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The sky’s the limit for 3D printing solar panels

September 16, 2014

Solar cell printers.

We’ve come a long way from the solar-powered calculator to waiting to see when innovators are going to give us solar-powered smartphones, where most of our calculators are these days. While the average energy consumer is busy worrying about such everyday concerns, scientists at the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) are wondering how to power entire buildings, and pretty much the whole planet, as the technology they are creating will be easily transferred inexpensively to developing and third-world areas, thanks to 3D printing and design. (Video)

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Let algorithms make real-time decisions for your company

September 16, 2014

Operational analytics not only predict what the next best action is, but also cause the action to happen without human intervention.

In the future, just having predictive models that suggest what might be done won’t be enough to stay ahead of the competition. Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes—to make real-time operational decisions, on a daily basis.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Latest Trend, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Seven Reasons Why the Value of Human Life is Increasing Exponentially

September 15, 2014

Futurist Thomas Frey: What’s the value of a human life?

For some of you this is a very disconcerting question because it attempts to put a dollar value on a person, something we value in far different ways.

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Alternative Transportation, Analysis, Business, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Tesla cars will run on autopilot within 5 years: Elon Musk

September 12, 2014

Self-driving cars could save thousands of lives per year.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says self-driving cars might be on the roads faster than most people think. Musk told reporters in Tokyo that Tesla is developing the technology for “full autopilot” consumer cars in just five years.

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Analysis, Science & Technology News

How will wearables be powered in the future?

September 11, 2014

Neil Harbisson

When it comes to wearables, nightly charging might not be convenient and in some cases, it might not even be possible. Here’s a round-up of the latest science on how to harvest ambient energy to continuously power our gadgets.

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Top 5 trends that will shape the future of work

September 10, 2014

The world of work is changing. In the coming years we won’t be working the same way as we have been over the past few years. Perhaps one of the most important underlying factors driving this change is the coming shift around who drives how work gets done.

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The future of work and how employees are evolving

September 9, 2014

The employee from ten years ago isn’t the same as the employee today.

By Jacob Morgan: This concept and the visual was taken from my new book which came out today called, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization.

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Intelligent failure will invent the future

September 5, 2014

Vinod Khosla: The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In the past, experts with spreadsheets and econometric models or social scientists with subscale studies and linear models may have been useful. These so-called experts extrapolated from what came before, but as the rate of change has increased, looking to the past often is no longer meaningful – especially in a world driven by new technology.

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Where the jobs of the future are and how to land one

September 4, 2014

The fastest growing jobs are in user experience design, iOS and Android development, and business intelligence.

Designer, developer, and data scientist are some of the jobs that are predicted to be in-demand jobs in the coming year. How to land one of those jobs may not be the way you think.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Robots, Science & Technology News

192 Future Uses for Flying Drones

September 2, 2014

Futurist Thomas Frey: The thought occurred to me that mounting a video projector to a flying drone could give it unusual capabilities.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Doctor-patient video consultations will triple from 5.7 million in 2014 to over 16 million in 2015

August 27, 2014

Doctor-patient video consultations will exceed 130M in 2018.

Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates said, “the number of doctor-patient video consultations will nearly triple from this year to the next, from 5.7 million in 2014 to over 16 million in 2015, and will exceed 130 million in 2018. The connected health markets are experiencing tremendous growth both in end-user connected devices and on the institutional side, and the early collaboration with our Charter Sponsors helped us focus our first-year event as a key industry forum to connect the technology industry with healthcare stakeholders.”

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Top 5 ways the workforce will change in the next 5 years

August 27, 2014

What will the workforce look like in 2019?

Human-resources experts predict significant changes within the workforce over the next five years. They predict a sizable shift as millennials take their seats at businesses large and small, and Baby Boomers simultaneously either retire or modify their work styles to reflect increasingly flexible and mobile opportunities.

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