The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

That’s one of the reasons that a tool like mnemonics works. ’” Self-explaining should go into the learning tool kit of workers today, as the economy places new demands on making connections and adopting new insights and skills. Seeing connections helps improve memory.

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