Cable rage is real.
Are you frustrated with rising prices from your cable company? Do you keep getting hit with more fees and charges and you are paying for more channels than you’d ever want to watch? These are just a handful of the most common complaints consumers have when it comes to grappling with cable companies.
Vivek Wadhwa, Singularity University’s vice president of academics and innovation.
Vivek Wadhwa, a Stanford University fellow, and vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University, stands at the crossroads of the future of nearly every industry business and arts and science has to offer. At the World of Business Innovation event he painted a vivid portrait of 14 freaky technologies just around the corner.
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We are set to disrupt the way startup investments are made.
Billions of dollars are flowing through Venture Capital Companies into startups. And that is an incredibly important development to bring more innovation, disruptive thinking and many more businesses to life. However, the Kauffman Foundation, a pretty influential force in the VC world, has expressed their frustration in a recent report:
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Sometimes the big picture is even bigger than the BIG picture!
Quote of the Day: “Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.” – Bertrand Russell
The most dramatic decrease was in the number of homicides.
Overall crime rates in the city of Denver are down more than five months after legal marijuana sales began in Colorado, despite dire predictions by anti-marijuana activists. Rates of violent crime are down, as well as burglaries, leading to an overall decrease in crime of 10.6 percent, according to the Denver Department of Public Safety.
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The option to learn anywhere at any time boosts community college students’ likelihood of transferring to a 4-year college.
There is some good news for massively open online courses (MOOCs) in business topics: Student GPAs are slightly higher, and MOOCs are more likely to reach students in developing countries.
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It’s all starting with the fast, IT-integrated software development process called DevOps.
We don’t program software anymore, it is programming us. This is more than a new spin on Marc Andreessen’s “Software is eating the world” argument.
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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.”
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.
Continue reading… “Top religion in the U.S. is christianity. Here’s the second-top in each state.”
Human flight
As a child, everyone had a favorite superhuman power – flying, invisibility, comic book character strength and agility. Some of us secretly hoped to cultivate psychic powers like telekinesis, precognition, mind reading, etc., even as teens and young adults.
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This illustration depicts fast-moving, massless electrons inside cadmium arsenide.
Researchers from Oxford, SLAC, and Berkeley Lab have found that cadmium arsenide could yield practical devices with the same extraordinary electronic properties as 2D graphene. The researchers also found that the new “semimetal” material exists in a sturdy 3D form that should be much easier to shape into electronic devices such as very fast transistors, sensors and transparent electrodes.
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Together the Israeli company, Phinergy, and the aluminum giant, Alcoa Canada, demonstrated an electric vehicle (EV) capable of driving over 1,100 miles between charges using a combination of aluminum-air and lithium-ion storage technologies.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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