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It Takes Guts To Start A Company--So How Do You Get 'Em? It takes guts to act, accept a risk, and to try something new. If the world were full of passionate and purposeful people with brilliant minds, but no guts to act, there would be no progress. The guts trait can be subdivided in several different ways. One is the divide between risk takers and risk tolerators. Risk takers derive excitement and engagement from being in a situation laden with meaningful uncertainty. Many of the entrepreneurs we have spoken to refer to the dramatic emotional shifts of their "high-amplitude" lives (they love it that way, too). Bungee jumpers, cliff divers, and other adrenaline junkies are extreme examples of guts-dominant people. Risk tolerators do not necessarily seek risk, yet willingly pursue their goals by understanding and accepting and managing the risks inherent in a given decision.

What makes for a gutsy person? The willingness to take risks is born of a combination of elements. Risk tolerance is not an immutable quality. Apple Patent Application Reveals iPad Smart Cover. Apple may be working on a new iPad Smart Cover that can display an extra row of app icons, as a keyboard, show notifications, and even convert into a graphics tablet. The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published a patent application from the iPad-maker called “Cover Attachment with Flexible Display.” The application’s drawings show an iPad Smart Cover being put to some very creative uses beyond those handy magnets. [RELATED: "10 Crazy Phone Patents"] As with any patent application, you can never be sure whether this concept will turn into an actual product or if Apple is merely staking a claim on an idea from one of its engineers.

The application names Fletcher R. Rothkopf, who appears to be a manager of product design at Apple, as the inventor. It’s also unclear whether the features below would be part of a single Smart Cover product or turn into several feature-specific Smart Cover varieties. Keyboard Ambient Power Rear Display Graphics Tablet Cover Alert. Parag Khanna. Ayesha Khanna. Ayesha Khanna is a technology, urbanization and education expert with over 15 years of experience in product and service innovation and human capital development. She advises companies and governments on smart city related strategies and investments. She is CEO of Technology Quotient, which develops content and technology platforms for the vocational and K-12 educational sectors.

Within the company, Applied Skills develops courses to boost productivity in rapidly growing sectors such as hospitality and retail, and 21C teaches 21st century skills to children, including concepts in coding, robotics, and design. In 2014, she joined the Singapore Ministry of Education's ASPIRE Steering Committee on higher education reform.

Ayesha previously founded the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group that explores emerging technologies and their social, economic and political implications. A New Kind Of Socio-inspired Technology | Conversation | Edge. There are two big global trends. One is big data. That means in the next ten years we'll produce as many data, or even more data than in the past 1,000 years. The other trend is hyperconnectivity. That means we have networking our world going on at a rapid pace; we're creating an Internet of things. So everyone is talking to everyone else, and everything becomes interdependent. What are the implications of that? But on the other hand, it turns out that we are, at the same time, creating highways for disaster spreading.

It requires two things to understand our systems, which is social science and complexity science; social science because computers of tomorrow are basically creating artificial social systems. Of course, the markets recovered, but in some sense, as many solid stocks turned into penny stocks within minutes, it also changed the ownership structure of companies within just a few minutes. We really need to understand those systems, not just their components. Music. Science. Enduring Voices Project, Endangered Languages, Map, Facts, Photos, Videos. Explore Talking Dictionaries The Enduring Voices team is pleased to present these Talking Dictionaries, giving listeners around the world a chance to hear some of the most little-known sounds of human speech.

Several communities are now offering the online record of their language to be shared by any interested person around the world. While you probably won't walk away from these Talking Dictionaries knowing how to speak a new language, you will encounter fascinating and beautiful sounds--forms of human speech you've never heard before--and through them, get a further glimpse into the rich diversity of culture and experience that humans have created in every part of the globe.

Explore the Talking Dictionaries for yourself. Losing Our World's Languages By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain. Archaeology Magazine.

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