Futurist Thomas Frey: In the 1980s, as a young human factors engineer at IBM, I spent much of my time working with anthropometric tables, a compilation of statistical data about the human body used for designing a product’s ergonomic interface.
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Top brands on Instagram
Of the world’s biggest 100 brands, 54 percent are now connecting with fans and customers on Instagram, and brand adoption on Instagram is growing faster than Google+ and Pinterest.
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Google Wallet is making back to the future changes.
Recently, Google Wallet made big changes to support Visa, American Express, and Discover cards and is now apparently making even bigger changes. As in, back to the future changes.
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Tianhe 1A supercomputer
What’s expected to be the world’s fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops (peak performance) was launched by the U.S. China has announced it is building a machine intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015, IT World reports.
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Lee Yangang and his wife, Wang Lu, emigrated to Sydney, Australia, from Beijing.
Chen Kuo, at 30 years old, had what many Chinese dream of: her own apartment and a well-paying job at a multinational corporation. But Ms. Chen, in mid-October, boarded a midnight flight for Australia to begin a new life with no sure prospects.
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Sustainable farming, which often ties into organic growing, has been reaping profits.
Last week, in an auditorium at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, startup companies sought out investors to help take their ideas to the next level. This wasn’t a tech conference. Venture capitalists were here to check out sustainable farming.
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The Apple Store sells more smart devices for the home other that the Nest learning thermostats. The retail chain will soon begin selling Philips’ ‘Hue’ LED light bulb kits, which let you control the color of light in your rooms from your smart device.
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“The data comes from 200,000 students at 2000 college campuses.”
What companies top the list of the top 10 places students want to work after college? Would it surprise you to learn that the NSA and AT&T top that list?
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Fewer flights and smaller aircraft leading to many more passengers per flight.
Airline travel today mostly stinks. It is thanks to higher costs, worse service, and truly uncomfortable in-flight conditions. But understanding why life in the air isn’t particularly good takes a little work. Actually, it takes a lot of work because the Department of Transportation’s new assessment of the airline industry runs a lugubrious 78 pages and is laden with enough charts, statistics, and graphs to make Battlefield Earth seem entertaining.
There have always been part-time workers, especially at restaurants and retailers but employers today rely on them far more than before.
The Fresh & Easy grocery store chain has opened up 150 stores in California since it was founded five years ago. It has positioned itself as a hip and socially responsible company.
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Airbnb is a social website that connects people who have space to spare with those who are looking for a place to stay.
We have gotten pretty used to the disruption that the rise of the social web has created in the media industry, where it has upended traditional business models and allowed creators of content to connect directly with their audience. But that same wave of socially-driven disruption is now moving through the rest of the economy too — particularly in services that can be easily socialized, such as the hotel business, the taxi industry or the education market. As that wave progresses, we’re seeing companies like Airbnb and Uber and Coursera run into more and more regulatory hurdles, but the writing is already on the wall: service businesses that don’t use social features to lower barriers and increase efficiency will likely not survive long.
The new technology is known as coded TCP.
Wireless bandwidth has been improved by academic researchers. They didn’t do this by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging task of resending dropped packets of data.
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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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