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EK at Ten: Looking Back on Our Greatest Knowledge Management Solutions
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E-Pitching Session: Showcasing Cleantech and Edtech Innovations
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In this guest blog post Austin Dimmer, CEO and Founder of Effective Computing shares the difficulties he has faced trying to create a sustainable software business.
I’d like to set out by letting you know that creating a successful software business is extremely hard.
I personally suffer from a rare disability that means I am not able to operate computers with traditional keyboard and mouse, as you can imagine in an age in which “software is eating the world” it is very frustrating to be physically limited in capabilities. A number of years ago I was advised by a leading doctor not to work with computers and to seek an alternative career.
I am not one to accept these limitations and thus I have devoted the last 10 years plus of my life researching Ergonomics, User Centered Design and in particular Voice Recognition Technology. The result of my research is that I have created a software program that enables me to control most of the features on my computer using voice control. The product I have created is extremely complex and even after this long period of intense R&D (6 years of 7 day weeks, longs hours and with few holidays) I have limited customer traction, no investors and I have now exhausted almost all of the goodwill of my closest family.
I live on the edge of a war zone in Ukraine. Life pretty much sucks.
I feel that I am living on the “Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death x1000” that Gail Goodman so inspirationally talked about. Over the course of the last year the great Ukrainian people prevailed and ousted the corrupt government during the revolution. As I write this blog post, unable to accept the will of the people Russia is waging a war against Ukraine, murdering thousands and destroying the lives of many hundreds of thousands. It is against this backdrop that I attempt to maintain my optimism and belief that by creating great (software) businesses we can make this world a better and safer place for our children to grow up in. As one of the female residents of Donetsk asked her rebel leaders during the summer.
“You may kill me for asking this. Who exactly is our enemy? Our enemy is not some imaginary fascist in Kiev or some foreign lands. Our enemy is poverty.”
My Ukrainian friend and aspiring Tech Entrepreneur Bozhena Shermeta said the following about the current situation in Ukraine:
“Yet. There is no time for grief and panic. These are not the instruments to win the war. We need to learn how to go on, how to help and support each other. There is no other way to figure out how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have. Be strong, guys.”
She is right. In my attempt to stay strong I have found that one of the best strategies is to keep focused on being productive in some way. Today my goal is this blog post.
The reason why I ended up as a raving fan of the Business of Software conference, yes I admit it, is because my company is a customer of Red Gate Software.
One day whilst reading the RedGate website I came across Neil Davidson, the co-CEO and co-Founder of RedGate. Hoping to pick up some tips into how he had created a successful software company I began to follow him on Twitter. He was tweeting about the Business of Software Conference and in October 2012 I tuned into the live stream of the event. I was literally blown away. I recall watching phenomenal and inspiring talks given by Bob Dorf, Gail Goodman , Adii Peinar and Paul Kenny, Dan Pink. Kathy Siera, Dharmesh Shah, and others. I learned from Bob that the Business Plan I had taken months to write was better sent to the creative writing department than being useful as a strategic document. I also found out later that Bob was an advisor to the Happy Farm Incubator located in Kiev. Small World.
Link to all the 2012 Talks
One thing really stood out to me about the conference. Towards the end, some kind of social media storm had broken out accusing one of the speakers of sexist behaviour or language. The host of Business of Software, Mark Littlewood, got up and apologised for any misunderstandings that may have taken place. He mentioned that he had a young daughter and that he dreamt that one day perhaps she too would be able to create an amazing software company just like the speakers and attendees at the event. Sexist behaviour was not acceptable and was an issue that was taken very seriously. Wow, these guys have great values and ethics I thought to myself. Bravo Mark, you should be a proud father!
Interesting post: We don’t have a women in tech problem at Business of Software Conference
I was truly inspired. I hatched a plan to get myself in person to the conference in 2013.
At BoS 2013 I was lucky enough to see Kathy Sierra present her more deeply researched and refined ideas about creating the Minimum Bad Ass User, I watched Des Traynor (https://angel.co/intercom) mesmerize the audience with an awesome lightning talk about product strategy. Then there was Greg Baugues very moving and personal talk about developers, entrepreneurs and depression, Dharmesh filled me in on the importance of Scaling Culture, these are issues that as a hardcore engineer/coder I had not given enough thought to. My personal favourite from BoS 2014 was Scott Farquar talking about Leadership in Crisis. A few months after the conference I read news that Scott had sold his company Atlassian for $3.3 billion. Wow. Just Wow. That is living the dream, for real.
[NB. The company was not sold for $3.3 billion, there was an investment into the business that valued it at that sum].
I came away from BoS 2013 feeling inspired and wanting to work harder, to learn and to implement some of the new ideas. But I also felt a bit intimidated by the conference, a kind of nagging feeling that I would never reach the great heights of success that the speakers clearly had.
2013 Business of Software Conference Talks here.
For BoS 2014 my cash strapped company Effective Computing was lucky enough to win one of the Avangate BoS Scholarships. We were deeply grateful to Avangate for selecting us.
I found Brian Massey (http://conversionsciences.com/) and Joanna Wiebe http://copyhackers.com/ to be most excellent speakers and they provided me with highly actionable material that I plan to use over the coming months as my company starts to roll out our product offerings. I took the after conference workshop on Landing Page Optimization with Brian Massey and this helped round out the information provided in his talk and practice the techniques on our own sites.
Brian Massey (The Doctor/Professor) in action!
I found the talk by Joel Gascoigne from Buffer to be inspirational. At one point Joel was talking about how his company had opted for the remote working model and that enabled some of the Buffer employees to be able to work from home. This enabled the employee to spend less time on the commute and more time with his young family. What a fantastic thing.
As a father of two young boys I even clapped at this point and thought what a great company Joel has. I did not manage to talk with Joel in person at the conference but hopefully someday we will hook up for a chat. Joel and I made a brief connection later on Twitter.
Joel also mentioned that he was looking after himself and he looked very fit up on the stage. As a long time fitness enthusiast I admire the example Joel is setting here. Running a very exciting company and also keeping himself in good shape. Since I have been sitting down coding like a maniac for the last six years, I am not as fit as I once was and I have put on quite some weight. Partly thanks to the inspiration Joel provided I have managed to haul myself at least 200km in each of the months since attending BoS. Thanks Joel!
After the conference I read some of the blog posts Joel and his colleagues made about the early days of their company and how they networked and made contacts in San Francisco, if you need this kind of insight the buffer blog is an excellent place to go. A few months after the conference I noticed Buffer was trending on AngelList with a $60,000,000 valuation. Again impressive stuff.
During one of the lunch breaks the lunch tables were assigned conversation topics. Given my background in Ergonomics I thought I’d attend the conversation topic “Hacks for healthy coding and coders” During the conversation an employee of Axosoft was talking about the idea of trying to be the healthiest company in their state. That idea and concept is something I find really inspirational. I also noticed that a group of folks including the same girl from Axosoft were in the Seaport hotel lobby ready for a run. These folks walk the walk. Impressive.
At one point in the conference Greg Baugues was sitting in the auditorium alongside another man who was from Haiti (sorry I did not get his name). [Jonathan Marvens?] I had met Greg and his wife the year before in the Whisky Priest bar so I wanted to say hi and find out how things were going for him. His wife was expecting a baby in the near future and all seemed well with Greg. This was great news given the battles he has been waging against depression. I mentioned to Greg and his colleague how I was having quite a terrible psychological struggle at the conference. I was worried about what was going on back in Ukraine whilst simultaneously trying to keep optimistic about doing my best to build a great software company. It was a very strange dual reality that I was and still am living in. Although I am not a religious person, I have great respect for all religions. Greg and his colleague offered to say a prayer to wish for peace in Ukraine and for my family to stay out of danger. This moment of the conference was very touching and I almost had a tear in my eye. I was a great moment of connection and I am very grateful to both Greg and his colleague for their support.
Did I mention how great the attendees are?
I hope this story highlights some of the deep compassion that is present in the BoS community.
Michael Skok gave a very impressive presentation and I have been inspired by him to deepen my understanding of what he talked about by working through the excellent materials he makes available on his site.
Whilst BoS 2014 was taking place the HubSpot Inbound conference was also taking place across the street. You could feel the energy and excitement from Inbound spill over into the BoS conference. Dharmesh Shah one of the founders of HubSpot has been a favourite speaker and loyal supporter of the BoS conference and you could almost feel that everyone at BoS was full of pride at what was taking place at Inbound. Quite remarkable really.
The Avangate Dinner held in honour of the Scholarship winners was a very pleasant experience. I got to meet with quite a few Avangate employees. I found them all to be very smart and listening to them was very interesting. I even had the chance to share a Whisky afterwards. A great night of networking was had by all.
For me BoS is a multi-year journey of Business and Self Improvement.
Action items I am working on as a direct result of having attended BoS include:
- Working through and implementing the guidance contained in the Copy Hackers eBooks
- Working through and implementing the guidance contained in Michael Skok’s Startup Secrets
- Working through and implementing the guidance contained in Brian Massey’s eBook
- Working through and implementing the guidance contained in Adii Peinaar’s Your First Customers and Traction Book
- Read Business Model Generation
- Read Value Proposition Design
- Read Bob Dorf’s Startup Owners Manual
I have no doubt that the techniques and wisdom obtained by absorbing this material will be of immense benefit to me and my company moving forwards.
Have I achieved my Goals by attending BoS?
My goals were to
- Find potential customers
- Find potential employees/business partners
- Continuous and never ending improvement.
I have a few conversations open on the first two items on this list and I think that the last one is certainly a work in progress with great strides already made. After attending BoS I did have a very promising inquiry from what seemed like a prominent and legitimate investor, alas it ended up coming to nothing. Those awful emotions of rejection, disappointment, self loathing, feeling like a maverick a charlatan yet again reared their ugly head. But this is what I signed up for right? This is the journey of the software entrepreneur? These are the inevitable highs and lows that will be encountered as we travel the path? Armed the knowledge and experience acquired by attending BoS I feel that I have given myself the best chance possible to overcome these demons and build a great software business moving forwards. Being strong is the only choice I have.
This time instead of feeling intimidated by BoS I came away feeling “Yes, I can do this”.
Going to BoS is like being “Out With Legends”. Thanks again to Avangate. It may be a struggle for me to get to BoS 2015, if I can find a way to be there I will be. I thoroughly recommend going and do hope to see you there.
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“An awesome collage of people, ideas and information that will help bootstrap your software product company into a BADASS software business with wildly ecstatic customers.”
“BoS is a software, technology, and business focused TED. And, because of that, for me, it might be better than TED.”
“Imagine a dream world of full employment, meritocracy, innovation and success, abundance, respect, and happiness. It’s real, and it’s going on all the time in the unbridled world of software, and the Business of Software conference is your window into that world.”
“Every time I come to BoS I feel like I’ve found my “tribe.” Fellow techie entrepreneurs who are dying to roll up their sleeves to get a business going.”
“I’m not one to create and execute on specific takeaways as a result of any conference. But, I’ve come to realize, after several years of attendance, the ideas and skills I’ve learned have somehow seemed to ‘leak’ into my organization anyway. My organization is better as a result of the ‘tools’ that BoS has provided to me.”
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Alliance combines AI4SP’s millions of data points on grassroots Generative AI usage with Surveil’s technology optimization insights to chart and guide global economic and societal impact.
SEATTLE, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — AI4SP (Seattle), the leading provider of insights charting Generative AI adoption, and Surveil (London), the leading SaaS platform to optimize cloud and productivity software investments, today announced a global alliance to guide organizations in harnessing the economic and societal impact of Generative AI, from grassroots adoption to enterprise transformation.
“The AI revolution isn’t happening in boardrooms – 90% of AI innovation comes from small organizations, and 65% of global AI adoption is driven by individuals using AI without corporate guidance,” said Luis Salazar, CEO and founder of AI4SP. “Generative AI adoption is a grassroots movement reshaping society, and traditional top-down analysis misses this reality. Combining our insights on global AI adoption and skills gaps with Surveil’s cloud and productivity software usage data, we’re creating the world’s most comprehensive view to guide organizations toward responsible AI transformation.”
Neil May, CEO of Surveil, highlighted the practical implications: “Two of every three organizations claim not having enough budget to enhance their cybersecurity or to deploy AI. Informed by millions of insights, our SaaS platform helps them identify inefficiencies in their Azure, AWS, GCP, and M365 implementations, including Microsoft Copilot, that free up to 40% of their budgets on average for these important strategic investments.”
The alliance’s combined dataset reveals critical insights about AI’s current state and potential:
- While 55% of organizations use AI today, only 11% have moved beyond early experimentation to deep, systematic use.
- AI adoption is reshaping work globally: from small businesses to enterprises, from PC users to 3 billion frontline workers with mobile devices.
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ITRI has signed a consulting service agreement with the state of Sonora in Mexico for science park planning and advising, deepening Mexico-Taiwan cooperation in the fields of technology and industry. The effort includes regional coopetition analysis, strategy consulting, business development, capability enabling, and implementation support, aiming to create a competitive and sustainable science park in Sonora. This venture also extends its benefits to Taiwanese manufacturers eyeing expansion opportunities in Mexico.
ITRI’s Senior Vice President Stephen Su emphasized the strategic significance of Mexico in the global supply chain, particularly in the burgeoning electric vehicle industry. He highlighted Mexico’s advantageous geographical location, coupled with competitive production costs and labor expenses, comprehensive automotive manufacturing clusters, rich mineral resources, as well as the privilege of zero tariffs under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). This collaboration emerges against the backdrop of Mexico as Taiwan’s largest export market and trading partner in Latin America. Through this partnership, bilateral exchanges in sectors such as semiconductors, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, and automation industries will be deepened, supporting Taiwanese companies seeking to expand their operations in the thriving Mexican market.
ITRI’s Senior Vice President, Stephen Su (sixth from the left), and Sonora Governor Francisco Alfonso Durazo Montaño (fourth from the right) sign the agreement for science park strategic planning consultancy services.
Governor of Sonora Francisco Alfonso Durazo Montaño expressed his pleasure in partnering with ITRI, recognizing ITRI’s role as a key driver in Taiwan’s semiconductor and ICT industries. Sonora, aligning its vision with “Plan Sonora,” the state’s sustainability development strategy, has noted the surge in international companies relocating their supply chains to Mexico. In response, the state has launched the development of the Sonora Science and Technology Park to meet the growing demands of emerging industries such as ICT and electric vehicles. The Governor articulated his hopes that the collaboration with ITRI will enable both entities to leverage their strengths and jointly explore international markets. |
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Table of Contents
- Understanding Technicism: A Sociological Perspective
- The Origins of Technicism
- The Sociological Dimensions of Technicism
- Critiques of Technicism
- Technicism and Future Society
- Conclusion
Understanding Technicism: A Sociological Perspective
Technicism, as a sociological concept, encapsulates the belief in the inherent superiority and inevitability of technological advancement as the primary solution to human problems. This phenomenon reflects the increasing dominance of technology in modern society, shaping not only our daily lives but also our values, cultures, and social institutions. In this article, we will explore the roots, implications, and critiques of technicism, offering a nuanced perspective suitable for students of sociology and those curious about the interplay between technology and society.
The Origins of Technicism
Historical Foundations
Technicism is not a recent phenomenon. Its roots can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution, a period marked by groundbreaking technological innovations that reshaped the social fabric. Mechanization and mass production introduced new ways of living and working, fostering the belief that technology could solve societal challenges such as scarcity and inefficiency.
Enlightenment thinking also played a pivotal role in shaping technicism. Philosophers and scientists of this era celebrated reason, progress, and the application of scientific principles to improve human life. This intellectual shift laid the groundwork for modern technological optimism, where technology is often viewed as a beacon of progress. The belief in human mastery over nature through science and technology became a cornerstone of modern societies, intertwining technological progress with social advancement.
Contemporary Development
In today’s digital age, technicism manifests more prominently. The rapid evolution of information technology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology fuels the perception that technology is an unstoppable force. Corporations and governments heavily invest in technological solutions to address issues ranging from climate change to healthcare, reinforcing technicism’s dominance in public discourse. Furthermore, the advent of big data and machine learning has transformed decision-making processes, promoting efficiency and precision while raising concerns about dependency on automated systems.
This reliance on technology is evident in the shift toward smart cities, renewable energy innovations, and digital governance. While these initiatives promise sustainability and inclusivity, they also reveal the pervasive influence of technicism in shaping public policies and societal aspirations.
The Sociological Dimensions of Technicism
Technology and Social Structure
From a sociological lens, technicism influences social structures by reshaping labor markets, educational systems, and governance. Automation, for instance, has transformed industries, displacing traditional jobs while creating new ones. This dynamic underscores a key aspect of technicism: the assumption that technological progress, despite its disruptions, ultimately benefits society.
The gig economy is a vivid example of this transformation, where digital platforms mediate work opportunities, offering flexibility but also precariousness. Sociologists study these shifts to understand the implications of technicism on worker rights, social equity, and economic stability.
Education systems are similarly impacted, with curricula increasingly focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. This prioritization reflects a technicist ideology that equates societal advancement with technological literacy and innovation. While this approach fosters skills for a tech-driven future, it risks marginalizing humanities and social sciences, which are critical for understanding ethical and cultural dimensions of technological integration.
Cultural Implications
Culturally, technicism permeates our values and behaviors. Social media, smartphones, and digital platforms have redefined communication and relationships, emphasizing immediacy and connectivity. The glorification of tech entrepreneurs and innovation further entrenches technicism, portraying technology as a transformative force for good. Society’s increasing reliance on social media for news and validation reflects the integration of technological tools into everyday life, often shaping identity and self-worth.
However, this cultural shift raises questions about authenticity, privacy, and the commodification of human experiences. For example, the widespread adoption of wearable devices and data-driven apps often prioritizes efficiency over personal autonomy, reflecting a technicist mindset that prioritizes technological solutions over nuanced human needs. Additionally, the algorithmic curation of information on digital platforms influences public opinion, shaping societal narratives and reinforcing echo chambers.
The cultural dominance of technicism also manifests in art and entertainment, where futuristic narratives and tech-centered themes dominate. While these depictions inspire innovation, they often perpetuate the myth of technology as a panacea, overshadowing its potential drawbacks and complexities. |
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Have humans really evolved since their origins?
Do Wacom’s technology and tools really contribute to human creativity?
These two questions were the themes of Connected Ink 2022, which was held in November 2022 and took place over the course of two weeks in Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Dusseldorf and Portland. Due to the situation of the pandemic, many members were finally able to meet in person after some time had passed. Here are a few sessions from Connected Ink 2022 in Tokyo that reflected on these loaded questions.
*Connected Ink is an event that has been organized by Wacom since 2016 with the quest to explore new directions in art, human expression, learning and the technologies that support them. The theme is always focused on the topic of Creative Chaos, while defining different key questions during each event started in 2020.
“Yuify” – Preserving and conveying the evidence of creators' creations and their stories
Wacom Yuify is a technology that allows artists and their works to record the proof, trajectory and story of their creations. This technology was developed to add new and unique value to artworks that were created with the utmost care and passion. Yuify is able to protect the artist's rights and pieces of artwork by embedding IDs and micro-marks directly into a piece, proving who created it. Along with the evolution of technology, the project team talked about their desire to preserve the warmth in art pieces that are created by humans. This was one of the sessions in which the two big questions were discussed in depth. The speakers internalized the questions, delved into them as if their own and elaborated upon them to take the talk into a new dimension.
Will technology help family connections evolve?
mui Lab and Wacom have continued co-creating after developing “Height Marking in Wood”, a product that records a family’s history in digital ink. At Connected Ink 2022, "muihaus." was unveiled for the first time, as a smart home that fosters family bonding beyond time and space. The words inscribed on the wood with digital ink by family members were accumulated and tied to their birthdays, anniversaries and other important dates, allowing each home to share family memories together. For this project, discussing the importance of having marginal space in technology and improving accuracy was the main topic of conversation. What is the significance of marginal space? Marginal space stimulates freedom and creativity, it may even lead to the discovery of new ways for humans to interact with technology.
Have humans really evolved?
This session discussed the different ways AI and humans (co)create. To confront the topic from various angles, speakers from different walks of life, such as a musician, a creator, a thinker, a brain scientist and an AI engineer were invited. AI is capable of learning at a speed that humans cannot, but when it comes to creation, there are still many things AI cannot do. Brain wave research has shown that alpha waves (the wavelength of relaxation) appear in the human brain when creating. They say that creators have a moment of immersion in which they want to draw even if it means cutting back on sleep. This is one of the major desires of the creative process. So the question remains: Have humans really evolved? During the final session of the series, NEO IHATOV, a magic lantern tells a story about life on the stage accompanied by a string quartet, expressing an ideal world built by a subatomic computer.
What happens here is everything
The special world of Connected Ink 2022, which emerged from two powerful questions, creates a sweet sanctuary protected by a magic spell according to CEO and President, Nobu Ide. It is a place where emotions, domains, attributes and even the wonders of the world and people are all accepted.
Are we moving forward?
Is there a point to any of us?
There is no right or wrong answer about success or failure at Connected Ink. We believe this is summed up perfectly in Nobu’s words, "What happens here is everything.”
At Connected Ink 2023, we will explore our fundamental values and what we cherish through the chosen theme, "Back to the Forest”.
* "We will meet again, in the forest” by Satoru Kobayashi |
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Office of Innovation Commercialization
The Office of Innovation Commercialization (OIC) was created in 2017 to promote an entrepreneurial culture on the New Mexico Tech (NMT) campus, focusing on commercializing technology created and developed at NMT. OIC receives invention disclosures from NMT faculty, staff, and students and evaluates these disclosures based on their commercial potential. We work closely with NMT faculty, staff, and student inventors to understand and assess the potential of their intellectual property to either license their innovations to industry partners or develop their IP into a startup venture.
Our mission is to foster entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the NMT campus via the university’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Mathematics (STE²M) initiative.
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A year and a half into the pandemic, we’re just beginning to understand how it changed everything around us. Analysts are still struggling to see the impact the pandemic had (and still has) on our society and the way we do business. But one thing is certain: nothing so far has accelerated digital transformation the way the pandemic has.
A McKinsey report showed that, in just a few months, businesses have made digital leaps that would otherwise have taken years to complete. And these changes are by no means temporary or passing trends. They are here to stay.
Let’s take a closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the enterprise approach to IT and data storage.
More Remote Work, But with Extra Emphasis on Availability and Security
The first wave of the pandemic sent people to work from home and their employers to find new ways to keep them productive and to keep their networks secure. Even the expected “big comeback” to the office was delayed, in light of the Delta variant. Giants like Apple and Google announced that their employees will likely not come back to the office until early 2022—in the most optimistic of scenarios.
Of course, when employees were sent to work from outside the office, on less-than-secure networks, the number of cyberattacks (many of them successful) grew exponentially. Thus, employers were left with two major problems to solve:
- Network availability for employees working outside the office
- Cybersecurity for the same employees
More importantly, they needed to solve these issues fast. The first step of the solution was obvious: on-premise storage was no longer optimal or cost-effective with a geo-diverse workforce.
From On-Premise to Cloud and Colocation
The IT changes most companies had to implement can be equated with building a highway in a month. With a key differentiator: we’re talking about a data highway.
Companies of all sizes needed better access to their data, better security, scalable solutions, and spread out networks. Their employees needed access to data from all over the world, and this access needed to be secure.
This prompted increased demand for two types of solutions: cloud storage and colocation. Cloud storage comes with an attractive price tag, but, as always, things are more complicated. Some of the security risks associated with cloud storage have yet to be mitigated, while data access in case of an outage is a major problem for companies who need to be up and running constantly—and who doesn’t these days, right?
Thus, colocation and edge computing have become the solutions that more and more companies are choosing. Colocation comes with real scalability, better data access, and an easily enforceable disaster data recovery plan. You can read more about what makes colocation a better alternative to cloud here.
Colocation goes hand in hand with edge computing, so it’s no wonder that the demand for the latter grew exponentially and is projected to reach $250.6 billion by 2024. The prime attraction of edge computing is the fact that it cuts the “middle man” in data processing and, instead of routing your data all over the world, processes it where the data is generated or as close to that location as possible.
In turn, this means that, wherever they may work from, employees can enjoy better data streams and a much higher speed. All without sacrificing security, of course.
You can read more about the benefits of edge computing here.
What’s Next in Data Storage and IT Infrastructure?
Sooner or later, the pandemic is going to be over and we’re going to be in a “new normal.” While no one knows exactly when that will happen, what we do know is that some of the changes it prompted are here to stay.
Take remote work, for instance. Even if the majority of big employers want their staff to come back to work, a mentality shift happened in the meantime and most of these employees prefer the flexibility of remote working, even at the cost of lower wages.
Cybercrime is on the rise and will be hard to contain any time soon. This means that companies will still need access to their data from anywhere in the world, with speed and flexibility, while maintaining improved security.
Colocation and edge computing have passed the hardest test: they became the solutions of choice in a moment of worldwide crisis, when better alternatives were needed and they were needed fast. No matter when the current crisis ends, savvy businessmen and IT managers know that there are countless types of crises that can impact an organization, and they need to be prepared for whatever comes their way.
With colocation, you get more than a flexible storage solution and better security. You get a disaster recovery plan that could save your company millions of dollars and the expertise of security and storage teams ready to jump in and help you whenever you need it.
Want to know more about how colocation can help your business thrive—during the best of times and during the worst of times? Schedule a tour of our Midwest facility and talk to our storage experts. |
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If you haven’t been in a cave for the past couple of years, then you’ve heard by now that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are poised to completely transform … everything. Banking, shopping, medicine, supply chain, fish farming —
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Recently, I represented Kincannon & Reed, a platinum sponsor at FoodTech IL in Tel Aviv. I collaborated with Jonathan Berger, CEO of The Kitchen Hub, and Elaine Watson, Senior Editor of FoodNavigator – USA, discussing the merits of two types of CEOs – the entrepreneurial founder versus the seasoned executive.
There were more than two thousand attendees representing startup organisations, investors, and larger multi-nationals. The buzz and excitement about food tech was palpable, and the common themes running through the conversations my colleague Christophe Dumont and I had focused on the explosion in activity, what the innovations mean for the global food systems, and the implications for organisational leadership.
Israel is exceptional and boasts a thriving innovation culture and a highly developed innovation ecosystem. Last year alone, the amount of funding sourced by alternative protein startups within the country secured them the number two spot globally. The United States was number one.
The ever-growing global population continues to place stress on food systems around the world. This demands innovation, which is something the Israeli government not only understands but embraces and supports. If the Israeli government’s investment into the food tech eco-system is anything to go by, innovation seems to be a national strategic priority for the country. Scaling these innovations beyond the borders of Israel will require disruptive leaders who understand global markets and deliver rapid consumer adoption.
At the conference, we met leaders from organisations investing in or representing specialty food ingredients, alternative proteins, equipment, robotics, and data analytics along with many others. Our conversations focused on the unique skills and attributes that successful leaders need to have in their armory.
Through our many conversations and the discussions I had on the stage with Jonathan Berger, there seemed to be broad alignment that high-growth organisations need CEOs who are trusted change agents. They need to be agile and adaptable as well as driven and focused. Collaborative, communicative, and resilient, they thrive in fast-paced environments and where innovation flourishes and is wired into their own and their team’s DNA.
I will be attending Food Tech Il again in 2023 and am excited to visit Tel Aviv and meet many more inspirational entrepreneurs.
To discuss your strategy for talented leadership with Mike Whitney please e-mail him at [email protected] to connect. |
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Business ForUM
High-profile business leaders, technical experts and leaders in public accounting and private industry share their perspectives on relevant issues impacting business today. Reconnect and network with business colleagues along with Miami Herbert Business School alumni, faculty and friends. CPE and CLE credit is awarded for these events.
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The Business of Blockchain Technology
AIS SIGBIT and Miami Herbert Business School present: The Business of Blockchain Technology Conference 2023, taking place May 19 - 20. The conference is intended to provide a forum for international academics and policymakers to showcase and discuss the latest business-relevant blockchain technology research, issues, and practices.
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The Business of Health Care
Hosted by the Miami Herbert Business School and the Center for Health Management and Policy, this annual impact conference brings the most relevant topics in the business of health care. The 2020 conference brought together (virtually) industry leaders, including heads of the major U.S. medical and insurance associations, at a time when global health threats such as the coronavirus and the future of U.S. health care reform are at the center of public discourse. The event successfully explored innovative ways to address the increasingly complex social, political, and economic challenges shaping the availability, quality, and cost of care today.
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Applying the Creativity in Oder to Generate Innovation Projects: the Practical Case Study of a Didactic Strategy
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Innovation. Didactic Strategy. Creativity. Entrepreneurship.Abstract
A current challenge in teaching practice is to transform classrooms into laboratories to exchange experiences in courses whose goal is to enhance the professional skills in a practical and meaningful way. The search for improvement demonstrates that, increasingly, professionals become aware that organizations coexist in highly competitive environments, seeking to conquer more markets based on sustainable competitive advantages demanding fast responses of its employees. Considering that the process of creativity can be stimulated through the establishment of a suitable environment, this study aims to discuss the application of a didactic strategy developed for this purpose. Using the single case study methodology, it was used the technique of unstructured observation (informal or single) to carry out the collection and the recording of events that occurred during the strategy application. It discusses elements such as identifying opportunities, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, seeking their relationships to understand how it is possible to motivate the generation of proposals for innovative projects in educational environments. As a result, it is presented the perceptions of teachers on the didactic strategy applied, emphasizing that a suitable environment for the development of ideas encourages the student to propose solutions for the improbabilities, creating innovative alternatives to the identified needs.
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As technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, MSMEs need to embrace innovation to stay competitive.
This theme focuses on inspiring creativity, introducing cutting-edge technologies, and providing practical tools for MSMEs to innovate in their products, services, and operations.
The conference would empower participants to lead the charge in their respective industries by adopting forward-thinking strategies.
To curate a platform that brings together thought leaders, expertise, resources and perspectives tailored specifically, to address the needs and challenges of MSMEs.
To join forces with stakeholders and create a dynamic platform that goes beyond traditional boundaries offering MSMEs unparalleled opportunity for growth.
To empower the MSME ecosystem with knowledge, tools, and connections vital for their success and sustainability
Keita Demming, Ph.D
Director of Development & Innovation, The Covenant Group
Keita is an award-winning author, educator, and coach who is working to transform companies into places and spaces that are idea-driven and people-centred.
His book, Strategy to Action is described as “A practical methodology that will turn your biggest ideas into real offerings in your business and life.” Keita wrote this book because he wanted to help people close the gap between their strategy and their actions.
As a Trusted Advisor and Thought Leader in design, strategy, and innovation, and host of the widely acclaimed podcast “Conversations with Keita Demming”, Keita strongly believes that the more we learn from others, the more likely we are to find our own journey a little bit easier.
One of his proudest personal achievements is the community he helped grow around TEDx Port of Spain, part of the popular TED Ideas festival and one of the most successful TEDx events in the world.
You can join his newsletter to learn about his latest insights on helping clients become better people in business and better businesspeople.
Lisa-Maria has extensive practical experience in leading Marketing Strategy, Culture and Talent Development, Customer Journey Management, Communication and Public Relations, as well as Product Development and Sales Management within the Financial Sector in Trinidad and Tobago and Regionally.
Samantha Conyers is a pioneering Customer Experience leader in the Caribbean. She was the inaugural Head of Customer Experience at Digicel Trinidad & Tobago. Samantha co-founded the successful CX consulting firm exco, before becoming Chief Experience Officer at First Retail Group in 2023. Her focus is optimizing end-to-end customer experiences to drive growth through innovative strategies and streamlined processes. |
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TJMV106: A Hub of Creativity and Innovation
In the ever-evolving scene of advanced media and innovation, TJMV106 stands out as a dynamic stage devoted to inventiveness, development, and collaboration. Built up with the mission to back specialists, makers, and trailblazers, TJMV106 has gotten to be a go-to asset for those looking to investigate the crossing point of craftsmanship and innovation. This article digs into the beginnings of TJMV106, its center offerings, and the affect it has on the inventive community.
The Roots of TJMV106
TJMV106 was established by a bunch of energetic people who recognized the require for a devoted space that cultivates imagination and collaboration among specialists and tech devotees. The title “TJMV106” reflects a mix of imaginative vision and specialized ability, symbolizing the union of different disciplines in the imaginative process.
From its beginning, TJMV106 pointed to make an comprehensive environment where people seem come together to share thoughts, learn from one another, and thrust the boundaries of inventiveness. Over the a long time, it has advanced into a multifaceted stage that has a assortment of occasions, workshops, and collaborative projects.
Core Offerings of TJMV106
TJMV106 gives a wide cluster of administrations and openings that cater to specialists, makers, and trailblazers. Here are a few of the center offerings that make TJMV106 a one of a kind and important resource:
1. Imaginative Workshops and Classes
At the heart of TJMV106’s mission is its commitment to instruction and expertise advancement. The stage has various workshops and classes covering different aesthetic disciplines, counting visual expressions, music generation, realistic plan, and computerized media. These sessions are driven by experienced experts who share their information and ability with participants.
Whether you’re a apprentice looking to investigate a unused medium or an experienced craftsman looking for to refine your aptitudes, TJMV106 offers something for everybody. The hands-on nature of the workshops cultivates an locks in learning environment, permitting members to test, make, and grow.
2. Collaboration Spaces
One of the standout highlights of TJMV106 is its collaboration spaces, planned to encourage cooperation and inventive trade. These spaces are prepared with state-of-the-art innovation and assets, making them perfect for specialists and trailblazers to brainstorm, create ventures, and collaborate on inventive endeavors.
By giving a physical space for collaboration, TJMV106 empowers intrigue ventures that mix craftsmanship, innovation, and development. This approach not as it were improves the inventive handle but moreover cultivates a sense of community among participants.
3. Shows and Showcases
TJMV106 frequently has shows and exhibits that highlight the work of neighborhood craftsmen and makers. These occasions give a stage for specialists to display their work to a more extensive group of onlookers, picking up perceivability and acknowledgment inside the community.
The presentations regularly include a assorted run of imaginative expressions, from conventional depictions to intelligently establishments. By exhibiting the gifts of rising and built up craftsmen, TJMV106 contributes to the social dynamic quality of the locale and motivates others to investigate their claim creativity.
4. Computerized Media Production
In today’s advanced age, media generation plays a significant part in the imaginative scene. TJMV106 offers assets and back for people looking to create high-quality computerized substance, counting recordings, podcasts, and interactive media projects.
The stage gives get to to recording studios, altering suites, and specialized help, empowering makers to bring their dreams to life. By cultivating a culture of media generation, TJMV106 enables people to tackle the control of narrating through computerized platforms.
5. Organizing Opportunities
Building associations inside the imaginative community is basic for specialists and trend-setters. TJMV106 has organizing occasions that bring together craftsmen, industry experts, and devotees to share thoughts and investigate potential collaborations. These occasions make a steady environment where people can interface, trade information, and motivate one another.
The Affect of TJMV106
TJMV106 has made a noteworthy affect on the nearby and territorial inventive community. Its accentuation on instruction, collaboration, and imaginative expression has come about in various victory stories and transformative encounters for members. Here are a few of the ways in which TJMV106 has contributed to the inventive landscape:
1. Bolster for Rising Artists
By giving assets, workshops, and show openings, TJMV106 has ended up a imperative back framework for rising craftsmen. Numerous people have effectively propelled their careers after partaking in TJMV106’s programs, picking up presentation and certainty in their abilities.
2. Cultivating Innovation
TJMV106’s collaborative approach empowers development by bringing together people from differing foundations and disciplines. This intrigue center frequently leads to groundbreaking ventures that thrust the boundaries of inventiveness and challenge ordinary norms.
3. Community Engagement
The stage effectively locks in with the nearby community, organizing occasions that welcome support from inhabitants and guests alike. This engagement cultivates a sense of having a place and energizes people to take portion in the imaginative handle, improving the social texture of the region.
4. Social Enrichment
Through its shows, workshops, and grandstands, TJMV106 contributes to the social improvement of the range. By highlighting the work of nearby specialists and advancing imaginative expression, the stage upgrades the community’s appreciation for the expressions and its part in society.
Looking Ahead: The Future of TJMV106
As TJMV106 proceeds to advance, its commitment to supporting inventiveness and development remains undaunted. Future activities may incorporate extended programming, associations with nearby organizations, and the presentation of unused advances that advance improve the inventive experience.
The vision for the future of TJMV106 is to make an indeed more energetic center for specialists and trend-setters, cultivating a culture of collaboration and experimentation that motivates people to seek after their imaginative passions.
Conclusion
TJMV106 is more than fair a stage; it is a flourishing community committed to celebrating imagination and development. Through its assorted offerings—workshops, collaborative spaces, presentations, and organizing opportunities—TJMV106 engages craftsmen and makers to investigate their potential and interface with one another.
As the scene of craftsmanship and innovation proceeds to advance, TJMV106 stands prepared to adjust and rouse, making a enduring affect on the imaginative community for a long time to come.
