...Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3 Global Development………………………………………………………………..4 Technology in the 21st Century……………………………………………..4 Intelligence in the 21st Century……………………………………………..5 Artificial Intelligence and Modern Society……………………………………….....6 Advancements in Technology………………………………………………..7 Advancements in Human Education and Growth…………………………..8 Technology and its Role in Developing Human Minds…………………………..…9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………...10 References…………………………………………………………………………....11 Introduction During the onset of what has been dubbed the Digital Age, a debate has arisen over the ethical and developmental implications of technology and the dependence of the human world on Artificial Intelligence. This paper serves as an added voice to the debate of Artificial Intelligence versus the Human Mind. The fundamental question being addressed is that of whether the rapid technological advancements that have and are still being made are stifling the growth of human innovation. The realization that technology is increasingly becoming a huge facet in the day to day lives of billions of people around the globe makes it ever more necessary to evaluate how dependent the world will be on it in the near future. For example, technology is used to determine weather patterns, determining the direction the global economy is taking and so forth. So it is pertinent for an evaluation...
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...Analysis of Strategy Planning in Facilitating Intelligent Shop (I-shop) through Innovative Information Communication Technology Applications Paul T.Y. Tseng, Department of MIS, Tatung University, Taiwan Chen-Yen Yao, Technology and innovation Management, National Chengchi University, Taiwan ABSTRACT This research discusses the strategy of Information Communication Technology (ICT) innovation that applies to traditional convenient store and commercial presence for value creation and business model transformation in experienced economy era. This study aims to promote the ICT facilitating the sales of retail service industries and physical stores. Adopting the information technology in the shop and store where the end users do the physical trade. It provides the brand-new consuming experience for consumers, improves consumption quality, and stimulates consumption will and expending of the business. We conduct case study approach to analyze the purpose to implement innovation of intelligence shop and the design of the ICT applications, and how to adopt the ICT in the site of commerce presentation at present. Then sum up the innovative strategy applies the ICT to Intelligent Shop (I-shop).These can help retail business the basic decision of business strategy and business plan to improve the added value and innovation capability in this information age. Keyword: Intelligent Shop, Service Innovation, Information Communication Technology (ICT) INTRODUCTION In the era that the industrial...
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...Girardelli HIST 48G 08.04.2008 TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN Technology is one of the most important elements that a country must have. It makes life easier and leads people to a modern age. In history, there had been some countries which were more advanced in technology than the others. Japan was not one of these countries. Today, however, it is the leader of the world in technology and science. Japan was not a leader country in technology; it borrowed the knowledge and the machinery of the western world during the middle ages. For example, while developing optics the Western World provided many innovations for Japan. The arrival of the ‘peeping box’ is one of them. Those innovations were modified when they came into Japan because there were cultural differences. Usually the names of the foreign inventions were adapted to the Japan and their technical specifications also changed due to the fact that the Japanese’s use of them different from the others. When ‘peeping box’ became known in Japan, its name did not stay the same for the Japanese too. Timon Screech gives a clear example in his book: “The VOC register goes on the note that the Japanese referred to the novel box as a gocracqbaco, presumably gokuraku-bako, or ‘paradise box’ (119). Apart from optics there are also more serious subjects taken from the Western world; “In the latter half of Tokugawa period learning of Western natural science and medicine through Dutch books spread Emül 2 among intelligent samurai and merchants (Uchida)...
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...Things (IoT) has been recognized by industrial leaders and media as the next wave of innovation, and pervading into our daily life. Sensors around us are increasingly becoming more pervasive and attempt to fulfill end users’ needs, thus providing ease of usability in our everyday activities. Devices deployed in households, industrial automation, and smart city infrastructure are now interconnected with the Internet. This interconnection provides a whole range of data (environmental context, device status, energy usage, etc.) that can be collected, aggregated, and then shared in an efficient, secure, and privacy-aware manner. As these devices are connected to the Internet, they can be reached, and managed at any time and at any place. The current landscape of IoT is filled with a very diverse range of wireless communication technologies, such as IEEE 802.15.4, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE), and various other cellular communication technologies. Naturally, devices using different physical and link layers are not interoperable with each other. Through an Internet Protocol (IP) router, these devices are, however, able to communicate with the Internet. When the differences in the protocol stack extend beyond the physical and link layer, protocol translation needs to be performed by a gateway device. This harms the deployment of IoT devices because the deployment becomes more complex and expensive with multiple middle boxes along the end-to-end communication path...
