Richard Plepler, the gregarious and perpetually tanned head of Home Box Office Inc., had a saying: HBO is a media company, not a technology company. The statement grew more radical with each passing year as seemingly every other business—car...
Read more10 reasons why Finland’s education system is the best in the world
Time and time again, American students continually rank near the middle or bottom among industrialized nations when it comes to performance in math and science. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) which in conjunction with the...
Read moreThis is what a genderless AI voice sounds like – and why it matters
A coalition of activists, linguists, ad makers, and sound engineers has created what it claims is the first genderless AI voice for virtual assistants, and is asking for the public to help get the word out.
Read moreIn The Future Blockchain Will Solve Most Real-World Problems — Even Arbitration
In a world hurtling through one technological breakthrough after another, Federico Ast looked to the past for inspiration when starting his company, Kleros. Ast went all the way back to ancient Greece, where he saw a citizen-driven justice system...
Read moreAI is now so complex its creators can’t trust why it makes decisions
Artificial intelligence is seeping into every nook and cranny of modern life. AI might tag your friends in photos on Facebook or choose what you see on Instagram, but materials scientists and NASA researchers are also beginning to use the...
Read moreFive facts on what trade and technology really mean for jobs
Technology and trade have driven the global economy through a period of extraordinary growth and dynamism over the past quarter of a century but at a cost of important changes and disruptions in the job markets. The 2017 edition of the World...
Read moreThe Fourth Industrial Revolution is about empowering people, not the rise of the machines
The world is changing. There’s no way around this fact. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is now. And, whether you know it or not, it will affect you. Billions of people and countless machines are connected to each other. Through groundbreaking...
Read more5 challenges for government adoption of AI.
From transportation solutions to video-streaming applications, artificial intelligence (AI) permeates almost every aspect of our lives. This includes government, where AI is increasingly making an impact.
Read moreWhy the world needs the youth revolution more than ever.
Young people coming together in joint action has served as a major engine of social transformation throughout human history. At key moments, younger generations have repeatedly acted to overthrow and dismantle systems of oppression, subordination...
Read moreIn just two hours, Amazon erased $30 billion in market value for healthcare’s biggest companies
Amazon has disrupted fashion, books, furniture, food, cloud-based storage services, and much else besides. Now, it’s coming for one of the biggest, most complex industries in the US: healthcare.
Read moreHello, mobile operators? This is your age of disruption calling
For the better part of a decade, telecom companies have suffered through declining revenues, cash flow, and return on investment just as tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others have mushroomed by building their businesses on the...
Read moreThe UN has a 17-point plan to save the world. So how’s it doing?
n 2015, the United Nations wrote a to-do list to address the world’s biggest problems – designed to tackle everything from poverty to the oceans – and lift people up by 2030 without damaging the planet.
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