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CHICAGO, IL, September 25, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Better World Regulatory Coalition Inc. ("BWRCI"), a newly formed international self-regulatory organization (SRO), is pleased to announce the publication of a groundbreaking PCT patent pending and the seating of its founding Board of Advisors. The patent is entitled "Method and System for Monetizing the Consumption of Goods and Services Using Blockchain Contracts and CETEs" which aims to empower business entities with innovative technological tools that promote fierce loyalties among consumers while enabling consumers to monetize their consumption of goods and services as rewards for driving the real economy.
The publication of this patent signifies a major step toward the broader impacts from building a scalable minimum viable digital infrastructure to demonstrate its feasibility in supporting multiple National Autonomous Economies SaaS Testbeds. This is a project that is currently under consideration for funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In tandem with this announcement, we are also excited to announce the seating of our founding Board of Advisors, comprising business professionals and thought leaders from various sectors. This diverse group will guide BWRCI in helping fintech empower everyday people to be recognized and compensated for the significant contributions they make to economies all over the world - without speculation.
"Our vision is to foster an environment where technology and social responsibility intersect," said MaxBruce, founder. "With the launch of BWRCI and our newly published patent, we are poised to lead transformative change that empowers communities and promotes economic growth and inclusion like never before just because - that is what we designed the fintech to do."
"Additionally, utilizing artificial intelligence's ideation and discourse power along the way has been amazing. It helps tremendously to have theories evaluated and critiqued when venturing into uncharted territories, as we're doing with our groundbreaking socio-economic perspectives. Regarding the invention of CETEs and our People's Economy, rigorous AI analysis confirmed our venture an ambitious goal but one that, if realized, '...could have profound positive impacts on the well-being of people worldwide'."
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www_unthsc_edu_daily-news_research-cafe-april-19-2023-hsc-intellectual-property-ip-policy-management | innovation | SIMILARITY: 0.4168
Upcoming Workshop: HSC Intellectual Property (IP) Policy Management & Sharing Plan
When: April 19, 2023 | 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Where: Zoom – https://unthsc.zoom.us/j/81648768933
Please join us for February’s Research Café: HSC Intellectual Property (IP) Policy hosted by Dr. Paula Gregory.
Dr. Robert McClain, Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation, will outline how commercial revenue is shared with HSC inventors and how IP arising from academic and commercial collaborations (including SBIR and STTR partnerships) is managed.
Everyone is welcome to attend. |
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Eddie Cue on Apple's year of original content
Eddy Cue, in a rare personally-signed post to Apple Newsroom (“Thoughts on Services”?):
2022 was a groundbreaking year for entertainment. At some point over the past year, you probably discovered a new app, a new song, a new TV show or movie, or game. An experience that made you laugh, taught you something new, or helped you see the world in a new way — and moved you to share it with others.
At Apple, we have the privilege of partnering with creators of all kinds, while building products and services that enable even more creativity. Our mission has always been to enrich people’s lives and to leave the world better than we found it, and we know that takes more than technical skill. It requires leading with our values in everything we do. We believe that our products and services should be made for everyone. We believe that privacy is a fundamental human right, and that our highest obligation to our customers is security. We believe that a culture where everybody belongs can drive innovation, and that we must stand up for the change we want to see in the world.
When we started Apple TV+ a few years ago, we did so to tell stories that reflect our broader humanity. And whether it was CODA winning the Oscar for Best Picture or Ted Lasso winning back-to-back Emmys for Best Comedy, we have seen, in so many ways, the validation of this kind of storytelling and the strong desire for more of it. |
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Practice makes a man perfect. This quote applies in all of our lives situations. Be it any field only by practicing you follow the learning curve. Technologies such as data…
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Intermediaries in accelerating transitions: Introduction to the special issue
Other text in scientific journal, 2020
Energy
Diffusion
Sustainability Transitions
Intermediary actors
Acceleration
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Paula Kivimaa
Finnish Environment Institute
University of Sussex
Anna Bergek
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Environmental Systems Analysis
Kaisa Matschoss
University of Helsinki
Harro van Lente
Maastricht University
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
22104224 (ISSN) 22104232 (eISSN)
Vol. 36 372-377The roles of intermediaries in the transition to a sustainable energy system
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Last week, Cannes Lions celebrated its 64th International Festival of Creativity. Every year – and this year was no different – there’s discussion around the role of creative now and in the future of digital advertising. Even more relevant today, given questions raised about the evolution of the festival itself – is Cannes Lions still about creativity, or has the influence of technology – programmatic, AI, VR – and influx of AdTech companies attending, taken away the creative charm of Cannes?
Many hold the belief that creative has been lost within the digital advertising landscape and that the growing influence of technology and programmatic advertising has killed the magic. But has creative just lost its way? Consumer content consumption is ever evolving and programmatic technology is simply addressing this shift. Programmatic allows brands to harness their data to achieve the mantra that customer communications must deliver the message, at the right time, to the right person. Of course, context and timing is key, but it is vital the creative content is aligned and fit for multiple platforms. It needs to speak and resonate with the audience.
Marketers need to utilize new media, to create fresh advertising that captivates audiences on the different devices content is being consumed. In this fragmented landscape – where the consumer is always connected, but not always engaged – the creative needs to be compelling enough to attract the attention of a person in a five-second environment or in a true view – an in-stream ad which allows viewers to skip pre or mid roll – for example. Executing exciting and inspiring creative programmatically across these formats is key to more effective and engaging advertising.
Programmatic is addressing the rapid evolution of content consumption, but to truly connect with a consumer throughout their journey, across all touch points, there’s a little way to go. Dynamic creative optimization – changing creative based on audience reaction –addresses the fact that the one-ad-fits-all approach doesn’t work. But sequential advertising is the next stage in engaging the tech-savvy consumer. The ability to use customer data to sequentially serve different ads to nurture them along their journey – across devices – is what the industry is working on solving.
With the paramount role digital now plays in the advertising world, Cannes Lions has made changes to reflect this shift. In 2011 they dropped ‘Advertising’ for ‘Creativity’ in the festival name. In 2015, they introduced the Cannes Lions Innovation Festival – which celebrates how data and technology can enable creativity – and launched the Creative Data Lion award category. But with the growing presence of the world’s largest tech companies in Cannes, I can see how creative feels like it is being overshadowed by the big tech players, and a sense of balance needs to be restored.
Examples of advertising showcased at this year’s Cannes do exemplify how the marrying of creative and technology is progressing to disrupt and engage audiences.
Take for example ‘Creative Data – Data Storytelling Gold Lion’ winner “AiMEN” – a disruptive social ad campaign launched by network Canal+ to draw audiences for new series ‘The Young Pope’. Show fans will know that Pope Pius XIII, played by Jude Law, is not your conventional pope, so to reflect this and to capture the attention of a social-tech savvy generation, they created “AiMEN” – short for “Papal Artificial Intelligence” – a super-powered pope bot.
Using AI intelligence, the “pope bot” trails social platforms to spread the word of the Bible and it’s versus, commenting as Pope Pius on people’s statuses who need a righteous reminding.
This is tech and creative working together at its finest. AI technology reacting to real-time events to activate disruptive personal creative that resonates in a modern tech world, to successfully raise awareness and engagement at scale for a TV series launch.
So, what is the role of creative now and in the future of digital advertising? Creative is and always will be essential to marketing success. But it is vital that marketers work closely with programmatic specialists to push the boundaries of creative innovation through automation. This means testing the creative; using insights to drive creative selection and placement; personalizing the creative execution; combining channels and tactics and finally, reacting to real-time changes.
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Deventer, May 15, 2024 – leading pure-play R&D tax credit and grant advisory and software provider, Vindsubsidies, is unveiling its new company rebrand, marking the significant progress on international expansion and strong organic and inorganic growth. Proud to partner with entrepreneurs, education institutions, large enterprise and governments, Ignite Group is building toward its vision to be the category-leading, AI -powered advisory and technology partner to the European innovation economy.
- Over the last 3 years, the Group’s global turnover has consistently grown at a 50%+ CAGR
- The global workforce has increased by >3x in 3 years
- The group has grown to be present in 4 countries with 10 offices
- Ignite has successfully submitted >20,000 RD tax credit applications for >2,500 organization
More than 25 years of experience with over 190 experts
In the past 2.5 years, Vindsubsidies has successfully executed on its buy-and-build thesis, acquiring 6 companies to solidify its market position and deliver enhanced customer value. CEO Henk Heerink states, “With 10 branches in the Netherlands and Germany, it is time to bring the underlying brands together under one name. Ignite Group combines the in-depth expertise of a number of renowned players in the R&D tax credit and grant market.” This results in a unique full-service offering covering the full R&D tax credit and grant application lifecycle.
A new level of full-service
Ignite Group provides advice on provincial, national, and European grants and has various vertical-specific teams covering sectors including IT, life sciences, energy and manufacturing. In addition to R&D tax credit and grant advisory services, Ignite Group offers a suite of proprietary workflow management solutions. Leveraging its tech-enablement and employee base of 190 R&D tax credit and grant experts, Ignite Group can effectively support its customers in navigating the increasingly complex subsidy landscape.
Proprietary suite of digital solutions
One of Ignite Group’s differentiating factors, alongside its full-service offering, are its proprietary digital solutions. “We are amongst the leading tech-enabled R&D tax credit and grant advisory firms in Europe,” Henk continues. “Our leading database provides insight into and unlocks thousands of regional, national, and European grants.”
Prepared for the future
Over the last few years, Ignite Group has significantly invested in talent and innovation to enhance the customer value proposition, create a great place to work and enable accelerated growth. SilverTree Managing Partner, John Messamore comments “Ignite Group is set to continue to deliver mission-critical software and services to Europe’s most innovative companies, leveraging its talented consultants and proprietary technology.” Nicholas Theuerkauf, Managing Partner of SilverTree, adds “the rebranding to Ignite Group provides a strong foundation for further growth toward building a European-wide, tech-enabled innovation leader,” Cees van den Heijkant, Chair of the Board, further adds: “It is great to see what happens when you bring together so much expertise. A team of professionals truly delivering expert work to deliver value for their customers across the entire subsidy landscape”
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When Michael Marks and Tom Spencer became partners in 1894, they could not have imagined what they were creating.
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Their energy, drive, and enthusiasm laid the foundations for the development of a business, which has now become one of the UK’s leading retail chains with a unique market position. Information technology provides the means for delivering services.
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The communication between machines of different kinds sometimes cause troubles and inaccurate signal decoding results.
Advancements in technology – including machine-to-machine communications between smart sensors, referred to as ‘The Internet of Things’. For example, appliances in the home that can be monitored and controlled wirelessly by the homeowner wherever they are.
The potential market for servers and networking equipment development is still unstable and shrinks every year.
Market development – increasing market share in new markets such as servers and networking equipment. ARM’s technology is well placed to provide lower power options to transport, distribute, analyse and store data across the internet.
Demand for energy efficient technology – the market demands high performance products using low power technology.
This case study will demonstrate how ARM’s strategies contribute to the achievement of its business vision, aims and objectives using an integrated approach focusing on innovation, its people and its network of partners.
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Food Stock Management enhances key information enabling them to respond swiftly and flexibly to supply issues.
New multiple site connectivity
We use a newly developed technology to connect sites that are based on different types of servers and networks, SiteConnect, which helps to reduce the misinterpretation of signals as well as the loss of data during transfering.
IT security & software
To keep your systems, your devices, and network stay secure, we have developed a new program that limits the access of suspicious objects or people and authenticate all logins to the system.
Weak hosted capability
Some hosts are unaware of the potential risks as well as security loopholes in their system. By detecting these errors and taking prompt actions on improving firewalls, we can upgrade the system security.
Build internal network
The internal network is essential for all companies and corporations, especially for those working in IT sector. To avoid possible risks when sharing internal confidential files and documentation to an external receiver, internal network must be strong. |
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Innovation and Change
Meet Professor Desirée Pacheco: Shaping a sustainable future through entrepreneurship
Let’s start at the beginning, can you tell us a little bit about your background, and how you got to where you are today? I grew up on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico and left after college to start a career in management consulting. But the more time I spent in consulting projects, the…
Innovation and Change
IESE's Technology Transfer Group Recognized by AACSB for "Innovation That Inspires"
IESE's Barcelona Technology Transfer Group (BTTG) has been recognized by AACSB International for its innovative efforts to elevate entrepreneurial thinking and encourage new business creation. The AACSB, the world's largest business education alliance, recognized 25 business schools from 12 countries for a wide range of innovation projects, which emphasize research, experiential learning, cross-disciplinary efforts, and community…
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Symbiosis, the Concept Behind the Platform of Opportunity Network
It is no secret that the irruption of the internet has transformed our society and businesses, boosting boundless interaction. This context of digital transformation has been the ideal breeding ground for a new type of relationship: a close and long-term interaction between two or more different agents that is mutualistic or commensalistic, where the parts… |
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"The most exciting companies create. They give us new ways of living, thinking, or doing business, many times solving a problem we didn't know we had -- or a problem we didn't pay attention to because we never thought there was another way," explain the four authors of the dynamic new book, Play Bigger.
They add that, "the most exciting companies sell us different. They introduce the world to a new category of product or service." And, they become category kings. Examples of category kings are Amazon, Salesforce, Uber and IKEA.
Play Bigger is all about the strategy that builds category kings. And, to be a category king you need to be good at category design:
- Category design is the discipline of creating and developing a new market category, and conditioning the market so it will demand your solution and crown your company as its king.
- Category design is the opposite of "build it and they will come."
Key traits of category design, explain the authors, are:
- A strategy that starts with your CEO and his/her leadership team identifying the right category to create.
- A combination of both product and ecosystem design. A product that provides the solution to an urgent and giant problem. And an environment around that product that wins loyalty and gratitude for that product and your company.
- Being sure your category design is part of your company culture.
- Creating a powerful and provocative story that causes customers or users to make a choice. A story that evokes something different from what came before, not just better.
- A combination of marketing, public relations, and advertising all focused on conditioning the market to desire and need whatever you're giving it.
- Ensuring all of the above components work together, in lockstep, feeding off each other.
"Category design is a process. One thing leads to another and it builds on itself," explain the authors.
Play Bigger provides you the playbook you need to learn how to become a category king. It's essential for entrepreneurs wanting to change the landscape. And, a must-read for CEO's who want to reimagine their businesses.
As you read the playbook, you'll learn:
- Why it takes courage to build a category.
- What makes category king companies enduring and attractive to investors.
- How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies.
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The University of Liverpool has been shortlisted for three Praxis Auril Knowledge Exchange 2023 Awards recognising the high standards of UK Knowledge Exchange (KE) and the people, partnerships, deals and initiatives that underpin this world-class activity.
The University’s partnership with the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has been shortlisted as a finalist in the KE Strategic Partnership category. CPI is a UK-based deep tech organisation and recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Liverpool to deliver a broad range of research and knowledge exchange projects.
Dr Srijan Jindal, Chief Scientific Officer for University spin-out PhenUtest, has been shortlisted for the Academic Entrepreneur Award. PhenUtest was founded in 2021 and is developing rapid urinary tract infection diagnostic tests to reduce the number of incorrectly prescribed antibiotics and help combat the rise of antimicrobial resistance.
The Civic Data Cooperative (CDC) is a finalist for the Place-based KE Initiative of the Year Award. The CDC was co-created with residents and local organisations in 2020, supported by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, and drives data-action innovation with local organisations and businesses to improve public services, health and well-being.
The University is a member of PraxisAuril, the professional association for Knowledge Exchange practitioners. Their global network provides support and training to universities, private and public sector research organisations. The PraxisAuril Knowledge Exchange Awards recognise the people and partnerships that underpin knowledge exchange activities, celebrating outstanding performance, and the winners will be announced on Thursday, 23 November.
The nominations were supported by the Research Partnership and Innovation (RPI) Directorate, who support knowledge exchange and partnership activities across the University. The RPI team works closely with faculties and other professional services to provide support at every stage of the research, impact and knowledge exchange process and engage with collaborators, partners and funders.
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Further information and access to university-wide KE professional service support can be found on our KE support internal webpages here. |
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Close to half a century ago, Peter Drucker – the Management Guru wrote: As the purpose of business is to create customers, any business enterprise has two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Drucker’s concept is so fundamental in nature that it will possibly never change, ever.
That innovation is the lifeblood of pharma industry is well-accepted by most people, if not all. However, when similar discussion focuses on pharma marketing, the industry virtually exposes itself in the line of fire, apparently from all directions. This trend, coupled with a few more in other areas, is making a significant dent in the reputation of the pharma industry, triggering a chain of events that create a strong headwind for business growth.
The consequences of such dent in pharma reputation get well-reflected in an article titled “How Pharma Can Fix Its Reputation and Its Business at the Same Time,” published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) on February 3, 2017. The author observed:
“This worrisome mix of little growth potential and low reputation is the main explanation for why investors are increasingly interested in how pharma companies manage access-to-medicine opportunities and risks, which range from developing new treatments for neglected populations and pricing existing products at affordable levels to avoiding corruption and price collusion.”
On the above backdrop, this article will try to explore the relevance of Drucker’s ‘marketing’ concept in the pharma business – dispassionately. Alongside, I shall also deliberate on the possibility of a general misunderstanding, or misinterpretation of facts related to ‘pharma marketing’ activities, as these are today.
Communicating the intrinsic value of medications:
Moving in this direction, let me recapitulate what ‘pharma marketing’ generally does for the patients – through the doctors.
Despite being lifeblood that carries the intrinsic value of a medication from research lab to manufacturing plants and finally to patients, ‘pharma marketing’ is, unfortunately under incessant public criticism. It continues to happen, regardless of the fact that one of the key responsibilities of pharma players is to disseminate information on their drugs to the doctors, for the benefits of patients.
One may justifiably question any ‘marketing practice’ that is not patient-friendly. However, the importance of ‘marketing’ in the pharma business can’t just be wished away – for patients’ sake.
Way back in 1994, the article titled, “The role and value of pharmaceutical marketing” captured its relevance, aptly articulated:
“Pharmaceutical marketing is the last element of an information continuum, where research concepts are transformed into practical therapeutic tools and where information is progressively layered and made more useful to the health care system. Thus, transfer of information to physicians through marketing is a crucial element of pharmaceutical innovation. By providing an informed choice of carefully characterized agents, marketing assists physicians in matching drug therapy to individual patient needs. Pharmaceutical marketing is presently the most organized and comprehensive information system for updating physicians about the availability, safety, efficacy, hazards, and techniques of using medicines.”
The above relevance of ‘pharma marketing’, whether globally or locally, remains unchanged, even today, and would remain so, at least, in the foreseeable future.
It’s a serious business:
As many would know, in many respect ‘pharma marketing’, especially of complex small and large molecules, is quite a different ball game, altogether. It’s markedly different from marketing activities in most other industries, including Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), where customers and consumers are generally the same.
In contrast, in prescription drug market customers are not the consumers. In fact, most consumers of any prescription medicine don’t really know much, either about the drugs or their prices. They get to know about their costs while actually paying for those directly or indirectly. Healthcare providers, mostly in those countries that provide Universal Healthcare (UHC) in any form, may also be customers for the drug manufacturers. Even Direct to Consumer (DTC) drug advertisements, such as in the United States, can’t result into a direct choice for self-medication, other than Over the Counter (OTC) drugs.
Additionally, pharma market is highly regulated with a plethora of Do’s and Don’ts, unlike most other industries. Thus, for the drug manufacturers, medical professionals are the real customers, whereas patients are the consumers of medicines, as and when prescribed by doctors.
With this perspective, ‘Pharma marketing’ assumes a critical importance. It is too serious a strategic business process to be jettisoned by any. There exists a fundamental responsibility for the drug manufacturers to communicate important information on various aspects of drugs to individual physicians, in the interest of patients. This has to happen, regardless of any controversy in this regard, though the type of communication platforms, contents used and the degree of leveraging technology in this process may widely vary from company to company.
Assuming that the marketing practices followed by the industry players would be ethical and the regulators keep a strict vigil on the same, effective marketing of a large number of competing molecules or similar brand increases competition, significantly. In that process, it should ultimately enable physicians to prescribe drugs that will suit each patient the most, in every way. There can’t possibly be any other alternative to this concept.
A common allegation:
Despite these, a common allegation against ‘pharma marketing’ keeps gathering momentum. Reports continue pouring in that pharma companies spend far more on marketing drugs than on developing them. One such example is a stinging article, published by the BBC News on November 6, 2014.
Quoting various published reports as evidence, this article highlighted that – 9 out of 10 large pharma players spend more on marketing than R&D. These examples are generally construed as testimony for the profiteering motive of the pharma companies.
Is the reason necessarily so?
As any other knowledge-based industry, effective communication process of complex product information with precision, to highly knowledgeable medical professionals individually, obviously makes pharma marketing cost commensurately high. If the entire process of marketing remains fair, ethical and patient centric, such costs may get well-neutralized by the benefits accrued from the medicines, including lesser cost of drugs driven by high competition.
Further, a successful pharma marketing campaign is the ultimate tool that ensures a reasonable return on investments for further fund allocation, although in varying degree, to offer more new drugs to patients – both innovative and generics.
Marketing decision-support data generation is also cost-intensive:
Achieving short, medium and long-term growth objectives are as fundamental in pharma as in any other business. This prompts that investments made on ‘pharma marketing’, fetch commensurate returns, year after year. To succeed in this report, one of the prime requirements is to ensure that the content, platform and ultimate delivery of the product communication is based on current and credible research data having statistical significance.
With increasing brand proliferation, especially in competing molecules or branded generic market, arriving at cutting-edge brand differentiation has also become more challenging than ever before. Nevertheless, identification of well-differentiated patient-centric product value offerings will always remain ‘a must’ for any persuasive brand communication to be effective.
It calls for generating a vast amount of custom made decision-support data on each aspect of ‘pharma marketing’, such as target market, target patients, target doctors, competitive environment, differential value offering, and scores of others. The key to success in this effort is to come out with that ‘rare commodity’ that separates men from the boys. This is cost intensive.
What ails pharma marketing, then?
So far so good – the real issue is not, therefore, whether ‘pharma marketing’ deserves to be in the line of fire. The raging debate on what ails ‘pharma marketing’ should primarily focus on – how to ensure that this process remains ethical and fair, for all.
Thus, when criticism mounts on related issues, it may not necessarily mean that ‘marketing’ is avoidable in the pharma business. Quite often, critics do mix-up between the crucial ‘importance of pharma marketing’ and ‘malpractices in pharma marketing.’ Consequently, public impressions take shape, believing that the pharma marketing expenses are generally higher due to malpractices with profiteering motives.
As a result, we come across reports that draw public attention with conclusions like: “Imagine an industry that generates higher profit margins than any other and is no stranger to multi-billion dollar fines for malpractice.”
A similar article published ‘Forbes’ on February 18, 2015 also reiterates: “The deterioration of pharma’s reputation comes from several sources, not the least of which is the staggering amount of criminal behavior that has resulted in billions of dollars’ worth of fines levied against the industry.”
One cannot deny these reports – lock, stock and barrel, either. Several such articles named many large pharma players, both global and local.
Conclusion:
In my view, only pharma marketers with a ‘can do’ resolve will be able to initiate a change in this avoidable perception. No-one else possibly can do so with a total success in the foreseeable future – not even the requirement of a strict compliance with any mandatory code having legal teeth, such as mandatory compliance of the Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) that the Indian Government is currently mulling.
I guess so because, after a strong deterrent like mandatory UCPMP is put in place, if reports on marketing malpractices continue to surface, it will invite more intense public criticism against ‘pharma marketing’ – pushing the industry’s reputation further downhill, much faster.
Be that as it may, it’s high time for all to realize, just because some pharma players resort to malpractices, the ‘pharma marketing’ process, as such, doesn’t deserve to be in the line of fire – in any way.
By: Tapan J. Ray
Disclaimer: The views/opinions expressed in this article are entirely my own, written in my individual and personal capacity. I do not represent any other person or organization for this opinion. |
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The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. - William Gibson
I recently interviewed Danella Yaptinchay for our series on Philippine Sales Leaders. Danella is head of Sales and Marketing at Bridge Southeast Asia, a leading provider of business technologies for Philippine companies.
I got to work Danella when we ran a course on entrepreneurship at the University of Asia and the Pacific a few years ago. It was the first attempt at running a Lean LaunchPad in the Philippines. Lean LaunchPad is the ground-breaking hands-on entrepreneurial program from the renowned author, entrepreneur and Stanford educator Steve Blank.
It turns out this involvement with the cutting edge is something habitual for Danella. There are many co-working spaces now, but a few years ago, you only had co.lab—which Danella co-founded—and a few others. In her new role at Bridge, she works with a team whose sales tech stack would not be out of place in a Silicon Valley startup.
Let me share some things I learned from Danella—both the innovative practices and the timeless sales principles she follows.
Content Marketing
Content Marketing has been one of the biggest buzzwords in online marketing for the past few years. At its root, though, it is as classical as any sales technique. Content marketing is about giving first before asking. It is about educating and earning trust first before closing.
Despite its simplicity, I have seen very few Philippine companies with an impressive execution of content marketing. Creating content requires deep knowledge of your audience, skill in content creation, and plain hard work. Distribution of content requires an understanding of the online platforms your audience reside in. It requires testing, measurement and iteration.
To me, only one Philippine company that comes to mind when it comes to content marketing: Full Suite, a provider of business services. They created content valuable for their target market—business owners—and had systematic content distribution and clear entrances to their sales funnel. Danella was and is their Managing Director. She shared that they worked with Spiralytics, one of the top digital agencies based in the Philippines but operating worldwide.
I have a couple of take-aways from this: 1) All seemingly new sales and marketing tactics are rooted in classic principles, rooted in human nature. 2) Paving a new path always has its rewards and risks. Like Danella, you would want to have a great team working with you.
Modern Prospecting
I have talked to hundreds of sales teams in the past few years. I'm from a generation that grew up with the web, so I'm always surprised how some B2B sales teams still brave the traffic of Metro Manila, and do cold door-to-door prospecting.
I have met Danella's sales team through The Science of Sales Philippines. They take full advantage of modern prospecting, mostly through Linkedin. Like most complex B2B selling in the Philippines, they still need to go to the field and build relationships face-to-face. However, they have greatly reduced the grind of reaching the right prospects and breaking that initial ice, using modern prospecting tools.
Sales Recruitment for a Generation Reared with American Idol
In the Philippines, and in many other countries, you still see the old churn-and-burn sales recruitment approach. Get a volume of applicants, throw them in the sales pit or the field, and just wait and see who sinks and who swims.
This is why I made a little fist-pump when I saw the first sales recruitment campaign clearly designed for the generation that grew up with Pilipinas Got Talent, The Ultimate Fighter, and The Voice. The poster appeared both in my Linkedin and Facebook streams. It was a well designed invitation to a sales bootcamp. It was obvious that the program would attract ambitious young people who want to master their craft. The bootcamp was also a clever entry point to a recruitment funnel. It is a beautiful win-win strategy: the participants get hands-on sales training, including those who will not convert into a recruit, and the company gets a self-selecting group that wants to take on challenges and continuously hone their skills.
Guess who was on that poster? Yep, Danella again, living in the future.
I got to work Danella when we ran a course on entrepreneurship at the University of Asia and the Pacific a few years ago. It was the first attempt at running a Lean LaunchPad in the Philippines. Lean LaunchPad is the ground-breaking hands-on entrepreneurial program from the renowned author, entrepreneur and Stanford educator Steve Blank.
It turns out this involvement with the cutting edge is something habitual for Danella. There are many co-working spaces now, but a few years ago, you only had co.lab—which Danella co-founded—and a few others. In her new role at Bridge, she works with a team whose sales tech stack would not be out of place in a Silicon Valley startup.
Let me share some things I learned from Danella—both the innovative practices and the timeless sales principles she follows.
Content Marketing
Content Marketing has been one of the biggest buzzwords in online marketing for the past few years. At its root, though, it is as classical as any sales technique. Content marketing is about giving first before asking. It is about educating and earning trust first before closing.
Despite its simplicity, I have seen very few Philippine companies with an impressive execution of content marketing. Creating content requires deep knowledge of your audience, skill in content creation, and plain hard work. Distribution of content requires an understanding of the online platforms your audience reside in. It requires testing, measurement and iteration.
To me, only one Philippine company that comes to mind when it comes to content marketing: Full Suite, a provider of business services. They created content valuable for their target market—business owners—and had systematic content distribution and clear entrances to their sales funnel. Danella was and is their Managing Director. She shared that they worked with Spiralytics, one of the top digital agencies based in the Philippines but operating worldwide.
I have a couple of take-aways from this: 1) All seemingly new sales and marketing tactics are rooted in classic principles, rooted in human nature. 2) Paving a new path always has its rewards and risks. Like Danella, you would want to have a great team working with you.
Modern Prospecting
I have talked to hundreds of sales teams in the past few years. I'm from a generation that grew up with the web, so I'm always surprised how some B2B sales teams still brave the traffic of Metro Manila, and do cold door-to-door prospecting.
I have met Danella's sales team through The Science of Sales Philippines. They take full advantage of modern prospecting, mostly through Linkedin. Like most complex B2B selling in the Philippines, they still need to go to the field and build relationships face-to-face. However, they have greatly reduced the grind of reaching the right prospects and breaking that initial ice, using modern prospecting tools.
Sales Recruitment for a Generation Reared with American Idol
In the Philippines, and in many other countries, you still see the old churn-and-burn sales recruitment approach. Get a volume of applicants, throw them in the sales pit or the field, and just wait and see who sinks and who swims.
This is why I made a little fist-pump when I saw the first sales recruitment campaign clearly designed for the generation that grew up with Pilipinas Got Talent, The Ultimate Fighter, and The Voice. The poster appeared both in my Linkedin and Facebook streams. It was a well designed invitation to a sales bootcamp. It was obvious that the program would attract ambitious young people who want to master their craft. The bootcamp was also a clever entry point to a recruitment funnel. It is a beautiful win-win strategy: the participants get hands-on sales training, including those who will not convert into a recruit, and the company gets a self-selecting group that wants to take on challenges and continuously hone their skills.
Guess who was on that poster? Yep, Danella again, living in the future. |
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Institution:
Harvard Business School (USA)
Course:
Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
I am extremely grateful for my experience with the ILF. After some encouragement from Geoff Vogt I applied for a grant in 2019. The application and interview process was rigorous but very reasonable and everyone involved was friendly and encouraging. I was awarded the grant right before the pandemic started, and as a result I had to postpone my study until the end of 2023. Even though I was not able to study initially, I still found great value in the ILF through events and networking. Everyone in the network is welcoming and has a wealth of experience and knowledge and I am looking forward to continuing my participation in this group for years to come. I believe we all share a passion to make South Australia the best it can be, and somewhere internationally renowned.
After finally making it over to the Harvard Business School I can say the experience of studying there is something I’ll remember for a lifetime. We learned from some of the best teachers in the world – people with incredible international experience and networks – using the case study method which I found to be fair more engaging and rewarding than traditional study. There are many lessons that I’ve taken back home with me to apply both at Teamgage and with our customers. The course provided clarity around what leadership and innovation really is, and how best to foster innovation across an organisation. There is also something magical about removing yourself from the day to day of your usual role and setting aside time to reflect in a new context, with new perspectives and new ways of thinking.
Another huge part of the value of the course was the group of peers in the program. Our group consisted of 65 participants with a broad range of experience across many industries and geographies. Our group still communicates regularly and I value the connections I made with them.
If you are considering applying for a grant with the ILF, I would strongly encourage you to pursue it. There are many different study options available to you that can meet just about any requirement of topic, form and duration, and you will almost certainly find your experience to be transformative. |
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Decelerando?
Will the Industrial Revolution end not with tranformation but a truce?
This is a question I've considered here before, noting that the true 'accelerando' of the Industrial Revolution peaked about a century ago, and that technologies in general alternate between rapid transformations and much longer periods of maturity and incremental progress.
This subject was lately taken up by Tyler Cowen at his blog Marginal Revolution, and in expanded e-pamphlet form, and as a quick google will show, he has stirred up a hornet's nest of discussion. One reason Cowen has a 'big' blog while this is a 'small' one is that he came up with a snappy title for the phenomenon he discusses, The Great Stagnation.
In a nutshell, argues Cowen, we have already picked much of the low-hanging fruit of technical progress, making what remains harder to come by and thus more expensive. As I noted last fall, the speed of human travel increased in a rather Moore's Law fashion from about 1830 until 1960. In the 50 years since then it has stalled; our jet planes travel at the same speed as first generation jetliners.
More broadly, while we do have the Internet, we don't have household robots, or aircars, or all those other things we were supposed to have in The Future. Nor do we have substitutes or counterparts for most of them. Broadly speaking, except for the mobile phones, a middle class neighborhood of 2011 is broadly similar to one of 1973, the year Cowen picked as reference point (just before the first 'oil shock' and some other trends that made the later 1970s a rough patch).
Some important provisos. A lot more people have the industrial age basics. In 1973, as I am old enough to remember, famine was still an endemic threat to much of the world's population. Now it endangers only the poorest and most marginalized people: a dreadful exception, not a norm. At least half a billion people in China and India alone have, broadly speaking, joined the global middle class in the last decade or so, and probably a similar number in other countries. This is a stupendous increase in human material well-being. But it has to do with the spread of existing technologies, and the institutions that support them. It is an extension of the achieved, not of the possible.
Of course there is the Internet. For sheer coolness it is awesome, and of course it has made this blog possible. But is it really as economically transformative as, say, motor transportation was? In particular, the Internet economy is curiously limited. It has created nothing like the vast pool of fairly well-paying jobs that the auto industry did. It has created a few spectacular fortunes, a few thousand or tens of thousands of impressively well-paying careers, an (unpaid) opportunity for me and the commenters to hold forth to an audience, and allowed millions to either read this blog or - vastly more likely - watch pets and their people do silly things.
Turning from technology and economics to the underlying fundamentals of science, the picture is rather similar. We still don't have a Grand Unified Theory; our physics remains, broadly speaking, a mashup of relativity and quantum mechanics, as it was for most of the past century. Our cutting edge not infrequently cuts right through into metaphysics, offering conceptual possibilities such as bubble universes that we cannot test even in theory.
Space speculation and space SF show much the same trajectory. In 1861 neither one existed. By 1911 they both existed, and Tsiolkovsky had already outlined the principles of multistage, liquid fuel rockets. In 1961 Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth, and the original rocketpunk era of Realistic [TM] space speculation was already being overtaken by events. In 2011 we are still very much within that same framework; alternative techs remain nearly pure speculation.
On the flip side ... there is an oft-repeated story - alas, it seems to be apocryphal - that a mid-19th century patent official recommended closing the patent office on the grounds that everything that could be invented already had been. (The linked blog tartly observes that this involves two improbabilities: that a tech geek would believe such a thing, and that a government bureaucrat would recommend abolishing his own job.)
Inventions are very unlikely to cease, but 'big' ones might well become less common.
Presumably there is some point at which we could know, in broad outline, how the universe really works, leaving nothing truly fundamental to discover. A recent comment thread considered this question, not without some contention.
I am not suggesting anything so sweeping - only that a punctuated equilibrium may be giving way to a new equilibrium. We may have worked our way through most of the broad outlines of science-as-we-know-it, and its major technical implications.
In much the same way, the technological revolution c. 1400-1500 that gave rise to the full-rigged sailing ship gave way to a maturity of more gradual refinement. A seaman of 1400, time-shifted to 1500, would have found ships nearly unrecognizable. A seaman of 1700, shifted to 1800, would have found many improvements but few real surprises.
If so, this has some important social implications. What happens if economic growth rates in this century, at any rate in the most industrialized countries, are markedly lower than they were in the last one? Dividing up the economic pie becomes a much more fraught issue if the pie is no longer getting larger, or only at a glacial rate. 'Creative destruction' will become the exception, not the rule.
Discuss.
The image is a vintage 'muscle car,' a 1966 Pontiac GTO.
196 comments:
Ironically, this cheered me up somewhat, having had to examine (long story) the role that robots will play in our future, and ultimately concluding that through their use of brute-force analysis and eventually more advanced techniques, robots will be able to do anything humans can and better, barring cultural professions (and even they might be still subject to mathematics, the 'perfect joke' being an example) and thus ultimately there is little or no room for humans in any profession or job- we are more advanced, but functionally obselete.
Case in point: a thirty year old Firebee drone outmanourving an F4 on a training excercise. Factor in 40 years of developement and the developement of robots that can think of new scientific theses (at aberystwyth University).
And I don't mean AI either- just a calculating machine, utlilisaing the fact that all the universe is comprised of mathsd (at least to us anyway). Being the ultimate calculating machine, eventually not even the most complex task imaginable will be beyond them. It is only a matter of (a very long) time.
Yes, that is a general broad statement- to but it bluntly, it was meant to be.
Having seen this post, i hope i am seriously wrong.
Maybe robots won't completely replace us afterall...
