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Revolutionary Technology & The Transformative Effect On Currency - 0 views

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    "Below we explain the evolution of the digital wallet and the beginning of the transformation from a cash-based society to one where currency lives in a digital form, in the devices we carry with us wherever we go."
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From Self-Flying Helicopters to Classrooms of the Future - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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    "What do self-piloting helicopters have to do with the growing movement to transform education online? A day spent with Mr. Ng here at Coursera's offices, with the aim of getting a sense of the company's culture and the ideas that make up its DNA, helped answer that question. It turns out that the links between artificial-intelligence researchers and MOOC's run deep. "
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Manufacturing: The new maker rules | The Economist - 0 views

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    Yet 3D printing is just one of many production technologies and trends which are transforming the way companies will be able to make things in the future. The old rules of manufacturing, such as "you must seek economies of scale" and "you must reduce unit-labour costs", are being cast aside. New machines can print every item differently. More flexible robots are getting cheaper and better at doing all the boring and dirty stuff.
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Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution | The Economist - 1 views

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    The digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made-and change the politics of jobs too
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Richard Greenwald: Contingent, Transient and at Risk: Modern Workers in a Gig Economy - 0 views

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    America is transforming before our eyes, and with our focus on the short-term economic crisis, we are blind to what might very well be the most fundamental economic shift of the past 50 years: the nine-to-five, 40-hour-week job with benefits and some security is fast going the way of the compact disc.
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Sam Palsimano's Transformation Of IBM - 0 views

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    The former head of IBM managed his organization through the disruptive changes of economy and technology. 
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