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Five societal questions we can't avoid when we think about emerging technologies..this will make your head hurt.

The SFI report Crisis and Disaster Resilience 2030 focused on a deep analysis of future emergency management needs. The more recent document Toward More Resilient Futures: Putting Foresight Into Practice shifts the focus from theory towards practice.

The World Economic Forum's annual list of this year's breakthrough technologies, published today, includes "socially aware" open AI. As technology for AI assistants expands, imagine that you could walk up to a display in a museum and ask a custom AI assistant any question you like about what you are seeing. Siri and Cortana and Google Assistant and Amazon Echo try to answer questions on all topics, but what if museums and other organizations could build their own add-on packs for their sphere of knowledge? The Getty, for example, would prepare answers to every question they've ever heard about "Statue of a Victorious Youth" and museum visitors (or maybe anybody in the world) could use the add-on pack to find out what they want to know.

"Purpose" is emerging as a powerful new driver of attraction, retention, and productivity. on average, 57 percent of respondents (64 percent Germany, 58 percent US, 48 percent UK) said they would favor joining an organization that has a clearly defined Purpose. Moreover, an average of 65 percent of respondents claimed that Purpose would motivate them to go the 'extra mile' in their jobs and 64 percent claimed it would engender a greater sense of loyalty towards the organization they work for.

The social encounter is a particular kind of meeting from which a wide range of different responses may emerge (e.g., confusion, misunderstandings, tension,trauma, and possibly social change)

Robotic automation emerges as a threat to traditional low-cost outsourcing

Interview with Seb Chan, Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Smithsonian

Interview with Seb Chan, Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Smithsonian

What can city planners and those who plan refugee and emergency camps learn from this mega pop-up city?

With wages falling and inequality increasing, new ideas are needed to prevent the emergence of a new underclass.

Okay, when 3-D printing makes it onto the cover of PARADE MAGAZINE, there is no question it no longer is an "emerging" trend. So, what will be the next trend to graduate (self-driving cars have crossed the line already)?

With the support of payday loans for self employed you can easily handle all unexpected personal expenses on any sudden emergency

Financial emergencies often occur without any prior notice. The situation becomes really stressful when you do not have adequate money to overcome this tough fiscal phase.

...over the last few months, conflicting claims have emerged about how malls fit within Twin Cities society. ("#Itsmymall!" "No, #itsmymall!") The seemingly audacious protest by the #blacklivesmatter movement and subsequent reaction by the Mall of America and the Bloomington prosecutor illuminate the complex relationship that shopping malls have as public and private spaces. Like it or not, they are simultaneously massive private companies and rough, if degraded, facsimiles of Gruen's public sphere.

Facing short term financial emergencies is quite common among the salaried class people as their income is not sufficient to meet their monetary needs and desires.

Same day loans are one of the best monetary aids for each and every kind of borrower to meet sudden unexpected emergency needs.

Same day loans have emerged as the perfect financial resolution for all poor credit holders.