LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn billionaire and education policy enthusiast, has an intriguing theory for a new type of digital literacy: “network literacy.”
Top religion in the U.S. is christianity. Here’s the second-top in each state.
In the U.S., Christianity is the largest religion by a wide margin: more than three-quarters of Americans identify as Christians. Buddhism is second. The data comes from a 2010 census sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.
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Asia will dominate the smartphone industry by 2019
The data from Ericsson couldn’t be clearer: Go East if you want to sell a phone in the near future. The West is basically over as a growth market for phones. That’s because the U.S. and Europe is close to full penetration when it comes to high-end mobile devices.
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Six Radical Trends Redefining the Hotel of the Future
Futurist Thomas Frey: A few nights ago, I arrived at a very nice Radisson Blu Hotel in Minneapolis for my talk on the “hotel of the future.”
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A third of 18- to -34 year olds in the U.S. live with their parents
The number of young Americans heading to college continues to increase where they are racking up debt to pay for rapidly increasing tuition costs.
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The future of retail will blow your mind
Brick-and-mortar retailers didn’t have a fighting chance these past few years to compete with the personalization and convenience provided by online shopping. By cultivating mountains of rich customer data, online retailers had the upper hand.
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New thinking leads to a decline in homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness sees the recent success as the “giant untold story of the homelessness world.”
Since 2005, there has been a 17 percent decline in homelessness because of a radical change in how states address homelessness. This trend has withstood financial panic, a foreclosure crisis, and the Great Recession.
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Is the Internet of Things critical to the survival and growth of the enterprise?
Should we to add the Internet of Things to the top strategic technology priorities for the decade? That’s the question increasingly in front of IT decision makers these days as tech vendors add the buzz phrase to their marketing and practitioners evaluate the rapidly growing array of related tools and technologies.
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Why pet owners are skipping the pet food aisle in favor of homemade pet food
Veterinarians say these pet food home chefs do it for different reasons.
We not only obsess over what we eat. We also obsess over what our pets eat. While the pet food industry has started adding salmon, vegetables and other ingredients humans favor to its products, the store-bought stuff just doesn’t make the cut anymore for some owners. They’re skipping the pet food aisle altogether in favor of cooking up big batches of Fido’s meals.
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Evolving libraries still need people
The Greater Victoria Public Library allows patrons to check out passes to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Royal B.C. Museum.
The dawn of the Internet spawned predictions of the demise of libraries, made irrelevant by technology that puts infinite amounts of information at almost everyone’s fingertips.
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The app market is booming
The app market continues to boom. According to the latest data from Distimo, via Ben Schachter at Macquarie Research, combined spending in Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play store, was up 83% year-over-year in April, hitting $1.4 billion.
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Language will be transformed by wearable computers
Smart clothes and accessories will let us share thoughts and sensations as well as words
Fabled mathematicians Edward O. Thorp and Claude Shannon, of MIT, walked into a Las Vegas casino in August 1961. They intended to try their luck at roulette, a game in which players bet on where a whirling ball will land after falling from an outer stationary track onto an inner spinning wheel. But they weren’t typical gamblers.
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