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asibilev

Will China really dominate? | World Finance - 0 views

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Economy Russia China

shared by asibilev on 12 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • In the case of Russia, these numbers assume that its current demographic decline is counterbalanced and gradually reversed by the effects of an Arctic windfall, and that it can maintain effective control of its Far East region.
  • Ignoring the effects of environmental change, China will be by far the largest economy, with a GDP that is 40 percent of the total for the top twenty economies. The US will be second with a GDP well under half that of China. India will be third and Brazil will be fourth.
  • Taking environmental change into account, China and the US will be neck-and-neck with 24 percent each of the GDP for the top twenty, Russia will be third, Brazil fourth and India fifth. Most of China’s catch-up will happen early, prior to 2030; before climate change really bites.
vernica_77

Энергонезависимый дом-остров - 0 views

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Unique environmental technology science

shared by vernica_77 on 09 May 16 - No Cached
  • vernica_77 on 09 May 16
     
    Итальянская компания Jet Capsule, известная миру как производитель яхт, недавно представила автономный плавучий жилой дом. Внешне этот дом очень напоминает летающую тарелку, поэтому получил название UFO, что расшифровывается как неопознанный плавающий объект (Unidentified Floating Object). Используя водяной реактивный двигатель с электрическим мотором Torqeedo Deep Blue 1800, дом может передвигаться на воде со скоростью 3,5 узла (6.5 километров в час).
al_semenchenko

Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code? - Backchannel - Medium - 1 views

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education Social future of talent digital economy learning economy evolution social evolution new skill set entertainment as profession

shared by al_semenchenko on 22 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • As America switches from an industrial economy to a digital one, its bluest collar workers are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. Can miners really learn how to code?
  • Say what you will about the long-term environmental effects (Justice, for one, is very pro-coal) but the impact on the area’s one-source economy has been brutal.
  • The Rusty Justice seminar concludes for today. The coders swivel back to their computers, and Michael announces weekend plans to no one in particular: “Looks like I better learn C#.”
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  • What they’re building in its place is all so fragile and new. Parrish is worried even about the effect of U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez coming to shake the coders’ hands, or reporters like me coming to do stories. “We just don’t want all the notoriety to give the false illusion that we developed all the skills.”
  • BitSource would like to hire a second class of coders at the beginning of the new year. He, Parrish, and Hall want to fill up their buildings, create an incubator for entrepreneurs, a makerspace for craftsmen, and, someday, if they play their cards incredibly well, a bonafide Pikeville tech scene. You know, make Bloomberg in his smart suit eat crow for once.
  • al_semenchenko on 22 Nov 15
     
    Due to technoligical advensments many job will become absoulete but workers will be able to learn new professions quickly.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Cities of the Future | INSEAD Knowledge - 0 views

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social cities

shared by Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 11 Feb 14 - No Cached
    • Ekaterina Yanovskaya
      Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 11 Feb 14
       
      You think about the middle class in China, the middle class in India and you think about their consumption power, it is explosive," says Van Wassenhove. "It's good that these people get out of poverty but the constraints they're going to put on resources are just enormous. Sustainability is no longer a luxury; it is something that business will have to deal with
  • Singapore had the foresight to realise very early that they didn’t have resources. They didn’t have water, they didn’t have energy. So they were forced from the start to include sustainability in their thinking. They understood that economic sustainability for them was tightly linked to environmental sustainability
  • The infamous traffic in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, led to the first phase of a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) rail system to alleviate the strain on roads, to be announced this year
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  • Mumbai built the now-famous “Sealink” bridge to divert traffic away from the gridlock of the city and along its coast
  • There’s still the issue to develop a longer-term plan rather than chaotic management of cities. There may still be the issue of resources, where are the resources going to come from? Maybe companies can help by helping to create business which would generate economic resources.”
  • Globalisation has meant urbanisation, and by 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. What should we do to survive and thrive in this brave new world?
  • You cannot attract highly educated people and become a knowledge centre if you have a lousy environment
evgeny lavrov

