Cody Wilson develops software that would allow anyone with the funding to easily build a gun from the comfort of their own home.
There used to be an order to the world and a structure to things. You couldn’t print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn’t descend on you in the dead of night and kill you in your home.
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The study finds that 0.5% of global data is analyzed, and just half of data requiring security measures is protected.
In 2012, the global data supply reached 2.8 zettabytes (ZB) – or 2.8 trillion GB – but just 0.5% of this is used for analysis, according to the Digital Universe Study.
Continue reading… “Less than 1% of the world’s data is analyzed, over 80% is unprotected: Study”
Top 18 fastest growing cities are in China.
The top 50 fastest-growing cities, by GDP per capita, are practically all in the developing Asian world. The top 18 are in China. The rest are in China, Indonesia (Jakarta), India (Chennai), and Australia (Perth).
Continue reading… “The world’s fastest growing (and shrinking) cities of 2012”
Silicon Valley tops the list.
The world’s unquestionable leader in generating high-tech start-ups that launch new technologies that change the way we live and work is Silicon Valley. Many cities around the world have tried to emulate its success. But until recently, the data has been lacking to calibrate and rank how far they have come.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: For most of us, the language we speak is like the air we breathe. But what happens when we wake up and find that our air is going extinct?
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Suneet Tuli with the Aakash 2 tablet.
The 44-year-old CEO of UK/Canadian/Indian startup Datawind, Suneet Tuli, is having a taxing day. He says he is “underwater” as he struggles to find a cell signal outside a restaurant in Mumbai. On Sunday Nov. 11, the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, will unveil the seven-inch Aakash 2 tablet computer Tuli’s company is selling to the government for distribution to 100,000 university students and professors. (If things go well, the government plans to order as many as 5.86 million.) In the meantime, Tuli is deluged with calls from reporters, and every day his company receives thousands of new orders for the commercial version of the Aakash 2. Already, he’s facing a backlog of four million unfulfilled pre-orders.
Continue reading… “Aakash 2 – The $20 tablet that could transform computing as we know it”
Tomorrow’s IT department will likely look very different to today’s.
Meeting business demands to save money while supporting delivery of better products and ways of working will be key to the future of IT. The IT department is under pressure to change if it is to meet conflicting demands to support innovation while also saving cost.
Continue reading… “Four possible roles of the IT department in the future”
Organized crime is behind the trade in illegal timber in the rainforests.
The illegal logging industry has become very attractive to criminal organizations over the past ten years. Up to 90 per cent of tropical deforestation can be attributed to organized crime, which controls up to 30 per cent of the global timber trade, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Program.
Continue reading… “How organized crime is destroying the rainforests”
The new Middle East
There are remarkable and little-reported-on tech startup communities in the Middle East – from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai – and no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.
Continue reading… “Middle Eastern women at the center of a startup ecosystem”
An information war has erupted around the world.
Around the world an information war has erupted. The lines for battle have been drawn between governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative. The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.
Continue reading… “Information war is the ‘new cold war’”
Some 20 years of research by hundreds of experts have found that successful global leaders have great soft skills.
There’s a difference between leading a global company and being a global leader. America has a lot of people who can lead a global company, but not so many who can be global leader.
Continue reading… “Why American leaders of global corporations aren’t global leaders”
Futurist Thomas Frey: In 2003 the DaVinci Institute produced a landmark event called “The Future of Money Summit” which took place at the Omni Hotel in Broomfield, CO. One of the featured speakers was Bernard Lietaer, chief architect of the Euro.
Continue reading… “Peter Thiel’s Quest for Creating a Viable Global Currency”
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