Value of a college degree in China – $44

Job fair in China for college graduates.

College students in the U.S. facing the misery of an anemic post-graduation job market have company in an unlikely-seeming place: China. Despite entering a robust economy that seemed to weather the financial crisis as if were it a middling squall, China’s college graduates on average make only 300 yuan, or roughly $44, more per month than the average Chinese migrant worker, according to statistics cited over the weekend by a top Chinese labor researcher and reported today by the Beijing Times (in Chinese).

 

 

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How rising expectations of beauty are shaping technology and society

Apple’s release of its multi-colored iMacs in 1998, made consumers realize they wanted beautiful computers, not ugly ones.

Ross Dawson, futurist, keynote speaker, and author, recently traveled to Provence in the hills above Nice to give the keynote at the annual EuroCIO conference. He used his framework for the future of the CIO to point to the macro drivers of change in technology and society, and how these are shaping the technology function in organizations, and in turn the role of the CIO.

 

 

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Almost half of U.S. adults say growth of nonreligious bad for American society

Forty-eight percent of Americans say the growing number of “people who are not religious” is bad for American society. But a similar share say either that this trend is good or that it does not make much difference, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.

 

 

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Why internet companies in Asia still struggle to become global

Chinese internet company, Tencent.

Nearly half of the 2 billion internet users in the world live in Asia. They makes most of the hardware — laptops, smartphones, tablets and other gadgets — that is used to gain access to the Internet. In countries like South Korea and Japan, it has some of the fastest wired and wireless networks for carrying Internet traffic.

 

 

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Top 3 challenges of longevity

In developed nations people are living longer.  There are increases in life expectancy at birth ranging from 2.7 years in Greece to 5.1 years in Ireland, between 1990 and 2010.This longevity rise has been attributed to improving health factors, better lifestyles and medical advances. This is giving us reasons to celebrate, but what are the challenges of living longer?

 

 

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How IT is transforming the world

IT is transforming the world.

The many forces reshaping the way we work and live these days all have one thing in common: They are all the result of the transformative effect of IT.  Such forces of change have recently been documented by Michael Chui and a team of co-authors from McKinsey Global Institute, who point to the way IT is transforming the world. They also say some good things about the DaVinci Coders program.

 

 

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