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While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known anything else and would never really feel whole because of it. Over
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In 2011, the NASSCOM team introduced me to Aloke Bajpai, who, like others on his young team, cut his teeth working for Western technology companies but returned to India on a bet that he could start something--he just didn't know what. The result was Ixigo.com, a travel search service that can run on the cheapest cell phones and helps Indians book the lowest-cost fares, whether it is a farmer who wants to go by bus or train for a few rupees..
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Social media is good for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building; good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction; fantastic for generating a flash mob, but not so good at generating a flash consensus on a party platform or a constitution.
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So, at a minimum, our educational systems must be retooled to maximize these needed skills and attributes: strong fundamentals in writing, reading, coding, and math; creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration; grit, self-motivation, and lifelong learning habits; and entrepreneurship and improvisation--at every level. The
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Successful students had one or more teachers who were mentors and took a real interest in their aspirations, and they had an internship related to what they were learning in school. The most engaged employees, said Busteed, consistently attributed their success in the workplace to having had a professor or professors "who cared about them as a person," or having had "a mentor who encouraged their goals and dreams," or"
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When I asked the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, "Is God in cyberspace?" he joked at first that God must be in cyberspace because every time he is in the London subway, "I hear people saying into their cell phones, 'Oh God, why doesn't this work!'" Here"
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observes the veteran international pollster Craig Charney, that while the Internet "improves the ability to connect, it is no substitute for political organizations, culture, or leadership--and spontaneous movements tend to be weakest in all of these." Many Arab Awakening efforts ultimately failed because they could not build an organization and politics that could translate their progressive ideas into a governing majority."
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It costs about two thousand dollars just to hire someone, so our preference always is to use our internal employees. It is more cost-effective and will generate more employee engagement and productivity, which means employees will go the extra mile so customers will be served better and shareholder value will increase. The companies with the most highly engaged workforces earn three times those with less. But
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so anyone can drill into anyone else's past with a few thumb clicks on a PalmPilot.
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What all these stories have in common is that the algorithms were in charge--not people, not ethics, and certainly not God. What all of these stories also have in common is the fact that a number of technological forces came together to create an exponential step change in the power of men and machines--much faster than we have reshaped ourselves as human beings, much faster than we have been able to reshape our institutions, our laws, and ..
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The problem was, they had no beds, but Gebbia did have three air mattresses. "So we inflated them and called ourselves 'Airbed and Breakfast.' Three people stayed with us, and we charged them eighty dollars a night. We also made breakfast for them and became their local guides," Chesky, thirty-four, explained. In the process, they made enough money to cover the rent. More important, though, they discovered a bigger idea that has since bloss..
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So Egypt, a country where nearly half the population lived on two dollars a day and at least 12 percent of the population, and far more young people, were unemployed, found itself suddenly competing in a world where a country half a world away could make its national icons into an ashtray or a honking-humped camel, ship them transcontinentally, and still make a profit more efficiently than Egyptians could.
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best questions. "The world of the designer changes," explains Bass, "from the form maker to the person that creates the goals and the constraints of the object to be designed--[and that person] then no longer creates the designs, but selects the design from a landscape of possibilities. We're going from what was once a point solution to more of a collaboration [between man and machine], because with the computer's help, the designer is now ..
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Japan, a country that had done its best to have no contact with strangers and to seal out the rest of the world. Its economy and politics were dominated by feudal agriculture and a Confucian hierarchical social structure, and they were steadily declining. Merchants were the lowest social class, and trading with foreigners was actually forbidden except for limited contact with China and the Dutch. But then Japan had an unexpected encounter w..
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faster. As I was closing this book, Walmart announced that to upgrade its ability to compete in e-commerce with Amazon--which still does eight times Walmart's sales online--it was buying Jet, a year-old Internet retail startup. The Economist reported on August 13, 2016, that Jet's appeal to Walmart was its "real-time pricing algorithm, which tempts customers with lower prices if they add more items to their basket. The algorithm also identi..
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Mother Nature is not a living being, but she is a biogeophysical, rationally functioning, complex system of oceans, atmosphere, forests, rivers, soils, plants, and animals that has evolved on Planet Earth since the first hints of life emerged. She has survived the worst of times and thrived in the best of them for nearly four billion years by learning to absorb endless shocks, climate changes, surprises, and even an asteroid or two. That al..
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For the same reason, added McKinsey, "products can go viral on a scale that has never been seen before. In 2015, Adele's song 'Hello' racked up fifty million views on YouTube in its first forty-eight hours, and her album 25 sold a record 3.38 million copies in the United States in its first week alone, more than any other album in history. In 2012, Michelle Obama wore a dress from British online fashion retailer ASOS in a photo that was re-..
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Internet of Things Foundry" in Dallas, an innovation shop full of network engineers. They invited customers in with this proposition, explained Vice Chairman Ralph de la Vega: "Tell us what problem you want us to solve, and we commit that within two weeks we'll give you a prototype solution for you that works on a real live network ... Every time we do this, it results in a contract." So, for instance, the global shipping giant Maersk neede..
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President Vladimir Putin has evolved a "hybrid foreign policy, a strategy that mixes normal diplomacy, military force, economic corruption and a high-tech information war." Indeed, on any given day, the United States has found itself dealing with everything from cyberattacks by Russian intelligence hackers on the computer systems of the U.S. Democratic Party, to disinformation about what Russian troops, dressed in civilian clothes, are doin..
