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Running a startup in Zurich versus San Francisco can cost you a whole person’s salary more. Hiring a developer in Mumbai is 15 percent cheaper than if you were hiring one in Sydney.
Continue reading… “What it costs to run a startup in 8 major cities around the world: Infographic”
“There’s a lot of potential to build off existing technologies if you can recognize the right business use.”
The Kiplinger Letter has forecast future trends set to change the way we work for 90 years. According to a statement released by the letter, In 1959, they forecast copiers and printers, and in 1963, it mentioned “pocket gadgets” that would allow workers to call anyone from anywhere.
Continue reading… “Top 8 futuristic office technologies that will change how we work”
What you can’t typically get from online study—yet—is a degree from a reputable and accredited university.
“You just spent 150 grand on an education you could have gotten for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” That is one of Matt Damon’s best lines in Good Will Hunting when he chastised a book smart scholar.
Continue reading… “There may not be as much as you think in a college degree”
Government agencies are tracking the data that two out of five software engineers are collecting, creating, and analyzing. And if you only ask those who are confident they could tell if the government was indeed spying on their data, that number goes up to 59 percent.
Gene Wade, CEO and founder of UniversityNow.
UniversityNow is receiving $20.4 million in funding to bring U.S. education out of a “code red.”UniversityNow is building a network of accredited, online universitieswhere students earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at a low cost and in a flexible environment. Its goal is to make higher education more affordable and accessible for people everywhere through the intelligent use of technology.
Continue reading… “College degrees are now accessible to anyone with a computer with UniversityNow”
By 2020, 40 percent of labor in the U.S. will be comprised of contingent/independent workers.
The federal jobs report that came out recently may have looked bleak, but there is a large and growing group of people who have a sure place in this economy — freelancers. And Elance had debuted its Private Talent Cloud to help companies hire, manage, and pay their freelancers on demand.
Continue reading… “Elance debuts Private Talent Cloud to drive freelance revolution”
A high-speed rail station in China.
Less than four years ago when the cavernous rail station for China’s new high-speed trains were nearly deserted when it opened they opened. But, not anymore.
Continue reading… “High-speed rail lines have transformed China”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Last year the DaVinci Institute launched a computer programmer training school, DaVinci Coders, and one of the key people we tapped to be one of our world-class instructors was Jason Noble. On Friday I attended a talk given by Jason at the Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference in Boulder, Colorado titled “From Junior Engineer to Productive Engineer.”
Continue reading… “Trimming the Fat – Introducing the Lean Micro-College Model for Education”
The big money has moved from developing psychiatric drugs to manipulating our brain networks.
Has the psychiatric drug age reached its peak? Mind-altering drugs have are being prescribed in record numbers but there are signs of a radically new approach to understanding and treating mental illnesses. A huge research effort is now devoted to altering the function of specific neural circuits by physical intervention in the brain and the focus is no longer on developing drugs.
Continue reading… “Why neuroscience is ending the Prozac era”
A coyote boarded a train in Portland, Oregon.
Cities are seen as the hardest place for the hardiest of animals to exist. They are seen as environmental wastelands. But more and more wild animals are adjusting to life in the city as scientists in the the urban ecology field are finding.
Continue reading… “Wild animals are adapting to city life and thriving”
Surrogacy agencies in both countries say demand has risen rapidly in the last two years.
Rich Chinese couples are hiring American women to serve as surrogates for their children, creating a small but growing business in $120,000 “designer” American babies for China’s elite.
Continue reading… “Wealthy Chinese hire American surrogate mothers to carry ‘designer’ babies”
Is the movie industry dying at the hands of home theaters, Netflix, Redbox, LoveFilm, and Amazon Instant Video?
Jack Valenti, former President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) once said, “I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” That was a controversial claim but it helps highlight the fears that emerging technologies can cause amongst those with an interest in the status quo. In this instance, the underlying concern was that VHS-enabled time-shifting meant that viewers could not only copy and distribute copyrighted broadcasts, but also fast-forward commercials, which could discourage advertisers.
Continue reading… “The future of movie theaters”
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