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roland legrand

The Futurist: A Future Timeline for Economics - 0 views

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    The accelerating rate of change in many fields of technology all manifest themselves in terms of human development, some of which can be accurately tracked within economic data.  Contrary to what the media may peddle and despite periodic setbacks, average human prosperity is rising at a rate faster than any other time in human history.  
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UK to ease rules for tech share listings | Reuters - 0 views

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    "Britain plans to make it easier for technology firms to list their shares in London, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt to stem the flow of high-growth companies heading across the Atlantic in search of capital." Interesting. Countries in a competition to keep their tech wizards at home. But how important are stock markets for innovation? And nation-states? Don't think too fast stocks and nation-states are something of the past... 
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How artificial intelligence is changing our lives - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

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    "The idea that AI must mimic the thinking process of humans has dropped away. "Creating artificial intelligences that are like humans is, at the end of the day, paving the cow paths," Mr. Saffo argues. "It's using the new technology to imitate some old thing.""
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Unleashing Workers Is Going To Lead To Drastic Changes In How We Work | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation - 0 views

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    "As technology evolves to make the office more obsolete, it's going to result in massive changes--and massive opportunities." But the process is sometimes painstakingly slow, as it conflicts with traditions, the desire for 'real face time' and office politics. 
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With the robots, markets are back to 1930 | Linkiesta.it - 0 views

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    A new generation of tools has been improved over the last five years, changing the entire financial world, thanks to the unprecedented levels reached by technology - impossible to conceive some years ago. Velocity, liquidity, price efficiency and systemic risks: the HFT (High-Frequency Trading) era has started.
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You Can Be Active with the Activists or Sleeping with the Sleepers: Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow | Tor.com - 0 views

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    "You Can Be Active with the Activists or Sleeping with the Sleepers: Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow" Another book by Cory Doctorow - and I'm still busy reading Makers! Stefan Raets discusses the Doctorow's Youthful Techno-Defiance Trilogy: 'From Little Brother (tech-savvy teenagers take on a government-run surveillance system) to For the Win (tech-savvy teenagers take on unfair working conditions for MMORPG gold farmers) to now Pirate Cinema (tech-savvy teenagers take on draconian copyright laws).'
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The Lisbon Council - Publication - 0 views

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    n a forceful, hard-hitting policy brief, Executive Director Ann Mettler and Senior Fellow Anthony Williams look at the deep-seated changes afoot in our economy.
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What Export-Oriented America Means - Tyler Cowen - The American Interest Magazine - 0 views

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    L et's first take a step back and see where these new American exports will be coming from. At least three forces are likely to combine to make the United States an export powerhouse.
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Mark Vanderbeeken: The English Language Innovation Bias | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com - 0 views

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    *This piece was originally published, in Italian, in the exceedingly innovative (and very Italian) website "Che Futuro." *As somebody who spends a lot of time in non-Anglophone countries, this is a situation that I see commonly. I rarely see it as well-described as this.
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Scalable Living: changes you can make to be more productive - Scobleizer - 0 views

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    I've been going through lots of changes behind the scenes that is leading me down a new path I call "scalable living."
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Border Control - The New Inquiry - 0 views

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    New Inquiry Senior Editor Malcolm Harris talked with artist Alex Rivera. The writer-director of the 2008 sci-film Sleep Dealer, Rivera has been working with drones since the 1990s, when he piloted a small quad-copter called the Low Drone back and forth over the Mexican-American border.
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ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media - 0 views

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    "As streams of information become more popular on the Web, we need better ways to consume and manage them."
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Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think - Forbes - 0 views

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    We humans are naturally inclined to fear the worst. Peter H. Diamandis tries to ignore that tendency and looks at the future. 
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The temporary, pop-up corporation « BuzzMachine - 0 views

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    So what if corporations more and more become short-lived enterprises? What would that mean?
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