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Report: Energy Boom Igniting US Urban Manufacturing Through 2020

March 24, 2014
Cheap energy will power a jobs surge in U.S. manufacturing through the year 2020, with 72 percent of those jobs going to metropolitan areas, according to a new report.
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Want to Avoid Being Replaced by a Robot? Here's What You Need To Know

Greg Satell
March 21, 2014
Ever since 1962, when the first industrial robot was installed on an assembly line at a General Motors plant in New Jersey, machines have been replacing human workers.  In the decades that came after, just about every industry became automated to a greater or lesser extent.
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Trading Up: Being Small and Going Global

Kati Suominen
March 20, 2014
As the global economy rebounds, companies around the world are seeking growth through exports. Only the next generation of exporters will not be companies that have matured in the domestic market, but rather “born global companies” that globalize out of the gates.
The costs of doing international business have never been as low; the opportunity never so great.
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Study: Investors Prefer Good Looking Men

Mit News
March 19, 2014
You can’t judge a startup by the looks of its founder — but many potential investors do.
That’s the upshot of a newly published study co-authored by MIT researchers, which shows that attractive men have disproportionate success in obtaining venture capital funding for startups, compared with women and with less physically appealing men.
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Thirsty Energy

World Bank
March 18, 2014
The Energy-Water Challenge
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The Water-Energy Nexus: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
March 18, 2014
The crucial water-energy nexus teeters on the precipice of global concern, where it has for too long been ignored or marginalized for the sake of short-term goals or shortsighted political agendas, according to experts across a wide array of disciplines, industry and non-governmental organizations.
Water and energy are the prime factors in a complex calculus that sustains life as we know it.  The two are inextricably linked.  Water is needed for almost all forms of energy production, and we need energy to treat and transport water. Both are needed to produce food.
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Making Fracking More Efficient With Prescriptive Analytics

Atanu Basu Ayata
March 17, 2014
It’s difficult to make fracking more efficient and safer at the same time, but we can hedge our bets using the advanced data technologies of “prescriptive analytics.”
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U.S. Giving Up Its Internet ‘Bodyguard’ Role

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
March 17, 2014
Last Friday the U.S. government indicated it’s giving up its traditional “bodyguard” role of Internet governance.
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After Two Decades, American Trade May Finally Get a Needed Upgrade

Robert Maxim Council On Foreign Relations
March 14, 2014
In 1989 the government of Singapore launched an innovative improvement to its trade infrastructure. The project, known as TradeNet, was a “single window” system that allowed exporters and importers to file trade documents and pay government fees through an electronic one-stop shop.
Four years later the United States began to create its own single window, the International Trade Data System (ITDS).
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Is the U.S. Government About to Give Away the Internet?

Daniel Castroinformation Technology And Innovation Foundation
March 14, 2014
A coalition of nations is calling for the U.S. to give up the reins of the Internet. And if the Obama Administration doesn’t aggressively resist these calls, the world could be faced with a splintered Internet that would stifle innovation, commerce, and the free flow and diversity of ideas that are bedrock tenets of world’s biggest economic engine.
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