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Davos in the Age of Miracles
If you’re ever looking for a reason to go to Switzerland in the winter, here’s one: admiring the local railroad system.Two years ago, I got off a train at Zurich airport, and a few minutes later...
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Innovation Barometer: Businesses Disruption-Ready, in Right Conditions
Our world is changing faster than ever. The marriage of digital and physical technologies is accelerating change in industry; the rise of the Global Brain with crowdsourcing and open-source...
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Design-Driven Innovations — An End to Extreme Poverty
Attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, I’m excited to be involved in all the incredible sessions centered around the “new global context” and future decision-making given technological...
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Investing in the Future of Electricity
The world is in the midst of a major power shift. Not political power, but actual electricity power being generated by an increasingly diverse and distributed range of sources — from natural gas to...
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The Path Toward Trusted Innovation
The pace of change has never been faster than it is today, and simultaneously, innovation has become an even greater imperative for success. Against this backdrop comes a surprising finding: the pace...
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The Challenges of World Connectivity — Q&A with Douglas L. Peterson
Technological advances and globalization have helped unleash innovation and bring people around the world together. Yet a more connected world also causes tensions — between nations, cultures and...
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Integrated Intelligence — Bridging Humanity and Technology for the World
This week, in a meeting unlike any other of its kind, leaders from across the globe come together to address the reality of transformative change in our world. Political, economic and social change,...
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Davos — What Is It Good For?
It’s hard to arrive in Davos this year for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) without some unease. Anyone paying attention over the past year knows that there is no shortage of anxiety-inducing...
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The Robot Soul
One day in April 2012 when I returned from the Pictoplasma Character Design conference in Berlin, I got a phone call from the agency Boondoggle. Their question was very simple, yet it held all the...
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The Globalization of Entertainment
The entertainment industry — like so many others — is undergoing enormous changes as a result of globalization and the extraordinary growth of the worldwide middle class.The impact of globalization on...
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Why 2015 Will Be the Year of Sustainability
2015 will be an historic year for the United Nations. The Organization will celebrate its 70th anniversary, offering a chance to look back on its contributions to peace, human rights and development...
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Powering a Smarter, Greener Marine Industry
The challenges facing the marine business could make any ship captain double check their bearings — industry uncertainty and the need to go further and deeper in harsher conditions to meet customer...
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Predicting the Fortunes of the Shipping Industry
Because shipping can reflect trends in growth and demand across the globe, it gives us clues about the health and direction of the global economy. But demand isn’t the only factor affecting the...
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Making Green Projects ‘Greener’
Trillions of dollars need to be invested in power over the next two decades. Here’s how to make emissions-reducing projects more attractive.Over the course of 2015, large parts of the energy and...
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GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting, Day 1 Recap — Tackling Sustainability and...
Kicking off the first customer day of the GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting, Lorenzo Simonelli, president and CEO of GE Oil & Gas, set the tone by outlining two key industry challenges:...
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Fueling the Future — Q&A with Lorenzo Simonelli
Beyond headlines about oil prices, innovation is helping to bring about a more efficient oil and gas industry.The oil and gas industry is experiencing a transformation, one that is broader and more...
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Don’t Worry About Low Oil Prices
How shifts in energy markets present an opportunity to invest in a sustainable future.Lower oil prices will likely be with us for the next several years, given how market cycles tend to have lags. The...
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3 Economic Forces Shaping 2015, Explained
It’s barely February, but uncertainty has pervaded the global economy this year. Here’s what’s driving it, and what to expect next.2015 has kicked off with an unusually high level of uncertainty...
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How Can We Achieve a Low-Carbon, High-Energy Future?
The energy system is at the beginning of an inevitable transition, driven by numerous convergences: growing prosperity, changes in resource availability and technology and cost developments, to name...
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A Brief History of Peak Oil
How technological advances in exploration and production have pushed back the date when oil output will max out, creating an opportunity for the development of alternative energy sources.With apologies...
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