A child born in 2012 is estimated to cost $241,080 to raise.
It’s becoming increasingly expensive to have kids. But it has never been cheaper to clothe and feed them, as well. The total cost of raising a child born in 2012 is estimated at $241,080 – and double that if your child attends college. That’s a 23% increase from 1960. So what is getting more expensive?
Continue reading… “What’s behind the increasing cost of raising a child in the U.S.”
70% of adults in the U.S. reported having broadband access.
Pew Research has released the results of a survey that shows how one of the more advanced countries in the world, the U.S., is still not quite there in leading by example: 20% of U.S. adults are still without broadband or smartphones for internet access. And 3% of people in the country still using dial-up connections.
Continue reading… “30% of U.S. adults still don’t have broadband: Pew Research”
Traditional retailers who have retained their national chain of stores and built a web/mobile presence are actually in the best seat.
Shoppers are demanding faster and faster delivery on the items they order online, and organizations like Amazon and eBay have conditioned them to think that’s reasonable.
And you know what? It is.
Continue reading… “Brick and mortar stores are back, same-day delivery service is the reason”
Futurist Thomas Frey: A few days ago the people in Deer Trail, Colorado made national news with a proposed ballot initiative to allow hunting licenses to shoot down flying drones.
Continue reading… “Agriculture the New Game of Drones”
25% increase in the use of mobile phones in retail stores.
More shoppers are using their mobiles for ‘showrooming’, checking prices and product information while shopping in stores. There has been a 25% increase in the use of mobiles in retail stores, which has significant implications for retailers, according to JiWire’s Mobile Audience Insights Report for Q2 2013.
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Around 20% of American adults who do not use the Internet at home, work and school, or by mobile device.
There has been a $7 billion effort by the Obama administration to increase internet access throughout the country. Perhaps most staggering, though, is that almost 20 percent of American adults still don’t use the internet at home, work, school, or through a mobile device — a statistic that has generally remained the same since 2009.
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PHP is a very accessible language, and it makes sense that casual / younger / lower paid programmers can easily contribute.
Ben Podgursky, a Software Engineer at Liveramp, a few weeks ago, described how he used Git commit metadata plus the Rapleaf API to build aggregate demographic profiles for popular GitHub organizations.
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Tech startups want loft or converted manufacturing space with big windows, high ceilings, wood or concrete floors and lots of open air.
There’s a tech revolution happening in New York. Hundreds if not thousands of new tech companies have hatched in NYC in the past two years. And many of them are growing rapidly and gobbling up office space.
Continue reading… “Startups disrupt office space leasing market in New York City”
The new CTO – Chief Transformation Officer.
IT leaders today have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but they didn’t notice the the changes that have been happening over so many decades. These three change accelerators are what lie behind today’s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO.
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Hands-free driving.
Many people dream of owning an autonomous car where they can relax with completely hands-free driving that is both seamless and safe, unlocking new time for us to work, talk, and learn while going from point A to point B. According to a recent report from Telefónica Digital found the percentage of cars with built-in connectivity will jump from 10 percent today to 90 percent by 2020.
Continue reading… “90% of cars will be connected by 2020”
Futurist Thomas Frey: By 2025, over 75% of the workforce will be comprised of Millennials, a group many refer to as the Facebook generation. That’s just over 11 years away.
Continue reading… “The Great Freelancer Movement: 8 Reasons Why your Next Job will be a Project”
Technology trends will transform higher education.
Higher education is facing an onslaught of disruptive forces right now. Technologies such as MOOCs and mobile devices are disrupting institutional structures from the classroom and across entire campuses. As tech transforms these learning environments, universities must decide whether to resist the change or get out in front of it. To choose the latter option, however, we need to envision what universities of the future will look like—if they exist at all.
Continue reading… “12 tech trends that will alter higher education”
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