Software engineers now outnumber farmers and have almost caught up with lawyers.
Over the last two years Shawn and Stephanie Grimes have spent much of their time in pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation.
Continue reading… “Boom in app development lures coders but it’s tough to make a living”
What impact will advancing technologies have on employment?
Singularity University’s Vice President of Innovation and Research, Vivek Wadhwa, has written about why he believes this will be the most innovative decade in human history and how we are headed for an era of abundant and affordable health care, and how robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing will lead to an era of local manufacturing in which the creative class flourishes.
Continue reading… “Ray Kurzweil talks about the future workforce”
Thing-o-Matic
MakerBot’s Thing-o-Matic is a flat-pack box costing as little as $1,000 with very clever machinery inside. It is a rapid prototype machine: designs are fed in, things come out. Anderson, in his book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution , suggests that these personal manufacturing robots will radically democratize design. With one in their garage, everyone will be able to envisage an object and realize it.
Continue reading… “3D printing and what it will mean for the future”
Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson, editor in chief for Wired, announced that he was leaving the magazine to become CEO of his DIY-drone company, 3D Robotics. This move comes a month after the release of his latest book, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. In an interview last week Anderson talks about today’s biggest revolution in how and where we actually make things. If the last few decades have been about big digital forces — the Internet, social media — he notes that the future will be about applying all of that in the real world.
Continue reading… “Why Chris Anderson is leaving digital for DIY”
People are shifting from the TV screen to smaller tablet screens for streaming video.
There has been a dramatic increase over the last six months in the amount of streaming video content veiwed on tablet devices, according to a report released by Ooyala’s Q3 Global Video Index. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “Streaming video viewed on tablets is up 90%”
You won’t just hire a person, you will hire their network in the future.
When you look at HR trends people tend to look at what we do today and discuss ways it can be done better in the future. Applications and tools for recruiting, training, on-boarding, etc. are being developed at dizzying rates. The problem is that these new HR innovations are going to have a short half life.
Continue reading… “Top 5 trends that will change HR in the future”
Futurist Thomas Frey: For most of us, the language we speak is like the air we breathe. But what happens when we wake up and find that our air is going extinct?
Continue reading… “Creating a Global Language Archive”
“Present bias,” a phenomenon that makes us crave immediate gratification at the expense of even greater rewards later on.
People tend to spend more money when they are blue, whether it’s treating yourself to an elegant dinner after a tough day or picking up a new outfit during a nasty breakup. Harvard University researchers looked in the the anecdotal evidence and found that feeling down can take a serious toll on your wallet.
Continue reading… “Unhappiness leads to bad financial decisions: Study”
Models with no makeup and natural, professional and glamorous makeup.
In a recent study from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Procter & Gamble, and Boston University, they had a sampling of over 200 individuals, both men and women, participants rated women wearing makeup as more competent than women without makeup.
Continue reading… “Makeup may be the key to a woman’s success”
41% of US consumers planned to shop on Black Friday this year.
Holiday promotions by retailers are earlier and earlier every year. The buzz has moved progressively from “Cyber Monday” to Black Friday and finally to Thanksgiving Day itself, with reports of mass merchants beginning their sales in the middle of what is for many still an important family holiday.
Continue reading… “Cyber Monday will remain biggest ecommerce day of the year”
Tourists in Paris.
When we travel are we really the stereotype of the “ugly American”? LivingSocial and Mandala Research carried out a new survey that says we seem to be. And to make it worse it was mostly Americans ranking fellow Americans.
Continue reading… “Americans are the worst tourists in the world: Survey”
More men from Shanghai than those in other parts of the country want women to split the bill.
A recent survey in Shanghai polled around 44,000 eligible men and women in China found that some Shanghai guys out on their first date expect their women to split the bills!
Continue reading… “Dating survey has men in Shanghai seeing red”
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