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...EnBW Area of Activity EnBW has over 6 mln. customers. The core activities of EnBW are divided into three business areas: Electricity, Gas, and Energy and Environmental Services. The Electricity area is divided into Electricity generation and trading, and Electricity grid and sales divisions. It generates electricity from nuclear power, hydropower, solar power, geothermal energy and wind power, among others. In the area of electricity generation EnBW is one of the ten largest companies in Europe. In terms of the installed generation capacity as of the end of the fiscal year 2010, it was in eighth place. EDF has by far the largest generation capacities in France. With regard to Germany, EnBW is number three in electricity generation, after E.ON and RWE. Since 2009, EnBW has been involved in a joint venture to expand generation capacities in Turkey, primarily in the area of renewable energies. EnBW is one of the four transmission system operators in Germany and operates various grids in Baden-Württemberg. EnBW’s electricity distribution network has a total length of 162,101 km; the combined length of all of EnBW’s high, medium and low pressure gas grids comes to 17,984 km. In terms of the number of customers and unit sales, the EnBW group is the third largest electricity supplier in Germany. In its home market of Baden-Württemberg, EnBW is the market leader in the B2B and B2C customer groups. The national sales brand Yello supplies electricity to retail and business customers...
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...2 014 Next-shoring: A CEO’s guide Katy George, Sree Ramaswamy, and Lou Rassey Proximity to demand and innovative supply ecosystems will trump labor costs as technology transforms operations in the years ahead. The problem Demand for manufactured goods in emerging markets is surging and fragmenting as factor costs shift; technological advances, such as more powerful robotics and the Internet of Things, are creating a range of new opportunities for manufacturers to digitize operations. Why it matters Manufacturing strategies built on labor-cost arbitrage are becoming outmoded; the race is on to get ahead of what comes next. What to do about it Place greater emphasis on proximity to both demand and innovation while: • Making location decisions that balance economies of scale against the growing diversity of tastes within and across global markets Building supplier ecosystems that combine technical expertise with local domain and market knowledge Developing the people and skills needed to make the most of technological advances across the organization • • © Bruno Ehrs/Corbis 2 When offshoring entered the popular lexicon, in the 1990s, it became shorthand for efforts to arbitrage labor costs by using lowerwage workers in developing nations. But savvy manufacturing leaders saw it as more: a decisive change in globalization, made possible by a wave of liberalization in countries such as China and India, a steady improvement in the capabilities of emerging-market...
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...The Impact of the Internet on the Energy Industry Table of Contents Introduction The Internet and energy consumption Top Energy Consuming Countries Smart Energy and your Privacy The Energy Industry and the Internet Energy Industry Technology Made Possible by the Internet Smart Meters Smart Grids Smart Cities Managing Demand Market Size Projections Itron: A Smart Energy Industry Leader Consolidated Financial Data Analysts’ Projections Conclusion Introduction Like so many other industries, the energy industry has been impacted by the internet in a multitude of ways. We see the evolution and efficiency of the energy industry in response to new technology and free flow of ideas and information. A revolution in smart meters, grids, and even smart cities has begun. We will explore a variety of issues related to the energy industry and the internet. There are some common misconception about the impact of internet related energy consumption on the energy industry. Initially, some astronomical claims were being made about the amount of energy the internet actually requires. Equally misinformed projections unsettled consumers and environmental activists alike. The Internet and Energy Consumption When we think about the internet, generally we think of something that has aided humanity toward advancement. These days many companies have the option to “go green” or receive electronic notices instead of paper statements. Generally, this is...
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...Smart Cities will be the biggest enabler of Internet of Things Before going on and on about the mentioned subject, a question must be answered. What is a smart city? A smart city is a city where modern technologies and advanced resources are used to uplift the standard of living with the society. The target is achieved with better resource management and adapting methods that are more in accordance with the environment. A smart city is a city which has lower levels of pollution and other adverse effects on the biosphere and environment around it. It might sound something of similitude from science fiction of some perfect utopian future where robots serve as personal comfort assistants of the Human race, people travelling in flying cars or any such levitated contraptions and where we have trade relations with beings from another part of the Universe. To the contrary of the previous sentence, smart cities are not a part of a distant utopian future, but are happening now and the World Wide Web of the Internet has been the greatest tool in achieving it. In fact there are examples of Smart cities in the past such as Bletchley Park, where Professor Alan Turing deciphered the infamous Nazi cipher Enigma machine during World War II. Alan Turing who is often called the father of modern computing, is only fitting that he too once lived in a smart city that changed the course of history and we know and live now. Compared to the early 21st century, our way of living, at least in the Tier...
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...When the three founded the company their primary focus was on wireless technology. This included point of sale terminals, modems and pagers. In 1997 the company went public and in 1998 released its first BlackBerry Device, the RIM 850. It had a full keyboard, which was unusual at the time, could send messages, access email, send and receive pages and act as an organizer. The mobile device was a huge hit among business professionals and it was not until the BlackBerry 7000 Series phones that the RIM became a household name among the general population. In 1999 RIM was listed on NASDAQ driving interest worldwide in the company. In 2003 smartphones began emerging in the mobile phone market. BlackBerry at this time maintained their FIPS 140-2 platform and were specifically set on targeting the professional consumer market The maintained a vast amount of government and corporate consumers. In 2004 RIM had 2 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide and Balsille and Lazaridis are featured in Time Magazines “Time 100” list. The company continued to experience unprecedented success in the mobile market, so much so that by 2006 the company had 5 million subscribers worldwide with stock price at $124.51. The success of the company quickly was inevitable to change after Apple (AAPL) released its first iPhone in 2007. When asked for his reaction regarding the release of the iPhone Bastille said, “It’s kind of one more entrant into an already very busy space with lots of choice for consumers…...
