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Sir Ken Robinson put it in his excellent book Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, was subject to the division of labor: "Like an assembly line, students progressed from room to room to be taught by different teachers specializing in separate disciplines." --
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for entrepreneurs interested in building Watson-backed business, Cane was stunned by how easy it was to work with IBM. "They provided so much support and guidance," he explains, "that we were able to build our entire Watson-powered prototype in two weeks."
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By 2020, a chip with today's processing power will cost about a penny," CUNY theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explained in a recent article for Big Think,23 "which is the cost of scrap paper. . . . Children are going to look back and wonder how we could have possibly lived in such a meager world, much as when we think about how our own parents lacked the luxuries--cell phone, Internet--that we all seem to take for granted." --
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Just three or four decades ago, if you wanted to access a thousand core processors, you'd need to be the chairman of MIT's computer science department or the secretary of the US Defense Department. Today the average chip in your cell phone can perform about a billion calculations per second. Yet today has nothing on tomorrow. "By 2020, a chip with today's processing power will cost about a penny," CUNY theoretical physicist Michio Kaku expl..
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Matt Ridley elaborates: "'If I sew you a hide tunic today, you can sew me one tomorrow' brings limited rewards and diminishing returns. '[But] ... I make the clothes, you catch the food' brings increasing returns. Indeed, it has the beautiful property that it does not even need to be fair. For barter to work, two individuals do not need to offer things of equal value. Trade is often unequal but..
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