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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.
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Curiosity Didn’t Kill The Cat, It Created The Mousetrap

Patrick Hanlon Thinktopia
April 30, 2014
Chimpanzees do it. Birds do it. Rubberneckers do it.
“Everybody is curious,” declares Dr. Henry Weisinger, author of the bestseller Nobody’s Perfect. “It’s an instinct that is hard-wired. To explore or investigate our environment is life-enhancing. Organizations interested in what their people are doing, are more resonant. On an individual and organizational basis, people need to ask themselves, when was the last time they did something to spark their interest?”
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Forget Innovation, Who Is Your Chief Disruption Officer?

Patrick Hanlon Thinktopia
April 08, 2014
I am sitting in the back seat of a taxicab in New York City. The traffic is Midtown, stuck bumper to bumper.
“Everything is turned upside down!” the cabbie shouts, pumping his arm up and down in the air. “Five years ago it was not like this!” he cries.

The taxi driver is not talking about Midtown Manhattan traffic. He is from Alexandria. Not the Alexandria we know on the Washington Beltway, but the Alexandria in Egypt, named after Alexander the Great.
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