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I asked him what he did. He said his name was John Lord and that he was in the software business. "What kind of software?" I asked. He said that his company's goal was to make "lawyers obsolete" wherever possible by creating software applications that enable individuals to do more and more legal work without the aid of an attorney. Indeed, Neota Logic, his company, says that its goal is to massively improve access to advice and justice for ..
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Our employee engagement surveys showed a 30 percent improvement in lost sick days in one year. People are calling in sick less because they are feeling more empowered, more of a sense of ownership, and more connected." Jump-Starting"
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Google released the basic algorithms for a program called TensorFlow for public consumption by the open-source community. TensorFlow is a set of algorithms that enable fast computers to do "deep learning" with big data sets to perform tasks better than a human brain. "By January 2016 we had a course online on how to use the TensorFlow open-source platform to write deep learning algorithms to teach a machine to do anything--copyediting, flyi..
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The supernova is enabling a deeper revolution that is just beginning, spurred by learning platforms such as Udacity, edX, and Coursera, that will change the very metabolism and shape of higher education and, one hopes, lift the adaptability line in the way that
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To graduate, Miller added, all Olin students "must complete a yearlong engineering design project in small teams with a corporate sponsor that provides financial support for each project. The projects require a corporate liaison engineer and often involve nondisclosure agreements and new product development." Olin"
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It happened in 2006 when the company's COO and soon-to-be CEO, Randall Stephenson, quietly struck a deal with Steve Jobs for AT&T to be the exclusive service provider in the United States for this new thing called the iPhone. Stephenson knew that this deal would stretch the capacity of AT&T's networks, but he didn't know the half of it. The iPhone came on so fast, and the need for capacity exploded so massively with the apps revolution, tha..
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Rabbi Marx pointed out to me that there is a verse in Isaiah that says, "You are my witness. I am the Lord,"
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In my two memos to Bojia I explained that there is no set formula for writing a column, no class you attend, and that everyone does it differently to some degree. But there were some general guidelines I could offer. When you are a reporter, your focus is on digging up facts to explain the visible and the complex and to unearth and expose the impenetrable and the hidden--wherever that takes you. You are there to inform, without fear or favo..
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Los flujos de informacion y conocimiento resultantes estan haciendo que el mundo no solo este interconectado e hiperconectado, sino que sea tambien interdependiente: todo el mundo en todas partes es ahora mas vulnerable ante las acciones de cualquiera en cualquier parte.
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Sustainability is today's freedom crusade, because the next generation will not live free--will not have the freedom to pursue its economic dreams or to delight in all that nature has to offer--if our approach to the financial world and the natural are not grounded in sustainable values. That lack of sustainability will constrict everything in our lives. It will limit everything we might want to do. Unless we become less dependent on hydroc..
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El argumento central de este libro es que estas aceleraciones simultaneas en el Mercado, la Madre Naturaleza y la ley de Moore juntas constituyen la <>, en la cual nos encontramos ahora.
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At heart, this perfect storm involves the collision of an older generation of American engineers and scientists who are retiring at the same time that a younger generation is not stepping into their shoes in sufficient numbers--and at the same time that the foreigners who used to make up the difference are either staying home or being kept out of America for security reasons.
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According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Applying this theoretical concept to us as individuals, we can state that the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physi..
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In the twenty-first century, knowing all the answers won't distinguish someone's intelligence--rather, the ability to ask all the right questions will be the mark of true genius.
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Would you buy a used car from your occupier? For the first six months of the intifada, Ehud Gol was the official Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman. Every day he had to go before the world's press and defend Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. But in the spring of 1988, Gol was made the Israeli Consul General in Rio de Janeiro and he had to sell his car before he left the country. Practically the first place he went was to a Palestinian..
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The world is not just rapidly changing," adds Dov Seidman, "it is being dramatically reshaped--it is starting to operate differently"
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Warren Buffett: <>.
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A failure is a circumstance not yet fully turned to your advantage.")"
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Disruption' is what happens when someone does something clever that makes you or your company look obsolete. 'Dislocation' is when the whole environment is being altered so quickly that everyone starts to feel they can't keep up.
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Let's get one thing straight: The robots are not destined to take all the jobs. That happens only if we let them--if we don't accelerate innovation in the labor/education/start-up realms, if we don't reimagine the whole conveyor belt from primary education to work to lifelong learning.
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Indeed, there is a mismatch between the change in the pace of change and our ability to develop the learning systems, training systems, management systems, social safety nets, and government regulations that would enable citizens to get the most out of these accelerations and cushion their worst impacts.
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So what then is "climate change"? As the WMO defines it, "climate change refers to a statistically significant variation in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for an extended period (typically decades or longer)." The important thing to keep in mind here is that the climate changes because it is forced to change. And it is forced to change either by natural forces or by forces introduced by mankind. In ot..
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heart, it's driven by a deep human desire for collaboration and a deep human desire for recognition and affirmation of work well done--not financial reward. It is amazing how much value you can create with the words "Hey, what you added is really cool. Nice job. Way to go!" Millions of hours of free labor are being unlocked by tapping into people's innate desires to innovate, share, and be recognized for it."
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How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.
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set myself the task of starting with a blank sheet of paper and asking not what it means to be a "conservative" or a "liberal" today (frankly, who cares?) but rather how we maximize the resilience and self-propulsion of every citizen and community in America--that is, their ability to both absorb shocks and keep progressing in this age of accelerations. It is a different approach to politics--a necessary one, I believe--and it yields a poli..
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