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Maria Gurova

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

  • 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
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    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
Maria Gurova

Give Me a Break: Why Businesses Should Consider Workplace Sabbaticals | IRIS - 0 views

  • With technology keeping us connected around-the-clock, the divide between our professional and personal lives continue to be blurred.
  • A workplace sabbatical would provide eligible full-time employees with a pre-determined schedule for taking extended time off to pursue personal interests or to be with family.
  • Not only would your employees be recharged by virtue of a sabbatical, but they would be very clear that their company cares about their well-being and not just the bottom-line.
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    we all deserve a break... with Millennials entering the workplace corporate HR policies might consider radical perks or benefit packages fro the new workforce, that is looking for a more fulfilling life experiences 
Maria Gurova

The Benefits of Workplace Sabbaticals - Experteer Magazine - 0 views

  • Many firms, including 25 percent of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, now offer sabbaticals. These typically four- to 10-week pauses allow employees time out to focus on their needs instead of the organization’s. 
  • Most organizations offer sabbaticals to employees who have been there for a certain period of time (at least five to seven years is common), and employees may take multiple sabbaticals so long as they work a minimum number of years in between. This provides an incentive for workers to remain at a company longer.
  • Adobe Systems encourages its employees to use their breaks to do volunteer work. Then they promote the good deeds in the Adobe Life magazine, a website directed at attracting new talent. Companies that have formal career pauses advertise them as part of the benefits package, like Boston Consulting Group’s Time For You/Flexleave program, which allows workers with just 12-months of time onboard to take an eight-week unpaid break to recharge.
Olga Bykova

Supporters | Happy Planet Index - 0 views

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    Everyone accepts that GDP alone cannot tell us anything of substance about how we are doing as a species. It tells us nothing of the state of our planet, or the wellbeing of its people. It is simply an indiscriminate measurement of economic activity. The Happy Planet Index is a step towards developing alternatives.
Maria Gurova

What Happens When Medical Science Meets Data Science? | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

  • If data from personal biometric devices is ever going to be truly useful to researchers, big medical centers will have to pull it into electronic health records (EHRs), de-identify it, and make it public. Without the medical data found in EHRs, like CT scans, X-rays, and blood tests, researchers have little context for wearable sensor data and there is little useful information that can be gleaned from just the raw data
  • Practice Fusion, a popular EHR company, will begin opening up its API over the next year to pull in data from wearable sensors to its platform.
  • Basis, a startup that makes a health sensor-laden watch, is working on the first step: a device-agnostic platform that puts all of a person’s health sensor data into a single online repository.
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - «Умные часы - это отличная возможность для нашей индустрии» - 0 views

  • по мнению гендиректора Swatch Group,
  • умные часы – это быстро устаревающая бытовая техника и она не станет конкурентом механическим часам, которые служат десятилетиями и передаются из поколения в поколение.
  • В Swatch Group есть компания под названием EM Microelectronic, которая является поставщиком компонентов для многих производителей умных браслетов – Garmin, например, – а также для производителей смартфонов, название которых я не могу разглашать.
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  • Наши умные часы Swatch Touch Zero One появятся на рынке летом. Oни ориентированы на людей, увлекающихся пляжным волейболом:
  • Например, часы можно будет использовать как электронный пропуск для входа в офис
  • Наш следующий продукт, который должен появиться в конце лета, – Swatch NFC: часы, с помощью которых можно будет осуществлять платежи. Мы ведем переговоры с Visa, MasterCard и китайской UnionPay.
  • Следом появятся новые версии Swatch Touch: Zero Two, Zero Three, Zero Four, ориентированные на другие виды спорта – серфинг, горные лыжи, – и не только на спорт, но, например, на кулинарию. А часы Swatch Touch Zero Six, возможно, будут называться «Камасутра». Эти часы считают, сколько калорий вы сжигаете в какой позиции и нужно ли вам менять вашего партнера.
  • А чип часов пользователь сможет конфигурировать сам под собственные потребности.
  • Философия очень проста: это часы-ключ, мы сознательно не стали делать в них дисплей, поскольку дисплеи и так нас окружают повсюду.
  • Сейчас умные часы можно снабдить любыми функциями, но вам придется снимать их с руки и подзаряжать в лучшем случае раз в день.
  • Плюс такие часы открыты для рекламы.
  • А вы хотите получать сообщения от каждой близлежащей пиццерии, что у них для вас спецпредложение?
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