With respect, I think you are vastly underestimating the economic impact of the internet. You claim it has created only a few tens of thousands of well paying careers. That might be true in the United States, but it ignores the fact that the internet is responsible for an enormous shift in how work is done in this country. Further, hundreds, if not millions of jobs have been created overseas in India, China, Ireland and other countries both to support the internet and to produce the computers, routers, cell phones, etc. that make up our means of accessing the internet.
Prefer the 1970 Plymouth Challenger Trans-Am (w/ 340 six-pack) myself.
There are some fields that I think could explode and reshape the industrial landscape: robotics, biotech, materials engineering, probably others I'm forgetting. Each has a certain momentum at the moment, as we finally start solving some of the problems we identified decades ago and found out just how hard they are.
Robotics in particular seems poised to ramp up massively - we've got enough computing power, and in portable enough platforms, that while we're not going to be making strong AI we have started making useful semi-general-purpose robots. There's something resembling an arms race going on in the field, focused on human-robot interaction and workable environmental navigation, which suggests moving from where's-my-jetpack distance to everyday integration.
Biotech, as well, has made enormous strides in the last decade on the research front. Ever since the Human Genome Project succeeded, we've been collecting all sorts of useful data and chipping away at meaningful modification of basic biological mechanisms (see the synthetic DNA breakthrough a couple months ago).
As for materials, we've made progress on useful nano-scale material construction, edging towards mass-production levels, and the whole field of metamaterials didn't really exist ten years ago. There might be something there.
In general, though, I suspect we're running afoul of the inherent problems with predictions of scientific progress - if we knew what we were looking for, we'd have it already.
Ooooh, this is a good one.
Submitted for your approval...
http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Examines the consequences of high levels of automation in the human economy. Might seem at first like woo-woo future panic but I think he raises some very interesting questions.
This also raises an interesting trope question.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture
While the Cool Starship of the series has fully automated food dispensers, and artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are realities, indentured servitude and slavery of sapient beings is still widespread, and the most common slave occupation by far in The Future (TM) is the lowly miner. Why mining? Because cave sets are cheap and easily redressed to represent different planets. However, we have to ask ourselves why such technologically advanced civilizations (presumably capable of building automated robot mines) choose to be so dependent on manual labor as to indenture or enslave thousands, even millions of sapient beings instead of applying technological solutions which are cheaper, more efficient, and more humane.
This is done to keep humans in the story and relevant. But what happens if you don't do that? What if you let humans become irrelevant?
This is a story from 1909.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted but unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine called the speaking apparatus, with which people conduct their only activity, the sharing of ideas and knowledge. The two main characters, Vashti and her son Kuno, live on opposite sides of the world. Vashti is content with her life, which, like most inhabitants of the world, she spends producing and endlessly discussing secondhand 'ideas'. Kuno, however, is a sensualist and a rebel. He persuades a reluctant Vashti to endure the journey (and the resultant unwelcome personal interaction) to his cell. There, he tells her of his disenchantment with the sanitized, mechanical world. He confides to her that he has visited the surface of the Earth without permission, and without the life support apparatus supposedly required to endure the toxic outer air, and that he saw other humans living outside the world of the Machine. However, the Machine recaptured him, and he has been threatened with 'Homelessness', that is, expulsion from the underground environment and presumed death. Vashti, however, dismisses her son's concerns as dangerous madness and returns to her part of the world.
Ironically, this cheered me up somewhat, having had to examine (long story) the role that robots will play in our future, and ultimately concluding that through their use of brute-force analysis and eventually more advanced techniques, robots will be able to do anything humans can and better, barring cultural professions (and even they might be still subject to mathematics, the 'perfect joke' being an example) and thus ultimately there is little or no room for humans in any profession or job- we are more advanced, but functionally obselete.
I have this same problem, not just looking into the real world future but also the fictional future. I'm having trouble imagining the occupations people might have in various speculative future scenarios. As near as I can figure it's either an automated future where everyone has a guaranteed minimum income and people are free to follow their bliss or it's 90% unemployment with the elites handing out just enough bread and circuses to prevent an Egypt-style mass uprising. It's a vastly unsatisfying life of low expectations and bitter disappointment.
For my own scifi setting, there will be a cultural prohibition against VR addiction aka holodecadence which is strong a taboo as incest and cannibalism. That keeps most of civilization out of amusing itself to death. But a few hundred years in the future, what will the average bloke be doing? I'm having trouble coming up with answers that are satisfying. 20th century ... well, at this point early 21st century living transported hundreds of years in the future feels like the only thing I can be sure we won't see.
Maybe that's our McGuffinte: boredom and automation. "Earth's got nothing left to do, so let's go do something neat on Mars." (Wishful thinking, I know, but hey.)
As a compliment to the robotic nation argument....
Super-advanced robot pr0n for y'all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C62JSgJo39E&feature=related
The self-driving vehicles were something I never thought we'd see, too difficult to ever make practical. They're coming.
And just look at these industrial bots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syYHTFZxU7k&feature=related
Where's the need for skilled human labor at this point? Making sandwiches?
Nope, there's a bot for that. "Sudo make me a sammich."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQOkMz3kiS0
How long until Subway workers are replaced by bots that do a better job of fixing a sub?
Unless non-invasive BCI's mean that a synthesis of human and robot mean that- somhow, a human and robot working in collbration are superior to a robot or human on their own.
Pulled out of the air I know, and probably unlikely, but I have in one setting a BCI influenced world in which a factory worker can instinctively calculate distances and measurements better than a robot thanks to the BCI. The robot checks and takes over when fatigue kicks in, with the human in turn checking and correcting the robot when it has made a sub-atomically small mistake.
Pilots in aircraft that have to manouvre at robot tolerance lev4els of g are safely immersed in the highest quality acceleration tanks.
Humans work with robots in nano-forges and thing printers to manipulate matter on the sub-atomic level to bind it together in the most efficient way to form the product.
And, yes, warfare involves humans and robots together on the front-lines, as the light speed lag and reactions times prohibit a remote command centre even afew miles behind the lines.
As for cars, humans can leave it to the robots, but might drive out of sheer enjoyment (or keeping their brain active). That's what a robot does in this point in the future history, offer choice, not force humans out of a purpose other than mere/sheer existence.
Voila! far-future drama with humans and no AI needed.
:)
of coure, this will NEVER be matched in the real world. Good from a warfighting perspective, but ultimately, for other sectors I would struggle to accept this.
:(
I read the article.
Author says that all jobs will be replaced (inventer, actors, all). THEN states that there will be time for more authors and inventors to be creative. A contradiction and unfairly placed hope spot.
I have to agree with the above comments on the economic impact of the internet. Sure, a lot of people just use it as another 'gee whiz' entertainment machine, but its practical impact is a very real thing. It allows the exchange of ideas from all over the globe instantaneously. Many attribute the Renaissance to the advent of the printing press and the widespread communication it enabled. The internet may very well end up allowing another such revolution of thought. Economically and personally, it's a very big step forward in globalization.
Also, another factor that will contribute to this century's economic paradigm shift is the coming population bust. I don't if you've read any of George Friedman's books -- particularly (now what amateur futurist can resist that title?). His comments on how a plateauing and (after the middle of the century) declining world population will completely alter the way we think of the global system. The population bust is probably the most under-rated future trend of this century and one that most of people are completely unaware of.
Great post as always!
Oops, lost the book title (The Next Hundred Years) in my post.
Below is a link to the book on Amazon, for those not familiar with it:
http://www.amazon.com/Next-100-Years-Forecast-Century/dp/0767923057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297563734&sr=8-1
Regarding brain computer interfaces...
I've been playing around with the implications of that. I'm thinking the net result of that could be Charles Atlas superpowers. That's the TV trope for supremely trained normal humans like a Batman as opposed to a mutant or someone bitten by a radioactive spider or an alien from a planet with a red sun. Someone like Batman, if written with some restraint, can do things that are within the realms of possibility but remain unlikely. No one could have such precise timing, such accurate control over his own body, perfect timing, etc. But someone with the computer-assisted nervous system would operate beyond the realm of human ability and now it's simply a question of physics. We're talking Lone Ranger territory, shooting guns out of the hands of bad guys, intricate acrobatics, etc.
And beyond the realm of combat, we're talking about having access to the entirety of human knowledge sitting right there inside your skull. Terminator vision, flagging things for your attention, knowledge flooding into your mind. Do you know how to fly that shuttle? Wait a sec.. ok, now you do.
Now there's the question of where the drama comes from for someone who's that awesome. It comes down to nerves. Me as a person, I'm very risk-adverse. I hate hate hate hate hate things like gambling. Turns my stomach. And this is talking about small sums of money being on the line, not my safety and well-being. It doesn't matter if you're a brain-rigged badass if you're also still mortal. There's also the question of being able to use the BCI properly. Plenty of ways to screw up, spook yourself, get killed.
RE the impact of the internet -- it's the gutenberg press 2.0. It makes the free dissemination of ideas even easier.
There was an interesting TED Talk where they had a speaker via skype calling in from an African slum. They have internet and are putting into practice things they're learning from it. They have access to the knowledge of the world.
You've got people claiming Egypt is the twitter revolution and you've got naysayers shooting right back saying that's the west trying to interject themselves into the story and finding the dumbest, most superficial takeaway. And the first side says no, this is more than hype. We'll have to see.
We may be at the begining of a shift in our technology; just as we shifted from wind/water/muscle power to fuel/mechanical power and electrical devices, we now could be shifting to bio-and nano-technologies. What will be the next 'accelerando' and when it will begain? It could be next year or next century. This technological platau won't last forever, but until another tech-explosion happens, things might be on the dismal side.
On the other hand, people use the internet for communication and exchanging of ideas...just look what happened in the middle east this last couple of weeks; people used the internet and other modern communications to spontaniously organise revolutions that have deposed two governments, so far. Sometimes we invent a tool, and then take quite a while to discover what it's best used for...
Ferrell
jollyreaper:
Brain-computer interfaces don't really work that way. They're more a mechanism to provide input to a computer than to produce computer-aided output to the human body.
Other bodies, though - whole different kettle of fish. Where BCIs lead, eventually, is not optimized bodies but extensible bodies. Hot-swappable brains. Vehicles (and robots!) as extensions of self. Maybe that fabled cyberspace we've been expecting all this time.
Certainly would be a sea change from our current technological plateau.
Blaine M:
I always make sure to take a tablespoon of salt when reading anything by Friedman. He's terribly earnest in his insistence on the supremacy of a narrow economic model, despite plenty of evidence the world doesn't actually work that way.
Well, brain computer interfaces would work however they're designed to work. I suppose one would make a distinction between whether it's simply a means of replacing spoken and typed instructions to a computer rather than a nervous system upgrade.
But yeah, with tech like this, humans would appear psionic. You'd effectively have telepathy, telekinesis (for objects with internal means of locomotion), ESP since data streams from all over the place could be fed directly into your skull...
Depending upon the mythology, sometimes gods have total omniscience where they know what you're doing even if you're completely alone but other mythologies have the gods depend upon spies, often times animals. But the general idea is something living has to observe something and then report back. Well, that's pretty much what you'd have with literal spy bugs. You can search all you want but you can never be sure you've caught all of the other guy's spies.
jollyreaper:
No, I mean that taking input from the nervous system is a different problem than directing coherent output to it. We may be able to do both, but the first is what we're already starting to do now.
When we have the second, there are no such things as paraplegics anymore...
The internet has changed what a lot of people do, and some have become very rich in the transitional confusion. Some have also lost a lot, some the shirts off their backs. But, like every previous change in how people do commerce, things will settle out. Then the next change will happen, and fortunes will be made, and livelihoods lost again.
Off-topic now, but...
"To assist the pilot, the landing [Lockheed] U-2 is paced by a chase car (usually a 'souped-up' performance model including a Ford Mustang SSP, Chevrolet Camaro B4C, Pontiac GTO, and the Pontiac G8) with an assistant (another U-2 pilot) who 'talks' the pilot down by calling off the declining height of the aircraft in feet as it decreases in airspeed." (from Wikipedia)
Possible? Of course. Achieved? With great difficulty. Practical? Give me a break.
Even without BCIs, technologies such as augmented/virtual reality and gesture recognition (involving wii remote-like devices, haptic interfaces, or lasers detecting eye movement) could be used for many of the applications that people have been suggesting. Reaction times might be slightly longer, since a person would have to move their eyes or hand to give an instruction rather than simply thinking it. However, human-robot cooperation in factory work, remote control of interchangable robot bodies for leisure, tourism or dangerous activities, and control of high-g aircraft from acceleration tanks would all still be possible.
R.C.
I think I can agree with what Jollyreaper's saying on the evolution of the internet, coupled with the integration with humanity. I personally consider the Ghost in the Shell anime series (not the films, they are more speculative) to be an excellent vision of this integration.
In Ghost in the Shell, Charles Atlas Superpowers are basically possible with artificial bodies and external memories for our brains. Regardless the implementation of such technology in real life, the series is very good at imagining what it means for the characters (and, by extension, society). Also, they did a beautiful job of visualizing the interface. Not that it would look like that in real life, but thanks to the visualization, they made it imaginable.
I also agree with those that said the internet was extremely influential. If you read up on "Medium Theory", as propounded by J. Meyrowitz and others, it becomes very tempting to frame the evolution of human societies as the evolution of mediums of communication. From pure verbal transmission, to carving in stone, to the invention of books, then print, after that television and radio, and currently the internet, "Medium Theory" provides an excellent method of combining that with the course of human history, and the influences of those on one another.
In that respect, yes, I do think the internet is doing a bloody good job of transforming human society. As one of the characters from Ghost in the Shell put it, it's possible to consider the internet as part of a new Basis on which a Superstructure can be built.
On the notion of Accelerando/deccelerando, I think the whole idea of BCI is a trend that we can already see happening. Look at the current generation of devices being released. Cell phones, netbooks, notepads, mp3-players and laptops are increasingly merging. The various devices are no longer distinct machines, but rather various iterations of the same machine: one which is a media player (in the broadest sense) a communication device (what with things like Facebook, Twitter, msn, telephonic communications and skype increasingly being just facets of one another, and increasingly merging together), and most importantly, hooked up to the internet to enable all that.
This merger of media, machines and modes of communication is the current trend. Who knows what direction it will take? Ghost in the Shell-style cyberbrains and BCI looks to be a distinct possibility, however it may be a little too "linear" = an extension of current trends, and not taking into account the merger of, say, biotechnology.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling ^_^
From the point of view of the bic/macguffin wearer, they would not be superpowered mrotals however, as everyoen would have access to this sort of technology- to avoid information overload however (I'm assuming brains can't alwyas instantly download knowledge from an external source) traditional learning and visualisation of the downloaded knowledge.
Almost all necessary work has been replaced by automation, but humans are beginning to intrude on that realm, using their macguffin devices to imrpove the efficiency of the robots and making things even better for themselves and the economy.
Capabilities to think extra fast (in effect slowing down time) for short periods and enter one vast virtual reality (a developement of the internet) for research and communication also factor.
The human body does nevertheless have limits. For the time being, I'm avoiding "brains in jars" in robots and the like- some consciousnes transference might occur.
The one thing I WILL avoid is some culture/Federation copy where humans are in a utopia and all cared for by robots with unlimited resources. There will be flaws apparent to the characters in the setting.
Re Geoffry S H: "everyone would have access to this sort of technology": only if everyone could afford it. Economic viability seems like a very important factor. We all know the standard scenario of a tiny upper class that can afford the benefits of it all, with a lower class that can't. Personally, I think that scenario is a hyperbolic simplification, if only because the middle class got left out for convenience.
Nevertheless, today already we can see that, despite the huge growth of the internet, it's still factually limited to those that can afford a computer with a connection. The segment of the world's population which is disenfranchised in this way is much bigger than the enfranchised. And it's painful that despite the incredible innovations the internet has brought us, this means that a majority has a voice that cannot be heard this way.
On the growing role of robots in the economy, it must have been noticed that they primarily replace humans in industry, right? The segment of the economy that provides services (like attending a shop, taking care of people in the medical sector, or even ordinary postmen) still require people.
Could it be possible to divide the areas where humans work up into distinct "sectors" (such as the industry vs. the service-sector), ordered by a scale of likely automation, to unlikely? We could then say "Robots will be present first in sector A of the economy, but only in sector B or C at a much later time, after many advance".
You'd then have an incremental decrease in the value of human presence in various segments/"sectors" of the economy. Depening on the time scale, you could easily write SF set at a certain point where you will see people working at B, but not at A, for example.
I don't think I'm explaining this right, does anyone understand what I'm trying to say?
Geoffrey:
Given the substantial (I'd say nigh-impossible) technological barriers to consciousness transfer, I would bet a lot of money that we'll see brains in jars longs before we see uploading.
Chris:
I don't think we can construct a neat and tidy progression of roboticized industries. That sort of thing is too heavily dependent on the specifics.
Yeah, but still it's easy to see how heavy industry got roboticized first, since the various jobs on the assembly line are easy to compartmentalize and hand over to relatively simple robots doing monotonous task. I brought it up because I read a proposal somewhere that in the near future, it simply will be far more common in the West to find jobs in the services-sector rather than in the industrial sector of the economy. If this isn't already true today.
So therefore I figured you should be able to map this: first heavy industry got roboticized, and not the services (again, think postmen, clerks at stores, etc). We're also seeing elements of warfare being tasked to robots, but I don't think they really "count", since UAVs are not really autonomous, but are primarily controlled via remote.
However, if consensus here is that UAV's do count, then my theory goes to ***, because roboticizing industry, then warfare, but not services is at least less intuitive as a linear progression.
I propose that the progression of robotics would be this:
First the secondary sector, which is the industry. The car industry, but also textile or chemical and engineering seems to be easiest to automate.
Secondly the primary sector (farming, fishing, animal husbandry) comes up for automation. I can easily imagine combine harvesters getting the "UAV treatment", as it were, with the farmer controlling the machines from the comfort of a desk, with a personal computer enabling him to do so.
But if we can automate combine harvesters and remove the need for manual labor on the land, the Tertiary industry will be third to get roboticized: sales (retail and wholesale), transportation and distribution, and entertainment have already been automated in fiction to death (robot trucks and CGI porno are both becoming quite real already).
Lastly, the quarternary sector will be roboticized. This sector deals with intellectual endeavours, and would mark the point where human affairs in the economy are truly no longer needed.
Obviously, the flaw in this neat little scheme is that I had to swap the secondary and primary sectors in the grand scale of things to fit real-life developments we've seen so far... Farming definately didn't get automated before the car industry within the context of this discussion.
However, if we alter the conditions on "automation" or roboticization for the sake of argument... but that would probably be a trivial discussion
"Given the substantial (I'd say nigh-impossible) technological barriers to consciousness transfer, I would bet a lot of money that we'll see brains in jars longs before we see uploading."
Technologically speaking, most definately. Culturally speaking....
I wouldn't say itsd certain.
So if/when robots replace humanity in everything... what then?
Remember, we're not talking about AI's ala- the Culture that care for humans like pets and use them when needed. We are talking about unthinking machines that would be VERY difficult to write about drama-wise. If robots can even manage all creative aspects of our culture as well... what then? yes, for the foreseeable future it is unlikely, but if a robot could even write poetry through its application of mathematics, and ultimately do it better than a human, and then criticise and analyse that work (thus removing our role even as spectators), are merely drones whose thoughts are ultimately substandared and unwelcome?
Sorry, that was meant to say "Are WE merely drones..."
One possible aspect of the decelerando that hasn't been mentioned so far is the increasing amount of resources which are diverted to support bureaucracy rather than being reinvested in the productive sectors of the economy.
In Canada, the single largest houshold expense is taxation, once you factor in Federal, Provincial and municipal taxes, fees levies etc. Depending on your income bracket, you can expect to see at least 1/2 of your income going to taxes; yet most of the things taxes are supposed to be paying for are rather second rate at best (we have a tiny military, crumbling Infrastructure and escalating waiting times for health care, to name the most prominent examples).
Even programs which are supposed to "help" are overtaken by politicization; there are still plenty of poor people despite almost half a century of expanded State welfare, and our education system is something of a joke when we compare standardized test scores against other nations (to use a metric which allows comparison).
Economics also plays a big role, I have seen old copies of National Geographic from the 1970's advertising new Cadillac sedans for $3000, now it is difficult to purchase a working used car for that amount of money. Debasing the currency through inflation negatively affects investor behaviour as well.
So maybe what happened to the "low hanging fruit" is the bureaucrats ate it...
Geoffrey S H:
"We are talking about unthinking machines that would be VERY difficult to write about drama-wise."
"Unthinking" machines? Unthinking machines would be insufficiently intelligent to maintain a working global infrastructure without human assistance/supervision.
Now if you mean Tony's super-intelligent but unfeeling machines, then that's different. Those are difficult to write for because they have a very different worldview from humans (which the author, presumably, is), but they are still "characters".
"If robots can even manage all creative aspects of our culture as well... what then? yes, for the foreseeable future it is unlikely, but if a robot could even write poetry through its application of mathematics, and ultimately do it better than a human, and then criticise and analyse that work (thus removing our role even as spectators), are merely drones whose thoughts are ultimately substandared and unwelcome?"
So I'm going to say something really radical here: is this a bad thing?
If they can do everything humans can, including feeling human emotions, enjoying human art, and so on, then they might as well be "humans Mk. II". I personally wasn't expecting to live forever anyway, but humans feel that it is important that someone inherits our culture and that we continue to be remembered. While it will be difficult for robots to be sufficiently humanlike that we accept them as our heirs, it is not in principle impossible, nor incompatible with them having features such as heightened intelligence or immortal lifespan.
There needn't even be a genocide of any sort. If humans increasingly like interacting with robots more than other humans, we might simply fade away within a few generations.
I have to agree with the assessment in the difficulty of consciousness uploading. Considering that scientists and philosophers are still debating what exactly defines consciousness, that sort of technology is most likely generations away. The internet may be somewhat limited at this time, but more and more people are gaining access to it. You really don't have to necessarily have your own computer. In many countries, people regularly operate out of internet cafes, libraries and other such organizations. In addition computer prices are getting cheaper and many nations are looking at opening up significant portions of the EM spectrum for wifi making it even more available.
Raymond:
Mr. Friedman definitely has his blind-spots and flaws in his thinking and I disagree with many of his assessments, but he does have a respectable track record and his 'population bust' assertion is backed up by the numbers -- although, once again, not many realize it.
don't seem to see much discussion on the actual guts of the point, so I'll jump in. As often as not the "stabilists" are carrying some sort of civilization-was-an-error flag (or are just blind crumudgeons) and the "progressivists" are crazy-eyed egomanical Onjectivist Singularians convinced their knowledge of server farms will deliver them eternal life with the bulging muscles and buxom conquests of their WoW character.
To answer the question in its most basic form- is it possible that the human relationship with technology, which was stable after a fashion (or several differing fashions) for most of the history of the species, could be, after a few centuries of playing with the ramifications of sussing out most of the interesting human-scale physical phenomenon, be entering some manner of stability again? Sure, it's possible- and indeed a statistical argument no more rigorous than that would suggest that at any given moment in human history, the good money is on it resembling most of the rest of human history. The problem is of course that arguments with no more rigor than that tend to choke in the face of evidence that this is indeed not a mediocre time.
I think the call-out to punctuated equilibrium can be explored a little further- both life and tech involve the replication, trial, and recombination of sets of instructions for making stuff to do jobs, and that's enough to do some graphs-on-a-chalkboard abstract comparison.
We see that most diversification happens quickly relative to longer periods of relative stasis, following a logistic function, which is what you would expect- at least *within closely related clades.*
That part is important, because the other thing that we notice from the fossil and molecular records is that the total diversity of the ecosphere, with some caveats that apply to the specific weirdnesses of marine life, has been in hyperbolic growth since the dawn of multicellular life. (It's a somewhat messier function than that, since it combines a positive feedback system- the increase in the number of selection pressure/energy/gene exchange links between the nodes of species versus the negative feedback of the declining exploitable energy of the system, with most of the hairyness coming from the second part being subject to rescaling as evolution finds new energy sources...)A lot of that change happens in parts of the graphs one might be tempted to call more "complex"- longer biochemical cascades, more complicated armatures, whatever- not because evolution is a great chain of being towards the complicated, but because there is always room on the open-ended side of the graph.
Which brings me to the final one- that since selection is a sort of white-cane tapping around a house of ecological niches, it is unpredictable when some of those logistic-function explosions will happen, since they generally depend on selection pressure suddenly being applied to bits of genome that weren't terribly relevant before. To extend the metaphor, some very big rooms have very small and hard to feel doors- that might be opened by that forgotten gum wrapper in your pocket. Larger doors can have solid confidence brackets placed around the time of their discovery, very small doors cannot.
(cont.)I think that outlines a general pattern that, at least to my eyes, technology seems to follow and might be expected to follow into the future. The fact that technologies can be cut apart and pasted with other technologies to form discrete entities which can in turn be cut apart and put together means that we can probably expect the total number of technologies human beings have at their theoretical disposal to grow at some rate as far as the eye can see. We can expect that any given individual technology will optimize like gangbusters for a while, and the length of time it will do so is probably a function of how closely related it is to other tech (the less related, the longer) and how wide the brackets are around "one technology." And we should probably give up on trying to pin down the arrival of the truly bizarre, because it is, essentially by definition, contingent on factors you aren't aware matter yet.
All of this is even more complicated by the fact that one of those little doors that all these blind, replicating technologies swarming through the house has to stumble through is the perceptual threshholds of ape brains, which have certain affinities for size, speed, distance,shape, and number and distinctly less for efficiency, construction ease, and the like. That aforementioned airliner plugging along at the same 500mph of its granddaddy may look like a big Tylenol with shitty seats still, but its probably burns half the gas, trashes half the parts, and can land in a snowstorm thanks to a larger computational budget than the entire moonshot, all of which are just as hard to do as making it fly at Mach 2 but nowhere near as sexy.
Discussion (especially regarding the Singularity) often talk about how different our lives are from our pre-industrial forebears, or their lives from that of hunter-gatherers, with the implied subtext that there is no way to cross those bridges, but that's an exercise that gets mired in varying values of "different" and "understand." I know how to flint knap, Inuits learned to drive pickup trucks, and we both like pretty girls, eat fish from the sea and can understand the dramatic forces at work in Shakespeare- so how much difference is there? I don't see having sex with people you like to make most babies and growing plants for food going anywhere, and everything else is just details- for certain values of "details" of course. :-)
So, back to the point, I think a midfuture that is *mostly* populated with recognizable, even well-aged, technologies, professions, lifestyles, and social mores is probable- just so long as you include the possibility that rumbling underground and off-screen are devices and phenomena that are truly bizarre. I've spoken before of my love for the BSG/Caprica universe before, and it was their embrace of that notion that was part of the nerd appeal. So you invented an FTL drive- it's probably still gonna be put together with nuts and bolts turned by grumpy deckhands.
Welcome to a couple of new commenters!
A small disclaimer that I am not necessarily asserting or predicting a decelerando, only pointing out the possibility.
Other than that, I will let this discussion continue to bubble along for now ...
Evolutionary counterparts to "real" history could occur, since economics and technology could be considered forms of ecosystems and the market provides mechanisms to move money and ideas around somewhat analogous to the transfer of genes in the natural environment, favouring some technologies and ideas when conditions are right, and allowing new technologies and systems to "evolve" when political and economic conditions change.
We can perhaps even see counterparts to Ediacaran biota; technologies or social/economic systems which vanished with no obvious modern descendants. A more accurate analogy might be the organisms of the Burgess Shale; there are relationships to modern life forms, but they are very obscure (the Ediacaran biota don't seem to have any relationships with modern animals).
There are several major differences between these "ecosystems" and the natural environment, particularly the speed at which conditions can change and the ability to bring back long forgotten ideas (kind of like bringing back dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, only faster and easier).
I'm a bit wary of statements that suggest a similarity between the economic or political process, and genetic diversification.
Correlation does not imply causation, and while the similarities may seem striking at times, we fallible humans are still projecting the evolutionary process onto something which isn't... evolutionary.
The economic and political process can, however, sometimes be called mimetic. Still not genetic, though, however closely related these concepts originally were.
The economic, political and cultural landscapes can be considered "ecosystems", and the idea of competing ideas adapting and flourishing or decaying in particular environments is relatively well established with the idea of "memes".
This way of looking at these "environments" allow many more degrees of freedom and interaction than the highly simplified and stylized models like political "left" and "right", "rational economic man" and so on. This allows modeling to correspond much more closely to the real world, and hence has much better predictive or descriptive utility.
I recall learning introductory economics and being taught the various Keynesian operators in 1980. Outside the window, we had just come through a period of "stagflation", something which cannot exist in the Keynesian universe, and were seeing the effects of the Reagan revolution, which were not conforming with the predictions of academics in school or the chattering classes in the news. Keynesian economics ignores or depreciates so many factors that it was not able to explain what was happening (alternatively, you could say it is based on false premises, but that isn't an argument that I'm willing to take on).
Until we have fairly detailed models which can incorporate many degrees of freedom, we will have difficulty understanding what is happening or determining why.
A fair point, Thucydides. And we seem to agree that, in any case, the process appears to be memetic, rather than genetic.
I've heard of the shortcomings of traditional Keynesian mechanics, but I know far too little on economics to be able (or allowed, methinks) to judge on it.
As for the relation with accelerando/decelerando, does the ecosystem of economics and this subject involve the whole "primary adaptors" and such? You know the scale on when and how new technologies enter society. Would, then, consumer behaviour influence the choice between ac- and decelerado, or is this purely a production- not consumption - mechanic?
Discussion (especially regarding the Singularity) often talk about how different our lives are from our pre-industrial forebears, or their lives from that of hunter-gatherers, with the implied subtext that there is no way to cross those bridges, but that's an exercise that gets mired in varying values of "different" and "understand." I know how to flint knap, Inuits learned to drive pickup trucks, and we both like pretty girls, eat fish from the sea and can understand the dramatic forces at work in Shakespeare- so how much difference is there? I don't see having sex with people you like to make most babies and growing plants for food going anywhere, and everything else is just details- for certain values of "details" of course. :-)
I think this holds true to a certain point. One of the criticisms made of scifi futures like Trek where we're talking baseline humans is that they're imagining human nature is changed without any change to the human meatware. No. If humans from 3000 years ago have the same passions, fears, and desires as modern man, future man shouldn't be any different.
But that's until we factor in bio-engineering. Just how weird could human beings get if desires are able to be made real? Just think of all the weird internet fetishists you've read about and imagine if they were able to actually act on those ideas. The Heaven's Gate cult had some male members volunteer to castrate themselves because of sexual hangups. Imagine if a cult decides to settle on parthenogenetic reproduction. Imagine if you've got people with body dysmoprhia and decide to engineer non-human forms. Religious types had hangups about masturbation and spent a lot of time trying to kill the human sex drive through drugs and diet. Imagine if they could edit behavior through the brain. And you don't have to imagine it working out well, just imagine the consequences if the results of those experiments didn't die on the table but continued to live and continued this society. You can no longer really look at human nature and consider it a baseline for us to meet and greet other cultures. These beings whose ancestors were human would be pretty damn alien.
So, back to the point, I think a midfuture that is *mostly* populated with recognizable, even well-aged, technologies, professions, lifestyles, and social mores is probable- just so long as you include the possibility that rumbling underground and off-screen are devices and phenomena that are truly bizarre. I've spoken before of my love for the BSG/Caprica universe before, and it was their embrace of that notion that was part of the nerd appeal. So you invented an FTL drive- it's probably still gonna be put together with nuts and bolts turned by grumpy deckhands.
I think for at least the next hundred years everything will appear recognizable. It all depends on just how disruptive things get. Certainly WWII reshaped what downtown looked like in many cities.
I think the biggest potential change might come from a shift in engineering. I live in Florida. The old conch houses were built with an eye towards living with the land. There was no AC so you had to build mutli-level houses with an eye towards catching the wind.
The AC meant that buildings could become simpler boxes without working windows because hey, electricity's as cheap as water and we can just use HVAC to regulate everything. Ugh. What a nightmare.
If electricity costs go up four or five times, now there's going to be a huge incentive to be more efficient with building designs. And consider our freakin' car culture where you drive ten minutes to get anywhere. Take away the cheap oil and there's going to be a huge premium placed on livable communities. Call it sprawl fail.
Those are the near-term changes as I see it. But yeah, people will still sleep on beds. Houses will still have roofs and doors. I think we'd have to talk about hundreds of years out for things to become unrecognizable and that would really depend on the culture we're talking about. People who insist on living in what we would consider recognizable human environments could be the neo-amish.
Re: memetics
Memetics makes mountains out of molehills. Ideas gain or lose currency based on their ability to satisfy a need or fashion? Really? Wow.
Re: accelerando/decelerando
I've said it before, I'll say it again. The universe of fundamental knowledge is not unlimited. Therefore, the process of discovering that knowledge is logistic in nature, not quadratic. Therefore, the singularity lies along the Y axis, not the X axis. The ultimate decelerando will come.
Having said that, nobody can know when or how drastic that decelerando may be. Additionally, whatever the overall process does, there is also the affect of morel imited logistics-shaped processes associated with individual technologies or related technological toolkits. Those come and go. Wires played out just as microwaves became practical. microwaves seem to have plateaued, but there still seems to be some room to grow with fiber. Etc., etc., etc...
Re: telecommunications specifically
The interwebs may seem to be something totally new, but e-commerce and e-mail and texting and whatever are really just the final penetration into everyday life of a commercial process begun over 150 years ago. Railroads, telegraph, and the telephone made it possible to do almost everything we do today. Long before there was email, there were telegrams. Then there was the telephone, which made talking to somebody anywhere in the country a matter of picking up the handset and diallg a few digits. Long before e-commerce, there was the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs. Long before airliners, there was scheduled rail service to within a few miles of where most people wanted to go, and to within no more than 100 miles of where almost anybody could go. (Scheduled airline service isn't nearly that good, in some ways. Pennsylvania station is right downtown, a couple of blocks from the Empire State Building; you have to go to Long Island or New Jersey to catch a plane anywhere.)
The internet, combined with air and interstate highway transport, is faster and cheaper. But it's not really doing anything fundamentally new.
One thought I'm having about a setting I'm working on, I'm going to avoid some of these possible outcomes via simple author fiat.
The idea I'd originally come up with is that the whole human sphere is post-singularity, but nobody knows it. I'd had the idea in an embryonic form and then Stross went and did it and I said "oh, that's almost like what I was doing. There are no original ideas!" lol Anyway, in his setting the singularity comes, the AI god resulting from it has clarketech and -- from human perspective -- instantly terraforms thousands of worlds and scatters the majority of Earth's population amongst them. All of the tech directly leading to the creation of a singularity event is walled off and humans are left to their own devices. All of the new worlds to be discovered might seem "alien" to us but are human. It's up to human events as to whether those worlds will be more or less advanced than us, us being the earthers going out there to have a look.
The idea I had is that there's a singularity and a collection of all human minds into a gestalt entity and, for whatever reason, they see this attempt at transcendence is flawed. Humans could attempt it but weren't ready for it. They decided to give it another go.
This is unknown to humanity. According to their history records, they have everything from the dawn of time up to the 21st century and things get kinda fuzzy/hazy and then records resume on their homeworlds. The general assumption is that the standard scifi first empire happened. Humanity goes to the stars, fights a big war, now there's the scattered colonies getting back in touch with each other. Everyone knows and accept this except for the people who said "Wait a second, things don't add up here!"
What you end up with is thousands of Earth-type worlds and by Earth-type I don't mean close enough, I mean with plants and animals and everything that's very similar to Earth. Some planets seem 100% identical, some are a bit more varied. If you consider how different things were on Australia, you can identify plants and animals and figure out how they fit in based on European animals but you have marsupials filling the niches placentals fill on the mainland. Some planets are exploring extinct branches of life like that, almost as if someone were experimenting. And any attempt at gene sequencing shows there's a common divergence. But major authorities handwave it away as "Our ancestors brought everything here and terraformed the planet. Don't question it."
The goal of the gestalt mind was to create many new experiments to see if humans could get it right. Instead of the one go that happened on Earth there's now thousands of tries. Some planets were left at 21st century tech from right before you could trace the run-up to singularity, some were put back to the stone age, some were left at stages in between. The singularity consciousness broke itself up into separate parts so that it would not bias the experiment -- it's gone now.
As for the true timeline, I'd put the singularity originally happening around the 23rd century with the events leading up to it starting in the 21st. Post-singularity history starts around the 26th century with the assumption that the gap between 21st and 26th represent knowledge lost in the war everyone knows was fought, even though there's no real evidence for it. I'm thinking that there will be a big of religious certainty tied up in how things are assumed to have gone and questioning the Official Story is likely to cause as much controversy as teaching evolution in Texas.
The other author intervention I think I'll take is that AI's remain expert systems only. They can perform amazing feats of computation and analysis but have no will of their own, if left to their own devices do nothing. This precludes AI wank.
