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Modern Day Grandstanding and the Future of Getting Noticed
On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I had a conversation with Axel Rüger, Director of the renowned Van Gogh Museum about what it was that made Van Gogh so famous. Was it his talent, the fact that he cut off his own ear, or a combination of both? As...
101 Endangered Jobs by 2030
Business owners today are actively deciding whether their next hire should be a person or a machine. After all, machines can work in the dark and don’t come with decades of HR case law requiring time off for holidays, personal illness, excessive overtime, chronic...
Extreme Graphene and the Coming Super Materials Gold Rush
In 2004, scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov from the University of Manchester, used adhesive tape to lift a thin layer of carbon from a block of graphite, and placed it on a silicone wafer. Graphite is the stuff commonly found in pencil...
You will be a different person by the time you reach the end of this article
Whatever happened to that young child you were not so many years ago? As a baby, life was all about eating, sleeping, and dry diapers. Even though you are learning new things quickly, not much else really mattered. By the time you enter grade school, you have learned...
Disrupting Healthcare – When Devices Replace Medicine
Doctors today are constantly selling. No, it didn’t start out that way, but a system has evolved that richly rewards members of the physician's food chain if sales continue. These sales include the selling of tests, pills, therapy, referrals, or simply selling the...
Computing’s Next Big Transformation – Semantic Intelligence
I had great difficulty completing this column. This is partly due to the complex nature of the technology and partly because its implications may indeed be so far reaching that I’ll sound over-reaching in describing it. Several companies may...
Should Robots Have Their Own Bank Accounts?
The year is 2027 and Winston, a newly born house-bot charged with doing a number of domestic chores including cleaning, meal prep, laundry, and building maintenance, has been programmed to not only perform the work, but also restock supplies...
Seven Reasons Why the Value of Human Life is Increasing Exponentially
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. But that is exactly what governments and businesses find themselves doing on a...
192 Future Uses for Flying Drones
The thought occurred to me that mounting a video projector to a flying drone could give it unusual capabilities. My first idea was to use it for special effects at a concert or major indoor event. But a device like this could also be used for...
When it comes to jobs, why is this time different?
In 1964, and open letter was drafted and sent to President Johnson, warning him of the coming Triple Revolution. The letter was composed and signed by 35 members of the “Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution,” which include luminaries like Nobel Chemist, Linus...
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