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Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...rs-pilotless-planes-jobs-human

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shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13
     
    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
Maria Gurova

Dawn of the iCar? Apple said to be secretly working on design for an electric people-ca... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...ic-peoplecarrier-10047349.html

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shared by Maria Gurova on 16 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Hundreds of people at Apple are said to be secretly working on a design for an electric people-carrier which has been given the code name “Titan”. So far, the technology firm has declined to comment on the project
  • The Titan project was reportedly signed off almost a year ago by Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook, who has assigned vice president of product design, Steve Zadesky, to lead the group
al_semenchenko

ВЕДОМОСТИ - Tesla Motors разогрела рынок лития - 0 views

www.vedomosti.ru/...640280-tesla-razogrela-litiya

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shared by al_semenchenko on 06 May 16 - No Cached
  • Чтобы производить 500 000 автомобилей в год, Tesla Motors придется скупать весь литий в мире
  • В 2015 г., несмотря на неблагоприятную конъюнктуру на сырьевом рынке в целом, цены на карбонат лития выросли на 28%, а в I квартале этого года – на 47% по сравнению со средней ценой за прошлый год, по данным Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
  • По планам, которые Tesla озвучила в среду, в 2018 г. компания намерена продать 500 000 автомобилей, а в 2020 г. – уже 1 млн.
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  • «Чтобы производить 500 000 автомобилей в год, нам придется закупать весь литий в мире», - сказал Маск на презентации Model 3 в конце марта.
  • al_semenchenko on 06 May 16
     
    Грядущий взрыв спроса на электромобили может быть ограничен возможностями добычи необходимых материалов.
Anna Dubinina

This Mini, Portable Wind Turbine Could Charge Your Phone Or Power Your House - 2 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...your-phone-or-power-your-house

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shared by Anna Dubinina on 27 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • The largest size (2500 watt) could provide enough power for a small house (though would obviously need backing up). The 1000 is good for RVs and boat owners, the Agustssons say, while the smallest 50 watt one is right for USB devices and laptops. The turbines can also back up electric cars when the grid isn't available.
  • Anna Dubinina on 27 Oct 15
     
    Mini, Portable Wind Turbine Could Charge Your Phone Or Power Your House
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