Daycares adapt to the demand for round-the-clock childcare.
At 8:30 p.m 6-year-old twins Michael and Mateo Lopez are snuggled under blankets, watching television in their pajamas after eating a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs.
Continue reading… “Demand for round-the-clock childcare on the rise”
Futurist Thomas Frey: The year is 2032. You have just celebrated your 80th birthday and you have some tough decisions ahead. You can either keep repairing your current body or move into a new one.
Continue reading… “When Death Becomes Optional”
Unequal pay isn’t just unfair, it’s illegal.
After President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act nearly 50 years ago, on average women are still paid less than their male counterparts for doing comparable jobs in the U.S. — that’s called the pay gap. It means that each time the average woman starts a new job, she’s likely to start from a lower base salary than her male counterparts.
Continue reading… “Narrow the Gapp challenges app developers to narrow the pay gap”
Besides the elderly gentleman paying in nickels, the biggest holdup at supermarket checkouts is the cashier finding an item’s barcode and properly scanning. So Toshiba has developed a faster camera-based system that recognizes the food, packaged or fresh…
Continue reading… “Future supermarket checkouts could recognize the food, not the barcode”
The number of women earning more than their husbands had gradually been rising for years.
Julee Schirmacher has found herself in a spot that has become familiar to many families over the past few years since her husband was laid off last fall. She works full-time for a marketing company and, for now, her husband stays home and takes care of the couple’s two kids, ages 5 and 2.
Continue reading… “More wives outearning their husbands”
Do you think Facebook and Twitter account privacy settings guarantee future employers or schools can’t see your private posts? You need to think again.
Continue reading… “Employers and colleges demand Facebook passwords from applicants”
Cupcake ATM
An ATM is set to open where your dough comes out freshly baked — with icing on top. Sprinkles, a gourmet cupcake chain with 10 locations nationally, is set to open its first 24-hour cupcake vending machine on March 9 at its original store in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Continue reading… “World’s first 24-hour cupcake ATM”
Apple App Store says “thank you” on its home page.
Apple’s App Store reached 25 billion downloads on Saturday, and the company let users know with a “thank you” on its home page.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Question: As physical books go away, and computers and smart devices take their place, at what point does a library stop being a library, and start becoming something else?
Continue reading… “Future Libraries and 17 Forms of Information Replacing Books”
Patent trolls rack up legal and licensing bills.
The scourge of inventors everywhere are firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents. They force large companies to rack up legal and licensing bills, and scare away startups from putting out novel products. These firms raise prices for all of us, and they generally slow down the future. Everyone hates them.
Colorado’s savvy entrepreneurs and highly skilled workforce make it a perfect location for a new satellite patent office.
Colorado is a hub for economic innovation. Colorado has some of the most savvy entrepreneurs, a highly skilled workforce and an array of top-tier research institutions that help make Colorado a place where innovation thrives.
Continue reading… “Bring a patent office to Colorado petition”
Construction workers scored high for happiness.
If you work in retail or media it isn’t just your imagination when you think your friends who work in education and real estate are all happier than you.
Continue reading… “The happiest and unhappiest fields to work in”
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