Futurist Thomas Frey: For colleges and universities, the great age of experimentation is now upon us.
Last week, Harvard and MIT announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.
86 million Americans are ‘invisibly unemployed’ because they have stopped looking for work altogether
86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn’t keep up a regular job search.
In the United States there are many more jobless people than you might think there are.
The unemployment rate is falling, but that doesn’t include the millions of nonworking adults who aren’t even looking for a job anymore. And hiring isn’t strong enough to keep up with population growth.
Smartphones indespensible in the US: Study
More Americans can’t live without their smartphones anymore.
People are using their mobile devices increasingly to settle a dispute, coordinate a meeting, find a restaurant or get emergency information, according to a new study released Monday.
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5 job sectors slowing job growth in the U.S.
Retailers keep demanding higher productivity from existing workers while trimming staff to save costs.
In April, the unemployment rate fell to 8.1%. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, experts say the outlook would be far rosier if it weren’t for a handful of sectors dragging down job growth.
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The Eight Critical Value Points of A Futurist
Futurist Thomas Frey: As a Futurist, people often ask me how many of my predictions have come true. I find this to be a rather uncomfortable question. It’s uncomfortable, not because my track record hasn’t been up to par (actually, a high percentage have come true), but because accuracy of predictions is a poor way of measuring the value of a Futurist.
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Only 25% of U.S. teens have jobs
Teens with jobs is a rarity in the U.S.
Two major accomplishments will be celebrated by Nick Gentry this month. He is graduating from high school and he has landed his first job after a very long job search. Collecting a paycheck makes Gentry, 18, a rarity in today’s working world.
CEO pay 231 times more than average workers in the U.S.
The pay gap between U.S. CEOs and average workers is higher than anywhere else in the developed world.
In the U.S. the average chief executive earned more than $11 million last year in salary, stock options and other compensation. new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found. That’s around 231 times more than average workers.
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Wearable devices track people wirelessly
BioHarness sensors from Zephyr Technologies can be worn as a patch or as a strap.
Wireless carriers are fueling the boom of a new generation of mobile technology for remotely monitoring family members and others who need to be tracked.
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More babies born addicted to prescription painkillers
Every hour a baby is born in the United States with symptoms of withdrawal from opiates.
During the last decade the U.S. has seen a sharp increase in the number of pregnant women addicted to opiate drugs and the number of babies born experiencing withdrawal symptoms as the fastest growing abuse of prescription drugs has hit hospital maternity wards across the country.
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The Pebble raises $7 million in Kickstarter’s most successful campaign ever
The Pebble
The Pebble has raised $7 million from nearly 50,000 strangers in a matter of weeks. That’s the power of a growing trend toward crowd funding, as demonstrated by the most successful Kickstarter campaign yet.
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Americans waste more than a billion gallons of gas every year because of obesity
For every additional pound of passenger weight, the United States uses up another 39 million gallons of fuel each year.
Obesity raises health costs as we all know with more frequent visits to the hospital, more prescription drugs, and a greater risk for developing diseases like diabetes. What is less known are the economic costs of obesity. What are increased costs obesity puts on the public infrastructure, the GDP or on the federal deficit?
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Samsung overtakes Nokia to become world’s largest cellphone brand
Samsung Galaxy Note
In the first quarter of 2012, Samsung became the world’s largest cellphone brand for the first time, overtaking longtime market leader Nokia.
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