to watch TV. More people are using smartphones and tablets as companions to TV. You have Apple TV units, Netflix subscriptions, and now Google’s new Chromecast. But, in terms of the media landscape, we still like to watch television.
Continue reading… “The television – what it is and what it will never be”
NSA headquarters.
The latest scoop from The Guardian’s concerns the ability of National Security Agency analysts to search vast databases of emails, online chats, and web browsing histories, among other online activity.
Continue reading… “Future NSA abuses are highly likely”
The world runs on coding these days.
Do you want job security? Then, become a developer. Do you want fame and fortune? Then, learn to code. These coding resources are comprised of many startups as well as established sites and services and they are sure to help you take your game to the next level.
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There isn’t a fixed moment in time when death occurs. It can take hours for brain cells to die. It is a misconception even among doctors that the body dies all at once. We are only a little dead when even an hour after the heart has stopped.
Continue reading… “Raising the dead may soon become a medical reality”
Home 3D printers could save the average home $2,000 a year.
Authors at Michigan Technological University have produced a study on 3D printing that says a home 3D printer can provide a return on investment of 20 to 40 percent and can save the average home up to $2,000 in avoided purchase costs.
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A typical MOOC is an online course open to people all over the globe via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive open online courses that have been heralded as an inevitable transformation in higher education. They have been called a revolution, a boom, and, a “disruption” – a term that at first invokes a welcome alternative to the stagnation and elitism of the American university.
Continue reading… “When MOOCs profit, who pays?”
Have you ever thought about your activity on the internet at any given moment? You could very easily be jumping from Twitter to Facebook, listening to Spotify, shooting off an email, downloading a movie, reading a news site, Googling background info to better understand aforementioned news site, and that’s just on a slow day. Now extrapolate that out to the billions of people online every minute of every day. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “What happens in 60 seconds on the internet”
The online world has clearly and systematically changed the rules of business, and companies must adapt or risk irrelevance. This often seemed self-evident to many of us, even if the ranks of the Fortune 500 and Global 2000 didn’t actually seem to change very much as a result. But the times, they have recently changed.
Continue reading… “Social business remade the economy while most companies weren’t looking”
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