One other thought -- our current economic system is based on unlimited growth. Investments have to pay interest and the only way you get interest is by making more money and you have to find new things to do, new markets, grow grow grow. It's considered a tragedy if you can't increase the business. Steady-state? That's for losers. Coffee's for closers! Having enough is never enough.
That's a HUGE rethinking that will require restructuring of the entire way we do business. Is interest and the investment culture compatible with a steady-state economy?
jollyreaper:
"That's a HUGE rethinking that will require restructuring of the entire way we do business. Is interest and the investment culture compatible with a steady-state economy?"
There are alway inefficiencies that can be taken advantage of. The futures market is a perfect example. The problem is that investment in that kind of market is speculative and limited by the availability of people willing to play the game.
The bigger problem with a totally built-out economy is that it leads to a zero-sum strategic environment. The only way to make more money is to steal it.
The bigger problem with a totally built-out economy is that it leads to a zero-sum strategic environment. The only way to make more money is to steal it.
Goldman Sachs... looks like they're jumping the gun.
That's the real problem, though, isn't it? There's enough to live reasonably but never enough to live outlandishly. How do we account for greed and containing it?
jollyreaper:
"Goldman Sachs... looks like they're jumping the gun.
That's the real problem, though, isn't it? There's enough to live reasonably but never enough to live outlandishly. How do we account for greed and containing it?"
Funny thing is, Goldman Sachs was really just dealing in market inefficiencies. The disaster came when bankers stopped acting like bankers and more like sailors with too much money on a 48 hour liberty.
How do you regulate greed? Autocracy of truly just men. Think of the Judge system in Judge Dredd, just with near perfect integrity. It would probably be the worst tyranny ever experienced by man, since a truly just man might order anything that makes logical sense within a defined system of justice, even if it killed millions.
Actually, that's the Instrumentality of Mankind.
Though the Instrumentality does not directly administer every planet, it claims ultimate guardianship over the destiny of the human race. For example, it strictly bans the export of religion from planet to planet. Its members, the Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality, are collectively all-powerful and often somewhat callously arbitrary. Although their motives are genuinely benign, they act with utmost brutality when survival is at stake.
Here is an explanation from the story "Drunkboat":
"The Instrumentality was a self-perpetuating body of men with enormous powers and a strict code. Each was a plenum of the low, the middle, and the high justice. Each could do anything he found necessary or proper to maintain the Instrumentality and keep the peace between the worlds. But if he made a mistake or committed a wrong—ah, then, it was suddenly different. Any Lord could put another Lord to death in an emergency, but he was assured of death and disgrace himself if he assumed this responsibility. The only difference between ratification and repudiation came in the fact that Lords who killed in an emergency and were proved wrong were marked down on a very shameful list, while those who killed other Lords rightly (as later examination might prove) were listed on a very honorable list, but still killed. With three Lords, the situation was different. Three Lords made an emergency court; if they acted together, acted in good faith, and reported to the computers of the Instrumentality, they were exempt from punishment, though not from blame or even reduction to civilian status. Seven Lords, or all the Lords on a given planet at a given moment, were beyond any criticism except that of a dignified reversal of their actions should a later ruling prove them wrong.
"This was all the business of the Instrumentality. The Instrumentality had the perpetual slogan 'Watch, but do not govern; stop war, but do not wage it; protect, but do not control; and first, survive!'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentality_of_Mankind
jollyreaper:
"Actually, that's the Instrumentality of Mankind."
Or anything else you want to call it. The nature of a government of truly just men is one of those intellectual games that keeps popping up all of the time. Starting with the premise that a truly honest man is a menace, one can just imagine what a government of men who can be implicitly trusted to execute the law fairly would be like. It is perhaps a blessing that no such thing is ever likely to actually occur.
Tony:
Re: telecom
Nothing we haven't done before in some fashion or another, but don't dismiss the vast increases in speed and availability as contributors to a new stable equilibrium.
Which, ultimately, is the result of an accelerando - a new, higher equilibrium. If we're accepting the thesis from a few threads back, that the real accelerando was the first half of the century, then it would make sense that we're currently in a consolidation phase. The internet is merely a part of that, I think; it's the culmination and combination of a whole host of technologies developed in the previous acceleration phase, and now it's a matter of making them ubiquitous.
"The only way to make more money is to steal it."
Or use the mechanism already in place: taking market share. I'm sure the regulatory environment would have to be somewhat different if we were to prioritize dividends over capital growth in established markets, but it's certainly doable.
jollyreaper:
"Investments have to pay interest and the only way you get interest is by making more money and you have to find new things to do, new markets, grow grow grow."
Not necessarily. A few years ago, here in Canada, the income trust was gaining momentum as an alternative to incorporation. That was largely due to tax laws (well, loopholes), and the government decided to remove the favorable tax situation. If/when we get to such a point, there are certainly ways to do it.
"The Instrumentality of Mankind..."
...was heavily influenced by Imperial China, given Cordwainer Smith's childhood experiences there, and subsequent fascination. It's certainly nice to have in the canon, as opposed to the overwhelmingly Western structures of government frequently assumed in SF.
I'm not sure how well it'd actually work, though, and I'm with Tony in being less than eager to find out.
Note that in the Ghost in the Shell universe, there are still different 'classes' of people.
The employees of Public Security Section 9 are in the upper class as far as body-prosthesis technology goes, since their body upkeep is funded by the government. Most other people don't have anywhere near that level of performance in their prostheses, but the cyberbrain/external memory systems are low-cost enough to be equivalent to personal computers today.
One main character (Togusa) started the series with only a cyberbrain/external memory system, and I think that Aramaki (the boss) is also a 'mere mortal'. Only a couple characters are full-body prosthetics.
There are still some people who do not have any cybernetics, but they are the poorest of the poor.
Note that this is in Japan proper. Other countries don't have anywhere near the cyberization percentages that Japan does.
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I don't see that level of technology happening by 2029, though. 2059, maybe. Not early prototypes in 2015 (Supposedly, the Major went full-prosthetic about 20 years before the GitS storylines!) or earlier.
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Considering how many companies are not paying dividends right now, the profits v dividends discussion seems to be a bit more complex than we have been assuming.
Raymond:
"Or use the mechanism already in place: taking market share. I'm sure the regulatory environment would have to be somewhat different if we were to prioritize dividends over capital growth in established markets, but it's certainly doable."
How does one legitimately increase market share when there is no capacity for innovation?
"I'm not sure how well it'd actually work, though, and I'm with Tony in being less than eager to find out."
Civil War historian Shelby Foote once told the story of a private brought before General Lee on some charges. Noting the soldier's obvious distress, Lee tells him not to worry, he'll receive justice. The soldier replies that that is what he's afraid of.
The vast majority of people want to see justice when their feet aren't being held to the fire. Vanishingly few, I think, would be happy to see justice done to themselves for their various iniquities, no matter how minor.
Also, an issue that plagues any system of justice is the availability of datao n which to make judgments, and that data's quality. A lords of justice system would be just as vulnerable as any other to deliberate concealment of evidence, perjury, witness intimidation, and plain lack of reliable evidence due to circumstances. Of course, one could imagine that the lords might make obstruction of justice a capital crime, in the interest of protecting the competence and reliability of their judgments. The normal pretrial maneuvering would be replaced by a Lord (or Lady) of Justice rolling up with his (her) posse, demanding at gunpoint, "Tell me all. Tell me now." One wouldn't even need to deliver an oath to the witnesses or the officers of the court. If the Lord/Lady didn't buy what was on sale, people would start dying.
Oh, I'm not advocating for the Instrumentality, just pointing out someone's already explored the idea. Also interested to see it's related to Evangelion's Human Instrumentality Project, though a bit more in name than in detail. Evangelion is one head-trippy anime.
Scott:
My main problem with the various incarnations of GitS (and bear in mind I rather like them) was the obsession with cyberbrains and ineffable ghosts, as opposed to playing around more with the social consequences of extensive body modification and replacement. Cyberbrains always had an element of uploading, which as far as the discussion here is concerned, will be out of reach for a considerable time.
"Considering how many companies are not paying dividends right now, the profits v dividends discussion seems to be a bit more complex than we have been assuming."
It's always been complex, and is very much a question of larger economic priorities. The appeal of income trusts in Canada was that profits were taxed only once, as personal income of the recipient. Profit realized by the sale of corporate stock was taxed twice - once as income at the corporate level, then again as captial gains tax on the individual seller. Even though both of these rates were lower, the net taxes on profits were higher for many companies compared to trusts in the same industry.
And it's not like it's impossible to do something similar with stocks; bank stocks frequently pay high dividends compared to other industries, since banks which aren't involved in massive pyramid schemes (here's looking at you, JP Morgan) or flashy, questionable foreign acquisitions (Royal Bank of Scotland) tend to have fundamentally stable, relatively fixed-size markets.
Tony:
"How does one legitimately increase market share when there is no capacity for innovation?"
A) I'm tacitly agreeing with your previous statement about always having some room for innovation.
B) Like states, no market is ever fully stable. Populations fluctuate, available resources come and go, and even minor advancements in technology allow for the possibility of newer ventures usurping incumbents. A relatively steady-state economy would be one which deemphasized the constant creation of new markets and reigned in the expectation of constant growth.
Chris:
Any accelerando is fundamentally something of a positive feedback loop between the production and consumption sides. A decelerando, then, would be similar, but a negative feedback loop instead. Advancements are deemed too expensive by the consumers, which then slows research and product development, which acclimates consumers to a slower release cycle, et cetera.
Addendum (to Chris & jollyreaper):
Income trusts were neutralized (by lowering the capital gains tax) over concerns about removing incentives for growth. Publicly traded equity is a useful mechanism for encouraging growth, after all. However, despite the trust structure's suitability for established, low-growth sectors, it was feared that the tax benefits were too great a temptation for companies in earlier stages of growth, and overall competitiveness would suffer.
Raymond:
"A) I'm tacitly agreeing with your previous statement about always having some room for innovation."
The problem is how much innovation, at what cost? As the rate of knowledge acquisition flattens out, innovation will slow to a crawl, and come at higher and higher marginal cost per innovar (my just-coined term for unit of innovation; currently dimensionless, I see a PhD thesis out there for somebody willing to define its value in real terms).
"B) Like states, no market is ever fully stable. Populations fluctuate, available resources come and go, and even minor advancements in technology allow for the possibility of newer ventures usurping incumbents. A relatively steady-state economy would be one which deemphasized the constant creation of new markets and reigned in the expectation of constant growth."
Personally, I don't see how an economy could stabilize, over a historically meaningful length of time. It will either grow or contract, availability of resources and the size of the population. The only way to reach equilibrium would be to artificially limit the supply of resources to match the population exactly, or to exactly tailor the population to the supply of resources. In either case, it would take one of those strong, absolutely ruthless governments we all love so dearly.
Having said that, I was addressing the purely theoretical case of a perfectly stable economy. In that case, it's hard to see how legitimate business means could lead to anything other than static market shares.
All of this raises another phenomenon which will have to be considered. When ol' Jack Welch revealed the secret of his success to be staying out of markets where he couldn't be #1 or #2, he created a paradigm in which oligarchic markets could -- and to some degree have -- become the norm. If innovation slows down, and market incumbents become less and less vulnerable to displacement through new product competitive advantage, market sectors will become fiefs of whichever companies took the last innovations the furthest.
I'm not saying this would be good or bad. It would just be a feature of the economy. It could be interesting fodder for plot coimplications/devices/resolutions.
While we tend to think of new technology as what drives cultural change, that isn't always true. Cultural change can and does occur in responce to purely cultural forces; changes in forms of government, fashions, music, lititure, financial systems, all have changed due to non-technological influances (not to say that there have not been changes due to technology; there have been plenty). While some of the most influencial cultural changes in the recent past have been sparked or enabled by new tech, it was what people did with that tech: you can use a hammer to pound a nail, knock down a fence, or sove in someones head; it depends on what the user's intentions are.
I think that in the next couple of centuries, we will see accelerating waves of social change, even as the pace of most technologies slows in advance of increasing interest in technologies that are now considered "out there" (i.e. biotech, nanotech, and man/machine interfaces, among others), as well as huge changes in the demographics of the human race; the reduction and platauing of global population, universal industrialization, the increased leveling of relitive levels of wealth paired with a balance of source and manufacture among regions and nations. While I don't belive that this will ever reach a 'perfect' level, I do believe that it will reach levels much more balanced then in the past. While I'm sure that there will be "Earth-shaking" discoveries or inventions in the next couple of centuries, the cultural changes will be the ones that will be the most drastic, the most world changing.
The culture of the West in the 1950's was radically different than in the late 1960's; now, in 2011, someone from 1970 would have major culture shock; someone from 1960 would find things both shockingly different and disappointingly familer.
Ferrell
Re: technology and social/cultural change
I think an honest appraisal would find that any non-trivial change in society or culture has a technological connection. Remember, a technology isn't a machine. It's a manner of doing things, along with an associated toolbox. (And the tools need not be unique to one technology -- as pointed out, a hammer can do more than drive nails.) Social and cultural changes happen when people change how they do things.
@Raymond: It doesn't help that the GitS movies were done by a guy who's artistic bent is to explore what it means to be human. For that matter, Shirow himself wanders down some strange rabbit-holes wondering what it means to be human. The 'ghost' is merely a shorthand for what it means to be human or sapient. I suppose you could call it a soul, but that word doesn't carry the same meaning in Japanese that it does in English. After all, everything has a soul in Shinto.
If you've read some of the novels, the Major doesn't even see her prosthetic body as anything other than an extra-fancy set of clothes. The phrase 'my ghost whispers it to me' is, to me, nothing more than a poetic comment about intuition. It's nothing more complex or significant than Briscoe's comments on Law&Order about a gut feeling.
I find it more interesting to note the extent of the datalinked society portrayed in GitS. If you drop the cyberbrain down to an iPhone or equivalent (note that a cyberbrain has comparable abilities to an iPhone or a small laptop computer, just with a very different I/O system), you have a society that is an extrapolation of today. Things happen faster, and are usually decided much more quickly, but it's still recognizable, with motives that people find believable. That's a good thing for a story. Whether it's a good representation of the Plausible Mid-future(tm) or not remains to be seen!
Tony:
"The problem is how much innovation, at what cost? As the rate of knowledge acquisition flattens out, innovation will slow to a crawl, and come at higher and higher marginal cost per innovar."
(I like the term "innovar". Totally stealing that one.)
The problem with judging the rate of knowledge acquisition is assumptions underlying the knowledge model. In terms of what can be discovered and comprehended by a single person, yes, I'm pretty sure the low-hanging fruit has been devoured. What comes next is understanding and mastering much more complex systems (especially dynamical systems) which are currently out of reach for Mark I Mod I humans.
"Personally, I don't see how an economy could stabilize, over a historically meaningful length of time. It will either grow or contract, availability of resources and the size of the population."
Here I'm implicitly defining a steady-state economy as stable once the above factors have been controlled for. Room for change alongside the underlying factors (which would be a prerequisite for any stable equilibrium) but lacking the fold catastrophes of more dynamic examples.
Re: incumbents
Oligopolies are pretty much the norm in most consumer markets, varying in size according to entry barriers and interchangeability. Some, though, are more suited to geographic monopolies or duopolies (most utilities, for example). And yes, to a certain extent these would become relatively fixed if the economy went to a steady-state configuration. I think, however, that there would always be a certain wiggle room for new entrants, given the difference in optimal price/demand points between a monopoly/duopoly and more competitive markets.
Scott:
I considered the concept of the ghost to be Shirow's answer to the "Ship of Theseus" problem as applied to human existence - a label for the continuity central to the idea of subjective experience.
I only lament he didn't get a jump on the "embodied cognition" school when he had the chance.
Also, dropping the cyberbrain down to the equivalent of a laptop with a brain-computer interface is exactly what I had in mind upthread.
Scott:
"After all, everything has a soul in Shinto."
It's more correct to think of the kami of a natural object as its spirit, not its soul. In Zen Buddhism, one might in fact be more interested in a kami as an expression of a thing's nature, and not so much its behaviors.
I am loving this discussion ...
Ferrell, I think you switched a couple of numbers - surely you meant that someone from 1960 would experience far more culture shock than someone from 1970, regarding things like the sexual revolution.
Though - again! - if you look at self-consciously 'modern' and sophisticated social groups around the 1920s, they would understand our social world in a way that practically no one from the 1870s would.
In a slow-growth economy I think the tendency toward oligopoly would be stronger and more problematic. Changing fashion trends could abruptly bring down a dominant fashion house that missed the trend, but there'd be very few of the technology changes that ended the dominance of a Southern Pacific or Microsoft.
But politically I don't think it is necessary to either throw up hands and accept an oligarchic ruling class on the one hand, or trust ourselves to an Instrumentality on the other.
Nick Machiavelli lived long before the industrial revolution, and James Madison so early on as to have little if any awareness of it. Both accepted social conflict as realities, and believed that robust republican institutions could channel it into nonviolent paths of change and reform.
Of course, for story purposes 'nonviolent paths of change and reform' may not be what we want. :->
You know, the Infinity setting is largely non-violent (as far as the general public is concerned), but military conflicts between the powers still happen almost continuously. It's just that any given military conflict is a minimum number of troops (ie, less than a platoon per side, often less than a squad per side!)
10-20 people can get 'lost' pretty easy, especially when you still have the usual accidents, etc happening to disguise the military events.
Frankly, the world of infinity may be too far in the future (it's officially 175 years from now)...
Two things:
1 - Computing power has been growing exponentially since the introduction of the integrated circuit. Innovation in computing and medicine has basically drowned out all other advancement.
2 - In many areas of the world, today's standard of living is little different than it was 100 or even 1000 years ago. The technological advances we enjoy in the first world haven't penetrated the "fourth world" yet. It isn't entirely representative to just look at the very leading edge of technological development when it is used mostly by a small fraction of the world's population.
@Clark:
Yes and no. It is true that say, the Masai(sp?) tribe in africa live pretty much the same way they did a thousand years ago. But every one of them has a cellphone, and can check in with their friends (or see where the best pasturage is, or...)
In some cases, the fourth world is leapfrogging past some levels of development entirely.
I would tend to argue that the cultural is far more important than the technological.
It is a fact that the Ancient Greeks invented a form of steam engine several hundred years before Christ (as well as mechanical computers to predict astronomical events), yet they were considered curiosities or toys. The most common devices were used to open temple doors automatically in order to amaze the public, which shows a remarkable blind spot to thinking through the implications and possibilities of these devices.
Obviously *we* have the same problem looking at our own systems and tools. People in the 24th or 34th century will shake their heads about how we missed some easy [insert name here].
One thing which makes me think slowing or stopping innovation is impossible is to simply look at how so many old technologies are being repurposed in the real world to meet new needs. Since this is Rocketpunk; I will simply point to the various gaslight era technologies being dusted off to create fuel and pure materials in space. Mars Direct is built around creating Methane and LOx from Martian resource using tools and techniques any well educated man from the late 19th century would understand...
Clark:
"1 - Computing power has been growing exponentially since the introduction of the integrated circuit. Innovation in computing and medicine has basically drowned out all other advancement."
Hmmm...I would say innovation in the uses of computing has been a huge component in technological advancement. It is in fact the single biggest reasons for the improvements in medical technology, from diagnostic imaging (ultrasound, MRI, and CAT scans are all heavily computing dependent), to bioinformatics in pharmaceuticals research, to
health informatics in treatment and practice analysis. But, while computing resources have quantitatively changed over time, qualitatively, we're using the same algorithms and data structures that we have been for the last 40 years, at least. It's a triumph of miniaturization and brute force.
"2 - In many areas of the world, today's standard of living is little different than it was 100 or even 1000 years ago. The technological advances we enjoy in the first world haven't penetrated the "fourth world" yet. It isn't entirely representative to just look at the very leading edge of technological development when it is used mostly by a small fraction of the world's population."
"[S]tandard of living" is a very slippery concept. As already mentioned, cell phones have become common in places where nutrition, shelter, health, and mechanization are of a relatively low standard. Internet is becoming more widespread in the unindustrialized world, as is satellite TV. Electrification is proceeding as well, in order to support telecom services, if nothing else. What do ubiquitous instant communication, TV, and electric lighting mean to a standard of living, compared to those things? A lot? A little? Something orthogonal?
Thucydides:
"It is a fact that the Ancient Greeks invented a form of steam engine several hundred years before Christ..."
That's actually not a fact. Hero's aeolipile would not have been capable of doing useful work, no matter how modified within the contemproary technological context. The temple mechanisms suffered from the same problem. They were all things that could be made to work with the technology of the day, but they were developmental dead ends without all of the technolgies necessary to actually make a working steam engine.
People that assert Greek mechanical curiosities represent roads not taken simply don't understand that they are working from a hindsight informed by a knowledge base the Greeks simply didn't have and couldn't have developed. They look at the aeolipile, for example, and see something with some dynamic affinities with a steam turbine. They forget that steam turbines are fed by high pressure boilers using high energy fuels (coal or oil, not wood), have condensers downstream to use working fluid efficiency (instead of just blowing off steam), require cooling systems (instead of ambient air cooling), and rely on an intimate knowledge of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics to operate efficiently. When and how were the Greeks going to invent all of that?
"One thing which makes me think slowing or stopping innovation is impossible is to simply look at how so many old technologies are being repurposed in the real world to meet new needs. Since this is Rocketpunk; I will simply point to the various gaslight era technologies being dusted off to create fuel and pure materials in space. Mars Direct is built around creating Methane and LOx from Martian resource using tools and techniques any well educated man from the late 19th century would understand..."
If I repurpose a baseball bat as a proverbial "blunt instrument", am I innovating, or just finding a new use for a preexisting tool?
The cultural blind spot for the Greeks was to say "temple curiosity", full stop. While they did not have many of the tools and techniques that were developed in the 1800's, many if not all of these tools and techniques were developed in response to the steam engine, not in advance of them.
Of course once people are tinkering with steam engines and finding new applications, and new theories are showing what is possible, you get a positive feedback loop. Since the Greeks never seem to have done the tinkering and exploring of possibilities, there was no feedback loop.
Using a baseball bat to provide impulse is not exactly repurposing, unless you could suggest you are using the impulse to trigger something else. This is the sort of thing I was thinking of (you could also use the baseball bat as a piece of structure, burn it for fuel etc.)
Thucydides:
"The cultural blind spot for the Greeks was to say "temple curiosity", full stop. While they did not have many of the tools and techniques that were developed in the 1800's, many if not all of these tools and techniques were developed in response to the steam engine, not in advance of them."
Kind of ignoring necessary material technologies, aren't we, T? I may have named machines developed in parallel with steam power, but what I was getting at was the fact that the whole technological toolbox that contributed to the development of steam power was simply beyond the Greeks. Asserting that they would have developed those things as they needed them totally ignores the fact that it took over 2,000 years of global technological development to actually get from here to there.
"Using a baseball bat to provide impulse is not exactly repurposing..."
With all due respect, that relies on a ridiculously narrow definition of "purpose". A baseball bat's purpose is to hit a ball in a game. Asserting that that is the same purpose as caving in somebody's skull, because it relies on similar physics, is preposterous. That's like saying using explosive to move earth and using explosives in IEDs is using them for the same purpose.
Tony:
"They look at the aeolipile, for example, and see something with some dynamic affinities with a steam turbine. They forget that steam turbines are fed by high pressure boilers using high energy fuels (coal or oil, not wood), have condensers downstream to use working fluid efficiency (instead of just blowing off steam), require cooling systems (instead of ambient air cooling), and rely on an intimate knowledge of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics to operate efficiently. When and how were the Greeks going to invent all of that?"
"I may have named machines developed in parallel with steam power, but what I was getting at was the fact that the whole technological toolbox that contributed to the development of steam power was simply beyond the Greeks. Asserting that they would have developed those things as they needed them totally ignores the fact that it took over 2,000 years of global technological development to actually get from here to there."
You're leapfrogging a bit, actually. We had the steam piston engine in some form as far back as the 1690s, but it took until the 1880s for steam turbines to be developed.
Looking through the work of Hero of Alexandria, I think his understanding of both the aeolipile and the force pump (and a decent mathematical knowledge of pneumatics) demonstrate enough of the principles of the steam engine that, had he not lived in a time where Greek influence was waning (10-70 AD, well into the Roman Principate), something could've emerged.
What continues to mystify me is not why the Greeks or Romans never developed it, but why the Arabs didn't, given their fairly continual advancements as the western empire fell.
Rick: you're right, I got 1970 and 1960 mixed up; I realy need to proofread better when I'm tired! Anyway, while technology might give people new tools to do something new, how those tools are used are entirely up to those people who would make social or cultural changes. While you can point at the birth control pill as having a profound effect (some even say sparked) the sexual revolution; however, I don't really think you can point to any one new technology that spured or sparked the civil rights movement. The recent events in the middle east used the internet (Facebook, Twitter, ect), to organize their demonstrations, but there had to be social issues that spured them to organize in the first place; they found a useful and effective tool to help them achive their goal, but the tool didn't create the uprisings. New technology might make a certain social change more practical, but it has to be human desire to make the change in the first place, otherwise no amount of new tech will start a revolution.
Ferrell
On the Greeks and the aeolipile, I disagree somewhat with both arguments. I doubt that the Newcomen engine was much more technically demanding, if at all.
What strikes me is that 18th century England had a useful niche for even a horribly limited and inefficient steam engine, namely pumping out coal mines, and that was enough for them to spread and in time be improved. There was no similarly utilitarian job that the aeolipile could perform.
But on clockwork technology there is perhaps a more interesting contrast. Medieval Westerners seem never have used clockwork as 'magic,' but only as something cool, but acknowledged as a creation of ordinary human ingenuity.
And weren't those jousting knights and dancing milkmaids in a way the first robots?
My personal theory is that we are reaching our own limits, the human body and mind's inherent limits.
You can see it by how specialized certain professions have become. A century ago we had only medical doctors, now there are cardiologists, neurologists, and cadres of other medical doctors that are also specialized in a few specific fields.
The same for most other sciences like physics and chemistry.
The closer we get to our limits, the more people with different specializations must work together, and the higher the cost becomes.
And just as with lightspeed, there is a point where you cannot do better.
There is also the point that most revolutionary inventions got funded enough to become practical only in times of dire need.
Like rocketry, nuclear energy and computers, that were all heavily researched during WWII.
And again lots of money was dumped in researching them during Cold War times due to more or less the same reasons.
Today, globalization linked so strongly all the richest nation's economies that war between equals is close to impossible.
So there is little reason to invest loads of money in research.
And private billionaires can only do so much. (although are doing pretty well so far)
The only way to get out of this "decelerando" situation is understanding ourselves and then breaking the limits.
And I'm not talking of mystical stuff, but of massively teaching and employing advanced learning techniques, and improve them. And then, when the limit of that is reached again, bioengineering may be the only way.
I tend to frown on creating too sapient machines, but that's another good way.
Another Cold War situation could help, but only so much. After it ends, the money stops flowing and we stop in the mud again.
-Albert
Re: steam engines
Obviously I've made my point very poorly. What I was getting at was that steam engine technology relies on manufacturing quality and precision that the Classical world could never have developed, no matter what the incentive. The steam engine exists at a pinacle of technological development. Though thought of as fundamental to industry, it's really one of industry's highest developments, incorporating the best of engineering for the period it exists in. (I know this really irks you, Rick, but it's true -- external combustion engines may be old in principle, but they're still high tech in application.)
Obviously steam engines were developed. And obviously human beings sussed everything out for themselves. I think the real question is of how much work it would have taken to bring about useful steam engines in classical times. As an oddball comparison, a caesar salad could have been eaten in Caesar's time, more or less, but nobody had thrown the ingredients together in the appropriate fashion until modern times.
So, how much historical change would it really require to bring the steam engine? It seems like we'd be talking about inventing new fields of science and new crafts. There's not much prior experience to borrow from the way that, say, carriage makers could branch into horseless carriages. It'd be like coming up with the idea for Facebook before the microchip was invented.
Tony:
"What I was getting at was that steam engine technology relies on manufacturing quality and precision that the Classical world could never have developed, no matter what the incentive."
I'd quibble somewhat with that, on a couple levels:
- The first (piston) steam engines developed by Savery and Newcomen essentially only required a pressure vessel which, given cannons had been around for the previous three or four centuries, was well within reach. Whether the Greeks or Romans could have constructed them is an open question.
- Given what we now know about the Antikythera mechanism, I think we should give more respect to the precision of Greek engineering.
Raymond:
"The first (piston) steam engines developed by Savery and Newcomen essentially only required a pressure vessel which, given cannons had been around for the previous three or four centuries, was well within reach. Whether the Greeks or Romans could have constructed them is an open question."
Remember, IMO steam engines represent a sophisticated expression of technology, not a mechanical commonplace. The fact that Newcomen engines were actually developed through an empirical process, using whatever technologies were to hand, just reinforces this view.
IOW, steam engines happened when they could happen, not by accident. They were built from existing technologies when those technolgies were ready to serve; nobody pursued them specifically. The aeolipile => steam engine gets the technology process precisely backwards.
"Given what we now know about the Antikythera mechanism, I think we should give more respect to the precision of Greek engineering."
The Antikythera mechanism was probably the life work of a single philosopher, possibly supported by a craftsman or two. Certainly such focussed work can produce interesting devices, but it can't make them an applicable technology, for the same reason that you can't proceed from an abstract idea or even a concrete model to something you've never seen before and have no use for.
Albert:
You can see it by how specialized certain professions have become. A century ago we had only medical doctors, now there are cardiologists, neurologists, and cadres of other medical doctors that are also specialized in a few specific fields.
This is an interesting point. Intense specialization is one of the characteristics of modern intellectual work – much to my frustration, I was born a couple or three centuries too late to be an intellectual generalist. But there was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when an educated man could be a true polymath – perhaps even an omnimath, as it were. We’ve gone from where a single career could include making important contributions to (for example) theology, biology, astronomy, and history, to where the various branches of physics can barely communicate with each other, much less with the chemists.
It hardly seems possible that ultraspecialization can proceed any further... yet it must, if we continue to advance. Maybe this is one of the negative feedback mechanisms that contributes to decelerando?
Tony
I know we are talking a bit past each other WRT steam engines, so I will try to clarify my point.
We know that various sophisticated mechanisms existed in classical times, such things as water wheels and torsion catapults. There are indications that waterwheels were harnessed to power saws for cutting stone (based on tool marks and recent reconstructions of some stonemason's workshops) as well as milling wheat. We also know that steam engines did exist as curiosities, and at about the same level of sophistication as the first "modern" ones in the late 16 early 1700's .
We also know classical metallurgy was fairly sophisticated, based on the ability to turn out mass quantities of decent quality weapons and armour, so there was a technical background from which to begin (and a better one than would exist again until at least the 1500's). So *in theory* there was nothing to stop classical people from exploring these devices and developing them further. While it is true they would not have resembled modern steam engines (probably they would more closely resemble Stirling engines optimized to run on minimal temperature differences), there were no obvious show stoppers in the technology department. The economy was large and sophisticated, and communications were also good enough to run trade networks across the classical world from England to the Black sea.
Yet it is a fact there are no low pressure bronze steam engines from the classical period running mills or powering ships, so the question I'm interested in is "why not?" The Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs and the Byzantine Empire had access to either the devices or texts describing them (as did the Italians after the fall of the Byzantine Empire), but the information sat as mostly forgotten curiosities.
Perhaps the answer lies in finding a niche, as Rick points out, steam engines in England were used to pump water out of mines, a useful enough niche that allowed engines and engine technology to spread. Perhaps the answer is cultural, which is where I am leaning, so people didn't even imagine uses for these things beyond opening temple doors and otherwise impressing people with stunts.
WRT the baseball bat example, I reread what you wrote and realized I had misunderstood what you were getting at
The other thought is that perhaps AI can be used as an augmentation. I think the term "knowledge worker" is annoying but our dumb computers have driven huge productivity gains over the years. Imagine what they can do for us as they get smarter -- or at least less dumb. If you consider the job of an accountant, one man now with a desktop computer can perform the work of an entire office of humans in the 19th century, back when computer was an actual title for a human being.
We scoff at the unrealistic scenes in Star Trek where the ship's doctor cures a previously unknown viral disease over the course of one episode and say "Yeah, and how long has AIDS taken us?" While there's a degree of Hollywood medicine to it, we are talking about computer tech hundreds of years in advance of our own. I saw a TED Talk where they combined MRI and haptic feedback so a doctor could take a stylus and poke it into a visualization of a living patient's beating heart, not only feel the motion of the muscle but feel the texture. They can see potential problems now that would have only shown up in the autopsy after the surprise death.
But I am going to run with the decelerando for one of my ideas. There's not just one human society but a number of them widely scattered among the stars, all at vastly different levels of tech development. The starfarers represent the highest level of development and it's remained somewhat static because there's only so far you can push the tech. The refinements now come in terms of the artistry of how the tech was put together, a true craftsman giving you the extra 10% edge over the bog standard model.
I don't really hate on steam engines! Though I'm just too young to have any memory of steam locomotives in regular rail hauling service.
I'll still cut the classical world slack on the grounds that they had no niche where terribly lame steam engines would be effective enough to make their further development worthwhile even before they reached the point of broader usefulness.
That said, Toynbee - and before him, I believe, Spengler - argued that the West had a distinctive interest in gadgets from very early on. That seems at least superficially plausible - whether it stands up to serious critical evaluation could be another matter.
Also, a fairly 'big' blogger further discusses the e-book linked in my original post.
"But I am going to run with the decelerando for one of my ideas. There's not just one human society but a number of them widely scattered among the stars, all at vastly different levels of tech development. The starfarers represent the highest level of development and it's remained somewhat static because there's only so far you can push the tech. The refinements now come in terms of the artistry of how the tech was put together, a true craftsman giving you the extra 10% edge over the bog standard model."
Interesting, sounds quite like Alastair Reynold's House of Suns to me.
Everything's been done before. All I can do is knowingly and unknowingly borrow, steal, and hope I put enough of my own flavor on it so that it's worth reading. :)
It's so hard to guess what's likely to happen, it really seems all that you can do is just declare "This is how the rules of of the universe work," make sure they're self-consistent, hunker down and see where the muse takes you. Undoubtably, I'll get most everything wrong when compared with future history but it'll be fun while it lasts!
What's so interesting about Dune is that he's able to push it far enough into the future and use odd enough tech that it doesn't seem dated. The spacer's edition of the Orange Catholic Bible is the only thing that seemed a bit cumbersome. Much less jarring, though, than the Star Trek communicator that can broadcast a signal across a star system but doesn't have any kind of display.
Rick:
"That said, Toynbee - and before him, I believe, Spengler - argued that the West had a distinctive interest in gadgets from very early on. That seems at least superficially plausible - whether it stands up to serious critical evaluation could be another matter."
Given what they knew, and their general prejudices, it probably seemed so to them. But the East was interested in mechanical technologies to the degree that they served the State -- and suppressed them when they didn't. So it's probably more accurate to say that the West had less interest in controlling gadgeteering than the East did.
Japan first widely adopting the gun, then widely suppressing it when political conditions changed, is perhaps the most instructive example. When there was widespread interstate and religious conflict, Japan welcomed martial innovation. They went kookoo for cocoa puffs over the gun. (As a personal arm; Japan's fortress culture was such that artillery was not as valuable as it was in Europe.) When the superstate had been established under the Shogun, innovation of any kind was a liability. So it was stopped and, in the case of the gun, even reversed.
Rick:
"I don't really hate on steam engines! Though I'm just too young to have any memory of steam locomotives in regular rail hauling service."
I know -- just a little bit of good-natured leg pulling.
However, I do find it kind of amusing that heat engines are considered primitive in some circles. Unless you're talking about photovoltaic technology*, the whole point of any engine, from wood-burning to nuclear, is to generate (or capture**) a heat gradient from which work can be extracted.
*Before anybody goes there, fuel cells are really energy storage systems, not engines.
**Wind and wave power farms rely on capturing energy generated by atmospheric and oceanic heat gradients. Hydroelectric dams rely on evaporation moving water uphill in order to capture the release of potential energy as it flows back down to sea level. All are driven by solar energy heating a working fluid, however directly or indirectly the energy is extracted from the fluid.
This is as good a place as any to specify my actual grumps about nuke electric space drive:
1) Using any separate heat engine to power the drive means lots of inboard waste heat that you have to get rid of - it can't just be carried off in the exhaust, etc.
2) Fission fuel is nasty stuff, before and after burning, and refueling basically means dismantling the reactor, not just pumping fuel in and out.
Having said all this, nuke electric is my drive of choice in Realistic [TM] settings, since it has pretty decent performance with minimal magitech.
Hi Rick:
"... and refueling basically means dismantling the reactor, not just pumping fuel in and out."
That depends on the reactor design. While many naval reactors are designed to run for decades on one fuel load, CANDUs change a small fraction of the fuel every day or two while the reactor is running.
If easy refueling is desirable for your spaceship reactor it should be easy to design in.
