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Marc Botte

In The Plex: How Google Changed Everything | Brain Pickings - 0 views

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  • The result is a fascinating journey into the soul, culture and technology of our silent second brain, from Page and Brin’s legendary eccentricities that shaped the company’s creative culture to the uncompromising engineering genius that underpins its services
  • What I discovered was a company exulting in creative disorganization, even if the creativity was not always as substantial as hoped for
francispisani

"The development of Smart Cities is only possible through the public-private partnershi... - 0 views

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  • During the session “Case Studies: European Smart Cities”, representatives of various European companies and institutions have announced major projects applied to smart cities. The session, moderated by the head of R&D&I Mobility and Energy of Barcelona Digital, Marc Torrent, has been participated by the Director of Communication and Information System of the City of Barcelona, ​​Marta Continente; the Malta SmartCity CEO Fareed Abdulrahman; the Director of Ecological Solutions of Living PlanIT in Portugal, Melissa Mazzarella; and the Project Manager of Amsterdam Innovation Motor, at Amsterdam SmartCity, Gjis van Rijn.
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A Theory of Everyting (Sort of) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • All of this is happening at a time when this same globalization/I.T. revolution enables the globalization of anger, with all of these demonstrations now inspiring each other. Some Israeli protestors carried a sign: “Walk Like an Egyptian.” While these social protests — and their flash-mob, criminal mutations like those in London — are not caused by new technologies per se, they are fueled by them.
  • So let’s review: We are increasingly taking easy credit, routine work and government jobs and entitlements away from the middle class — at a time when it takes more skill to get and hold a decent job, at a time when citizens have more access to media to organize, protest and challenge authority and at a time when this same merger of globalization and I.T. is creating huge wages for people with global skills (or for those who learn to game the system and get access to money, monopolies or government contracts by being close to those in power) — thus widening income gaps and fueling resentments even more. Put it all together and you have today’s front-page news.
  • the world has gone from connected to hyper-connected.
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  • “We are fighting for an accessible future.”
  • This is the single most important trend in the world today.
  • The merger of globalization and I.T. is driving huge productivity gains, especially in recessionary times, where employers are finding it easier, cheaper and more necessary than ever to replace labor with machines, computers, robots and talented foreign workers. It used to be that only cheap foreign manual labor was easily available; now cheap foreign genius is easily available
  • francispisani on 14 Aug 11
     
    The merger of globalization and I.T. is driving huge productivity gains, especially in recessionary times, where employers are finding it easier, cheaper and more necessary than ever to replace labor with machines, computers, robots and talented foreign workers. It used to be that only cheap foreign manual labor was easily available; now cheap foreign genius is easily available.
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Productivity in Latin America: City limits | The Economist - 0 views

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    FOUR out of five Latin Americans live in cities, compared with fewer than half of Asians or Africans. The region's 198 biggest cities-those with more than 200,000 people-account for 60% of its economic output, with the ten largest alone generating half of that. The productivity gains that flow from bringing people together in cities have been one of the drivers of economic growth in Latin America over the past half century or more. But congestion, housing shortages, pollution and a lack of urban planning mean that Latin America's biggest cities now risk dragging down their country's economies, according to a report* by the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of McKinsey, a firm of management consultants.
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