#slideid-151570#slideid-151570 - 1 views

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Technology 3D printing Environment

shared by evgeny lavrov on 26 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms
  • The project started with experiments to see if the spinning patterns of the silkworms could be controlled by altering the environment they operated in. It turns out they could,
  • a silkworm is a sophisticated multi-material, multi-axis 3-D printer.
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  • Potential applications are varied, but include fashion and architecture, and it’s possible to imagine a system like this being deployed in the aftermath of a natural disaster to build environmentally friendly shelters for refugees
Maria Gurova

New era of self-driving cars will transform cities - 0 views

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Technology social autonomous transport self-driving car sharing environment city planning smart cities navigation

shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • it will certainly transform our daily routines: imagine driving hands-free while having the luxury of reading a book, taking a nap, or guiltlessly texting on the road. At the same time, something far more interesting - and still unexplored - is the potential transformation of our cities themselves
  • blurring the distinction between private and public modes of transportation. "Your" car could give you a lift to work in the morning and then, rather than sitting idle in a parking lot, give a lift to someone else in your family - or, for that matter, to anyone else in your neighbourhood, social media circles, or city.
  • This implies a city in which everyone can travel on demand with just one-fifth of the number of cars in use today
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  • Fewer cars may also mean shorter travel times, less congestion, and a smaller environmental impact.
  • Real-time data planning and smart routing are already a reality, and more advances are coming in the wake of "intelligent city" initiatives around the world,
  • Imagine a world without traffic lights, where vehicular flows "magically" pass through one another and avoid collision
  • Traffic accidents, though rarer, would still be a possibility; in fact, they might be one of the main impediments to implementation of autonomous systems, demanding a restructuring of insurance and liability that could sustain armies of lawyers for years to com
  • We are all familiar with viruses crashing our computers, but what if a virus crashes our cars? Resolving these issues is crucial, but none is insurmountable.
Maria Gurova

The Personal Blog of Zack Kanter - How Uber's Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million J... - 1 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • . Autonomous cars will be commonplace by 2025 and have a near monopoly by 2030
  • They will cause unprecedented job loss and a fundamental restructuring of our economy, solve large portions of our environmental problems, prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year, save millions of hours with increased productivity, and create entire new industries that we cannot even imagine from our current vantage point.
  • Morgan Stanley’s research shows that cars are driven just 4% of the time,5 which is an astonishing waste considering that the average cost of car ownership is nearly $9,000 per year.6
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  • The car purchasers of the future will not be you and me – cars will be purchased and operated by ride sharing and car sharing companies.
  • , it is unlikely that major automakers like General Motors, Ford, and Toyota will survive the leap.
  • while startup automakers like Tesla will thrive on a smaller number of fleet sales to operators like Uber by offering standardized models with fewer options.
  • 884,000 people are employed in motor vehicles and parts manufacturing, and an additional 3.02 million in the dealer and maintenance network.22 Truck, bus, delivery, and taxi drivers account for nearly 6 million professional driving jobs. Virtually all of these 10 million jobs will be eliminated within 10-15 years
  • Maria Gurova on 05 Nov 15
     
    an article about autonomous transportation and how disruptive they might be not only for the car and transport industry but for entire economy
isoldatenkova

Lisa Jackson on iPhone robot Daisy and Apple's new lab in Austin, Texas - Business Insider - 0 views

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Entertainment Technology science

shared by isoldatenkova on 19 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Apple announced the opening of a new materials recovery lab in Texas and upgrades to its Daisy robot, another effort in its goal toward eliminating the need to mine new materials from the earth.
  • Discarding used gadgets like smartphones, laptops, TVs, and other appliances could pose environmental and health risks and wastes valuable resources needed to produce electronics
  • The new 9,000-square-foot research and development lab opening in Austin will use robots like Daisy as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence to break new ground when it comes to recycling electronics
zolotarev

Исповедь миллениала. Культурные коды поколения Y - 2 views

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Generation Y Russia

shared by zolotarev on 09 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • zolotarev on 09 Apr 19
     
    Generation Y values - Self care instead of healthy lifestyle obsession - More natural, less taboo - Psychotherapy is normal - More time on parenting - Environmental awareness - Conscious limitation of choice - Millennials are needed of new online communication ethical norms - Chill
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