Rick:
"1) Using any separate heat engine to power the drive means lots of inboard waste heat that you have to get rid of - it can't just be carried off in the exhaust, etc."
Well, if the waste heat flux is big enough, you can use it for cogeneration. Which I gess is to say that any useful amount of heat will be used by a properly designed heat engine, and the waste heat will be as little as possible (and the radiating equipment as small as possible). At the risk of gratuitously abusing the cliche, it's a feature...
"2) Fission fuel is nasty stuff, before and after burning, and refueling basically means dismantling the reactor, not just pumping fuel in and out."
With space nuclear power systems, the reactor, electrical generation, and cooling gear will probably come as a package, to be disposed of after some nominal level of use. The only interfaces will be mounting hardware, power out, and control circuits. After a while, part of any outbound ship's cargo will be a power package for disposal, which will be jettisoned at some time when the ship is above solar escape velocity.
"Having said all this, nuke electric is my drive of choice in Realistic [TM] settings, since it has pretty decent performance with minimal magitech."
Of note, in that context, most recent academic research and commercial use of ion propulsion has been focused on Hall effect thrusters. Only NASA seems committed to grid type thrusters, probably because they have an NIH problem with them. If you want some Real World[tm] verisimilitude, using ganged Hall thrusters, possibly with 2 or 3 concentrically nested thrust chambers apiece, like the University of Michigan's X2 thruster. The neat thing about these is that you have a throttleable drive packageusing the simplest possible technology. With two concentric chambers, for example, you can get three thust levels (small chamber alone, large chamber alone, small plus large chamber together). Even with single chamber thrusters, you have a number of different thrust levels equal to n/2, where "n" is the number fo thrusters, and you turn thrusters on and off in groups of two in order to maintain dynamic balance. With nested chamber thrusters, you have m(n/2) thrust levels, where "m" is the number of thrust modes per thruster (m = 3 with 2 chambers; m = 7 with three chambers).
Understanding the rise of China
http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_jacques_understanding_the_rise_of_china.html
Post-nation-state thinking, talking more about a culture-state. I think the best western example of this way of thinking was the hellenization that swept through the med, people of different ethnicities all sharing a culture and way of thinking. Certainly will have an impact on the mid-future!
My only real gripe about "steam engines" and heat engines in general is the low efficiency in converting the chemical/nuclear energy of their fuel into useful work.
Sadly, the laws of physics and thermodynamics are rigorously enforced in this universe, so for most practical applications, heat engines are the only choice.
I would certainly like to see Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) come to technical maturity, since they can convert hydrocarbon fuels into electrical energy with at least double the efficiency of IC engines (and have no moving parts, which is a big plus and pretty cool to boot). The promise of Aneutronic fusion lies in this area as well (direct conversion of the fusion energy into high quality electric current), which keeps lights on in labs despite the known difficulties, and I am sure most readers of this post have their own favorite candidate technologies as well.
Sadly, the laws of physics and thermodynamics are rigorously enforced in this universe
Bummer, isn't it?
@Jollyreaper: considering that significant parts of the world haven't managed to wrap their brain around the concept of a Nation-State yet (most of africa and the 'Stans), I'm not sure how valid a concept the culture-state is.
After all, the Hellenized world still warred with itself, and the roman-catholic culture didn't stop the internal warring, either.
@Rick: Why not a nuke-thermal? nuke-electrics don't make enough thrust for planetary liftoff anyway, so wouldn't NTRs be less complicated?
Especially when the physics police pull you over....
Scott:
"@Rick: Why not a nuke-thermal? nuke-electrics don't make enough thrust for planetary liftoff anyway, so wouldn't NTRs be less complicated?"
Can't run nuke-thermal in the Earth's atmosphere. Once you get in orbit, a sufficiently efficient and powerful nuke electric drive has some definite advantages. Given recent advances in solar technology, solar-electric may actually become viable for manned flight anywhere inside the asteroid belt (inclusive).
"@Jollyreaper: considering that significant parts of the world haven't managed to wrap their brain around the concept of a Nation-State yet (most of africa and the 'Stans), I'm not sure how valid a concept the culture-state is."
I couldn't disagree more, with respect. Most of Africa? Maybe inter ethnic conflict across biorders, but the basic running ofinstitutions isn't beyond all of them. This cropped up afew weeks ago- some guy in a paper stated explicitely that he was fed up of state on state wars being automatically labled as "genocide" by the international community.
Running a nation state to the high standards of the West... now there I'd agree. Some, like the Congo and Somalia really can't gfunction as a nation state at the moment (we'll see what happens to Sudan). I just would generalise such a complex continent of states and almost-states in such terms.
Sorry, I just would'nt generalise... was meant to be said in that last sentance.
jollyreaper:
Post-nation-state thinking, talking more about a culture-state. I think the best western example of this way of thinking was the hellenization that swept through the med, people of different ethnicities all sharing a culture and way of thinking.
Thanks for the link to the Jacques lecture; interesting stuff.
I don't think, though, that the Hellenistic world is the best analogy for a "culture-state". In Western terms, that would be the Roman Empire. (I think Jacques mentioned the Holy Roman Empire but actually meant the classical (Unholy?) one.)
Alexander's state -- to the extent it ever really was a state at all -- didn't survive his lifetime. OTOH, even though the Qin Dynasty which unified China only lasted 15 years (221-206 BCE), the state they built lasted several centuries under the Han Dynasty. Alexander's legacy was a semi-universal Hellenistic culture but no state. And, I would argue, Hellenistic culture never penetrated much below the level of the cultural élites -- hence Iranians today speaking Persian not Greek, Egyptian Orthodox Christians using Coptic not Greek in their liturgy, and there being little trace of Greek influence left in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
In today's world, the European Union and India are the closest analogues to the "culture-state" Jacques describes, but neither (unlike China) have been largely unified for most of the last two millenia -- indeed, they almost never were.
Is the nation-state something people 'wrap their head around?' It emerged in somewhat recognizable form in Western Europe in the later Middle Ages, where some dynastic kingdoms happened to coincide more or less with local linguistic-cultural zones.
In some places it was has been self-reinforcing, as governments developed ministries of education as well as armies. In other places, notably the Balkans in very recent times, the relationship of nation states to facts on the ground remains quite shaky and 'artificial.'
I don't know the history of India well enough for an informed sense of how Indians have regarded the various imperial episodes. But certainly in Western Europe the Roman Empire persisted as an idea through most of the 1500 years since the western empire broke up. Less than 150 years separate the end of the HRE from the beginning of the EU.
Nuke thermal, IMHO, somewhat falls between stools. It doesn't have enough thrust for Earth liftoff (plus other problems), and doesn't have the specific impulse for fast orbits.
And yes, solar electric could be VERY nice out to the asteroid belt, though beyond that it kind of sputters and stalls.
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I can foresee a decelerando due to nuclear war between China and the US.
Yes, you heard that right. Generational Dynamics (http://www.generationaldynamics.com) predicts a major war between China and the US. The current trade relations and economic interdependence do not matter -- the prelude to World War I was the same, and the actual war itself came as a shock to everyone.
Xenakis also predicts a Singularity, but I predict a decelerando because both sides will use EMP against one another, destroying all technological infrastructure. Nations that don't get nuked will not have the know-how to restore everything and accelerate technological development again, and most of the First World populations that have such know-how would be dead.
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A nuclear war between major powers would very likely trigger a decelerando - certainly for the countries involved.
I don't know that WW I was really that much a shock, though - stalemate in the trenches was, but an upcoming great power war was rather widely anticipated, I think.
Anon @ 10:12 AM - What post were you attempting to reply to when you got a 404 error?
Xenakis has a self-published book and no Wikipedia entry. Relevance usually includes a real publisher and, if not fame, at least enough notoriety that somebody would want to include you in the standard online reference.
A fight with China might involve the use of nukes, maybe, but not to the point that civilization is set back. The Chinese have just enough nukes for regime survival insurance. Actually using them against the US might kill a few millions, but it would lead to the end of China as anything other than a disaster area.
As for WWI being a surprise...hardly. There were self-deceivers and optimists that believed that economic interdependence would render war impossible, or at least quick. Nobody paid attention to them. Governments and peoples knew that a general European war could come. In their efforts to improve their own positions in case of such a war, the nations made a war almost inevitable.
@ Tony
Here's the thing, though -- Xenakis's "Generational Dynamics" predictions have never been wrong. Also, a single EMP can completely destroy any technologically-advanced country, since the starving people will kill each other.
Xenakis posts on Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace (google it) as well, and he has received an award from Computer Sciences Corporation (http://bigpeace.com/jxenakis/2010/10/04/computer-sciences-corp-csc-presents-award-for-generational-dynamics/), so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss him.
Can't run nuke-thermal in the Earth's atmosphere.
Granted, for most versions. IF (big if at that) you can keep the fission byproducts inside the reactor vessel, they might actually be usable for liftoff. Some designs do have the power-to-weight for that. You'd need to get the general public to not go into anaphalactic shock every time they heard the word 'nuclear reactor', though.
Once you get in orbit, a sufficiently efficient and powerful nuke electric drive has some definite advantages.
Also has some big disadvantages, like dumping about as much waste heat through the radiators as you get drive thrust...
Generational Dynamics (http://www.generationaldynamics.com) predicts a major war between China and the US.
What's he smoking and where can I get some? China is very good at long-term planning, and picking a fight with the country that can and will destroy them as a country is not in their long-term interests.
I will grant a nuclear (or HEMP) exchange as being a perfectly valid cause for a decelerando, however. Thing is, EMPing the US would cause a lot of cascade effects. GPS would go screwy, which would screw up everyone. Everyone's favorite investment location would abruptly be of no value, and all the investment information held electronically would be down to the optical backups. I think the US could recover, but the results of even a HEMP event would take a couple decades or more. I don't think it would be as catastrophic as the Black Death (ie, 25% die-off). After all, most military stuff is diesel powered and largely mechanically regulated, and the admin is largely on dead trees. Both of those are immune to EMPs.
You'd see a lot of reserve and national guard units standing up and breaking out the MRE 'foodstuffs,' but a smart man would fire up the barbecues to cook all the cold stored food he could.
And if you don't think various agencies are already planning for events like this, you need to lay off the stuff Generational Dynamics is smoking.
@ Scott
This report (http://ow.ly/3ZR1B) states what damage nuclear EMP can do. Couple that with actual nuclear attacks on cities and you destroy the US as a country. The same can be done to Japan, India, and Russia.
A US-China war will cause a worldwide decelerando as those with the technical know-how are killed, contrary even to Xenakis's predictions about technology.
@ Scott
Also, what agencies are preparing for this? I haven't heard of them. Also, I heard that much of the military tech can't take an EMP and keep running.
My bad! Here's the correct link to the nuke report:
http://ow.ly/3ZR1b
CrisisEraDynamo; While the EMP damage you imagined would be devistating, it was recognized as a threat several decades ago; most high-value military and civilian electronic nodes are EMP-hardened. Most of those agencies and organizations will not advertise these security precausions. An Emp attact aginst the U.S. would result in damage to the country, the effects would last years, but would also result in the attacking country being nuked. While China has expressed a desire to become a superpower for several decades and getting into a nuclear war is not in their long-range plans.
Ferrell
Do you have evidence of the hardening? I know the military is supposed to be hardened but I've always understood that the civilian side has not been hardened mainly due to the high cost. Critical infrastructure still remains vulnerable to nuclear EMP or to highly strong solar flares. There was that flare fromt the 19th century that blew up telegraph equipment it was so strong. A major flare doing the same to our modern infrastructre is on the shortlist of doomsday scenarios.
I don't know that WW I was really that much a shock, though - stalemate in the trenches was, but an upcoming great power war was rather widely anticipated, I think.
According to the histories I've read of the time the original idea was that the nations of Europe were too interconnected and "the bankers would never allow it." So the thinking man thought war hysteria was just alarmist claptrap. Then later when war became more likely, both sides went off to war convinced that it would be a great national holiday and over in a month or two. The pre-war thinking was that modern technology would make it a war of sweeping maneuver and trench warfare was entirely unlikely given the speed of transport. Military tech always moves back and forth as to whether offense or defense is favored. The machine gun put defense in ascendancy once more.
@CrisisDynamo
I've not yet found the China v. America part of that website. It's pretty hideous -- is he using Frontpage 97?
The basic thesis of generational dynamics seems reasonable enough -- the people who learned the lesson of a big mistake won't likely repeat it but people who didn't learn it the hard way are likely to make the same mistake. I believe an excellent example of that is looking at all of the regulations for Wall Street that were rolled back. A lot of these rules came about in the 30's and were a direct response to the crash of '29. We think we're so smart, we think those rules are no longer relevant, and we screw ourselves right back into the same kind of crisis and for the same reason.
But that still seems within the realm of conventional wisdom like saying teenagers will do stupid things and people who survive their teenage years will look back from their 40's and say "Damn, I don't know how I even made it here." And there's a long history of things we assume being reasonable hypotheses being dead wrong.
What's his specific argument for a war with China? I could spin a few scenarios myself but none I'd thump my fist on the table over declaring dead certainty.
Actually using them against the US might kill a few millions, but it would lead to the end of China as anything other than a disaster area.
Don't bet against stupid. History is full of nations doing stupid things that even contemporary observers knew were terrible ideas. While I don't see a war with China as likely in the near-future, I would never bet against stupid. The real questions are 1) who would likely start the war, the US or China and 2) what sort of rationalization would they use to convince themselves its a good idea?
As for our powers to predict future events, I'm struck by how US intel agencies were blindsided by the fall of communism while economic observers had been saying for years that the fall was inevitable. The intel agencies weren't just surprised by the timing of the fall, they were surprised that there was even a potential for it happening.
@ jollyreaper
Here are two articles referencing the prediction:
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi-bin/D.PL?xct=gd.e060501#e060501
and
http://bigpeace.com/jxenakis/2010/07/26/u-s-and-china-are-headed-for-a-generational-crisis-war/
Both are written by Xenakis.
Crisis Era Dynamo, I used to work in the field. Most of the internet data is carried on fiber optics. EMP doesn't affect that, period.
Secure buildings have metal enclosures (faraday cages), which are moderately-effective EMP shields. The backup generators are inside metal boxes.
Yes, my poor Android phone would fry, as would the computer I'm typing on right now. The stuff you absolutely *have* to keep running is on much tougher and more expensive hardware.
And you've seriously never heard of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Guard, or the US Army Reserve?
We get solar flares all the time. Why haven't we had another catastrophic flare like the one you mention? Maybe because we've figured out how to semi-safely handle the EM flux?
@ Scott
Did you read the report?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-flare-electronics.htm/printable
Provides a little info on the damage that could be caused by a big flare.
In 1859, an enormous CME caused massive magnetic fluctuations in the Earth's magnetosphere -- the magnetic field surrounding the planet. People living as far south as Cuba witnessed the northern lights phenomenon. Compasses and telegraph systems failed. Scientists and academics debated the cause of all the commotion. We now know it was due to a CME. The CME was so massive that it caused what we call a solar superstorm.
Today, we depend much more heavily upon electronics and electricity than we did in 1859. If a similar solar superstorm were to hit us now, we'd be in trouble. The magnetic forces would induce electricity in any large conductor. That includes power transformers and the power grid itself.
That's not the end of the bad news. The power grid in North America operates at near capacity. It wouldn't be able to handle the increased electrical load from a solar superstorm. Power lines could sag and even snap as a result. Massive power outages could affect much of the continent. The magnetic fluctuations would interfere with radio signals, and communication and satellite systems would collapse as well.
Unless the opponent is going to use a huge thermonuclear device detonated at the edge of the atmosphere, it is going to be difficult to put any nation out of action with a single EMP attack.
EMP attacks using multiple weapons are possible, of course, but much harder to coordinate across large areas of time and distance.
The massive solar flare of the late 1800's hasn't been repeated since; or at least not on the side of the Sun facing the Earth. I don't think the grid is hardened against such an event, and as for the Internet, while data pipes might be optical, are the server farms, electro-optical switching equipment hardened to the same extent? This will be very disruptive, to say the least.
Crisis Era Dynamo, I read both articles you linked.
I don't know how to say this politely, but Mr. Xenakis is agitating with no sense of what he's talking about, much like Rush Limbaugh does.
Of course Admiral Mullen is making noise about the chinese buildup. That's how he gets money for more ships!
The social contract between the Chinese Communist Party and the people of China is that the people have traded western-style freedoms for political stability. Picking any kind of fight with the US is not conducive to the stability the PRC desires.
Remember when China said that they would reduce the number of dollars they held? What they really said, based on international economic theories, was that they were going to allow the yuan to float higher against the dollar. It's too bad the talking heads don't understand that, but it explains why the US government actually seemed happy about that statement!
Jollyreaper, I lived through the Great Blackout of 1996. No power across most of the American West for 3 days in the middle of summer.
No rioting, no major panic.
Remember what I said about secure buildings having built-in faraday cages? You can do the same thing with your wiring, and certain particularly important computer systems are shielded to that extent. It's called TEMPEST, Transient Electromagntic Pulse Emission Standard. True, it is mostly government systems, but EM shielding works both ways.
Sadly, you don't really need a big nuclear explosion to make a HEMP. The US tested several back in 1962's Operation Fishbowl, and the smallest blasts (Bluegill Triple Prime and Kingfish that gave EMPs were in the 200-400kt range. That's the size of currently-deployed US Strategic weapons. Starfish Prime, 1.4mt at 400km, did nasty things to the electrical systems in Hawaii, however, but I don't think there are any still-deployed warheads that large.
The good news is that you need to use a big rocket to get a 500+lb load up to 75km or so. That is a *very* obvious technology piece, which pretty much limits HEMP attacks to a nation. While the US has said 'never again will we be the first to use WMD', a single HEMP attack would result in *second-use* of a lot of the US strategic reserve. Needless to say, that would be very hard on whoever launched the HEMP, and the command links for the strategic forces were designed to work even if there were nuclear explosions happening when the orders were being given. We'd have about 30 minutes to prepare for the event, too.
I could not confidence in my eyes that I gave up so with both hands tied behind one's back deceived. When we arrived at the place it turned tangential prostrate that nothing in the bill was no direction to reality. All of the rooms, and ordered them together seven, were in disarray.
Still not passing the turing test there, buddy.
Just for clarification, jollyreaper is referring to a spam comment, which naturally I did not parole from spam jail.
Scott:
"You'd need to get the general public to not go into anaphalactic shock every time they heard the word 'nuclear reactor', though."
We've been through this here at least once already. Some nuclear risks are too great to justify the perceived benefits. Flying fission reactors around is one of them. A sober analysis of nuclear electric rocketry may find that it's too risky to send reactors on a one way trip to a high orbit. I hope that's not the case, but nuclear contamination, once you strip away all of the hysteria, is still serious business. You of all people should know that.
"Also has some big disadvantages, like dumping about as much waste heat through the radiators as you get drive thrust..."
Nuclear reactors generate so much energy per second of operation that it's not a problem, for practical purposes. (Caveat: the reactor has to be made with a high enough power density for spaceflight.) It may upset somebody's sense of elegance, but that's how the cookie crumbles.
Scott:
"Sadly, you don't really need a big nuclear explosion to make a HEMP. The US tested several back in 1962's Operation Fishbowl, and the smallest blasts (Bluegill Triple Prime and Kingfish that gave EMPs were in the 200-400kt range. That's the size of currently-deployed US Strategic weapons. Starfish Prime, 1.4mt at 400km, did nasty things to the electrical systems in Hawaii, however, but I don't think there are any still-deployed warheads that large."
One of the things that Starfish Prime demonstrated was that the effects of EMP are pretty random. There were some problems with electrical system malfunction in the Hawaiian Islands, but there were numerous US military vessels, aircraft, and installation (and maybe a Soviet spy ship or two) much closer to the event. Some may have had rudimentary electromagnetic shielding, but all seem to have come through without significant incident.
EMP has been a boogeyman for China threat mongers for at least two decades (that I can remember, but possibly longer). Both the questionable effectiveness of an EMP attack, and the Chinese not being insanely stupid enough to invite nuclear retaliation makes it highly unlikely that they'd ever seriously consider such a strategem, much less implement it.
I don't think the Chinese "traded" liberty for stability. A friend of mine who is well versed in China and Chinese culture points out the current "Red Dynasty" maintains the "Mandate of Heaven" by providing stability, food and jobs. Should the State falter, the masses will turn against the current "Dynasty". The names change, but many of the forms of traditional Chinese imperial governance and culture still exist.
Just yesterday, I read about calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" in China, which may be spurred by recent food price inflation. Economic growth is also slowing down, which may lead to increasing unemployment and other stresses. These stresses inside China (as well as longer term demographic changes) could lead to internal or external troubles, so the idea that fear or stupidity could spur a war or conflict in the future is quite plausible.
Tony "A sober analysis of nuclear electric rocketry may find that it's too risky to send reactors on a one way trip to a high orbit."
Before the reactor has been started, the radioactivity of the unfissioned fuel is negligible. It would be safer to send fission reactors to orbit than the radioisotope thermal generators that have already been launched.
Using a nuclear thermal rocket of some sort for surface to orbit travel may well be unreasonably risky, but starting the reactor in orbit is not.
Nuclear reactors generate so much energy per second of operation that it's not a problem, for practical purposes.
Well, it's a problem to the extent that big radiators and their associated plumbing are one more friggin heavy and expensive requirement of nuke electric propulsion.
But it can achieve an Isp of several thousand seconds, with acceleration of a decent fraction of a milligee, making it the 'least worst' available solution for outer system human travel.
The thing I wonder is why would any nation use an EMP attack at all? If you're going through the trouble of deploying nuclear weapons (and with nukes, if you're going to fire one, you might as well fire them all), you might as well go with the sure option of incinerating the target instead of hoping to disable.
When self defense using guns is taught, the overwhelming point is always: "shoot for center of mass. Yes, that is shoot to kill. If you don't want to kill the guy, don't shoot him."
There are a number of reasons for this, but chiefly because dickering about trying to shoot in the leg or arm is either going to kill the person anyway, or runs the massive risk of being ineffective (shot misses, doesn't hit anything important, etc.). Additionally, it's less defensible in court...at least in the jurisdictions I'm aware of, self defense is only applicable for "us or them" situations, and if you had time and wherewithal to "shoot to wound", you probably didn't need the gun at all.
EMP weapons are the nuclear equivalent of "shoot to wound", and really they're silly for much the same reason...anything they can hit, a conventional nuke can hit with much more certainty, and firing your EMPs will guarantee a nuclear reprisal anyway.
This discounts terrrrrrrrist actions, of course, but even then, I suspect they'd be more apt to light a (dirty) nuclear bomb than try to optimize for EMP.
In either case, I think people forget that people are in it for the experiences. Handcrafted goods still carry a premium over oftentimes higher quality mass produced goods, for example. And while mass transit may become automated, many humans still quite enjoy operating motor vehicles...we've seen a huge uptick in the popularity of sporty models in the last few years, for example.
We can put a hundred robots on Mars, but no one will care until we put 2 boots there.
A link to an article about how people might react to more severe forms of downturn:
Personal Responses To Large Scale Collapse
The term "collapse" covers a wide range of possible future scenarios, each with varying degrees of severity. For example, we could go thru a period of higher inflation all the way up to Weimar-style hyper-inflation. Or declining oil production could cause economic collapse, perhaps with revivals as part of a long descent. Or a massive coronal mass ejection from the Sun could cause a Carrington Event like in 1859. Such an event today could cause most of the electric grid transformers to melt (though we could mitigate much of that risk) and cities to become uninhabitable for months or years due to lack of electric power. Or a VEI 7 volcano like Tambora in 1815 would cause crop failures for a year or two combined with very cold weather with resulting food and energy shortages. Or a VEI 8 volcano like Toba of 74,000 years ago would cause collapse at a level that makes Weimar hyper-inflation a walk in the park in comparison. Still other civilization-threatening scenarios can be imagined.
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/007920.html
You might also want to check out links like this:
Packing for the Apocalypse
http://forums.army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,82673.0.html
Robots can make goods that are infinitely superior to handcrafted examples- or will one day.
"Human creativity" is just one big handwave.
Right now robots make cars, but you still pay a huge premium for handcrafted ones (ever price out an Austin Martin?)
A lot of this differential is also a function of supply and demand; in theory you could robotize the Austin Martin factory and churn out DB-7's like Volkswagens; but what is the fun in that?
I can see future handcrafting or low rate production as a deliberate attempt to manipulate markets and maintain high market rents
Geoffrey S H:
"Robots can make goods that are infinitely superior to handcrafted examples- or will one day.
'Human creativity' is just one big handwave."
It takes human creativity to give the robots the designs that they manufacture, to design the procudtion floor, and program the production process. Robot quality is a function of the repeatability and reliability of their functioning.
But robot quality is a feature of cheap goods. People will always pay a premium for hand-crafted items, precisely because they represent human effort beyond creative thought. Presumably someday in the future you could program a robot factory to turn out a thousand precise Davids a year. Each one would fetch the price of the marble + "labor" + overhead + profit. Michelangelo's David would still be priceless.
Human creativity a handwave? Sure, whatever you say...
Yeah, radioactive contamination is a horrible thing. Let's start with the uranium dust all over Iraq and Kosovo.
Fact is, as soon as anyone says the words 'nuclear reactor' in a media report, the NIMBY brigade breaks out the China Syndrome paraphernalia and starts having mass coronarys. I've gone over it here before, but NOT A SINGLE PERSON died due to Three Mile Island. The total radioactivity released at the edge of the fence was comparable to a month at the beach in Hawaii.
Enough flogging of that zombie horse, however.
Thucydides, that is a fair point, especially considering the effectiveness of the "Twitter revolutions" in the middle east. I don't know enough about Chinese politics to even hazard a guess about that, but *usually* when a country implodes it stays focussed on the internal stuff for about a decade. See also Weimar Republic.
ElAntonius: It's not easy to build both the nuclear device and the rocket to make it a viable High-altitude EMP (the only kind that matters for this discussion). Bluntly, any terrist getting an ICBM *will* result in the hosting country getting some 'rapid urban renewal' and a lot of glass self-lighting parking lots about 30 minutes after the launch of said weapon.
An EMP is a head-shot (or a Taser), to continue your self-defense analogy. In theory, it disrupts all the signals your enemy needs to send in order to attack you.
Scott:
"Fact is, as soon as anyone says the words 'nuclear reactor' in a media report, the NIMBY brigade breaks out the China Syndrome paraphernalia and starts having mass coronarys."
Nobody like that here that I am aware of -- just varying degrees of seriousness about the real risks of radioactive contamination.
"An EMP is a head-shot (or a Taser), to continue your self-defense analogy. In theory, it disrupts all the signals your enemy needs to send in order to attack you."
It may be intended to be a headshot in theory, but there's no evidence it would actually work that way. It certainly won't affect fiber optic networks, or edge systems behind protection. Since that happen to be a description of moder strategic and operational comm systems and their peripherals, it just ain't gonna work in a military sense. The target of an EMP attack may be in sad economic shape for a decade after it is over, but the initiator is going to be on the ashheap of history.
You must not live in the American West, then, Tony. Around here, nuclear power is da debbil! There was a company talking about building a power plant in my state, and the first response at the public meeting wasn't "where," it was "horrible radioactivity, TMI&Chernobyl!!"
ie, people who think that ANY radiation is too much, and who can't be bothered to read the documentation. Stupid bothers me, but you can teach them. The only cure for willful ignorance is death, unfortunately.
Tony: Any terrorist organization that gets their hands on a nuke won't bother with ICBMs, they'll just rig it up in the most portable framework they can and park it in the middle of a city.
The response to a nuclear terrorist action would be wholly different, but I still don't see them bothering much with it. EMPs are tricky business, and either way you're still setting off a nuke. Even if the nuke they get their hands on is primarily an EMP device, setting it off in a city via a parked van is going to be measured in Hiroshimas.
With regard to nations using EMPs:
EMPs aren't really a headshot attempt, though a taser attempt I'll buy. The problem is, it's like loading a gun with taser bullets, and then pointing the gun at someone who is armed. They WILL shoot back, and their gun will have real bullets.
But in either case: what country would want to cause widespread economic devastation in an opponent that ALSO wouldn't want to just vaporize that same opponent?
In the case of China, their economy is so dependent on the US that any hostile action crippling the economy would likely cripple them as well.
If anything, one has to wonder if scientists/strategists aren't trying to find a way to cripple a country's power structure but leave the economy happily humming along.
Re: Scott
I live in Southwestern Utah, and by "here" I of course meant this blog. I was trying to tactfully say that the level of discussion about nuclear power in these comment sections should be above the de rigeur "you just can't talk to them" complaints.
Re: ElAntonius
Since we were talking about the Chinese initiating an EMP sneak attack, what do terrorists have to do with it?
Tony: oops, think I read more than intended into one of your comments. You mentioned nuclear retaliation against the host country, which I agree would happen if ICBMs of any stripe were involved.
But if we're limiting discussion to sovereign powers, we're back to the glassed earth scenario...any nuclear weapon deployment by a nation will just invite overwhelming nuclear response.
Using an EMP just strikes me as pulling a knife while surrounded by a nervous SWAT team...not particularly a good idea.
My whole point is that EMPs _ARE_ part of the nuclear option, and I just don't see them being deployed in any context outside of Armageddon.
ElAntonius:
I wouldn't be so quick to think of nuclear weapons as being inflexible. It is certainly possible that in a strategic crisis nuclear powers might play an enormous game of chicken, trading shots to see who blinks first. Herman Kahn had a lot to say about that during the Cold War. He figured that no matter what a national leader's ideology might be, he would most likely be rational, and not initiate an all-out nuclear attack gratuitously, or before he had tried other options.
On a similar note, it has been more recently suggested that US nucelar weapons' greatest value is in making the world safe for US conventional superiority. Nobody can hope to trump the US hi-tech military by nuking it in the field or by attacking the US homeland with nuclear weapons. The retaliation would not be worth any imaginable benefit.
Finally, since we've been talking about the Chinese, it's not entirely out of the question for them to use nuclear weapons against US naval forces at sea. They could then go on the diplomatic offensive and claim that such an attack was a tactical act, limited to military forces alone, and that retaliation against the Chinese homeland would not be proportional. In such a situation, it's not at all clear that US nuclear retaliation could be initiated. Even if a Chnese military facility was attacked, it would be in or near a large civilian community, which would cause colateral damage that the Chinese intentionally and publicly avoided by targetting US forces on the open ocean.
Man, the level of stupid at school must be contagious... Either that, or they've found a new strain of foot-in-mouth disease. *shakes head*
Tony, I don't think I discount the risks of radioactive contamination, but you seem to consider the risks to be much higher than I do.
ElAntonius: What I was trying to say was that nations, even ones that support terrorist fruitcakes, have an interest in keeping terrist activities down to a certain level. No country wants to be the launching site for an 'acquired' Minuteman or equivalent, so every country is working to make sure that delivery methods stay in government hands.
It would be a safe guess that there are less-than-total nuclear strike packages and keyword orders to STOP, but everyone I served with considered that *any* use was going to quickly escalate to scorched planet.
I don't think the Chinese are likely to throw a nuke at even a US carrier group traveling in international waters. That just became a freedom-of-navigation issue, and the entire rest of the world just had a brown-pants moment. While there is a possibility that the US would limit itself to conventional strategic weapons, the political repercussions would be immense, as would the physical damage to China.
Scott:
"Tony, I don't think I discount the risks of radioactive contamination, but you seem to consider the risks to be much higher than I do."
Yes, but that's not a good enough reason to keep bringing up the antics of the hysterically anti-nuclear. That's not me, bra.
My approach towards nuclear contamination is strictly conservationist. Radiological contamination is not bio or chemo degradable. If we keep introducing contaminants faster than they decay, the higher the contamination level will rise. There is probably some maximum of contamination beyond which we should not go, or beyond which we would not want to go. Projects that use radioactive materials need to be evaluated IMO, not only for routine levels of release, but for the consequences of a worst case release. If the worst case could lead to too much contamination in the environment, or even to slimming down the margin too much in too short a time, then we need to think really hard about whether we really need to embark on the project.
"I don't think the Chinese are likely to throw a nuke at even a US carrier group traveling in international waters. That just became a freedom-of-navigation issue, and the entire rest of the world just had a brown-pants moment. While there is a possibility that the US would limit itself to conventional strategic weapons, the political repercussions would be immense, as would the physical damage to China."
Since when has freedom of navigation been a consideration in wartime? You're a former US submariner, right? What is your service's tradition WRT enemy shipping in wartime, military or civilian? Subs and targets, right?
WRT what the US could do to China with conventional weapons, I think your sense of scale is a bit off. China is a big place with a lot of economic nodes. In a few days or weeks, with conventional weapons only, it's not likley we could do much to impress the Chinese.
Although the sheer scale of a nation makes attacking with conventional weapons seem somewhat pointless, remember the Chinese actually claimed the threshold for their release of nuclear weapons would be the use of US "smart" weapons against Chinese targets. (I don't remember when this was exactly, but it was during the Bush Administration and I *think* it happened around the time the ruckus over downing a US surveillance plane off the coast of China occurred. Someone with strong Google-Fu should look this up).
Waves of "smart" weapons taking out fixed targets like transport and energy nodes could do a crippling amount of damage to China or any other nation. The Chinese government would feel forced to respond with maximum force, since crippling the energy and transport nodes would effectively dismember China and prevent the Government from feeding the population or keeping the economy going, which would probably lead to mass uprisings against the government and the rise of warlord states within the borders of China, meaning the end of the current "Red Dynasty".
Tony, fair point, but I will blame the crazy locals for my reactions and try really hard to not continue to drag them onto this board.
WRT China, please note that I said conventional *strategic* weapons. That would be the equivalent loading a Minuteman with training shapes (same flight characteristics as Mk4 RBAs but no radioactives at all), and putting eight 500lb bricks at near orbital velocities onto several someones' front porch. Nuclear-scale boom, no contamination.
After all, we gave the unclassified description of missile accuracy as follows: 1st generation missiles would hit within the parking lot of the Kingdome, 2nd generation missiles would hit within the stadium, 3rd generation would hit within the infield, and 4th generation would hit on any corner of the pitcher's rubber block you chose.
My point about freedom of navigation was that China attacking an American warship wouldn't just be an act of war against America. All the other maritime powers, and those nations that depend on the sea for trade
(ie, all the developed nations) would likely be compelled to do something about that attack. If they didn't, then how soon before China destroyed one of their (civilian) ships?
Scott, Tony: What I'm more trying to say is that an EMP attack just IS a nuclear attack, at least for the foreseeable future. (There are non-nuclear EMP weapons, but they are MUCH smaller scale and unlikely to be nation crippling unless launched in masses that might as well be considered Armageddon level warfare)
I'm given to understand that an EMP attack is for the most part a conventional nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude. That means that the only truly effective delivery mechanism is an ICBM.
The ramifications of even a single missile are enormous: a sovereign nation has launched a nuclear ICBM at the US...and frankly, if a single missile is capable of damaging US infrastructure to the point of existential threat to the nation, those reprisal missiles are going up regardless of whether the Chinese assure us it'll detonate 400 miles above the surface.
I just fail to see a scenario where EMPs might be strategically employed to cripple the US that do not result in a total nuclear exchange...I suppose if the offending country saw the incoming US retaliation and allowed their destruction without reprisal, but I'm a bit more cynical about human nature than to think that.
I honestly don't even think China (or any sovereign nation) could get away with nuking a carrier group. Let's be honest...if the two superpowers of today get to the point that China feels the need to nuke a carrier group...yeah, the world is toast.
Jeepers!
Okay...
It was the Russians that claimed the use of US smart weapons against strategic targets (either wepaons or sensor systems) would constitute a valid provocation for nuclear retaliation.
As for "waves" of smart weapons, what constitutes a wave in the context of Afghanistan or Iraq would hardly be a ripple in the context of China. The US and allied conventional weapons arsenals just aren't big enough to put even a respectable dent in China's economy. As always, amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics.
A single nuclear weapon, regardless of how delivered, is not a sufficient provocation for massive retaliation. It's a catastrophe for the city that gets hit, but on a national scale it's just not sufficient to trigger Doomsday. As long as no large scale strikes are attempted, leaders would be constrained by numerous factors and values to respond cautiously.
Going back to the nuclear strike against a carrier group at sea...
An attack against a military target at sea is simply not a freedom of navigation issue. If one want to invoke history, The Firt contact at Jutland was caused by opposing scouting forces investigating a neutral Danish steamer blowing off steam. Even a world war and a known war zone were not enough to stop neutral trade. Likewise, if there was a war at sea between China nad the US, neutrals might proceed cautiously, or even stay away. But they wouldn't become directly involved. I seriously doubt the Chinese would refrain from using whatever weapons they thought best, simply because trade would be upset for a time.
