Perspectives
Teaching Our Kids to Be Job Creators — Q&A with 1776 Co-founder Donna Harris
The co-founder of the D.C. incubator talks about the importance of encouraging people to think the “entrepreneurial way.”
There are myriad problems worth addressing in the world, with just as many potential solutions. While the not-for-profit model is commonly used to tackle these kinds of far-reaching issues, there’s another, more effective means of attacking them, argues Donna Harris.
Grayson Brulte: Industrial Wearables — A Fashion Statement on the Future of Work
Smart gloves and glasses, in tandem with the Industrial Internet, hold the potential to transform how workers interact with machines.
Makers Playground — Stimulating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs in Brussels
As Europe’s youth search for employment and acquiring the skills of the future, GE Garages provides pop-up learning lab on modern manufacturing.
There’s a lot of buzz — and even more noise and smell — in this room here in the centre of Brussels. Cutting-edge machinery produces colourful, imaginative items, and there are big smiles on the faces of the young designers tooling away at their creations. Operating the high-tech equipment are mostly students, who have come to get hands on with the manufacturing equipment at GE’s Garage in the Belgian capital.
John Zegers: 6 Ways 2015 Will Be a Landmark Year for Manufacturing
Transformative changes brought on by Big Data, the Internet of Things and the natural gas boom point to a U.S. manufacturing resurgence.
The face of manufacturing in America has undergone more woeful changes than many of us in the industry care to remember. The recent past has been particularly painful, with economic downturns driving manufacturing overseas to take advantage of lower labor costs, and a generally depressed level of manufacturing activity becoming the norm.
Jan De Coster: The Robot Soul
My name had come up because I have made several interactive installations at BBDO that had gotten some attention in the industry. My head was still filled with characters from the conference, so even though I had no idea what I was getting myself into, the only possible answer was: “Sure.”
Subra Suresh: Integrated Intelligence — Bridging Humanity and Technology for the World
Expect Big Science Projects in 2015, International Year of Light
The calendar should be chock-full of big announcements and exciting events. From designing genomes to exploring the outer reaches of our solar system, from a major push into developing targeted medicines to serious investments in materials science and understanding the fundamental mechanics of the universe, there will be no shortage of significant news.
Keep an eye out for these projects happening this year:
Space
2015 — A Big Year for Big Data
T.J. Kneale: 2015 — The Rise of Democratization
