Archive for 'Science & Technology'
Five Marketing Technology Tips
I am in Milan for a day-long marketing technology conference where I will be presenting to the event, which is sponsored by Ambrosetti. So I’ve been surveying various material on technology and marketing. According to an online survey, CMOs say tech-savviness is the area of greatest need and opportunity in marketing. It’s becoming more and [...]
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Memristors and how they may change computing
I recently read a novelette by Bruce Sterling called Black Swan (A Cyberpunk Story). I was intrigued by what Sterling referred to as a “Memrister”. Within the context of the story, it was only clear that memristors were theoretical electronic devices with a lot of potential applications. After doing some research, I found out that [...]
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Top 5 Strangest Predictions of 2011
The most recent edition of The Futurist magazine included The Best Predictions of 2011. Here are some that seem stranger to us than the others. 1. Thought Helmets. According to Gerwin Schalk, an Albany Medical College scientist, by the year 2020 we will have thought helmets. Though these helmets will probably not be for commercial [...]
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10 Best Innovations of 2011
Popular Science recently featured the 100 Best Innovations of the Year. Here are 10 of the most exciting and interesting ones. Recreation: Lifesaving Wetsuit The Billabong V1 is more than just a wetsuit. This suit inflates a bladder in the back of the suit once an attached ripcord is pulled, helping the wearer float in [...]
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Flying construction robots
The construction industry is among the slowest to change among all business types. When I have worked with them anticipating longer term trends and possible disruptions to traditional ways of doing business, the topic of construction robots always comes up. Autonomous robots that scale walls and build buildings piece by piece, or even nanoscale robots [...]
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Autonomous Vehicles Could be the Future
It is possible that autonomous vehicles could be the flying car of the 2030′s – I am forever answering the question “what ever happened to the flying car envisioned in the 1960′s?”. But this concept car, imagined by Charles Rattray, captures many of the concepts I first heard about when working with the U.S. Federal [...]
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How to see future trends on the Web – in Charts and Graphics
Using sophisticated graphics to illustrate complex ideas (or simple ones) on the Web is a growing trend. iChart is one of the enterprises offering “interactive web charts” that you can post, and more importantly can create to make a point on the web. For example, where are the world’s college graduates most likely to come [...]
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Information Technology Spending: Make Way for the Cloud
Ahh, to live in the clouds. We’ve been there for a decade, and each day more of what we do – make a call, watch a video, navigate a car, order a product, read a book, play a game, takes place in the cloud. Yes, cloud computing is just a clever name for big server [...]
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke: Prognosticating at 90
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (December 1917-March 2008) was a forward-thinking writer and scientist involved in film, television, government, and especially, amazingly accurate speculation about the future. Clarke collected countless awards, including receiving a Knighthood in 1998 and having a geostationary orbit named after him by the International Astronomical Union. I was touched this week when [...]
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Future of Human Space Flight with Elon Musk
In just a few minutes SpaceX founder Elon Musk (also founder of the Tesla car company), will be speaking at the National Press Club in Washington DC, streamed live. The subject is the future of human space flight. If this interests you, tune in now.
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