What is Happening Today at the Disruptive Innovation Festival ?
Headline Act: “The Values Behind the Circular Economy” with George Lakoff We take how we think, and how we take decisions for granted. For the most part we are wrong. It’s the point that Professor Lakoff will make in his headline act on Tuesday at 17:00 GMT. A world renowned expert in cognitive science and […]
Magic Leap: Bringing Magic to Your Life
Augmented reality startup making virtual objects appear in real life
The New Wave of Wearables
Wearables are starting to become a daily part of life for some. We are mostly aware of devices like Apple Watch, and the rather unsuccessful Google Glass. But now a new wave of wearables is emerging that are worn on the inside rather than the out. Recently Mike Edelhart reported on a variety of new […]
One day, Work Will Be Illegal Part 2
Imagining a world where jobs don’t exist anymore
One Day Work Will Become Illegal Part 1
It could sound a bit strange in 2015 to entitle and article with such a disruptive implication such as “work will become illegal”. But in a certain way, the scenario of “no work” is not really something to be afraid off, if one considers “work” from an historical point of view. Today, almost all the […]
Technology Tipping Points: How Software Has the Potential to Drastically Change Our Lives
Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact : A World Economic Forum report
What Will The Future Look Like ?
Five Futurists Forecasting the Future
Deep Learning: What Happens When Computers Can Learn Faster Than Humans?
Deep Learning is an unimaginable innovation that might be soon disrupting various industries. Deep learning is a technique by which machines are able to learn, and in particular, recognise voice and images more effectively than they do at the current time. According to the website www.deaplearning.net, deep learning is a new area of Machine Learning […]
Summer Lovin’: Beach Reads for Your iPhone
If you are already familiar with reading on your iPhone then the Nook reading app will be no stranger to you. With summer coming just around the corner and you’re ready to get your summer reading on with the NOOK best reading apps for iPhone, what is better than planning your beach reads? With more […]
Six Sci-Fi Disruptive Technologies That Will Turn The World Upside Down
Technology is changing the world as we know it. We all know it and have experienced incredible change over the last 20 years with the advent of the internet, and the subsequent development of ecommerce, social media and mobile technologies. Yet these are not the only disruptive technologies that are set to change our lives. […]
A Journey Day In The Life Of Joe The Robot. April 2027
In-View-Hosted-by-Larry-King-and-the-Home-of-the-Future Some humans call me Joe, but my true name is B29XR7Y. I am a humanoid of the Fourth Generation. It has been a long evolution among us robots. First, were the industrial robots, like the ones that build cars. Second came the domestic robots, which helped the humans directly, like the ones that clean […]
7 Quotes By Raymond Kurzweil : The Singularity Futurist
The Future Will Be Singularity
Ten Algorithms That Are Ruling Our Lives
Whether you realise it or not, algorithms have changed our lives and dominate our worlds. We rely on algorithms for some of the most basic tasks that we carry out online. From simply typing keywords into a search engine to seeing what appears in online recommendations, all of this is controlled by algorithms. Even our […]
What Will Our Digital Life Be Like In 2025 ?
With the Internet of Things and the Internet of Everything just around the corner our digital lives are about to transform. Connectivity will soon be all around us all of the time. This led to the Pew Research Institute looking into how our lives are about to change. The research was performed by surveying 2,558 […]
Nine Disruptive Technologies Changing The World
Change is pretty much a constant state of affairs in the 21st century, and in no area is this truer than that of technological development. Technology has swept aside vast, powerful established industries, transforming them fundamentally in just a few years. Take, for example, the way that music has changed, moving from LPs to CDs […]
The Intelligent Series On the Robot Economy Part 1
Algorithms, AI, Robots, And A World Without “Work”
Are You Prepared for The Robot Economy ? part 1
Review of book ” Our work here is done. Visions of a robot economy” published by Nesta
Innovations in 3D Printing
3D printing may seem like a science fiction fantasy to some, but in fact significant strides have been made in recent years towards developing 3D printing solutions. There has been a focus on creating 3D printers that are priced effectively for regular people to be able to afford them. 3D printing is being developed to […]
How To Map Human Knowledge By Following 7 Quotes By Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager, that is widely known as an outspoken libertarian. Contradictorily, when interviewed, Thiel speaks calmly by carefully, to carefully think about what he will say. Thiel cofounded PayPal, and was Facebook’s first outside investor, which transformed him into a billionaire when the company went public. Peter also helped […]
Building The Noah Archive Of The Mind: The Human Brain Project
To understand the human brain is one of the greatest challenges and desires of current 21st century science. How would it be like if we could look inside the human brain, zooming in to it as if it was a “Google maps” of the brain ? If we were able to translate in a visual […]
With Paper, Facebook reimagines itself
Last Wednesday, Facebook’s shares hit an all-time high, resulting in the social network being valued at over US$150 billion. Facebook’s chief operations officer Sheryl Sandberg also saw her personal fortunes increased to well over US$1 billion with Facebook shares words over US$700 million. While the market has responded favourably to Facebook’s fortunes, the speculation that […]
2013 Entrepreneur of the Year awarded to Med-Tech, Startup CEO
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker Entrepreneurism not only requires passion and vision, but demands fundraising persistence in today’s challenging economic times. The Business Intelligence Group, creators of the BIG Awards, was founded with a mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business […]
CIPD debate:The future trends that will shape work
The world’s is evolving and changing faster than work can keep up, warns the CIPD as it launches debate on the future trends that will shape work and working lives. This should come as little suprise given the pace that technology is evolving. A number of “Megatrends” over the last century have changed the world […]
