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Corinna Lathan: Imagining an Internet of Things — and People

Corinna Lathan Anthrotronix
March 12, 2015

Machine-to-machine communication will lead to increasing automation of traditional tasks. What will this mean for the role of the worker?

 

Technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are already impacting our lives, but they are poised to dramatically change our lives in the future.
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Rick Goings: It’s Not About Gender Parity, It’s About Good Business

Rick Goings Tupperware Brands
February 17, 2015

Closing the global gender gap will take another eight decades at this rate. We can’t afford to wait that long.

 

This is not an article about gender parity. It’s about running a good business and making a better world.
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Ban Ki-moon: Why 2015 Will Be the Year of Sustainability

Ban Ki Moon United Nations
January 28, 2015
2015 will be an historic year for the United Nations. The Organization will celebrate its 70th anniversary, offering a chance to look back on its contributions to peace, human rights and development since its creation in 1945. The year will also be an opportunity to look forward — and in particular how to ensure that people everywhere can thrive on our one and only planet. 2015 is when we will set our course for a sustainable future.
 
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Richard L. Gelfond: The Globalization of Entertainment

Richard L Gelfond Imax Corporation
January 27, 2015
The entertainment industry — like so many others — is undergoing enormous changes as a result of globalization and the extraordinary growth of the worldwide middle class.
 
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Tony Fratto: Davos — What Is It Good For?

Tony Fratto Hamilton Place Strategies
January 23, 2015
It’s hard to arrive in Davos this year for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) without some unease. Anyone paying attention over the past year knows that there is no shortage of anxiety-inducing challenges. We faced wars both hot and cold; terror attacks, cyber attacks and viral attacks; economic stagnation and uncertainty; and volatility in energy markets — to name a few.
 
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Subra Suresh: Integrated Intelligence — Bridging Humanity and Technology for the World

Subra Suresh Carnegie Mellon University
January 23, 2015
This week, in a meeting unlike any other of its kind, leaders from across the globe come together to address the reality of transformative change in our world. Political, economic and social change, and the opportunities and repercussions that result, will be among the hefty topics debated and discussed.
 
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The Challenges of World Connectivity — Q&A with Douglas L. Peterson

Douglas L Peterson Mcgraw Hill Financial Inc
January 22, 2015
Technological advances and globalization have helped unleash innovation and bring people around the world together. Yet a more connected world also causes tensions — between nations, cultures and businesses.
 
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Richard Edelman: The Path Toward Trusted Innovation

Richard Edelman Edelman
January 22, 2015
The pace of change has never been faster than it is today, and simultaneously, innovation has become an even greater imperative for success. Against this backdrop comes a surprising finding: the pace of development and change by business and industry today is too fast, say a majority of informed publics from around the world.
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Do You Know Where Your Power Comes From? New Report on the Future of Electricity Out at WEF in Davos

January 22, 2015

A new report released this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos estimates that members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will need to invest more than $7.6 trillion over the next 25 years to meet their energy policy goals, further reduce emissions and create a more sustainable system for producing electricity from renewables and cleaner fuels such as natural gas.

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Steve Bolze: Investing in the Future of Electricity

Steve Bolze GE
January 21, 2015

The world is in the midst of a major power shift. Not political power, but actual electricity power being generated by an increasingly diverse and distributed range of sources — from natural gas to renewables.

 
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