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...Majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs has become increasingly popular in the last few decades as we have entered the digital age. Individuals may be motivated to pursue a STEM education because there is a lot of profit available in careers branching off of these majors. Logically, many people argue that these STEM majors are the most beneficial (whether profitable or otherwise valuable) form of higher education, while others may still say that a traditional liberal arts education prepares one best for life. While some may believe that one field of study is superior; the innovation, comfortability with uncomfortable ideas, and critical thinking gained by studying liberal arts and the ability to make...
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...countless innovations and developments that were taking place in the 20th century, many have prospered and is now integrated into the daily lives of human beings. Artificial Intelligence, combined with robotics will help increase in economic growth, improve businesses, provide comfort to the general populations, decrease crime rates and educate people in a more systematically efficient manner. Admittedly, A.I. may put millions out of jobs and mayforce them to learn a new...
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...THE PDMA HANDBOOK OF NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT T HIRD E DITION Kenneth B. Kahn, Editor Associate Editors: Sally Evans Kay Rebecca J. Slotegraaf Steve Uban JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. Cover image: © Les Cunliffe/iStockphoto Cover design: Elizabeth Brooks This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 7486008, or online at www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with the respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of...
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...Summary The man-apes of the world, who lived by gathering berries and nuts, were facing a lack of food. A giant monolith appeared on Earth one day and began to experiment with many of them, probing and developing their minds. Among those in whom the monolith took an interest was Moon-Watcher, the only man-ape who walked fully upright. At night, a few select man-apes were taught and during the day, they innovated. Moon-Watcher discovered that he could fashion tools with which to kill animals for sustenance—the man-apes' hunger problem was solved. Time passed and the man-ape evolved. His brain grew, he invented language and organized into civilizations, and he invented weapons—first knives, but then guns and finally nuclear missiles. Such innovations had been central in man's dominion over earth, but "as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time." Eager to embark on another space mission, Dr. Heywood Floyd arrived at the Florida launch location after meeting with the president. He offered no comment to the press, nor would he reveal the details of mission to the crew that served him so faithfully on board or to his Russian friend whom he encounters at the joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. space station, a stop on his journey to the Moon. Upon his arrival, Floyd is greeted by a top official of the Moon colony and whisked off to a meeting. A lead scientist explains that they had found a magnetic disturbance in Tycho, one of the Moon's craters. An examination of the area had revealed...
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...Examples of disruptive and sustainable technology that come in my mind are: First is cable television technology as sustainable and IPTV or VOIP as a disruptive technology. Second could be Wi-Fi and Wi-Max as a disruptor. I will pick on the first example here to go in detail i.e. cable television technology as sustainable and IPTV as disruptive. Cable TV was a disruptive technology at one time and has sustained through time. Cable television technology: Cable technology replaced the traditional over-the-air method of broadcasting. It has been in business for a long time and the reason I call it sustaining because, it is customer focused and it is main-stream. Sustaining technologies tend to maintain a rate of improvement and give customers something more or better in the attribute they value. This is what cable television technology was doing till last few year, though now it has some challenges. There is a big competition for this technology from direct broadcast satellite and few other forms of competitions as well, that I will discuss. Nevertheless – • It still dominates the market • It was once emerging technology that proved sustaining and very successful in the broadcasting field. • It is customer focused IPTV: IPTV is a disruptive technology in the field of video delivery. Disruptive technologies introduce a very different package of attributes from the one mainstream customers historically value, and they often perform far worse along one or two dimensions that...
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...Are Entrepreneurs Born or Bred? Academics currently debate whether entrepreneurs are born or do they develop with the help of their environment. It is a big debate today and the reason is simple. Governments and think tanks today are struggling with this question because entrepreneurial creativity and innovation leads to a phenomenon at the centre of any economic theory - job creation. Governments want to know whether entrepreneurs can be trained and if they can, what can the government do to advance those skill sets in the systems. If entrepreneurs are born, then what are the factors which influence it? Is good milk and honey the answer? To date there has been no solid, widely applicable correlations between successful entrepreneur and personality traits, which are fixed. However, much is written and known about the behaviour of hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, no theory proves to highlight a particular personality trait of these successful people which can be described as key to their success. Where we read that Virgins Branson’s mother raised them to be “self reliant and responsible…taking control of their destiny”, the same Branson had to learn to use his network. As his magazine business grew, he came to rely on his childhood friend Powell. This turned out to be one of the most fruitful and calculated commercial marriages for Branson. Branson learnt that building a reliable team is as good as being self reliant. Similarly to date there also hasn’t been a theory...
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