Healthcare's New Home: Everywhere
”I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it,” said Jeanne Calment, who died of natural causes at age 122 as the oldest person on record in 1997.While you can argue the actual number of...
View ArticleBend It Like a Start-Up
When Regina Dugan, former director of DARPA, took to the stage at the 2013 All Things Digital conference in California, it was to explain how she planned to bring fresh thinking to Google-owned...
View ArticleInnovation Can Deliver Skills for MENAT Region’s Future
One of the most striking results of the GE 2014 Global Innovation Barometer is the extent to which the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey region (MENAT) is ready to embrace innovation.Two MENAT...
View ArticleInnovation’s Neural Paradox
Great innovations often seem stunningly simple and obvious…after the fact. Innovation happens, according to Matt Ridley, “when ideas have sex.” But why don’t more interesting ideas find ways to attract...
View ArticleHelping Drones Colonize the World — Q&A with Chris Anderson
The U.S. government is expected to allow commercial drone operations in 2015, which has already helped to spark a burgeoning market for small, cheap robotic aircraft. Chris Anderson, former...
View ArticleImaging the Brain in Real-Time
Isaac Asimov described the human brain as “the most complicated organization of matter that we know.” Despite extraordinary advancements in multiple disciplines of science and technology over the last...
View ArticleSun-Powered Desalination for Villages in India
Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.Around the world, there is more salty groundwater than fresh, drinkable groundwater. For...
View ArticleData Driving the Future of Clean Tech
Clean tech may conjure images of electric vehicles and solar-powered homes, but it’s no longer just about stand-alone hardware technologies you can plug into the grid or drive on the road.Clean tech is...
View ArticleHow Can We Stay Smarter Than Machines?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the sum of many great human minds to apprehend the environment and make sound decisions to achieve success. To exist, AI needs to encapsulate three things: hardware,...
View ArticleHow to Get the Most Out of Your Industrial Assets
Every industry today is being transformed by the power of software and data, and expectations are high that Big Data will boost profits and give you a competitive advantage.Whatever your industry, you...
View ArticleHow Interconnectedness Is Creating a New Kind of Industrial Company
The convergence of the digital and the physical world spurred by the Industrial Internet and augmented by Advanced Manufacturing and the Global Brain is bringing a profound transformation to industry.A...
View ArticleHow Wireless Makes the Industrial Internet Work — Q&A With Mark Bartolomeo
The Industrial Internet is revolutionizing how businesses operate across a range of industries, with companies from railways to healthcare providers starting to reap the benefits of machine-to-machine...
View ArticleIndustrial Internet Insights — Q&A With Matt Reilly
There is a growing urgency for organizations to embrace Big Data analytics to advance their Industrial Internet strategy, according to a new report from Accenture and GE. However, less than one-third...
View ArticleWhy We’re Failing to Get the Most Out of Open Data
An unprecedented number of individuals and organizations are finding ways to explore, interpret and use Open Data. Public agencies are hosting Open Data events such as meetups, hackathons and data...
View ArticleAre India and China Ready to Lead on Trade?
India and China are giants on the world stage, with a combined population of 2.6 billion — more than one-third of humanity. Adjusted for purchasing power, their combined economic output tops $20...
View ArticleHow Data Will Power the Future of Energy
Throughout history, we’ve equated energy with the consumption of natural resources such as oil, natural gas or coal.In the coming decades we will start to think of data and software as a source of...
View ArticleCreating Value at High Internet Speeds
It has been 66 years since John Walson Sr. invented cable TV in America. Today, about 100 million U.S. households pay for TV, according to research firm SNL Kagan, or approximately 85 percent of all...
View ArticleThis Sim City Is Exploring the Future of Auto Transport
Though fully functional self-driving vehicles are considered another 10 years or so away from commercial viability, industry leaders are already preparing for what will surely revolutionize...
View ArticleProject ECHO Empowers Providers at the Frontlines of Care
One of the biggest challenges of primary healthcare is ensuring frontline providers receive necessary guidance for managing complex and chronic health problems, especially as advances in treatment...
View ArticleBusiness for Peace: We Know Why, But How?
We need just look at the world’s headlines to know that the global community continues to face serious problems with conflict and instability: from gangs in Central America to cross-border tensions in...
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