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How Chatbots Can Support University Education

The Horizons Tracker

This was prompting over half of respondents to consider changing career or retiring early. “Chatbot technology is a good innovation with the capabilities of improving not only teaching and learning but all other aspects of education,” the authors write. This is roughly double the number who reported the same in 2019.

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How Being A Generalist Can Help You Adapt And Innovate

The Horizons Tracker

This means that innovators are not necessarily inventing completely new things, but rather applying existing technologies in new ways. The researchers set out to explore what set the early adopters apart from their peers, and trawled through the database of academic papers held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Start a Business at Any Age

Skip Prichard

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Joan nurtured this avocation through her professional career, and slowly a theme emerged. Hold tight to your mission, values, and goals, but do not cling to your original assumptions about marketing and sales.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds.

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Prepare Your Workforce for the Automation Age

Harvard Business Review

The pace of robot adoption may surprise us, just as the internet spread more quickly than many anticipated. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Freeways full of driverless cars and beer trucks are still far off, because of technological and regulatory limitations. So early preparation is needed.

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Decades Ago, Pilots Learned to “Fly by Instruments.” Doctors Need to Do the Same

Harvard Business Review

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.