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How Social Robots Will Become Part of Our Lives

Patrick Hanlon Thinktopia
July 15, 2014
We are entering a new era of technological connectivity. We already have smart products, and wearable devices, and the Internet of Things.
Now there are robots, too.

Actually, this is not new either. Robots have been used in manufacturing for the last two decades, lumbering back and forth between assembly points, dropping off raw materials, or delivering assembly parts and final products.

Time to Reinvent Business-Education Partnerships in America

Jan W Rivkin Harvard Business School
July 14, 2014

Today, business leaders support schools through efforts that are generous, well-intended, effective at alleviating the symptoms of a weak educational system, but fundamentally inadequate for helping to strengthen the system. Consequently, it’s time for America’s business leaders to reinvent how they partner with educators to support our students and improve our schools. That is the central message emerging from a year-long study by the faculty of Harvard Business School’s U.S.

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Three Ways Companies Can Improve Trust in Data

Naveen Menon A T Kearney
July 11, 2014
Strengthening trust in the use of personal data has become a priority for policy-makers and business leaders. A recent survey by the telecoms operator Orange shows that an overwhelming 78 percent of consumers think that it is hard to trust companies with personal data, and that service providers hold too much information about them.
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Should Doctors Embrace Wearable Technology?

Dr Peter D Weiss Rodeo Drive Womens Health Clinic
Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
July 10, 2014
Today, wearable technology is not geared toward the medical profession, but focused on the “quantified self” movement and individuals interested in their overall health.
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A Chance to Boost Green Tech on Global Level

Jake Colvin National Foreign Trade Council
July 09, 2014
What if you could eliminate taxes of up to 35 percent on environmental technologies?
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Algorithms and Automation Will Give Us More Freedom and Control

Daniel Castroinformation Technology And Innovation Foundation
July 08, 2014
Thermostats that automatically adjust the heating and cooling based on a home’s occupancy. Cars that automatically brake to avoid collisions, like when a child runs into the street.

Access to Quality—The New Education Gap

Brian K Bridges United Negro College Fund
Deborah A Elam GE
July 07, 2014

Despite all-time highs for graduation rates, significant education gaps still persist. We have seen improvements in equal access to elementary and secondary education, yet there is still more that needs to be done to increase opportunities for students to attend college by better preparing them for post-secondary education.

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Confronting the ‘Blood Money’ of Conflict Minerals

July 04, 2014
If you’ve texted, chatted, computed, flown, opened a fridge or put on jewelry today, chances are good you’ve come in contact with one of the “conflict minerals”—tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—used to fund the bloody 18-year-old war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The war has killed an estimated 5 million people since the turn of the century and is characterized by the worst kinds of human rights abuses, rape as a weapon and the recruitment of child soldiers.
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What is a National Innovation System and Why Does it Matter?

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
July 03, 2014
In the conventional view, innovation is something that just takes place idiosyncratically in “Silicon Valley garages” and research and development (R&D) laboratories. But in fact, innovation activities are best understood as being embedded in a broader national innovation system (NIS), which is central to innovation-based growth and the ultimate health of an economy.
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Drive Innovation and Profits By Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Suzanne Apple World Wildlife Fund
July 02, 2014
Climate change presents a real economic liability of increased risks to growth and productivity of American business. However, the silver lining in all the dire news about climate change is the opportunity for the private sector to not only quell the rising tide, but do it profitably.
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