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Could Solar Power The Next Industrial Revolution?

The Horizons Tracker

This growth has been driven by the tremendous technological strides made by solar power. For instance, Hello World , one of the finalists in the recent MIT Solve competition aims to use solar power to build Wi-Fi education hubs in parts of the world that lack access to both energy and the internet. Sharing the wealth.

Industry 121
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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. Both revolutions were about the potential of new experimentation tools, processes, and cultures and what companies should do to unlock their power.

Power 95
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The Global Fight For Cloud Supremacy

The Horizons Tracker

leading to a projected market of $331 billion by 2022. Cloud computing powers everything from Spotify to Netflix, from the apps on our phones to the applications we use at work. A key strength for AWS in these early days was that their offering was built out of technology that they were developing for internal needs.

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Amazing AI Facts That Could Change The World

Strategy Driven

It is a wonderful and unique technology that can transform our lives as well as business ideas. AI continues to be a growing source of startups and as technology evolves it will continue to grow. 84% of enterprises believe in the competitive power of AI resources for their empire. By 2025, revenue from AI projects will be $31.2

Banking 74
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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

Osborne 79
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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. If you can’t step away from technology completely during work, consider limiting how often you check email.

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5 Must-Read Books For Business Leaders For Summer 2013

Eric Jacobson

Stories are so powerful because they are simple, timeless, demographic-proof, contagious, easy to remember and inspiring. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode.

Books 56