As for the idea that a nuclear strike against a US fleet would cause an all-out exchange, one simply can't credit that. The Chinese could (quite correctly) characterize it as a strictly tactical act that threatened nothing but military targets. (The US would help in this in that US carrier groups tendto clear the seas around them when operating in a war zone.) Nuclear retaliation against Chinese homeland targets, even military ones, would kill tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of civilians. The US National Command Authority would think long and hard about that, and probably conclude that it would be best to suck it up and at most hit the single remotest Chinese naval installation or air base that's still plausibly in the war zone.
Finally, there is very little possibility that a nuclear exchange between the US and China would be the end of civilization. The Chiese would be able to target maybe a few dozen weapons to the continental US, while the US would attack with scores, or maybe a few hundred. China would probably be devastated, but the US would just be set back economically a decade or so, maybe less, depending on how reliable the Chinese delivery systems were, how accurately they attacked their targets, and what they chose to target. Say, for example, they targetted two weapons at downtown Los Angeles. One missile might not work and the second might miss and blow up Pasadena. Tough for the San Gabriel Valley, no big deal for the US economy as a whole.
Tony: Well yes, presumably a nuclear engagement requires rough parity to cause total nuclear annihilation.
But I disagree that a single nuked city wouldn't invite tenfold retaliation. An ICBM launched at a major population center would get ugly, fast, presuming the target has any capacity to return the disfavor.
For better or for worse, international politics are not governed by "eye for an eye". Look at the US's response to 9/11...we're still fighting multiple wars a decade later, and have demolished and installed two governments using that as a pretense. Regardless of anyone's individual stance on the US's actions in the past decade, I think we can all agree that the forcible removal of two governments is not at all the same thing as a terrorist attack on a pair of civilian buildings.
Regardless, this is all in context of decelerando, and specifically, EMP weapons doing significant damage to the US.
An EMP attack is either a WMD and a significant existential threat to the US, at which point MAD applies, or it isn't, at which point one wonders why anyone would bother at all, and thus it's just an existential threat to the launching nation and unlikely to cause global decelerando.
And again, why would China even bother? What could they hope to gain by disrupting the US so? We're their biggest customer.
Or, to put it another way:
"Owe your banker £1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed."
Re: ElAntonius
The Chinese nuclear arsenal simply isn't big or deliverable enough for MAD to apply between the US and China. The Chinese arsenal is strictly regime survival insurance and (maybe) sufficient to dominate in a war between China and India. It couldn't be used to threaten the US with anihilation or even crippling damage. At best, it could be used by a really gutsy leader to bluff the US into nonintervention in Chinese initiatives, by threatening more pain than the US would want to accept.
As for the idea that one nuke equals totally nuclear war, please read Herman Kahn: Thinking about the Unthinkable in the 1980s. There are many sets of circumstances where trading punch for punch would be countenanced long before all-out attack.
I'm just relaying that all my shipmates considered that any order for us to launch meant that the world was already in the hurt locker.
A absolute minimal deployment is a single Minuteman (1-3 warheads), and those don't have the range to hit anybody but Russia. Land-based missiles generally don't have the range to hit most of china, which limits us to Bombers or Subs.
The next step up is a single Trident (max 8 warheads), but a single launch would likely result in the destruction of that submarine, and the remaining 23 birds. This makes single-launches unlikely.
Bombers have to get to their target, so there will be 'blast a path' attacks before the actual intended target, and 16+ warheads per plane times 3 or 4 planes per attack (based on the Linebacker raids, which used SIOP tactics).
The nature of the packaging needed to get one bomb to the target makes it very hard to deliver a 'limited' response for any delivery method. Even a single B52 could wipe out most of the cities on the coast of China, and we're operating in groups of 3?
That's why I consider any nuclear weapon the camel's nose under the tentflap. Sure, it might stop after a hundred warheads or so each direction, but even that is catastrophic damage.
And since an EMP requires a rocket launch to deliver (by current definition, an act of war by a nation), it is almost inconceivable that there would not be a 50-100 warhead response.
An EMP attack is either a WMD and a significant existential threat to the US, at which point MAD applies, or it isn't, at which point one wonders why anyone would bother at all, and thus it's just an existential threat to the launching nation and unlikely to cause global decelerando.
Haven't I been clear that an EMP attack is always going to be an existential threat to the launching nation, whether or not it's a threat to the target?
That's why I consider any nuclear weapon the camel's nose under the tentflap. Sure, it might stop after a hundred warheads or so each direction, but even that is catastrophic damage.
My gut reaction has always been that the first launch will be the one that ends the world. McNamara's idea of city-swapping with the Russians struck me as sick fantasy. But, as I said, this is a gut reaction, not an immutable law of the multiverse. My gut reaction from before the fall of the Soviet Union would be that the power struggle in the collapse of any nuclear-armed power would be a nuclear exchange, either against internal targets or with hardliner factions trying to to make an attack against the foreign enemy their last official act. I was happily soooo wrong in that regard.
Re: Scott
You're applying Cold War logic to a non-Cold War environment. For example, much of Manchuria could certainly be targetted from Malmstrom AFB, Montana. The great circle distance from Butte, Montana to Beijing, China is less than 6300 miles, while the Minuteman III missile has a reported operational range of 8100 miles.
But, if you wanted to fire a single missile from a sub, the idea that that would endanger the sub in any way is simply not credible. A Trident II could be fired from the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands and target points well inland of Shanghai. It's pretty darn hard to believe that the Chinese could prosecute an ASW campaign that far from home, and that close to Pearl Harbor, Hickam AFB, Kaneohe NAS, etc.
Re: Scott
The previous is totally ignoring the ALCM, which if launched from a 500 mile standoff could still reach 1000 miles inland.
I really don't think the US is handcuffed WRT limited nuclear options and China.
Smart weapons targeting transport and energy nodes is an attack on the nation's logistics, and I don't think that China has anywhere near the surplus transport or energy generation capacity that highly developed nations like the United States or Western Europe enjoy.
Even in the United States, food riots are "only three days away" since most people don't have large stockpiles on hand and supermarkets generally need to be restocked at least once a week, if not more often. Dropping a few American bridges or destroying a railway switching yard would have serious consequences, but there would still be plenty of work arounds here, via secondary roads and so on. In China, the infrastructure isn't as well developed so dropping the bridges or destroying the rail yard is not just serious, but a total disaster...
Herman Kahn style tit for tat scenarios strike me as interesting theoretical constructs, but the fundamental fact, it seems to me, is that any use of a nuclear weapon puts all potentially involved leaderships into a decision making environment where no one has ever been.
Cool headed rationality is not to be counted on - if it prevailed, you wouldn't get to the point of nuclear weapon release. And panicky people with H-bombs is an EXTREMELY dangerous situation.
Thucydides:
"Smart weapons targeting transport and energy nodes is an attack on the nation's logistics, and I don't think that China has anywhere near the surplus transport or energy generation capacity that highly developed nations like the United States or Western Europe enjoy."
Let's take a step back here. Iraq has a population of about 25 million. China's population is 50 times as large. There simply aren't enough munitions to signifcantly impact the Chinese economy overall, even if some targetted regions could be shut down.
Targeting China would be an interesting problem. Authoritarian regimes tend to be brittle and unable to respond well to rapidly changing events.
Using smart weapons to isolate a region of China through breaking the transport or energy grid would cause escalating ripple effects which would become difficult or impossible for the Chinese government to deal with. (just think of the effort the Chinese take to prevent a flood of people crossing the border of the DPRK. Now imagine the situation as masses of people attempt to flee from a Chinese province seeking food or shelter and beginning to overwhelm the resources of the neighbouring provinces, disrupting overstressed transport grids and diverting military resources and bandwidth.)
The introduction of escalating food and energy prices was enough to kick off the current wave of revolts in North Africa and the Gulf States (and there are reports of small demonstrations happening in China as well), so it isn't beyond the bounds of possibility to destabilize an authoritarian country with some additional stressors.
Thucydides:
Sorry, but I think you've been reading too many technothrillers.
Scott:
Haven't I been clear that an EMP attack is always going to be an existential threat to the launching nation, whether or not it's a threat to the target?
Yes, I'm generally in agreement with what you're saying.
Tony: If China does not have the level of weaponry to play MAD, then why would they launch any sort of nuclear device in the first place? Again, what would China hope to accomplish?
It's like shooting at a squad of police officers, and then crying foul when they shoot you back.
Nuclear weapons are very interesting in that regard...sure, unfired they are the absolute guarantors of national sovereignty, but once used, they are also the absolute destroyers.
My whole point is that any nation deploying nuclear weapons is going to face an enormous cost...the only way to reduce that cost is to ensure that the target nation is incapable of responding.
There is no "oops, my bad" with nuclear weaponry.
ElAntonius:
"Tony: If China does not have the level of weaponry to play MAD, then why would they launch any sort of nuclear device in the first place? Again, what would China hope to accomplish?
...
...the only way to reduce that cost is to ensure that the target nation is incapable of responding."
You've answered your own question. If the Chinese used a nuclear weapon against US naval forces at sea, in what way could the US respond with nuclear weapons that would be regarded as proportional by the rest of the world? Think about that for a while.
You've answered your own question. If the Chinese used a nuclear weapon against US naval forces at sea, in what way could the US respond with nuclear weapons that would be regarded as proportional by the rest of the world? Think about that for a while.
Context is king. Is war ongoing? If so, then China opening that particular Pandora's Box wouldn't end well.
Are they nuking a CBG during "peacetime exercises"? Ditto.
Nuclear weapons are, sociologically speaking, not just really big bombs. The last 60 years of human history are colored with the fear that someone, somewhere, will decide that it's once again a good idea to deploy them.
In either case, you're not answering my real question. Why would China do it? We're talking about the two most intermingled economies in history. Victory by one party would only be Pyrrhic.
But, proposing somehow the US and China do end up in a situation so pear shaped that destruction of a CBG is even being considered...how does nuking a carrier group really even help?
I just fail to see a scenario where China feels the need to nuke a carrier group that ISN'T already really, really bad. If the US is deploying "smart" weapons against Chinese infrastructure, that sounds like we're attempting some regime removal...in other words, China's ALREADY under existential threat. If they nuke a CBG that isn't involved in a military operation against them, then any nuclear or conventional attack against one would be an open declaration of war and would very quickly spiral out of control any way.
And furthermore, how is delivering a nuke to a CBG at all an existential threat to the US? We're talking about decelerando here...destroying a carrier might set us back quite a bit in the tactical realm, but in reality won't do much except potentially ignite whatever war is going to far more dangerous levels.
Re: ElAntonius
The context in which a US carrier battle group would be a threat to China would be something to do with Taiwan, or some other Chinese overseas initiative in the Western Pacific, perhaps against Vietnam or the Philippines. In any case, one need not imagine some great existential war. The nuke(s) would be used as an equalizer. The Chinese would calim the act as an act of the weak against the strong, and a lot of people around the world would be happy to believe them.
As for the intermingled economies argument, you really need to read up on your WWI history. Prior to that war there were people who believed that such highly integrated economies would never engage in war against each other. Others believed that the workers would never fight each other to achieve capitalistic and nationalistic goals. Still more believedthat even if a war started, it would have to be quick, because the various national economies couldn't long support the cost of total war. Ummm...yeah.
Nuclear weapons are, sociologically speaking, not just really big bombs.
Energy release/kg on order of 1,000,000x high explosives tends to have that effect.
I can picture scenarios that lead to a US/China nuclear war, but they all proceed from situations where one side or both are already facing catastrophe - say, economic collapse to the point of threatening the regime, so that attacking the yellow peril / red haired devils seems like the only way out.
Google Stuart Slade for some interesting discussion by someone who sounds knowledgeable on the subject.
World War I is a useful cautionary example regarding economic integration and the like, but no one went into WW I expecting 'regime change' to be a likely outcome - let alone personal annihilation of regime leaders.
Rick:
"Nuclear weapons are, sociologically speaking, not just really big bombs.
Energy release/kg on order of 1,000,000x high explosives tends to have that effect."
But that effect works both ways. If somebody uses a nuke against a clearly military target, away from all risk of civilian casualties, how does the government owning the military target respond? Nukes aren't just big bombs. You can't use tem to kill hundreds of thousands or millions when all you've lost is several ships and maybe ten thousand sailors. The sociological effect can in fact be inverted with careful, limited targetting.
"Google Stuart Slade for some interesting discussion by someone who sounds knowledgeable on the subject.
Ol' Stu has a pretty utilitarian attitude towards nukes. I wouldn't go looking to him for confirmation of the inescapable and inevitable MAD apocalypse.
"...but no one went into WW I expecting 'regime change' to be a likely outcome - let alone personal annihilation of regime leaders."
I think we can all agree there were a lot of things they didn't expect. That's why Bismarck made sure he had already won (by diplomatically isolating the enemy) before he started fighting. It's one whole heck of a lot safer that way. Bethmann-Hollweg and Wild Bill Hohenzollern didn't get that. Neither did the French hotheads, nor the Austrians, nor the Russians.
But it only took twenty years for everyone to make the same or similar mistakes all over again. So I wouldn't hold out much hope that anybody would take much heed of history today.
The last I heard (and my info is a decade out of date), the U.S. officially considered nuclear weapons to be fundimentally different than conventional weapons; ANY use of nukes would demand a response in kind. For your scinario of China nuking a CBG, we would be virtually reqired to nuke the Chinese Navy in response (the PLAN is about the size of a CBG or two). If the Chinese did nuke an American CBG and the U.S. President didn't respond in kind, then the American people would howl for his blood. I can only see that scinario happening as a last-ditch act of desperation, miscalculation, and full-blown panic.
On a side note, during the Cold War, the U.S. publicly said that nukes and conventional weapons were seperate and different and any use of nukes would require an overwhelming response-in-kind; the Sovite Union publicly stated that they viewed ALL weapons as being on a spectrum (pistols at one end, Tsar Bomba at the other), and even though both the U.S. and the Sovites knew what the other sides' view of nuclear weapons use was, neither side believed the other. After the end of the Cold War and military archives in the former East Germany were examined, it was found that the first use of nuclear weapons was to use low-yeald nukes to vaporize military bases in West Germany. The Sovites thought that the U.S. would only respond with the few low-yeald nukes they still had in theater, or simply accept that the Sovites had won...it never occured to them that the U.S. would respond to Sovite use of tactical nukes in Europe by launching a full scale nuclear attack against the Russian homeland. Thank god we didn't fight WIII in the mid 80's...
Ferrell
Ol' Stu has a pretty utilitarian attitude towards nukes. I wouldn't go looking to him for confirmation of the inescapable and inevitable MAD apocalypse.
That is exactly why I find his observations so interesting. From the previously linked bit:
The only people who mouth off about using nuclear weapons and threaten others with them are those that do not have keys hanging around their necks. The moment they get keys and realize what they've let themselves in for, they get to be very quiet and very cautious indeed.
To take on the particular scenario outlined, if the Chinese nuked a US carrier group, we could certainly find an isolated Chinese airbase to nuke, or an army base on the road to Tibet, etc. We probably have informed them exactly this, by some indirect means.
That serves the conceptual ball back into their court, and underlines the point that you cannot count on taking one step up the escalation ladder and having it end there on your terms.
Is this an absolute protection against human stupidity? Certainly not, but I believe that it is rather robust. The Cold War was, by pre-nuclear historical logic, pretty much a worst case scenario - a Great Power system reduced to two rivals playing for the imperial purple, and with mouth foaming ideological hostilities to boot.
Nuclear weapons are, among other things, extremely sobering.
Re: Ferrell et al.
It wasn't that long ago the suggestions were coming from within the DoD that low yield nukes, combined with penetrating bomb casings, would make a great bunker busting weapon, and wouldn't really count as a nuclear release, because it would be a controlled, tactical use, with limited above-surface effects. The DOE even did some initial development work for a few years.
Now, exploding a weapon in the open air is a step up from that, but if targeted at a strictly military target hundreds of miles out to sea in a declared war zone, it could rationally be portrayed in the same light that we would have portrayed the use of a bunker busting nuke -- just an equalizer, who can blame us?
And so what if the US public howls in anger? The President is caught up on the horns of the dilemma Mr. Slade identified. But Stu left out one very big caveat: the logic only applies if retaliation can be proportional. The PLAN (Chinese navy), without the threat of a carrier battle group, could disperse to the point that nuking any single ship of small groups of ships -- the biggest of which would be a destroyer -- would be seen as a lame response. As for nuking remote bases, it's highly likely that the Chinese, just like us, place medium and major military bases near fairly large population centers. Go ahead an nuke a battalion outpost on the Mongolian border, that's going to be really impressive. Even that level of attack would still be a homeland attack, which is a lot more serious business than even losing a carrier or two, escorts included.
See, nukes aren't absolutely rulled out, by us or anybody else. But one has to use them cleverly in ways that cannot be plausibly retaliated against without risking a wider war that nobody wants. I'm not saying that if the Chinese followed that logic things would go their way. But by the same token, and US Prsident faced with retaliating to a tactical use at sea would have a real problem justifying it, even against a remote, nominally military target.
This scenario seems horribly risky, because the outcome depends entirely on the US responding as China presumes it 'should.' What if the US instead flattens a Chinese airbase, notwithstanding extensive damage to a nearby town?
I agree that nukes 'aren't absolutely ruled out,' but like this scenario they depend a host of assumptions about the other player's response - and if those assumptions are wrong, you are up shit creek, but still downstream of a dam that just burst.
You know, using a strategic weapon on a non-strategic target would seem to some, (especially during the heat of a war that has just escalated into the nuclear realm), to be a waste; there are other, nonmilitary, strategic targets just as justifiable as a military base. Three Gorges Damn comes to mind. It may not be smart, or keep the war from escalating, but I can see it happening.
Ferrell
Nothing is without risk. But we have to remember that the Chinese are the people that gave us Unrestricted Warfare, in which the authors suggested that anything that works is a viable tactic, no matter how seemingly far-fetched or unconventional. The authors in fact claimed as a right any tactic that evened the playing field for the weaker side.
From that I adduced that the Chinese could see using a nuke against USN forces at sea as nothing more than an Unrestricted Warfare type tactic. Would they do it for real? I don't know. But I do know that the worst military disasters have always been the result of failures of imagination on the part of the sufferer, combined with the application of a bit of raw, unrefined nerve on the part of the attacker.
Which does prove that the Chinese defense establishment is not immune from its own crackpot equivalents of the arguments for 'bunker buster' nukes.
But on the final point, I could as easily argue - with support from Thucydides (the original guy, not the commenter here) - that the worst military disasters have resulted from good old hubris.
Rick:
"But on the final point, I could as easily argue - with support from Thucydides (the original guy, not the commenter here) - that the worst military disasters have resulted from good old hubris."
Yep...they won't use nukes on us because they're too afraid of what we'd do in retaliation, regardless of how carefully they could tailor the circumstances to make retaliation in-kind a political non-starter.
As they say in fencing school, touché!
Though I suspect the Chinese leadership would find itself less confident in this theory, because the price of miscalculation is both dreadfully high and dreadfully obvious.
... the price of miscalculation is both dreadfully high and dreadfully obvious.
And that, my friends, is why very few people actually consider using nukes. (much better said than I ever could)
The only ones that do consider the idea are those that truly don't think they would face utter annihilation. Like India and Pakistan, possibly Saudi and DPRK.
One of the points I was trying to make, that I believe was overlooked, is that this threat of utter annihilation is what convinces every country, even those that don't like the US at all, to keep tight control over delivery systems. You do not want to have someone who is not the head of state to decide to entangle the state in an annihilation event.
Despite John Ringo's otherwise rant-filled prose, the story 'Ghost' makes a point that I wish the US would go on record with: WMD are WMD. bio = gas = dirty bomb = nukes. Use of any CBRN weapon will result in instant sunshine at the country-destroying level.
If *any* attack on the US is an existential threat to the hosting nation, there will be no attacks on the US. Every other nation will make sure of that for America. I don't like ruling through fear, but murphy's 3rd law applies: If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
The real problem with such self-assurance is that I've been asserting China's best case for nuclear use against the USN at sea. They might be willing to trade an air or naval base and a medium sized city for the neutralization of a carrier battle group, if that's a war-winning trade. Massive retaliation is simply not going to be considered by a US President, no matter what his theoretical convictions ought to be. Nobody likely to be elected President is going to countenance being the greatest murderer* ever just to prove a point.
*And it would be murder, because it would be so wildly disproportionate.
I think you greatly overestimate our civility. Depending on whose figures you trust, we've killed anywhere from 0 to a million civilians in Iraq and the leadership has studiously ignored the war protests. I think people gave up even trying to object to it.
If China made a nuclear strike on American carriers, I would not want to be sitting in their command bunkers waiting for the response.
Personally, I thought the whole push towards making nukes usable on the battlefield was insanity. Nobody's going to care about your definition of what is and isn't a WMD. I don't care if it's a sub-kiloton weapon or even if it's some wonder-weapon that weighs as much as a bullet and can hit like a 10 ton bomb. If you can describe it as a nuclear explosion, people are going to lose their minds. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging had to be renamed because of that.
1. It counts if it happens to Americans.
2. We don't care if it happens to others.
Can you honestly tell me that Faux wouldn't go off the rails if America got nuked and Obama didn't nuke back back because he doesn't want to be a mass murderer? Articles of Impeachment would be whipped up faster than you can say "intern sex."
Note: I'm not advocating a course of action, I'm not validating it. I'm just saying that I think it would be unlikely for China to do something like that but if they did, they couldn't count on the American response being reasonable or rational. Maybe everyone involved would surprise us but I wouldn't put money on it.
Re: jollyreaper
Who or what is "Faux"? If it's a partisan or politically motivated epithet, could you please stop? Gratuitously insulting editorial comments make you look small and silly, no matter who they are directed at.
WRT the subject, I think you're simply mistaken that a US President would engage massive retalialtion for a single, isolated attack against forces at sea. "If one flies, they all fly" is a Cold War logic, based on existential conflict between the US and USSR. That logic doesn't apply to the 21st Century.
WRT the subject, I think you're simply mistaken that a US President would engage massive retalialtion for a single, isolated attack against forces at sea. "If one flies, they all fly" is a Cold War logic, based on existential conflict between the US and USSR. That logic doesn't apply to the 21st Century.
The USSR had the ability to wipe the US off the face of the Earth. China could probably ruin our decade but not obliterate us in 20 minutes. So there wouldn't be the same necessity to catch their birds on the ground before they're launched.
But the political pressure of retaliating in kind, I don't think that could be resisted. If they sink a carrier group, we're going to have to hit them back, hard. Possibly confining the retaliatory strike to military targets, we might not jump immediately to taking out cities. But I would find it incredibly, extremely surprising to see the US nuked and not nuke back. If one of our cities got hit, we're going to nuke one of theirs. It wasn't all that long ago that western nations were willing to firebomb cities as a matter of course.
Johnson was willing to stay in the Vietnam War after he knew it was lost because he didn't want to appear soft on communism. We killed what, an estimated two million Asians in that war? I've heard people go back and forth about it but I think the dead GI's did more to sour the public on the war than the dead Asians.
As I said, if the Chinese launched a nuclear strike on American forces, I would not want to be sitting in their bunkers when America responds.
jollyreaper:
"As I said, if the Chinese launched a nuclear strike on American forces, I would not want to be sitting in their bunkers when America responds."
If I were the Chinese nuking US carrier(s), I would immediately hold a rally at the Olympic stadium and have the whole Central Committee there, daring the US to nuke downtown Beijing in retaliation for a carrier battle group.
IOW, you're simply not following the logic, j. The Chinese have just made a limited attack against a strictly military target. That significantly limits US options. It's not just the bloodthirsty portion of the US populace that the Administration has to worry about, but those who would object to a homeland attack in retaliation (a large plurality, if not a majority), and everybody in the international community (even our allies) who would turn their backs on us is we did such a thing.
The President has to take all of these things into consideration when choosing a response. He can't just lash out. And he's not going to get impeached -- Congress is going to be in as much turmoil as the Executive branch over something like that. He'll probably retaliate somehow, but he's not going to do anything drastic.
The President has to take all of these things into consideration when choosing a response. He can't just lash out. And he's not going to get impeached -- Congress is going to be in as much turmoil as the Executive branch over something like that. He'll probably retaliate somehow, but he's not going to do anything drastic.
If the Chinese leadership did nuke a CVBG, I'm sure that your line of reasoning would be exactly the same as they one they followed. I just think the plan relies too much on the US president behaving as expected. I could easily see him reacting in a way they weren't anticipating.
All of this is a bit abstract, really, because there'd have to be some context of why the Chinese decided on nuclear release in the first place.
But I'll stand by my general point, that while there are no absolute guarantees whatsoever, the prospect of getting nuked back has great power to concentrate the mind.
Note that India and Pakistan have gotten a great deal more circumspect with each other since they became nuclear powers.
Rick:
"All of this is a bit abstract, really, because there'd have to be some context of why the Chinese decided on nuclear release in the first place."
They don't have CVBGs, but they have nukes and MRBMs, and they consider whatever operation the US sends the CVBGs against worth extreme measures to protect.
"But I'll stand by my general point, that while there are no absolute guarantees whatsoever, the prospect of getting nuked back has great power to concentrate the mind.
Note that India and Pakistan have gotten a great deal more circumspect with each other since they became nuclear powers."
Of course. But when we start believeing that nothing is worth using a nuke against, we start making ourselves vulnerable to nuclear use.
As far as nuclear exchanges' between the U.S. and China goes; even a two to one response would put our point across and not alienate anyone too badly; You nuked one of our CBGs, we nuke one of your navy ports and an airbase; do it again and we'll nuke four military targets, ect; the U.S. can do this a lot longer than the Chinese can aford to.
Ferrell
Jollyreaper:
"But the political pressure of retaliating in kind, I don't think that could be resisted. If they sink a carrier group, we're going to have to hit them back, hard. Possibly confining the retaliatory strike to military targets, we might not jump immediately to taking out cities. But I would find it incredibly, extremely surprising to see the US nuked and not nuke back."
I think the US's chief objective here would be to win whatever conflict of interest inspired the Chinese to try nuking them in the first place. They would now be willing to use nukes in pursuit of this objective, but they wouldn't use more than they need to - but also no less.
I don't expect anyone to simply launch a nuke for the sake of launching a nuke, even in retaliation. But at this point the US would not back down from the war because "we can't win without resorting to nukes", if it comes to that.
Part of the problem is that by launching nukes the host nation makes the *launchers* targets...and most likely, target numero uno.
Nuclear silos are often well hidden and well reinforced. Submarines are the former, but I suspect the Chinese navy doesn't have a huge amount of them. Bombers are neither, but they are the easiest path for nuclear delivery from a technological perspective.
Even if the US isn't wanting to retaliate in a nuclear manner, one would presume that at the point of nuclear use by the Chinese on a strict military target the only options are to utterly destroy the Chinese launch capacity, or to cease whatever war effort exists in the first place.
And the dirty truth is I don't think the US flat out has enough ordinance to do that in the conventional manner. Sure, we have all sorts of ways of knocking out bombers, but I don't think bombers are going to be a primary threat to CBGs (It's not like CBGs aren't loaded to the gills with interceptors and AA defenses)
So that leaves sub-hunting and bunker-hunting...no one is really going to mess all that much with a sub-hunt, they'll just start demolishing resupply ports, and if those prove too hardened for conventional assault, we'll either have to get dirty or get peaceful.
As for silos...well, there's an ugly truth to that. We all know what it is. There's a reason that both Russia and the US viewed total nuclear annihilation as the deterrent for ICBM attacks.
That's the problem with nukes...they essentially force a total war situation, and total war with nuclear equipped opponents is not a pretty scenario.
Also: there's a reason nuclear bunker busters never made it past the drawing board.
Ferrell:
"As far as nuclear exchanges' between the U.S. and China goes; even a two to one response would put our point across and not alienate anyone too badly; You nuked one of our CBGs, we nuke one of your navy ports and an airbase; do it again and we'll nuke four military targets, ect; the U.S. can do this a lot longer than the Chinese can aford to."
The Chinese only have to do it once. They take out a CVBG or two, take their lumps, succeed in whatever initiative they're taking, and anything the US can do later is presumably moot. As I already said, US non-retaliation in kind is the Chinese best case, and the result they would work to achieve. But taking a nuke or two in retaliation deosn't mean they lose.
Eh, remember how many missiles/bombers would be needed to get one warhead to the target.
An absolute-minimum launch would be a single Minuteman III (3x 375kt), but that requires the Russians to not panic when that set of MIRVs goes over their heads. No thanks, I don't want to risk involving the Russians in a US/China dispute on the Chinese side.
Next-smallest release would be a single Trident II/D5 (~12x 375kt). Problem is, launching one D5 reveals the position of 23 more, so you would need to launch enough to not cripple your response when you lose that sub. I estimate *that* minimum number as at least 6 birds, possibly as many as 12. And it still carries a substantial risk of involving the Russians.
Bombers? 24+ warheads per plane, and each plane operates with 2 friends (based on Linebacker raids during Vietnam, supposedly following nuclear-war doctrine), plus however many additional attacks to clear a path to the real targets. A minimum of 72 warheads in a single flight, times a minimum of 3-4 flights.
All this makes even a "limited" nuclear attack an awful lot bigger than most people would have considered.
Once you run through *that* calculus, using a nuke for your opening bid becomes very unattractive.
Re: Scott
I have to agree that ICBMs are out, for more reasons than the ones you mentioned.
But what's this worry about a single SLBM launch leading to the loss of a boat? As already mentioned, a missile could be launched from the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands and still reach well into China. There's not going to be any Chinese ASW activity there. (Or if there is, we have bigger problems than losing a single missile boat.)
Likewise, what's the idea with gravity bomb equipped bombers? For a limited strike, we would use ALCM, which, if fired from a 500 mile standoff, could reach up to 1000 miles inland. (At least -- official figures generally understate capabilities.)
Scott: I have to agree with Tony; a sub could fire a single missile and then leve the area at high speed; shoot-n-scoot. By the time enemy forces could respond to the area that the missile was launched from, the sub would be tens of miles away at the very least; more probably closer to 100; if you couldn't find it before, what makes you think you could find it now?
Ferrell
Near future developments will make even these calculations somewhat suspect. The Indian military operates the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile and is developing a hypersonic version. The USAF is developing a hypersonic Prompt Global Strike "boost/glide" missile which can travel thousands of miles in minutes.
BrahMos comes in air, sea and land based versions, which means the strike is not only very fast, but also comes at you from any direction (a heavy truck carrying a ground launch version, any ship capable of housing the beast in the sea launch version, and a heavy bomber or strike plane for the air launched version).
This would allow "tit for tat" strikes using conventional weapons (I take your aircraft carrier, you hit an airbase) without raising the nuclear threshold.
But the underlying for main force conflict between major industrial poers is one that was supposedly expressed by a Navy guy in the 80s, who described our war plan against the Soviets as "Fight with conventional weapons until we're losing, then fight with tactical nukes until we're losing, then blow up the world."
Powers can tit for tat each other, and so long as someone backs down, none the worse off (except for the odd carrier group, etc.).
But if the loser in any round considers losing unacceptable, it is on to the next round, and after a few rounds things get seriously out of hand ...
So long as there is some sort of rational calculation of cost/benefit, then the best we can hope for is nations weilding hypersonic boost glide weapons are willing to back down once they have made their point (or the sudden application of force overwhelms the opponents political machinery and they declare defeat or ceasefire).
The arguments that retaliation will involve large numbers of weapons is the one which I think is mooted here, you would probably assign a pair of boost glide missiles to ensure one gets through, which is a certain signal of restraint (a wave of incoming missiles would be a pretty clear sign the gloves are coming off).
Of course, no one can always count on being rational
It's odd, the "e-Panphlet" you linked from Tyler Cowen to isn't available to Canadian accounts. What's the deal?
Welcome to the comment threads!
I have no idea why Cowan's e-pamphlet wouldn't be available to Canadian accounts. Does Amazon have a separate Canadian site (a la Amazon.co.uk)?
Maybe googling would get you to a site where you can order it?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704587004576242450234233350.html
more at the link
Putting on the Brakes: Mankind Nears the End of the Age of Speed
The human race is slowing down.
When the U.S. space shuttle completes its final flight, planned for June, mankind will take another step back from its top speed. Space shuttles are the fastest reusable manned vehicles ever built. Their maximum was only exceeded by single-shot moon rockets.
The shuttles' retirement follows the grounding over recent years of other ultrafast people carriers, including the supersonic Concorde and the speedier SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. With nothing ready to replace them, our species is decelerating—perhaps for the first time in history.
It has been a good two-century sprint, says Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 covered almost 240,000 miles in less than four days to plant the first human footprint on the Moon. Through the 18th century, he noted in an email exchange, humans could travel by foot or horse at approximately six miles per hour. "In the 19th, with trains, they reached 60 mph. In the 20th, with jet aircraft, we could travel at 600 mph. Can we expect 6,000 mph in the 21st?" he wondered.
"It does not seem likely," Mr. Armstrong continued, although he holds out some hope.
Arguably this is a natural process. Maximum travel speed did not change much from the development of the chariot and horseback riding in the Bronze Age to the beginning of the railroad era.
Most of the increase took place in not much more than a century, c. 1830-1960, and technology then overshot the requirement. The airline industry has no significant interest in SSTs - the additional time they save is not worth the development and operating costs.
Interplanetary travel could add another order of magnitude, to ~100 km/s, as a sort of coda to the industrial revolution. Probably not much more than that, because required drive power goes up as the cube of travel speed, making Really Fast interplanetary travel an economic loser.
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Innovations
Innovations are a type of card that is found in Kingdom Death: Monster. Innovations are social and technological discoveries that profoundly affect the future of a campaign's settlement. They can grant new combat abilities and fighting arts, access to new resources, settlement activities, and expand the possibilities of the settlement's future.[1]
Innovation Anatomy[edit | hide | hide all]
Innovation cards feature the following components:
- Name: The name of the innovation.
- Innovation Keywords: Innovations have a type (Paint's type is art) and an origin (Paint is a language consequence).
- Rules: Some innovations, like Language, have persistent benefits. Others, will allow you to endeavor at these innovations for potential gain.
Consequences[edit | hide]
Some innovation cards direct you to add further innovations to the innovation deck.[2]
Innovation Deck[edit | hide]
The innovation deck is a persistent deck that grows during the campaign. It represents the potential cultural and technological growth of the settlement, and will grow as a consequence of gained innovation cards. Whenever a settlement gains a new innovation, search the innovation cards for any innovations that are a consequence of the new innovation. Shuffle them into the innovation deck. The innovation deck is persistent. Players should make sure to preserve the unique combination of cards in their innovation deck between play sessions.[2]
Adding Innovations[edit | hide]
When a new innovation is added to the settlement, players should place it in the play area with all other innovations and update the settlement record sheet innovation list.
When gained innovations will grant a settlement to persistent benefits such as unlocking survival actions, increasing the settlement's survival limit, or providing opportunities for survivors to endeavor. If an endeavor cost is listed on the innovation card, one or more players may nominate a survivor, spend their endeavors at the innovation, and apply and resulting rules or effects.[2]
Survival Limit[edit | hide]
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Some innovations change your settlment's survival limit. When these are innovated, increase the survival limit on the settlement record sheet. If these innovations are lost, decrease the survival limit.[2]
Masteries[edit | hide]
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Weapon and armor masteries are innovations, they are permanently added to the list of settlement innovations. When any survivor attains a weapon or armor mastery with its matching type, that mastery imparts benefits to everyone in the settlement. All other survivors automatically gain the specialist bonus for that mastery and may use this in addition to whatever weapon proficiencies they have earned.[2]
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Core Game Innovations[edit | hide]
- Ammonia
- Bed
- Bloodletting
- Clan of Death
- Cooking
- Destiny
- Drums
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Objective and strategy
The fund seeks long term capital growth through investing in what they deem to be 30 highly innovative, reasonably valued, companies from around the globe. They take an eclectic approach to identifying global innovators. They read widely (for example Fast Company and MIT’s Technology Review, as well as reports from the Boston Consulting Group and Thomson Reuters) and maintain ongoing conversations with folks in a variety of industries. That leads them to identify a manageable set of themes (from artificial intelligence to clean energy) which seem to be driving global innovation. They then identify companies substantially exposed to those themes (about 1000), then weed out the financially challenged (taking the list down to 500). Having identified a potential addition to the portfolio, they also have to convince themselves that it has more upside than anyone currently in the portfolio (since there’s a one-in-one-out discipline) and that it’s selling at a substantial discount to fair value (typically about one standard deviation below its 10 year average). They rebalance about quarterly to maintain roughly equally weighted positions in all thirty, but the rebalance is not purely mechanical. They try to keep the weights “reasonably in line” but are aware of the importance of minimizing trading costs and tax burdens. The fund stays fully invested.
Adviser
Guinness Atkinson Asset Management. The firm started in 1993 as the US arm of Guinness Flight Global Asset Management and their first American funds were Guinness Flight China and Hong Kong (1994) and Asia Focus (1996). Guinness Flight was acquired by Investec, then Tim Guinness and Jim Atkinson’s acquired Investec’s US funds business to form Guinness Atkinson. Their London-based sister company is Guinness Asset Management which runs European funds that parallel the U.S. ones. They have $1.6 billion in assets under management and advises funds in both the US and Europe.
