Culture and changes in this digital era. What is culture?
This is a big question and we have seen many cultures come and go, in organisation, networks, communities and society. Take for instance climate change debate. We once have an interest in understanding climate change and how and what we could do to change the world, in saving the world. What emerged out of this climate change are solutions based on sustainable work practices. We are now implementing these Sustainability in Higher Education. How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World. Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers.
It's possible that under certain situations it may be up to ten times faster than the current way we do these. At this point you are probably wondering: What the hell is he talking about? Let me explain, because improving these three little letters--FFT--may change your life. Here's a quickie explainer: Fourier transforms are a mathematical trick to simplify how you represent a complicated signal--say the waves of sound made by speaking. They work by reducing the complex wave pattern to a simple and pretty short list of numbers that, when run through the system again, result in a very good approximation of the original signal.
» Envisioning the Future of Technology. 2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030. A picture of me speaking at yesterday’s TEDxReset in Istanbul.
Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was about the rapidly shifting nature of colleges and higher education, I didn’t have time to explain how and why so many jobs would be going away. Looking Beyond 2012: Trends for Leading Transformation. InShare287 Part 16 in an ongoing series that serves as the prequel to my new book, The End of Business as Usual… It’s a new year and a new set of predictions to set goals and expectations for 2012.
I won’t bother you with the top 10 emerging social networks or apps to focus time and resources. Nor will I gaze in the crystal ball to reveal the five secrets to viral marketing and user/customer acquisition. Instead of adding my forecasts to the endless sea of debatable prophesies, I chose a more aspirational path. 2012 is the year of transformation as digital Darwinism threatens rigid and traditional practices everywhere.
Indeed, this is a time when organizations will invest in change to better adapt to emerging market opportunities, to more successfully engage with customers, employees and stakeholders, rethink systems and processes, and ultimately, revive the company’s vision, mission and purpose. Vision: The stated outlook of organizational direction needs review. #AdaptorDie. Cyborg lawyer demands software source - Software. Lawyer Karen Sandler's heart condition means she needs a pacemaker-defibrillator to avoid sudden death, so she has one simple question: what software does it run?
Karen Sandler (Credit: Linux.conf.au) Yet it turns out that it's impossible for her to see and understand the technology that's being installed into her own body and upon which her life depends. Regulatory authorities don't see or review the software either. She simply has to trust that the vendor is telling the truth and doing things right. In this third of four daily podcasts from Linux.conf.au 2012 (LCA) in Ballarat, you'll hear Sandler discuss the real-world implications of this very personal software story. How do we know the software works as advertised? Sandler also discusses legal cases where the prosecution's evidence was unreliable because it relied on software that turned out to be flawed — yet another practical reason to demand the source. Running time: 42 minutes, 45 seconds. The Great Unbundling and Collapse of Local Newspapers.
Part 2 of 5: This post builds on my summary of a recent report from the FCC entitled “The Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age.”
In this post I’m going to drill a little deeper on something that it mentions only briefly – the “unbundling” of the local newspaper business model. This business model unbundling occurred over the course of approximately five years in a series of waves that didn’t actually reveal their true impact until after the year 2000. For it was in that year that newspaper revenues peaked at $48.6 billion. In the decade that followed, newspaper revenues collapsed to less than half that total, so that by 2010, its revenues were less than $23 billion. Temperature rises sharply at Fukushima reactor. Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported a spike in temperature in the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Feb. 5, forcing it to increase the volume of cooling water there as a precautionary step.
TEPCO said cooling water may not have reached part of the fuel in the reactor’s pressure vessel while it switched to different piping for injecting water and changed the volume of water. Tracking the Future. Peter Diamandis shares his new book Abundance.