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In our new report series "8 Exponential Trends that will Shape Humanity" we explore eight rapidly accelerating trends that will shape institutions, governments, businesses and everyday consumers. The third section of the report examines the future of healthcare.
The sharing economy - in which goods and services are based on collaborative consumption - is now valued at £330bn globally and £22.4bn in the UK, according to new research.
Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, a network of engineers, farmers, and tinkerers hard at work developing a Global Village Construction Set, an open source platform for producing 50 individual machines that form the basis of modern society’s agricultural, industrial, and manufacturing needs.
Gerd Leonhard will talk on ‘The Future of Business and Communications in a Networked Society’ focusing on how “SoLoMo” - social local mobile technology is changing the way in which we obtain, digest and use information and what this, in the context of global economic forces, means for communications, business and human relationships. (via GBTA announces opening keynote speaker at GBTA Europe Conference 2013 in Prague)
Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist who has shown how to project patients’ thoughts onto a screen in front of their eyes by implanting electrodes deep inside their brains and reading the activity of cells. Oh, and he used to rob banks. “There are at least two people inside our mind.”
Airbnb was ruled illegal in New York City today. A victory for the city’s ledger and a loss for the informal economy. (RT @diana_m_lind: Airbnb deemed illegal in NYC.
Airbnb is illegal in New York City, an administrative judge has ruled, but that doesn't necessarily mean the thousands of New Yorkers using the site will be punished.
The classical economists, from William Petty and Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill, were all development economists. They offered general theories of markets and growth and wrote about a particular developing country (typically Britain) going through a process of industrial transformation.
Enabled by the sharing culture on social media and with ever more sophisticated malicious software known as malware at their disposal cybercriminals have become far more adept at crafting attacks and targeting individuals and organisations. Phishing emails purporting to be from friends, often reflecting our interests perhaps gleaned from social media sites or from trusted organisations such as your bank or HM Revenue Customs encourage us to click on infected links or attachments containing malware. (A recent example of the latter was malware disguised as a security warning from Microsoft’s digital crimes unit.) “We have a level of trust in certain organisations and criminals exploit that trust,” says Sidaway.
Is higher education widening the gap between the rich and the poor? A 2011 surveyindicated that 35 percent college admission directors are increasing their efforts to find "full pay" students instead of low-income students. Given the rise of tuitions, can technology like massively open online courses (MOOCs) reduce tuition costs and make education more affordable? Many argue the answer is yes.
“The old protests, so dull and single-minded, have passed into obsolescence, and given rise to infinite possibility. We’ve rethought the concepts of action, protest, relationship, the public, the common…”
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All businesses are comprised of a variety of assets, including both tangible assets and intangible assets. Tangible assets include items such as cash, inventory, accounts receivable, and fixed assets. Intangible assets include both "traditional" intangible assets and intellectual property (IP). "Traditional" intangible assets can include the company's customer lists, vendor relationships, license agreements, and noncompete agreements. Some intangible assets (such as customer lists) exist in the normal course of business. Other intangible assets, such as noncompete agreements, typically originate during the course of an unusual event such as an acquisition.1 Balance sheets of American companies are increasingly comprised of intangible assets such as those discussed in this article.
As White Queen remarked in Lewis Carroll’s immortal story Through the Looking Glass, “…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” We all run after innovation just as fast as we can and sometimes we feel that it’s all we can do just to stay even with the competition. Sometimes it is good to pause for a moment and reflect on the role of innovation, what we’re doing currently and what we might do differently. The State of Ohio did exactly that in creating the Ohio Third Frontier’s Open Innovation Incentive, which they launched last year.
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Join a diverse panel of experts to tackle questions of sustainability and ethics in the 3D printing revolution.
Michel Bauwens, founder of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives, offers a compelling framework for understanding the world-changing potential of a networked collaborative economy.
At this year's Open Hardware Summit (9/27) in NYC, the MAKE video team asked some key participants (from MakerBot, SparkFun, Evil Mad Scienrist, OpenROV and others) what they thought about MakerBot closing off some of its source files. Here's some of what they had to say.
Pinterest may not claim Facebook-levels of users, but a few visionary retailers are using the hot social networking site to connect with their customers in a way that Facebook could only dream of.
Chris Anderson CEO, 3D RoboticsCommercial UAVs are coming, but not in the privacy-invading, bad-guy chasing way you think. Instead, the first big market is lik.
“Kids nowadays are acting like young adults online—just give them an Internet-connected device, and they will find a way to things parents would like to ban forever,” says Bitdefender Chief Security Strategist Catalin Cosoi. “Knowing that online dangers go beyond pornography, to hacking and suicide websites, may help parents protect their kids’ life on- and offline.”
The continuing global economic mess, growing inequalities and environmental destruction, to name a few crises, are causing many to ask: Is global capitalism fixable as a system, and if so, what is to be done?
Clay Shirky has been at the forefront of thinking about the future of journalism for the better part of a decade.
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