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Accenture Electric Vehicle Challenge. Industrial Internet of Things. Making sense of the Industrial Internet of Things, particularly in the context of a large enterprise, can be challenging.

Industrial Internet of Things

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Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years. Space 2020: What does the future hold? What will our space ambitions actually look like a decade from now?

Space 2020: What does the future hold?

Three experts tell Richard Hollingham. Space has not been this exciting since the 1960s. Nasa recently launched Orion, its first new spacecraft to carry astronauts since the Space Shuttle, and is developing a massive new rocket to rival the Saturn V. Europe has landed a space probe on a comet 510 million kilometres (317 million miles) away and China is developing its next space station. Meanwhile private companies are changing the economics of space by forging ahead with plans for human spaceflight, space tourism and even missions to Mars. The next few years will also see the final construction of the James Webb Space Telescope – a space observatory the size of a tennis court.

So in the decade from 2020, can we look forward to a glorious new space age of Moon bases, Mars colonies and more remarkable cosmic discoveries? Our experts are: SP: Scott Pace, Director of the Space Policy Institute in Washington DC 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6 Supermaterials That Could Change Our World  Is this whale-shaped plane the future of airliners? Our top 12 stories of 2014 - #2: Airliners have become steadily bigger in an effort to take fit in more passengers and drive down the cost of tickets.

Is this whale-shaped plane the future of airliners?

Could a new outsized design change the way we fly? Spotting an Airbus A380 at an airport can still create great excitement. The giant, double-decker plane can seat between 500 and 850 people, depending on how much space is given to space-saving economy class, and how much goes to higher-paying passengers with all that extra leg room. It’s an aviation giant, the biggest passenger-carrying aircraft ever to fly the skies. Airbus to help develop first supersonic business jet. Or two hours and 48 minutes off the flight between New York and Sao Paulo?

Airbus to help develop first supersonic business jet

Or two and a half hours between Tokyo and Singapore? With its Aerion AS2 supersonic business jet, the Nevada-based Aerion Corporation aims to do just that. Now it has a gigantic new partner to help it realize those ambitions: Airbus. The two companies announced this week that they'll collaborate on technologies and "capabilities in design, manufacturing and certification" to advance the development of the AS2. "This is a major step forward for Aerion," said Aerion chairman and principal investor, Robert M. "This agreement accomplishes two major objectives," said Aerion CEO Doug Nichols. Aerion was founded in 2002 with the intention of commercializing supersonic aviation technology. Expertise from Airbus' Defence and Space Division Using its proprietary supersonic laminar flow technology, Aerion says the AS2 will fly at Mach 1.6 (1,217 mph). With its Airbus collaboration, Aerion is moving in fast company. Www.dft.gov. The CNN 10: Future of driving.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney Thanks to on-board computers that operate everything from the stereo and navigation to the brakes and accelerator, the era of "big data" is coming to the automobile.

The CNN 10: Future of driving

Like their deskbound brethren, these rolling computers produce an enormous amount of data – mostly about people's behavior behind the wheel – that can be analyzed to spot trends and fight inefficiencies. And thanks to this data, your car may soon know where you want to go before you even pull out of the driveway. Mercedes-Benz is developing a system that over time promises to learn your schedule, tastes and even your moods. For example, it knows that you leave the house every weekday at 7:30 a.m. to take your kids to school and that you like the cabin a toasty 75 degrees. The car can even tune the radio to the Disney channel until you drop off the kids, at which time it will recommend NPR.

"It's almost like the car's becoming aware," says M. A road map to the future for the auto industry. Automotive Forecasting and Proprietary Advisory Services. Pwc-how-to-be-no1-facing-future-challenges-in-the-automotive-industry.pdf.