Managers
Matthew Page and Ian Mortimer. Mr. Page joined GA in 2005 and working for Goldman Sachs. He earned an M.A. from Oxford in 2004. Dr. Mortimer joined GA in 2006. Prior to joining GA, he completed a doctorate in experimental physics at the University of Oxford. They are assisted by two analysts. The team manages $930 million in total, including Dividend Builder Fund (GAINX) and the Dublin-based versions of both funds.
Strategy capacity and closure
Approximately $5 billion. The current estimate of strategy capacity was generated by a simple calculation: 30 times the amount they might legally and prudently own of the smallest stock in their universe. The strategy, including its Dublin-based version, holds about $390 million.
Active share
93. “Active share” measures the degree to which a fund’s portfolio differs from the holdings of its benchmark portfolio. High active share indicates management which is providing a portfolio that is substantially different from, and independent of, the index. An active share of zero indicates perfect overlap with the index, 100 indicates perfect independence. The active share for Global Innovators is 93, which reflects a very high level of independence from its benchmark MSCI World Index.
Management’s stake in the fund
The managers are not invested in the fund because it’s only open to U.S. residents. They report being heavily invested in the European version of the strategy.
Opening date
Good question! The fund launched as the Wired 40 Index on December 15, 1998. It performed splendidly. It became the actively managed Global Innovators Fund on April 1, 2003 under the direction of Edmund Harriss and Tim Guinness. It performed splendidly. The current team came onboard in May 2010 (Page) and May 2011 (Mortimer) and tweaked the process, after which it again performed splendidly.
Minimum investment
$5,000, reduced to $1,000 for IRAs and just $250 for accounts established with an automatic investment plan. The minimum for the Institutional share class (GINNX) is $100,000.
Expense ratio
1.24%(Investor class) and 0.99%(Institutional class) on assets of about $163.8 million, as of July 2023.
Comments
Let’s start with the obvious and work backward from there.
The obvious: Global Innovators has outstanding (consistently outstanding, enduringly outstanding) returns. Here’s the fund’s rank for total and risk-adjusted (measured by Sharpe ratio) returns against its Lipper Global Large Cap Growth group:
| Total returns | Risk-adjusted returns | |
| One year rank | #4 of 34 funds, as of 02/2018 | #1 |
| Three year rank | #3 of 29 | #6 |
| Five year rank | #1 of 23 | #1 |
| Ten year rank | #1 of 15 | #2 |
Morningstar, using a different peer group, places it in the top 1 – 5% of US Large Blend funds for the past 1, 3, 5 and 10 year periods (as of 03/29/2018). That’s particularly impressive given the fact that IWIRX is succeeding against a domestic peer group (the average peer has 3% foreign) with a portfolio is that heavily invested overseas (40%) at a time when domestic stocks (8.6% annually over the past ten years) have a strong performance advantage over their international peers (5.8% annually in the same period). They should not be thriving given those disadvantages, and yet they are.
Growth of a $10,000 investment, 3/31/2008 to 3/30/2018
| Guinness Atkinson Global Innovators | $28,209 |
| Morningstar Large Blend peer group | 21,587 |
| Morningstar World Stock peer group | 17,328 |
per Morningstar.com, returns before taxes, accessed 3/31/2018
But why?
Good academic research, stretching back decades (for example, Paul A. Geroski, Innovation and Competitive Advantage, 1995), shows that firms with a strong commitment to ongoing innovation outperform the market. Firms with a minimal commitment to innovation trail the market, at least over longer periods. Joseph Schumpeter (1942) offered a clear and memorable explanation:
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process. … Capitalism, then, is by its nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary.
The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers’ goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates. …
[t]he … process of industrial mutation … incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in and what every capitalist concern has got to live in.
Every firm and every strategy, he argues, “must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.”
The challenge is finding such firms and resisting the temptation to overpay for them. The fund initially (1998-2003) tracked an index of 40 stocks chosen by the editors of Wired magazine “to mirror the arc of the new economy as it emerges from the heart of the late industrial age.” In 2003, Guinness concluded that a more focused portfolio and more active selection process would do better, and they were right. In 2010, the new team inherited the fund. They maintained its historic philosophy and construction but broadened its investable universe. Fifteen years ago there were only about 80 stocks that qualified for consideration; today it’s closer to 500 than their “slightly more robust identification process” has them track.
This is not a collection of “story stocks.” They look for firms that are continually reinventing themselves and looking for better ways to address the opportunities and challenges in their industry and in the global economy. While that might describe Google / Alphabet, it might also describe a major manufacturer of tires (Continental AG) or an innovative conglomerate whoses businesses find new ways “diagnose, treat and prevent disease” dental diseases and finds new ways to provide clean drinking water for tens of millions of people (Danaher Corporation). The key is to find firms which will produce disproportionately high returns on invested capital in the decade ahead and which are not themselves capital intensive or deeply in debt, not stocks that everyone is talking about.
Then they need to avoid overpaying for them. The managers note that many of the firms on their watchlist, their potential acquisitions, sell at “extortionate valuations.” Their strategy is to wait the required 12 – 36 months until they finally disappoint the crowd’s manic expectations. There’s a stampede for the door, the stocks overshoot – sometimes dramatically – on the downside and the guys move in.
Their purchases are conditioned by two criteria. First, they look for valuations at least one standard deviation below a firm’s ten year average (which is to say, they wait for a margin of safety). Second, they maintain a one-in-one-out discipline. For any firm to enter the portfolio, they have to be willing to entirely eliminate their position in another stock. They turn the portfolio over about once every three years. They continue tracking the stocks they sell since they remain potential re-entrants to the portfolio. They note that “The switches to the portfolio over the past 3.5 – 4 years have, on average, done well. The additions have outperformed the dropped stocks, on a sales basis, by about 25% per stock.”
An analysis of the fund’s 2017 year-end portfolio shows the way this discipline plays out.
Their firms spent a lot more on R&D than their peers (7.8% versus 6.0% of sales revenue) but a lot less (7.5% versus 9.0%) on capital goods.
Their firms have a lot higher return-on-investment than peers (16% versus 12% CFROI).
Their firms are growing a lot faster (12.6% versus 4.4% sales growth, 12% versus 9.6% earnings growth) than their peers, but cost only a little bit more (17.5 p/e versus 17.2 p/e).
The fund tends to be a bit more volatile but a lot more profitable than its peers. Several structural aspects of the portfolio contribute to the asymmetry: they rebalance frequently to trim winners; they have a one-in-one-out discipline which means they’re constantly pressured to eliminate their weakest names; they limit position size, avoid debt-ridden firms and invest in areas that are strongly buoyant. That is, the firms are involved in areas where there is a huge long-term impetus which allows them to recover quickly from short-term setbacks.
Bottom Line
While we need to mechanically and truthfully repeat the “past performance is not indicative of future results” mantra, Global Innovator’s premise and record might give us some pause. Its strategy is grounded in a serious and sustained line of academic research. Its discipline is pursued by few others. Its results have been consistent across 20 years and three sets of managers. This is not a low volatility strategy, but it has proven to be a highly resilient one. Over the past decade, its maximum drawdown was slightly higher than its peers (50.1% versus 47.6%) but its rebound was far faster and stronger. Investors willing to tolerate the slightly-elevated volatility of a fully invested, modestly pricey equity portfolio, Global Innovators really does command careful attention. |
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Key-title International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research and Innovation (Online)
International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research and Innovation (Online)
Title proper: International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research and Innovation.
Abbreviated key-title: Int. J. Adv. Sci. Res. Innov. (online)
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Dates of publication: 2021- 9999
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Uncrossing the Wires: Technology Discussion at UMKC
Trinity founder Jim Lammers is a graduate of UMKC’s school of engineering, and was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion of technology for UMKC’s “Perspectives” magazine for an article titled “Uncrossing the Wires” which can be viewed on the UMKC web site and is reproduced below for convenience.
The experts:
Mark O’Renick (B.B.A ’84)
Principal in marketing services agency Salva-O’Renick and business accelerator, Ingenology.
Nicole Emanuel (Arts and Sciences )
Award-winning painter and community artist, she works in public schools and has a nonprofit (InterUrban ArtHouse) that helps organize affordable space for artists.
Jim Lammers (B.S.E.E. ’87)
Founder and owner of Trinity Animation, a 3D animation and visualization studio that does work for the television series Archer.
Perspectives: How do you use technology in your career, and how important is it to you?
MARK O’RENICK (MO): In marketing business, tech has changed the way people gather information and learn about products and services. The way business is done gets easier, faster and less expensive. And there are more things we can do. 3D animation…I think is a great example of that.
NICOLE EMANUEL (NE): In the arts, connectivity is the most important part of it. I can work with people I am nowhere near and organize vast projects that involve large numbers of people. And I can invite the audience and set the whole thing up virtually. The important part is the face-to-face, and the part that’s on the ground and real. The other aspect is that I’m also a writer, and the availability of research information from my home is constantly surprising. I can do research into historical aspects that I could not have done, even if I knew what library it was in. And now I don’t have to travel.
JIM LAMMERS (JL): The whole thing we do is pretty pictures created with computers. The computers give us the efficiency to do it in a way that makes it a real good deal for our customers because we can revise it easily. Technology’s been at the core of it from the very beginning, and when the Internet started to become really common in the later ’90s, our business really took off because we were able to market worldwide.
How does the omnipresence of technology affect the three of you?
MO: There’s an interesting dichotomy that technology provides, in that it has brought us closer together, and yet in many ways we’re further apart in terms of interpersonal relationships. We’ve kind of lost the art of the long, slow dinner. We tend to communicate in 140 characters or by text. It’s not the most efficient way.
NE: To be in a room when someone is playing guitar or doing a sculpture or playing the violin and interacting with the kids, and physically experiencing that immediacy. I don’t think there’s a replacement for that visceral experience. One of the difficulties in the art world is the replacement of direct access to materials and your audience. This once-removed element when you’re working through technology and your work becomes digitized, there’s an element of sensual displacement. The senses are less directly involved.
JL: I agree. It’s important to remember the human factor. I wouldn’t say that technology within our firm and within our lifestyle has got any downside, but just like anything, every individual has to remember that they control it and not the other way around. I don’t take my cell phone into meetings, luncheons or anything. You have to make the important things come first and put the cell phone away.
MO: They’re laughing at me because I’ve got my cell phone out. I was just checking my email.
With that in mind, what piece of technology is most damaging to our attention spans? Most beneficial?
NE: Anything that breaks your ability to make eye contact. If you are looking down at a screen and not facing the person you’re with at a dinner table or in a meeting and constantly checking your boops and your beeps, there’s something lost in that. It can be anything technologically that keeps you from being in the moment.
JL: I totally agree. People need to learn that just because the phone’s ringing, it doesn’t need to be answered. Sometimes it’s smart to leave the phone in the car and come be part of the meeting or come be part of the interaction with other people. This is something that needs to be communicated more with the under-25 crowd. It’s kind of a joke. You’ll have a gathering of 20-somethings and none of them are looking at each other.
MO: Yeah, I think phones are the biggest because they’re so portable. My daughter’s 14 and we text. She won’t pick up the phone and answer, you know? It’s five texts to get done what I can get done in 30 seconds.
NE: It’s requiring us to completely rearrange our sense of discipline. What’s urgent, like this sensation in your pocket, is what’s important right there in front of you. The urgency message is something you have to have discipline to corral yourself away from.
JL: It shows a kind of disrespect in my view if you’re with someone and they would rather take a call. It’s like, “I’m here! I’m alive, across the table from you!’”
ME: Right. Weird new etiquette on these things, huh?
How does that on-demand mentality affect what you do professionally?
MO: There’s this expectation that we can track everything, and if we can track everything, we can deliver the perfect result. But humans aren’t predictable. Technology is never an end, in and of itself.
NE: I got distracted and forgot the question. Oh, shortened attention span. I’m more interested in being with people and watching them perceiving, understanding how things are made, working with materials, getting dirty, having conflicts and having them resolved.
JL: That’s an interesting point. We try to find ways to make it work for us. Businesswise, technology has taken us so much farther than we would be otherwise. The younger group will adapt and work it into their etiquette and their behavior in a way that works for them.
MO: Yeah, and I wouldn’t trade it for everything in the world. Technology has given us so much. It’s just the management of it that’s critical.
NE: Well, and never losing a sense of social responsibility that those tools give us. There will always be differences in resources, class and wealth. If we don’t use the technology to give more to people who don’t have it, I think that’s a misuse.
Are we better off now than we were 10 or 20 years ago? Are you excited for what comes next?
NE: How would you know if it’s better if you don’t know what the future is? But the promise for neuroscience and the ability to understand the use of technology to improve our physical existence is really exciting. Artistically, there are probably all kinds of things coming that we couldn’t even conceive of. Who would have known that we could have the 3D resolution that we have in animation? Animation is remarkable right now.
Does that threaten you as an artist or do you embrace not knowing what might come next?
JL: To me, it’s all wonderful and exciting. I agree that the current time is the best it’s ever been. Even in human terms for communication, the ability to reach out and connect with people who I would have otherwise lost touch with, I think the good outweighs the bad by far. It’s just a really wonderful time to live in.
MO: Right now, the kids growing up are natives. They’re going to do things with it that we couldn’t imagine because it’s just been ingrained in who they are.
NE: Our capacity to know what’s happening in every corner of the world is a little overwhelming, but at the same time you use your skillset to respond to that. Think globally, act locally. There’s nostalgia or a kickback from technology that people are getting much more interested in local food providers, artists and performers. There’s a little bit of loyalty for what’s around you. And the answer is no, not threatened. Excited, definitely. Just think about how many more people get seen or heard.
Is there a chance that the generation being brought up is better equipped to turn shortened attention spans into a positive?
NE: It’s changing our consciousness. Maybe what this is going to do is tap into ways of using our intelligence, consciousness, sentience and morality in bigger ways. It’s exploding the universe in a good way.
JL: In general, a shortened attention span is never a good thing. It’s nice that these people have really good multi-tasking abilities and they get a job where they have to answer the phone, answer emails and run around really fast and that’s a skill they’ve built. But all the good things require a good, long ability to focus on something hard and solve it. That’s usually the people who have the most important positions in our society.
As tech changes, is that going to determine who’s successful?
JL: It might be the great divide. Who can continue to have a good attention span and who is brought down by all their distractions? That’s always who wins— the person who can study, focus and become really good at something.
NE: But then that person also has to be able to communicate in the language of the population. They have to be able to translate from that long thought into pieces that the common denominator would be attracted to, like Facebook.
JL: We still have a heavy curriculum at UMKC that people have to be able to go home for four hours, turn everything off, study and get through it. I don’t think that’s going away.
MO: I think it comes back to something that was said earlier: Discipline— how we compartmentalize our time. The interesting thing about focus is that I think technology and the accessed information empowers that focus greater than it ever has. You can learn anything you want to learn. The tools are out there and you can learn it fairly quickly just by taking advantage of the tools and technology that’s available.
NE: I was thinking of the definition of time and how technology has changed the concept of time. If you know that a certain moment in the day is the best time to concentrate or is the best time to have all your interactive, distractive, interruptive time. Time is also completely accessible through computers. You can go all the way back through history and still be in a room with someone. Do you understand what I’m saying? It’s like time has suddenly blown out into this multi-level animal. Technology lets us dip in.
MO: Distractions have always been there. There was the water cooler, right?
NE: But time was more linear. Now it has many more dimensions. Because within one hour, what you can achieve by going into the past, crossing a geographic border, planning something ahead, putting that down, doing something you started earlier…your ability to go completely in and out of different timeframes is new.
MO: It’s evolving. Everything is evolutionary.
NE: Yes, and becoming more complex.
If I asked each of you to look forward, what does the future in your fields look like? Do they exist and in what form?
JL: If the type of animation we do right now becomes so straightforward that people aren’t willing to pay for it anymore, we would have to move on to something that’s hard enough that people need help doing it. We’re always watching that and moving onto the harder things and moving on from the things that have become too simple.
MO: We’re similar from a marketing perspective. What doesn’t change is storytelling from a marketing perspective, helping people understand their company, their product, their services and the connection of that to their customers. Customers are going to tell you more about that too with social media. The value for us will be helping people tell stories and how that gets delivered will continue to change and morph.
NE: I think that’s primal. Storytelling is innate to human beings. I don’t think we’re ever going to replace love and affection. I’m not going to stop cuddling my kids because the computer is more interesting. And I probably won’t stop painting, because I like the smell and the noise. I think advances in all the art forms are remarkable and wonderful, but I don’t think we’ll ever move away from our need to tell stories and connect and feel.
JL: I agree that there are certain human universals that will continue. As Nicole said, storytelling and visual design and the visceral act of painting and drawing and that sort of thing flows through all of us. But I think in terms of business and making a living, we only get paid to do things that are hard for other people to do.
Any final words?
NE: I don’t ever want to feel as though we abdicate our sense of responsibility, in particular our ability to sustain the planet. If we don’t use our technology to deal with our responsibility to other people and the environment, none of the access, the money or the resources mean anything.
MO: Beyond the technology, the two primordial fears that drive us all is the fear of not having enough and not being enough. If we don’t have the latest iPhone or whatever, it affects us. In order to get those things, you have to race to get more money. We are not rats, and life is not a race.
JL: I agree with the sentiment that you can’t allow technology to control you. You have to employ it where it helps you and push it out of your life where it doesn’t help you. For me, it’s been almost universally good in terms of connecting with more people in a more meaningful way. I like that human element and I think you have to bring that into it. We get to know more people in a human way, even though sometimes they’re very far from us. It’s nice to connect with people, whether they’re in Iran, Korea or Australia and discuss in very fast terms through email the things that are on their mind. You get to know people and you get to know the universal human condition in an important way, and that is that people often have the same emotions, thoughts and feelings. It’s been eye-opening for me, and I’ve enjoyed it as I’ve seen technology grow and seen interconnectedness become more intense. |
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IDEO has just launched OpenIDEO, their new platform to solve global challenges through a community of creative thinkers, which, of course, you are invited to join. They've made a nice video explaining how open innovation works, above.
This community will receive a string of design challenges, beginning with Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution challenge, posing the question "How can we raise kids' awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices?" The challenge ends October 8th, but as the whole process is collaborative and open from start to finish, better to get involved now by joining here.
And finally, a short video from Jamie Oliver about his challenge:
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benjamincasteillo_medium_com_achieving-sustainability-a-call-to-redefine-our-global-economic-model-8 | innovation | SIMILARITY: 0.4066
Achieving Sustainability: A Call to Redefine Our Global Economic Model.
We will not resolve our sustainability problems with the same economic thinking that has created them.
After 10 years working in the corporate sector as a senior management and expert consultant, I have lost complete faith in the current economic paradigm’s ability to resolve the sustainability crisis it has caused.
Here are some of the reasons:
1- Improving social and environmental conditions is expensive, it generally means an increase in cost and a loss of profitability. It can be done on niche markets but not at the needed scale.
2- Exploitation is incentivized, regeneration isn’t. Eg: a dead fish on the market has market value, not a live fish in the ocean. So people are incentivized to exploit natural resources, not to let them regenerate. It logically ends up with planetary overshoot and a global-scale tragedy of the commons — what is happening today.
3- All economic actors are in competition for short-term profits, unlimited accumulation of capital, and growth. The most competitive actors are generally those who come with a high social and environmental footprint. Competition dominates, and collaboration is marginalized.
4- Profits/ money over everything: ultimately, the market economy only selects profitable solutions. Yet what we should do, such as stopping single-use plastics and overall reduction of consumption and waste is not profitable. Hence it is not done.
5- A thriving society is bad for the economy. A contented population is bad for consumerism. A healthy population is bad for the pharma industry. World peace is bad for the military-industrial complex. No financial debt is bad for banking etc. Decisively resolving our real-world problems would be catastrophic for GDP and the current economy.
Etc. etc.
I am not saying that we should not use the current economic models to design solutions, or that we should have a state-controlled communist dictatorship.
My point is that if we are serious about achieving a regenerative transition, we need to give time and space to consider, develop, and support new economic paradigms that are thought to respond to the great challenge of our times, such as:
- Degrowth Economy: abandoned GDP growth and focus on key social, ecological, and economic metrics.
- Well-being Economy: an economy designed to serve people and the planet, not the other way around.
- Doughnut Economy: an economy designed to respect social and ecological boundaries.
- Regenerative Economy: moving away from extractive business models and unlocking the potential for positive contributions to nature and society.
Embarking on this journey provides us with a chance to reassess our values and priorities, breaking free from the obsolete norms of our prevailing consumerist model. It’s a reconnection with our creative power, enabling us to redesign systems crafted for the challenges of a bygone era. This conscious transformation of our society is pivotal for unlocking new potential for the human species.
Let’s keep learning and acting together toward the future our hearts know is possible.
P.S: That message was posted on a large WhatsApp “sustainable business” group. It was deleted and it got me expelled from the group. By luck, I was able to save it. I believe it would be a pity to see it go to waste. |
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visualworld_net_ | innovation | SIMILARITY: 0.4204
Years of Experience
A place where ideas are brought to life, and digital landscapes are crafted with vision and precision. We are more than just a marketing agency or a development house; we are the artists and architects of your brand’s digital transformation.
In this Visual World, every project is a canvas, and every strategy is a stroke of ingenuity. With our unique blend of social media marketing and web & software development expertise, we take the complex jobs and turn it into the beautifully simple piece of work, and the ordinary jobs are turned it into the extraordinary.
As your digital partners, we help businesses in the American market not only survive but thrive in the fast-paced digital era. We blend creativity with data-driven insights to create strategies that captivate audiences and drive growth.
Let Visual World be the lens through which your brand is seen, understood, and remembered.
With the utmost priority of adding value to the projects we undertake, we ensure that our partners stay ahead of the clutter and achieve excellence.
At Visual World, we craft more than just beautiful designs—we create meaningful, user-friendly experiences.
At Visual World, we create high-performing mobile apps that elevate your brand.
At Visual World, we see beyond the digital screen. We understand that the essence of a brand lies not just in what it does, but in how it is perceived. Through our thoughtful and visionary approach, we help you define your brand’s voice, ensuring that every click, every post, every interaction paints a vivid picture of who you are.
Just as no two visions are alike, neither are our strategies. Every business is a new journey, and we craft solutions that are as unique as your vision.
The digital world is constantly evolving, and at Visual World, we pride ourselves on staying ahead of the curve, implementing cutting-edge technologies and forward-thinking strategies.
We understand that people connect through stories. Whether through social media or a custom-built website, every element we create tells the story of your brand in a visually compelling way.
In our Visual World, your vision is our mission. We collaborate with you to ensure that every solution is tailor-made to achieve your goals.
Our success is measured by your growth. From boosting engagement on social platforms to driving web traffic, we deliver results that make a tangible impact on your business.
Working with Visual World under the leadership of CEO Arif Bahalim has been a transformative experience for us at Bluejay Digital Studio. Arif’s professionalism and dedication have made each project a seamless, hassle-free experience. Visual World’s approach to providing a one-window solution has not only streamlined our operations but has also allowed us to focus on creativity and strategy while they handle execution with precision. We highly recommend Visual World for anyone seeking a reliable, expert partner in the industry.
Working with Visual World has transformed our literary events and publications into creative masterpieces. Mr. Arif Bahalim, a renowned multi-talented Actor, Writer, Director and a Voice Artist, brings mesmerizing quality to every detail, infusing our collaterals with a depth that truly captivates. His artistic dedication and unique voice add layers of exclusivity, making each project not only visually striking but also profoundly impactful. Visual World’s partnership has been invaluable in elevating our vision.
On behalf of our over 27 years old IT company as a business owner, we felt finding a digital marketing partner that truly understands our vision and goals was challenging—until we started working with Visual World. The dynamic leadership of Mr. Arif Bahalim, made the real difference by serving us very efficiently and professionally. Their team brought creativity, expertise, and a strategic approach that took our online presence to new heights. From boosting our SEO to running targeted ad campaigns, Visual World consistently delivers results that have driven meaningful traffic and measurable growth for our Products and Services.
I have worked with Arif Bahalim since 2000 in various capacities, and found him to be thoroughly professional in every respect, regardless of whether he was hosting a show I had organized, acting in street theatre that we were promoting, interviewing me on a radio programme, publishing my book, or producing a documentary I had scripted. I am confident that whatever field he chooses to work in, he will excel, and will not be surprised if M/S Visual World becomes the #1 IT company in the world.
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As 2024 winds down, one thing is clear: AI isn’t just giving customer experience a helping hand, it’s making a major dent in it, for the better.
Month: November 2024
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Social listening could be the missing link in truly understanding the full picture of your brand’s reputation and health.
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waitro_org_activities_the-innovation-agent-program_ | innovation | SIMILARITY: 0.5257
Innovation Training created outward facing, customer-oriented employees
The Innovation Agent Program was presented in a WAITRO training, which was held in Putrajaya, Malaysia from September 11-14, 2017. This training was co-organized by WAITRO and the Danish Technological Institute (DTI), Denmark. The Innovation Agent Program trains employees of Research and Technology Organizations (RTOs) to successfully interact with Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In this workshop, RTO employees’ – in their role as agents -learned to introduce innovative services and partnership models to smaller companies. SMEs benefit from shorter decision-making paths and less bureaucracy, meaning less obstacles to innovation. Because of this, the Innovation Agent Program is important to bring newly developed solutions into the industry. The program has been introduced in New Zealand (2012), Trinidad Tobago (2016), and Austria (2016). The Innovation Agent workshop was facilitated by Mr. Knud Erik Hilding-Hamann, Director of Centre for Ideas and Innovation from DTI and Dr. Kirstie Yvette Wild, Director of International Centre of DTI. |
innovationvillage_africa_tag_design_ | innovation | SIMILARITY: 0.5274
We create environments where innovation can flourish by equipping communities of practice, extracting insights through deep analytics, and activating interdisciplinary think tanks.
Our goal is to build ecosystems that support the full lifecycle of innovation.
Our venture studios provide the structure and resources needed to develop innovative ideas into market-ready products. Through a collaborative process, we support our partners to refine their concepts, build prototypes, and scale their products.
Our Catalytic Capital Funds provide the financial backing needed to scale impactful innovations. By offering milestone-based funding, we ensure that ventures have the resources they need to grow sustainably.
An ecosystem of innovation spaces dedicated to fostering social impact and community development. We empower innovators and changemakers by providing resources, mentorship, and collaborative spaces to create sustainable solutions for pressing social challenges.
MOTIV
A vibrant creative hub that nurtures and scales the potential of Africa’s most promising creators and innovators. With state-of-the-art facilities, expert mentorship, and a collaborative community, MoTIV empowers creatives to transform their ideas into impactful solutions
Future Lab
At the forefront of transforming groundbreaking ideas into successful ventures. Through a structured innovation process, we support entrepreneurs, innovators and industry leaders from concept to market-ready solutions.
97 Capital
Our venture studios provide the structure and resources needed to develop innovative ideas into market-ready products.
From the start, we’ve focused on making an impact through innovation and collaboration, growing into an organization that supports ventures and communities. |
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Deventer, May 15, 2024 – leading pure-play R&D tax credit and grant advisory and software provider, Vindsubsidies, is unveiling its new company rebrand, marking the significant progress on international expansion and strong organic and inorganic growth. Proud to partner with entrepreneurs, education institutions, large enterprise and governments, Ignite Group is building toward its vision to be the category-leading, AI -powered advisory and technology partner to the European innovation economy.
- Over the last 3 years, the Group’s global turnover has consistently grown at a 50%+ CAGR
- The global workforce has increased by >3x in 3 years
- The group has grown to be present in 4 countries with 10 offices
- Ignite has successfully submitted >20,000 RD tax credit applications for >2,500 organization
More than 25 years of experience with over 190 experts
In the past 2.5 years, Vindsubsidies has successfully executed on its buy-and-build thesis, acquiring 6 companies to solidify its market position and deliver enhanced customer value. CEO Henk Heerink states, “With 10 branches in the Netherlands and Germany, it is time to bring the underlying brands together under one name. Ignite Group combines the in-depth expertise of a number of renowned players in the R&D tax credit and grant market.” This results in a unique full-service offering covering the full R&D tax credit and grant application lifecycle.
A new level of full-service
Ignite Group provides advice on provincial, national, and European grants and has various vertical-specific teams covering sectors including IT, life sciences, energy and manufacturing. In addition to R&D tax credit and grant advisory services, Ignite Group offers a suite of proprietary workflow management solutions. Leveraging its tech-enablement and employee base of 190 R&D tax credit and grant experts, Ignite Group can effectively support its customers in navigating the increasingly complex subsidy landscape.
Proprietary suite of digital solutions
One of Ignite Group’s differentiating factors, alongside its full-service offering, are its proprietary digital solutions. “We are amongst the leading tech-enabled R&D tax credit and grant advisory firms in Europe,” Henk continues. “Our leading database provides insight into and unlocks thousands of regional, national, and European grants.”
Prepared for the future
Over the last few years, Ignite Group has significantly invested in talent and innovation to enhance the customer value proposition, create a great place to work and enable accelerated growth. SilverTree Managing Partner, John Messamore comments “Ignite Group is set to continue to deliver mission-critical software and services to Europe’s most innovative companies, leveraging its talented consultants and proprietary technology.” Nicholas Theuerkauf, Managing Partner of SilverTree, adds “the rebranding to Ignite Group provides a strong foundation for further growth toward building a European-wide, tech-enabled innovation leader,” Cees van den Heijkant, Chair of the Board, further adds: “It is great to see what happens when you bring together so much expertise. A team of professionals truly delivering expert work to deliver value for their customers across the entire subsidy landscape”
For more information, please contact our Commercial Director Ron Coenen via
+31 (0)6-17672484 & [email protected]. |
theripplesguy_com_ripples-558-seizing-opportunities_ | innovation | SIMILARITY: 0.4039
Ripples #558: Seizing Opportunities!
Monday, Feb 1, 2010
The Ripples Project is a tribe of 24,189
who believe tiny actions create big possibilities
PEBBLE
Boldness rewards those who know how to seize their opportunities. -Marcel
Proust, submitted by Taylor W. Wauwatosa WI
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BOULDER
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided
each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all
gates, all opportunities. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, submitted by Kelly L.,
Boston MA
PONDER
After a brief yet fun-filled journey to the Canadian Province of Alberta
for the Western Canadian Campus Recreation Conference, I am writing this
ponder on the flight home to my dog, my sweetie, and my own sweet bed.
I had some time on this trip to dive into Seth Godin’s new book “Linchpin:
Are you Indispensable?” As always, his provocative perspective and informal
writing style invite me to challenge how I think, feel, and behave in my
training business and beyond. I recommend it to anyone who might be ready
to seize new opportunities!
I hope you create the time and energy to claim the rewards of your boldness
this week!
Peace,
Paul |
www_babson_edu_about_course-catalog_new-course-search__addCourse_3907841 | innovation | SIMILARITY: 0.5099
OIM9526 #CX #XD Innovation
(Formerly MOB9526 #CX #UX #XD)
1.5 Intensive Elective Credits
This course will complement an existing graduate 1.5-credit elective called Strategies for Innovation and Growth. It is also a good complement to the Managing Technological Innovation course. As their titles suggest, the latter course is overwhelmingly focused on technology based products and hi-tech industries while the former is focused on how can large firms can create and sustain innovation and growth activities. This course will complement two existing graduate 1.5-credit electives (1) Leading Innovation @ Gorillas, Chimps & Monkeys and (2) Innovation Processes.
All countries go through life cycles-agriculture, manufacturing, services and knowledge. The majority of the developed world can be considered today to be primarily in the post-service knowledge based industries. Providing services in addition to goods, which were at one time a differentiator for most businesses are more or less commoditized today. Several trends have emerged over the last 15 years: (1) Move from Services to Experiences; (2) Emergence of new Digital and Networked Economies; (3) Information and Knowledge Intense Economies; (4) the rise of the new post-PC industry, also known as the TIME industry, i.e., the convergence of the Telecom, Information, Media and Entertainment industries and (5) new forms of Designing & Delivering Great Customer Experiences. This course explores the innovations that are driving all these trends as primarily applied to a broad section of service industries-Airlines, Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Financial, B2B, TIME and even Not-for-Profits.
This course will cover: understanding the customer psychology and perceptions in service interactions; explore concepts, methods and tools to dream, define, design and deliver great customer experiences; innovative strategies to use customer experience as a differentiator; and how the convergence of digital technologies - data, voice & video - is helping firms to engage customers in new and innovative ways.
This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall/Spring/Summer
- Program: Graduate
- Division: Operations and Information Management
- Level: Graduate Elective (Grad)
- Course Number: OIM9526
- Number of Credits: 1.5
ANT4600 Accessing Health? Design, Inequality and the Politics of Place
4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits
Health outcomes vary widely across the globe: there is a gap of more than 30 years in the life expectancies of the longest-lived and shortest-lived countries. Yet decades' and in some cases centuries' worth of projects to improve health outcomes have faltered. Why, amidst a plethora of potential solutions, do poor health and health inequality persist?
This course investigates the relationship between human health, the places where we live, and the management of health through design and planning. Illness is both a justification for the exercise of power and a consequence of the inequalities that power leaves in its wake. This creates an apparent paradox where expert technologies of biomedicine and planning seem to offer the promise of better lives but also re-inscribe illness in already unhealthy populations. We will examine the fragmented conceptions of the body, community, health, and place that both make these efforts possible and make them unlikely to succeed in achieving health equality.
The course explores the interaction between public health and planning norms and the everyday lives of people on the margin of these projects. We will pay particular attention to questions regarding how race, gender, and disability shape both health and experiences of place in the global South and North. After an overview of the humanistic social sciences' approaches to the relationship between health and place in weeks 1-2, the readings in the first half of the course are organized around top-down projects to create healthier populations and the everyday strategies of resistance that people who find themselves caught up in these projects employ. The readings in the second half of the course explore people's bottom-up efforts to forge a different relationship between place and health, with particular attention to the politics of design.
In this course, students will complete a two-part research project that explores how differently situated social groups seek to change places and their people in pursuit of health. In part one, you will draw on theories explored in this course to examine a "top-down" approach to the production of health. For instance, you might look at a particular city's urban planning policies, the work of a transnational NGO, the management of a forest, or an anti-Zika campaign. In part two, you will explore a "bottom-up" approach to health by documenting people's every day and grassroots practices for keeping or making themselves healthy. This could include but is not limited to guerrilla urbanism, disability activism, techniques of visibility/invisibility as everyday resistance, Black place-making, or food justice. You are not required to locate both parts of the project in the same place, nor are you required to organize both parts of the project around the same health problem. This project is an opportunity for you to explore a topic in which you are genuinely interested-so please let me know if you are feeling like you need some encouragement to choose the "riskier" option.
Prerequisites: Any combination of 2 intermediate liberal arts (HSS, CSP, LTA)
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: History and Society
- Level: Advanced Liberal Arts 4600 Requirement (UGrad),Advanced Elective (UGrad),Advanced Liberal Arts (UGrad)
- Course Number: ANT4600
- Number of Credits: 4
ACC3536 Accounting Analytics
4 Advanced Management CreditsStudents who have taken ACC3545 cannot take this course and vice versa
Data and analytics are being used to assist businesses in becoming more efficient and effective in their decision-making process. This course will improve your ability to critically analyze data in order to make better business decisions and to communicate this information effectively to your audience. Students will learn how to use analytics tools from the lens of a manager, a financial statement user, a tax analyst, an auditor, and a forensic accountant. The course will introduce you to various analytics software products, and provide an opportunity to interact with professionals in the field.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Class standing
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: Accounting and Law
- Level: Advanced Elective (UGrad),Advanced Management (UGrad)
- Course Number: ACC3546
- Number of Credits: 4
PRF1200: Acting Workshop
2 free elective credits
This course will introduce the methods and tools required for stage performance. Through various exercises, games, improvisation, and assignments you will create characters, gain an understanding of theatre terminology, and attempt to find not only meaning but also the performance potential of dramatic literature. Most importantly, you will develop the confidence to approach the craft of acting with the discipline and rigor required for compelling performance.
The art of acting not only requires you to call upon knowledge in history, languages, and literature but also to understand your capabilities physically and vocally. The lessons you will learn this semester in active listening, characterization, vocal capabilities (resonance, range, enunciation, and delivery), collaboration, and bodily awareness are some that you can use in any career and in any field.
Prerequisites: none
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: Arts and Humanities
- Level: Free Elective (UGrad)
- Course Number: PRF1200
- Number of Credits: 2
ACC4530 Advanced Accounting
4 General CreditsThis course extends the in-depth study of accounting concepts and techniques which began in Intermediate Accounting I and II. Topics include business combinations and consolidation of financial statements, accounting for variable interest entities, translation and remeasurement of foreign currency-denominated financial statements and consolidation of foreign subsidiaries, governmental and not-for-profit accounting and accounting for partnerships.
