Sebastian Thru, Udacity CEO and co-founder .
Sebastian Thrun, cofounder and CEO of Udacity, says more AI is coming to online education, but we’ll still need humans to grade our English essays.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In 2012, when 15-year old Jack Andraka’s uncle died of pancreatic cancer, he decided to look into it. He found that the current test for pancreatic cancer was over 60 years old, cost over $800, and wasn’t very reliable.
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Funeral costs have increased a staggering 827 percent in the last 50 years.
Une Belle Vie has released this helpful infographic on the true cost of death. The infographic illustrates how much funerals, memorials, cremations and other death care options costs have risen from 1960 to 2010. It also provides the breakdown cost between burials and cremations and their impact on the environment. (Infographic)
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Resilience is the ability to recover from fumbles or outright mistakes and bounce back.
How someone handles is losing is the difference between a winner and a loser. That’s a key finding between great companies and effective leaders: no one can completely avoid troubles and potential pitfalls are everywhere, so the real skill is the resilience to climb out of the hole and bounce back.
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Philadelphia’s Manayunk Cleaners is trying drones to deliver clothes to it’s customers. The drone is a modified DJI Phantom quadcopter, which is a commercially available drone capable of carrying about 1 or 2 pounds. Clothes on hangers are attached to a hanging clip on the drone’s legs, while the drone buzzes along through the air.
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The adult diaper market is growing at 6-10% a year.
The population in Japan is aging rapidly and it is producing some interesting new business opportunities, including a booming market for adult diapers.
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What the Reaction Engines’ Skylon aircraft taking off will look like.
Reaction Engines, a British aerospace firm, is working on an aircraft it believes would be able to take passengers anywhere in the world in just four hours. The vehicle would also be able to fly in outer space. (Video)
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There are around 100 companies worldwide that offer some form of neuromarketing services.
There are an increasing number of terms these days that use the prefix “neuro.” There are people conducting research in neuroeconomics, neuroethics, and of course neuroscience, the broad research field that covers everything from the study of chemical receptors on individual nerve cells to the workings of the entire human brain. The one that has perhaps made the biggest impact outside of the academic world, though, is neuromarketing.
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Pharmacy clinics provide the sort of basic care that most people need at a fraction of the cost.
The U.S. is getting fatter, older, and in need of more medical care. There’s a huge opportunity for companies to really disrupt the American health care system because of this. The opportunity waits in plain sight at your local pharmacy, and some companies like Walgreens and CVS have taken notice and hope that you will too.
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Engaged employees who had a lot of flextime at work had a 44 percent higher level of well-being than disengaged employees with very little to no flextime.
Talent Plus, like many companies across the Midlands, finds summer an ideal time for employees to take off. But employees at the Lincoln-based human resources firm don’t go through the formal process of accruing their leave. They check with their manager, coordinate with others in their department and take time off from a limitless bank of days and hours. In short, co-chairman Kimberly Rath said, no questions asked, as long as the work gets done.
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People are shopping on their phones more so than ever before.
You won’t need to carry a wallet in the not-so-distant future. Smartphones are transforming the way we pay for things online and offline, but mobile payments still have a long way to go before they’re ubiquitous.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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