Prerequisites: ACC3500 & ACC3501 as a pre-requisite
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: Accounting and Law
- Level: Advanced Elective (UGrad),Advanced Management (UGrad)
- Course Number: ACC4530
- Number of Credits: 4
OIM7502 Advanced Programming for Business Analytics
3 Elective Credits
Python is a general-purpose programming language that has rapidly become one of the most popular languages for data science. Python allows users to quickly and efficiently collect, clean, analyze, visualize and narrate using any kind of data (structured, semi-structured or un-structured); irrespective of how messy the data might be. In this course, students will advance their python skills for data science. Students use a variety of data to learn powerful ways to conduct data analytics and learn helpful data science tools along the way. This will equip students to conduct their own analyses towards the end of the course.
Prerequisites: OIM 6301
- Program: Graduate
- Division: Operations and Information Management
- Level: MSBA Elective (Grad),Graduate Elective (Grad)
- Course Number: OIM7502
- Number of Credits: 3
CSP2002 African American History and Foodways (HIS)
(Formerly CVA2002)
4 Intermediate Liberal Arts CreditsThe course covers the major periods, movements, and events that have shaped African American history and foodways. These include: the African slave trade; antebellum period; the civil war and reconstruction; World War I and the great migration; Harlem Renaissance and Garveyism; Great Depression; Spanish Civil War and World War II; Civil Rights and Black Power movements; industrialization, the growth of the prison industrial complex, and the _war on drugs_. The course will also include content on African American foodways from the African slave trade to the Black Power movement. Classes discuss the assigned reading with lively student participation. Out-of-class work includes readings, online exams, attending lectures, artistic presentations, and films, as well as independent research.
Prerequisites: (FCI1000 or AHS1000) and (WRT1001or RHT1000)
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: History and Society
- Level: Intermediate Liberal Arts (UGrad)
- Course Number: CSP2002
- Number of Credits: 4
POL4601 Africa Rising?
4 Advanced Liberal Arts CreditsThis interdisciplinary course on contemporary Africa examines political, economic and social developments in the context of the now common mantra "Africa Rising." It takes a historical look at Africa's relations with global development actors and how these have impacted individual states and the entire continent. It includes a comparative analysis of Africa's partnership(s) with the different regions of the world (broadly categorized into East and West, Global South and Global North) and time spans (broadly grouped into colonial and post-colonial). It also examines processes, actors, events and partnerships within independent Africa and how they have contributed to the present state of the continent, which observers have described as rising. The course interrogates this observation. How truly is "Africa rising"? What is the cost of the rise? What does it mean for individuals, states and the entire continent? Why/how does it matter? The course focuses on these (and other important) questions, considering examples from various sectors, events, countries, bilateral and multilateral arrangements with African states and in relation to the rest of the world. It uses a variety of materials including texts, news and journal articles, as well as electronic and internet-based resources.
Prerequisites: Any combination of 2 ILA (HSS, LTA, CSP, LVA, CVA)
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: History and Society
- Level: Advanced Liberal Arts 4600 Requirement (UGrad),Advanced Elective (UGrad),Advanced Liberal Arts (UGrad)
- Course Number: POL4601
- Number of Credits: 4
LTA2010 African American Literature
4 Intermediate Liberal Arts CreditsThis course will introduce students to the African American literary tradition starting with the slave narrative and concluding with contemporary literary production. Along the way, we will consider the move from oral to written literatures, the aesthetic forms created and adapted by African American writers, and the role of African American letters in chronicling and shaping the experience of African American people. Our study will be informed by major historical moments -slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration from south to north, the Civil Rights and post-Civil rights eras-and we will read work by writers such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison.
Prerequisites: (FCI1000 or AHS1000) and (WRT1001or RHT1000)
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: Arts and Humanities
- Level: Intermediate Liberal Arts (UGrad)
- Course Number: LTA2010
- Number of Credits: 4
HSS2032 African American History and Foodways
4 Intermediate Liberal ArtsAfrican History and Foodways will cover the major subjects, movements, and events that have shaped Africa since the 1400s. These include African crops and animals, African political institutions and wars, gender, the spread of Islam, slavery, European colonization, and African independence movements. One learns how to publish a blog and create podcast episodes with show notes. Deliverables, regular contributions to class discussions, public speaking, research, and group work are essential course components. Cooking is a part of live classes.
Prerequisites: (FCI1000 or AHS1000) and (WRT1001or RHT1000)
- Program: Undergraduate
- Division: History and Society
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- Course Number: HSS2032
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Professor and Researcher from the Foundation Federal University
of Rondônia / Post-Graduation in Administration – Brazil.
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This year marks the five-year anniversary of the Global Fast Track Program in China, and to commemorate the successes of our program members, we held the Indiegogo 2021 GOGO Innovation Summit & Awards in Shenzhen, where we heard from thought leaders in the field and handed out Innovation Awards to the top campaigns of the year. Here’s how the 2021 GOGO Innovation Summit unfolded.
Dramatic campaign successes in 2020
Over the past year, we’ve seen incredible successes coming out of China from our Global Fast Track Program entrepreneurs. China-based campaigners of all types have used Indiegogo, — China’s number one crowdfunding platform — to kick off their product journey and launch on the global stage.
Global Fast Track Program campaigns have raised over $300 million (2 billion RMB) since the program’s inception, and 40 companies have gone on to raise at least $1 million (6.5 million RMB) for their products. The program also saw 40% year-over-year growth in China in 2020, a formidable achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many of Asia’s biggest brands have been behind these launches, introducing products, building communities, and getting feedback from backers in the global market. These brands include:
- Midea, one of China’s largest home appliance companies, which launched their first crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo and raised over $1.5 million, opening their global market and a building global community
- Huami Amazfit, a leading tech brand from the Xiaomi Ecosystem, which launched their first two crowdfunding products on Indiegogo in 2020 (here and here), successfully kicking off their new health and fitness product line
- Segway-Ninebot, famous for their scooters, has launched several products on Indiegogo and successfully IPO’ed in 2020
The 2021 GOGO Innovation Summit
The event was the first of its kind since the launch of the Global Fast Track Program in 2016 and included panelists and speaking opportunities from some of China’s leading voices in crowdfunding and cross-border product launches.
Jean Li, China Hardware Lead at Indiegogo, kicked things off, sharing success stories from entrepreneurs who have successfully gained support from backers and have built a global community by launching their products on Indiegogo.
E-commerce experts from Google, Amazon, and Tuya, also shared trends that have emerged during the pandemic in the realms of product development, customer behavior, and e-commerce opportunities. A second panel took the stage as well, where representatives from Midea, Segway-Ninebot, Padmat, and CIGA discussed what it takes to bring high-quality and innovative products to an international audience.
The summit wrapped up with a speech from Global OneClick, a top crowdfunding agency that specializes in the Chinese market, to share how crowdfunding can help build brands in the global market.
The 2021 Innovation Awards
To honor outstanding campaigns in the China Fast Track Program over the last year, we also handed out our annual Innovation Awards. We evaluated all campaigns in the China Fast Track Program, and the following came out on top:
- Best campaign of the year: Midea U-Shaped AC
- Midea is the top home appliance company in China. They launched their new U-Shaped AC unit on Indiegogo, raising over $1.5 million in just a few weeks. The Midea U-Shaped AC unique is a radically new type of window air conditioner. Unlike traditional units, the U-shaped design blocks noise and allows users to open and close their windows around the unit itself.
- Best New Campaign: Bluetti AC200
- First-time crowdfunders Bluetti launched their AC200 solar power station on Indiegogo last year, and raised $6.7 million from backers all around the world. Bluetti’s mission to create a stable, clean, and quiet power set them apart from the competition.
- Most Valuable Brand: GPD
- GPD has launched at least one product on Indiegogo every year since 2016, to date bringing over 10 campaigns to market. The company focuses on handheld game consoles and has built outstanding relationships with the Indiegogo backer community. Their most recent campaign, the GPD WIN3, raised over $3 million.
- Community Favorite Award: Amazfit X
- We asked our community to pick their favorite campaign in the China Fast Track Program and Amazift X, the world’s first fully curved smart watch, is this year’s crowd pleaser!
- Best Crowdfunding Service Award: Global OneClick
- Global OneClick has helped many campaigns in the China Fast Track Program achieve their crowdfunding goals. Many of the campaigns they’ve assisted went on to raise over $1 million, and for that, they receive the honor of the Best Crowdfunding Service Award.
Other awardees included:
- Most funded campaign in Audio: Pamu Quiet
- Most funded campaign in Camera Gear: SIRUI
- Most funded campaign in Energy & Green Tech: Bluetti AC200
- Most funded campaign in Fashion & Wearables: Amazfit X
- Most funded campaign in Food & Beverages: Seven & Me
- Most funded campaign in Health & Fitness: Amazfit Zenbuds
- Most funded campaign in Home: Midea
- Most funded campaign in Phones & Accessories: Dream Glass
- Most funded campaign in Productivity: GPD Win Max
- Most funded campaign in Transportation: Ninebot Gokart Pro
- Most funded campaign in Travel & Outdoors: 70mai A800
- Best Video Awards: Midea, Ticktime, Asmoke
- Best Storytelling Awards: Timekettle, Gravastar Venus, Flynova Pro
- Best Community Building Awards: SIRUI, Flynova Pro, ElecHive
Interested in learning more about the Global Fast Track Program? We’re here to help China’s top innovative products launch in global markets. Read more here to see if your project is the right fit. |
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This year's fellows will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research, AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.
School of Engineering
Launched in October 2020, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology underscores the ways in which industry and technology can collaborate to spur innovation. The five-year initiative aims to achieve its mission through research, education, and fellowships. To that end, Accenture has once again awarded five annual fellowships to MIT graduate students working on research in industry and technology convergence who are underrepresented, including by race, ethnicity, and gender.
This year’s Accenture Fellows work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research, AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations. Their research covers a wide array of projects, including designing low-power processing hardware for telehealth applications; applying machine learning to streamline and improve business operations; improving mental health care through artificial intelligence; and using machine learning to understand the environmental and health consequences of complex chemical reactions.
As part of the application process, student nominations were invited from each unit within the School of Engineering, as well as from the Institute’s four other schools and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Five exceptional students were selected as fellows for the initiative’s third year.
Drew Buzzell is a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research concerns telemonitoring, a fast-growing sphere of telehealth in which information is collected through internet-of-things (IoT) connected devices and transmitted to the cloud. Currently, the high volume of information involved in telemonitoring — and the time and energy costs of processing it — make data analysis difficult. Buzzell’s work is focused on edge computing, a new computing architecture that seeks to address these challenges by managing data closer to the source, in a distributed network of IoT devices. Buzzell earned his BS in physics and engineering science and his MS in engineering science from the Pennsylvania State University.
Mengying (Cathy) Fang is a master’s student in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Her research focuses on augmented reality and virtual reality platforms. Fang is developing novel sensors and machine components that combine computation, materials science, and engineering. Moving forward, she will explore topics including soft robotics techniques that could be integrated with clothes and wearable devices and haptic feedback in order to develop interactions with digital objects. Fang earned a BS in mechanical engineering and human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.
Xiaoyue Gong is a doctoral candidate in operations research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research aims to harness the power of machine learning and data science to reduce inefficiencies in the operation of businesses, organizations, and society. With the support of an Accenture Fellowship, Gong seeks to find solutions to operational problems by designing reinforcement learning methods and other machine learning techniques to embedded operational problems. Gong earned a BS in honors mathematics and interactive media arts from New York University.
Ruby Liu is a doctoral candidate in medical engineering and medical physics. Their research addresses the growing pandemic of loneliness among older adults, which leads to poor health outcomes and presents particularly high risks for historically marginalized people, including members of the LGBTQ+ community and people of color. Liu is designing a network of interconnected AI agents that foster connections between user and agent, offering mental health care while strengthening and facilitating human-human connections. Liu received a BS in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Joules Provenzano is a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering. Their work integrates machine learning and liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) to improve our understanding of complex chemical reactions in the environment. As an Accenture Fellow, Provenzano will build upon recent advances in machine learning and LC-HRMS, including novel algorithms for processing real, experimental HR-MS data and new approaches in extracting structure-transformation rules and kinetics. Their research could speed the pace of discovery in the chemical sciences and benefits industries including oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture. Provenzano earned a BS in chemical engineering and international and global studies from the Rochester Institute of Technology. |
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This is the initially of a sequence of month to month columns on the electric power of technology to renovate fashionable enterprises. Tune in subsequent thirty day period for more unmissable assistance.
No business enterprise can thrive right now unless of course it becomes a tech enterprise, it is commonly said.
This doesn’t necessarily mean each and every enterprise has to create and sell know-how-related items and expert services. It indicates that each individual enterprise demands to go through a procedure of technological know-how-driven electronic transformation.
By employing the applications, methodologies and applications that have been tried out and tested by the likes of Google, Apple or Netflix to create world wide empires, any company can attain three crucial strategic plans:
- Create goods and providers that a lot more carefully match their customers’ needs.
- Streamline and generate efficiencies throughout their procedures and operations.
- Create a greater comprehension of their sector and their levels of competition.
Opposite to common perception, you really do not will need to be a tech large to place the newest know-how trends to get the job done. You really do not want IT departments with hundreds of employees or to make investments millions in computing infrastructure. What you do want, however, is a extensive knowing of the most critical systems and what they can do for your small business and business. With so numerous quick-emerging technological know-how developments, which types really should companies concentrate on in 2023?
There are three essential technological innovation tendencies that everyone wants to get to grips with, since they are established to disrupt just about every industry.
There’s also one particular substantially-hyped engineering which – though not particularly a useless end – might not be as pertinent to each and every enterprise, proper now, as its proponents often claim.
Table of Contents
A few systems to pay attention to
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Use artificial intelligence to achieve strategic benefit
Let us start with the biggie! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a know-how that’s about to improve the environment – it’s previously all about us and embedded into our day-to-day life. From browsing Google for information and facts, to taking pictures with our smartphones, to interacting with digital assistants like Alexa or Siri, to purchasing on the internet, so substantially of what we do is empowered by AI algorithms. And this is only likely to increase.
For my money, AI will be the most transformative technologies of the century. Just as electrical energy and mechanisation authorized us to automate a lot of of the guide, day-to-day jobs of the 19th and 20th centuries, AI will do so for jobs that call for imagined and selection-generating. It is also a prime example of a technological innovation craze that, regardless of what you could believe, is not by any means limited to the giants of Silicon Valley, or money expert services organizations with tens of millions to shell out on investigation and improvement. If your small business utilizes Google or Facebook marketing to focus on new clients, you’re using AI. If you use search engines for marketplace investigation to detect opponents in your neighborhood region, you’re working with AI. The trick, while, is to use it strategically. This indicates pinpointing chances to use it to accomplish critical organization aims, measuring your results or failure, and adapting as required.
The reality is, the explosion of cloud-based mostly, AI-as-a-support platforms that are accessible currently puts electric power in the fingers of the common business user that would have seemed fantastical just five or so years in the past. Like most persons, you’ve most likely not long ago listened to of or employed ChatGPT, the purely natural language-powered chatbot that can have lifelike conversations or deliver prepared text that most men and women would imagine arrived from a human. Likewise, DALL.E-2 has come to be an world wide web sensation, blowing minds with its means to produce visuals and illustrations dependent on words it’s fed. These resources on your own are adequate for a range of business features but much more advanced end users will appear for means to leverage the technological innovation to discover and create more powerful associations with customers, and deliver personalised products and expert services by way of mass customisation. If there is one particular engineering craze that organizations merely can not afford to pay for to ignore in 2023, it is AI. Executing so would be a even worse strategy than disregarding the arrival of desktops or the dawn of the internet!
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Prioritise cybersecurity to defend your business
Just a couple times in the past, we heard the news of a cyber attack from the Royal Mail, thought to have been carried out by Russian hackers. The assault intended that all overseas mail was caught in depots and unable to be sent. If evidence have been needed that the scope and severity of cyber assaults are increasing, then disrupting the postal provider of an complete nation is a chilling example.
Analysis by Check Issue indicates that the number of assaults throughout 2022 enhanced by 38% in comparison to 2021 and the common price tag to an organisation strike by hackers is stated to be around $3.8 million (£3.1m). However, it is not just big corporations that are getting qualified. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says that of all-around 850,000 cyber attacks claimed from organisations in 2021, the bulk were being directed at small businesses.
There are numerous catalysts for this. One particular is the ever-more-sprawling world wide web of items. This is a expression for the network of on the web units that beforehand just provided computers and smartphones but now consists of intelligent cars and trucks, televisions, wearables, industrial products, kitchen area appliances and a lot of more. Its existence signifies there are simply much more doorways into our networks for attackers to exploit. At the same time, the fact that many much more of us are operating from household next the wide-scale societal improvements brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic usually means companies are susceptible because of to gadgets linked via significantly less-protected home networks.
All of this signifies that 2023 will, hopefully, be the 12 months when organisational cybersecurity is no extended considered to be the sole obligation of men and women in the IT section. At the board degree, leaders and executives have to get to grips with the challenge of guaranteeing it becomes a main enterprise priority and a strategic concentrate. On the store floor, workers and professionals require schooling and equipment to have an understanding of the risks of social engineering assaults, phishing, ransomware and a myriad of other emerging threats. Cybersecurity will also turn out to be 1 of the flagship use scenarios for the other most necessary tech craze, AI, as clever application instruments are deployed to location styles and forecast exactly where community targeted traffic is likely to pose a threat. Maybe most importantly, easy measures these kinds of as making certain very good password apply could preserve businesses from a excellent deal of possible soreness. All of this signifies that, in my impression, cybersecurity is the second tech pattern that no organization can manage to ignore.
3
Extend your small business into the metaverse
Here’s a expression that’s a lot misunderstood. If you have only taken a passing fascination, it could imply just about anything to you from digital actuality, to faux worlds, to cartoon avatars and on the internet gaming. This hodgepodge of strategies is plenty of to change many persons off. Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner has claimed that the reality that persons really don’t genuinely fully grasp it might quit the metaverse from having off completely. The risk is that this could considerably make persons pass up the point. The metaverse signifies the upcoming stage of the world-wide-web – just one that will be much more immersive, much more social and more intuitive.
In point, like Cook dinner, I really do not specially like the time period ‘metaverse’ both. I think it represents an strategy which is grow to be far too hyped and way too diluted. It is also come to be irretrievably connected to dystopian suggestions uncovered in textbooks like Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and flicks like Ready Player A single, which function digital worlds wholly disconnected from reality.
But I do think that many of the concepts and systems that have been lumped beneath the heading will generate the next generation of digital experiences. Just take digital twins. These are simulated models of any course of action or process – from a uncomplicated part to an overall business enterprise product, or even a city – that can be manipulated in just a digital setting. Simply because the natural environment by itself is developed making use of actual-world facts, the ‘twin’ will behave just as it would in reality.
An additional technology that’s essential to the metaverse thought is extended actuality – a term which addresses each virtual fact (VR) and augmented actuality (AR). VR permits us to develop and phase inside of immersive environments. AR is perhaps even a lot more exciting, as it is a bridge concerning the real and virtual worlds. It is this crossover – a very long way from the escapism portrayed by the fictional sci-fi renderings of the metaverse – that can make it so precious for business.
Ideas like digital twinning have evident apps for any manufacturing organization, but could also be utilised by any small business to carry out far more helpful advertising. Marketing is in which a lot of organizations will initially discover benefit in these new, immersive on the internet platforms. Points like digital dressing rooms, immersive products descriptions, for occasion. To place it just, it is a natural progression from preceding ‘evolutions’ of the world-wide-web, all of which have discovered their first utility in connecting businesses with consumers. Receiving in on chances to generate immersive, experiential consumer connections now will be, in my viewpoint, as beneficial as thieving an early guide in lookup engine advertising, social media advertising or cell marketing was in the early days of people technologies.
…and 1 to disregard for now
Wait for the wonders of Web3
And now, we shift on to a person tech trend which, whilst I continue to believe it to have the probable to be hugely transformative in the extensive run, may perhaps in actuality, not be pertinent to the the vast majority of businesses during 2023.
That pattern is Internet3 – a phrase which covers a amount of relevant systems together with decentralisation, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A lot more specially, it describes strategies for a ‘decentralised internet’ that uses these systems to allow an on line practical experience that is person-owned and, perhaps, actually democratic. As opposed to the present-day on-line working experience that’s mostly owned and overseen by multinational tech corporations, imposing an ‘our-residence, our-rules’ plan on difficulties these kinds of as governance and flexibility of speech.
The problems dealt with by the World-wide-web3 strategy are essential. And I think attention-grabbing apps for all of the technologies will arise in the future.
But, it’s getting to be evident that irrespective of the hoopla, couple clear use scenarios have been established for them in many industries. What is far more, the domain has evidently turn into overrun in latest several years by fraudsters and scammers, building it a minefield for anybody seeking to get involved. The recent collapse of the cryptocurrency trade FTX and the implosion of the NFT bubble past yr stand as evidence of this.
After the debris and get-prosperous-quick strategies have been washed absent, then we’ll start out to see certainly valuable use circumstances emerging. But unless of course you occur to operate in one particular of the fields where by it has already been proven to be disruptive – these as economic products and services or logistics – this is just one tech trend that you could want to sit out for now, although maintaining an eye on how it develops in the near future.
Bernard Marr is a planet-renowned futurist, influencer and imagined leader in the fields of organization and technological know-how, a finest-advertising and award-winning creator of 21 guides as well as an adviser and mentor to a lot of of the world’s greatest-known organisations. His most new textbooks are Enterprise Trends in Exercise and Potential Competencies. |
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Steve has served on the advisory boards of HK Agency Science and Technology Research Institute, Intel, Veritas Genetics, and as an Investment Committee member of True Global Ventures. Steve has filed 6 patents, including DBS’s first patent and Citibank’s first mobile payments patent. He has helped numerous tech and financial services institutions in their innovation journeys.
Steve holds an EMBA from Helsinki School of Economics and has completed leadership courses at IMD and Wharton.
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Attendees of the 'The 1st Seobusan Regional Innovation Forum' held at the Lotte Hotel in Busan are taking a commemorative photo. (Photo = provided by Dong-A University) |
[Korea University Newspaper Correspondent Lee Won-ji] Dong-a University (President Lee Hae-woo) announced on the 18th that it had successfully held the 'The 1st Western Regional Innovation Forum'.
The forum was held at the Crystal Ballroom of Lotte Hotel in Busan on the afternoon of the 15th with the theme of 'realization of a new normal life opened by smart', co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, the National Research Foundation of Korea, and the city of Busan. The College of Technology and Silla University were jointly hosted by six western universities.
In response to social distancing step 2.5, it was conducted in a hybrid method in which only presenters such as Lee Dong-dae, vice president of Dong-a University, Kim Ki-hwan, director of growth strategy in Busan, and presenters such as Kim Byung-jin, president of the Busan Institute of Industry, Science and Innovation attended the site and broadcast the forum site through real-time online broadcasting. .
The forum started with the keynote lecture on 'Great Transformation and Local Community after COVID-19' by National Assemblyman Jae-ho Song (former Chairman of the National Balanced Development Committee), and divided into a session dealing with 'SMART' and a session dealing with 'New normal'. took place
In the 'Smart' session, Bae Soo-hyeon, a research fellow at the Economic and Industrial Research Department at Busan Research Institute (in the era of digital transformation, how smart changes life and economy) gave a presentation and Kim Jun-su, head of the IT Convergence Headquarters at the Busan Information Industry Promotion Agency (to discuss the direction of smart city project in the western part of Busan) Future tasks) and Kim Chae-yeon, head of the Lifelong Education Center at Pusan National University of Science and Technology (a case of revitalization of commercial districts through smartization of traditional markets), gave case presentations.
The 'New Normal' session was followed by the presentation of the topic by Kim Young-dae, head of the Busan Economic Promotion Agency's Corporate Support Department (What should we do in the new normal era, how to communicate with the local community and win-win?) and case of win-win cooperation) and case presentation by Kyung-hee Kim, head of the Human Resources Development Center at Busan Talent Lifelong Education Promotion Center (Busan-type university-regional win-win cooperation model).
In the general discussion that followed, Kim Byeong-jin, president of the Busan Institute of Industrial Science and Innovation, took the time to discuss 'a plan to establish a cooperative network and revitalize the local community to contribute to the local community in the western part of the region'.
At this meeting, Busan City, local governments, and participating universities agreed to form a forum for discourse on local issues by continuously checking the task of selecting local issues and solving problems for the next year based on the agenda discussed in the current year.
Source: Korea University Newspaper - 'Power' that connects 409 universities (http://news.unn.net)
'Expectation' to lead the revitalization of the western part of the world under the theme of 'realization of a new normal life opened with smart'
[Korea University Newspaper Correspondent Lee Won-ji] Dong-a University (President Lee Hae-woo) announced on the 18th that it had successfully held the 'The 1st Western Regional Innovation Forum'.
The forum was held at the Crystal Ballroom of Lotte Hotel in Busan on the afternoon of the 15th with the theme of 'realization of a new normal life opened by smart', co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, the National Research Foundation of Korea, and the city of Busan. The College of Technology and Silla University were jointly hosted by six western universities.
In response to social distancing step 2.5, it was conducted in a hybrid method in which only presenters such as Lee Dong-dae, vice president of Dong-a University, Kim Ki-hwan, director of growth strategy in Busan, and presenters such as Kim Byung-jin, president of the Busan Institute of Industry, Science and Innovation attended the site and broadcast the forum site through real-time online broadcasting. .
The forum started with the keynote lecture on 'Great Transformation and Local Community after COVID-19' by National Assemblyman Jae-ho Song (former Chairman of the National Balanced Development Committee), and divided into a session dealing with 'SMART' and a session dealing with 'New normal'. took place
In the 'Smart' session, Bae Soo-hyeon, a research fellow at the Economic and Industrial Research Department at Busan Research Institute (in the era of digital transformation, how smart changes life and economy) gave a presentation and Kim Jun-su, head of the IT Convergence Headquarters at the Busan Information Industry Promotion Agency (to discuss the direction of smart city project in the western part of Busan) Future tasks) and Kim Chae-yeon, head of the Lifelong Education Center at Pusan National University of Science and Technology (a case of revitalization of commercial districts through smartization of traditional markets), gave case presentations.
The 'New Normal' session was followed by the presentation of the topic by Kim Young-dae, head of the Busan Economic Promotion Agency's Corporate Support Department (What should we do in the new normal era, how to communicate with the local community and win-win?) and case of win-win cooperation) and case presentation by Kyung-hee Kim, head of the Human Resources Development Center at Busan Talent Lifelong Education Promotion Center (Busan-type university-regional win-win cooperation model).
In the general discussion that followed, Kim Byeong-jin, president of the Busan Institute of Industrial Science and Innovation, took the time to discuss 'a plan to establish a cooperative network and revitalize the local community to contribute to the local community in the western part of the region'.
At this meeting, Busan City, local governments, and participating universities agreed to form a forum for discourse on local issues by continuously checking the task of selecting local issues and solving problems for the next year based on the agenda discussed in the current year.
Source: Korea University Newspaper - 'Power' that connects 409 universities (http://news.unn.net) |
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In the vast expanse of the cosmos, humanity has always been driven by an insatiable curiosity to unravel the mysteries of the universe. Science, innovation, and space exploration stand as the pillars of our progress, propelling us into a future filled with endless possibilities. In this blog article, we delve into the thrilling world where these three elements converge, shaping the way we perceive the universe and revolutionizing the world we live in.
Innovation, the practical application of creative ideas, bridges the gap between knowledge and tangible solutions. In recent years, innovations such as artificial intelligence, renewable energy sources, and advanced healthcare systems have reshaped societies, offering glimpses into a future where the impossible becomes attainable.
Gadgets: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Society
Gadgets, the everyday marvels that shape our lives, bridge the gap between scientific discoveries and society. From smartphones and wearable devices to smart home appliances and virtual reality headsets, gadgets have become an integral part of modern existence. These devices not only facilitate communication and entertainment but also serve as essential tools for scientific research and space exploration.
Imagine a world where space tourism is as accessible as a plane ticket, where innovative gadgets enable us to explore the farthest reaches of the universe from the comfort of our homes. Picture a future where sustainable technologies mitigate the impact of climate change and preserve our planet for generations to come. This vision of the future is not a distant dream but a tangible reality on the horizon, waiting to be shaped by the brilliant minds and innovative spirit of humanity.
Innovation: Transforming Ideas into Reality
- Problem-Solving: Innovation is not just about inventing new gadgets or technologies; it is primarily about creative problem-solving. Innovators identify existing challenges and develop novel solutions to address them.
- Interdisciplinary Approach: Innovation flourishes when diverse minds collaborate and share their expertise. It thrives on interdisciplinary approaches that bring together individuals from various fields such as science, engineering, design, and business.
- Continuous Improvement: Innovation is a dynamic and ongoing process that demands adaptability and a willingness to embrace change. Successful innovators understand the importance of continuous improvement.
As the world becomes increasingly aware of environmental issues, technology developers are focusing on creating gadgets that are not only advanced but also environmentally conscious. Solar-powered chargers, energy-efficient smart home devices, and biodegradable phone cases are just a few examples of how gadgets are evolving to reduce their ecological footprint.
These innovations represent a significant shift in the tech industry, highlighting the potential for gadgets to not only improve our daily lives but also contribute positively to environmental conservation. By integrating green technologies into everyday devices, we are stepping into an era where gadgets not only bridge the gap between science and society but also play a vital role in fostering a sustainable future. |
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Join us for the CRE@CTIVE ENI CBC MED Conference “ Innovation and Cooperation for Traditional Sectors Network- The CRE@CTIVE Net-L@B” held on the January 22nd at 11 AM at the Helnan Palestine Hotel in Alexandria!
The conference will discuss current challenges, available solutions, collaboration across the Mediterranean for #smes of the #Textile, #Leather and #Footwear Sector. It will also highlight the future activities of NET-L@B, CRE@CTIVE’s creative lab, where workshops, training sessions, and networking opportunities will be available to creatives and industry personnel.
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Salamanca Tech promotes our city’s technological development and places Salamanca at the forefront of digital innovation in six paramount areas:
- Health
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- Entrepreneurship
- Logistics
- Sustainability
Health
Abioinnova is an accelerator for biohealth and biomedical engineering companies. It provides a cutting-edge space for training, mentoring, and promoting businesses in biotech.
Abioinnova supports companies in the research process so that research results can be transformed into major business projects, focusing on personalized medicine, rare diseases, the design of medical devices, or healthy, sustainable, and functional food.
Science
At the Tormes+ Technological Innovation Space, we develop immersive technologies: robotics, virtual reality, 3D printing, and "digital twins" applied to medicine and logistics.
Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, we provide collaborative industrial robots available to professionals and researchers for experimentation, material analysis, or the development of new products.
This space facilitates the transfer of knowledge to businesses, creating synergies between universities, technological centers, and research institutions.
Technology
The Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence Center, home to AIR Institute, aims to promote and advance scientific research in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence.
This facility is dedicated to serving Salamanca-based companies, with the goal of enhancing their competitiveness and internationalization through improvements in IT and intelligent systems. Additionally, it encourages the hiring of university graduates in the business sector.
The City Council of Salamanca, in collaboration with AIR Institute, offers companies training and professional development in information and communication technologies, computer systems, intelligent systems, and especially in innovative and disruptive techniques and tools.
Entrepreneurship
The Tormes+ training center is focused on fostering entrepreneurial spirit, enhancing the creation of new job opportunities, and supporting the city's economic activity. It serves as a meeting place for advice and training, where SMEs, professionals, and entrepreneurs can share ideas, knowledge, and experiences.
Tormes+ features a Digital Fabrication Lab available to companies, equipped with specialized 3D printing technology and prototype design and programming tools. Children and young people can participate in technological campuses and classrooms of the future, which teach about new technologies.
Logistics
The Salamanca Intermodal Railway Platform has the capacity to accommodate trains up to 750 meters in length, manage containerized goods, and handle the transfer and storage of cereals and fertilizers. Its excellent geographic location allows for increased railway freight flows from Portuguese ports, such as Leixões or Aveiro, connected to Central Europe.
The Salamanca Logistics Activity Zone offers extensive and modern infrastructure, as well as a variety of services to companies, including customs clearance, an agro-food unit, specialized workshops, a gas station, and an electric charging station, among others.
The Salamanca logistics hub specializes in the agro-food sector and cold logistics, offering companies over 30,000 cubic meters for food preservation and freezing.
Sustainability
Salamanca is developing a green infrastructure strategy that combines two of the city's main hallmarks: culture and nature.
Sustainable urban development and environmental protection make Salamanca a healthier city to live in.
The capital of Salamanca ranks among the Spanish cities with the best air quality. It boasts over 120 kilometers of green corridors and more than 2.6 million square meters of green spaces to enjoy nature. |
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Uncover Untapped Potential: The Power of Market Research! In today’s fast-paced business world, staying ahead of the competition is crucial […]
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Many businesses, large and small, have a huge source of great ideas that can help them improve, innovate, and grow, and yet so many of these companies never think of using this amazing corporate asset. What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people. |
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This book answers the question of how to improve the innovation performance of large companies. It discusses how a wide range of management systems and practices impact innovation performance. Having observed a number of management teams that were trying to improve innovation performance, the author describes the most effective ways to do this. He looks at what management systems to change first, how to change them, and who to involve in the process. Finally, he discusses how the ideal innovation system differs across industries and how managers should take industry differences into account as they work to improve their innovation systems. |
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Welcome to InnLight Marketing - a service established in the summer of 1998, dedicated to helping small business owners maximize their company's potential and optimize their overall profitability. I specialize in bed and breakfasts, boutique hotels, vacation rentals, restaurants and a host of other owner-operated businesses.
It is my passion to work with entrepreneurs - individuals who are noted for having an independent energetic spirit; who express a readiness and courage to undertake or experiment; who organize, manage and assume the risks of building a business from the germ of a creative idea. Or as Kilby noted, "Entrepreneurs are innovators who use a process of shattering the status quo of the existing products and services, to set up new products, new services ... a person with a high need for achievement."
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IPSWICH has been named the state's leader in innovation and technology.
The city's commitment to fostering new start-ups through the Firestation 101 innovation hub has also put us in the box seat to win a significant amount of funding.
Minister for innovation Leeanne Enoch chose Ipswich to announce the release of a discussion paper as part of a series of workshops to decide how millions in funding will be spent.
She said Firestation 101 was the perfect place to make the announcement given the work happening at the hub had been "absolutely mind blowing".
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About Us
We are an innovative engineering business, primarily focused on manufacturing products for industry, commercial and domestic purposes as well as a number of our own products.
As a precision tooling enterprise we manufacture various tooling for industry and we have CNC milling machining capability as well as an engineering workshop equipped to handle just about anything.
We have mills, lathes, presses, cutting saws, die cutters, grinders, EDM, welding equipment, testing, measuring and calibration equipment.
We can machine complex components, make parts to suit from a wide range of materials
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We design and build large custom machinery to suit any customers request.
We also can fabricate anything. We have a very broad engineering and design knowledge and expertise in the manufacturing and mechanical engineering field.
We manufacture cutting dies for all sorts of applications, such as die cutting, packaging, jewellery and automotive.
We machine parts for the aerospace industry and press tools for a wide range of customers.
We have designed and manufactured tooling for the automotive sector and designed bending dies and machinery to do particular applications and transfer our skills to all areas of interest to us and our customer base.
We have also built a range of scissor lifts from small to large scale, one of which is in use in Antarctica.
We also do product development and design work and prototyping products.
Most importantly we are good problem solvers and have an excellent track record in helping solve our customers requests and providing high quality workmanship and products that do what they are supposed to do.
Our products include tuckpointing supplies, die cutting supplies, made to order balistrating and safety hand railing, gates and architectural fabricated products, car louvers and much more.
We enjoy a challenge and are willing to work hard to achieve successful results. We also have a policy to be open to new ideas and strive to be better!
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Iterative approaches corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking.
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Organically grow the holistic world view of disruptive innovation.
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Collaborative thinking further the overall value settled proposition.
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Approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition. Organically grow the holistic world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity generated content in real-time.
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Bring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination. At the end of the day, going forward, a new normal that has evolved from generation is on the runway heading towards a streamlined cloud solution.
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Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test. Override the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from Dev. Nanotechnology immersion along the information highway will close the loop.
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When describing the process of disruptive innovation, Clay Christensen set about to also describe the process by which a technology is developed by visionaries in a commercially unsuccessful way. He called it cramming.
Cramming is a process of trying to make a not-yet-good-enough technology great without allowing it to be bad. In other words, it’s taking an ambitious goal and aiming at it with vast resources of time and money without allowing the mundane trial and error experimentation in business models.
To illustrate cramming I borrowed his story of how the transistor was embraced by incumbents in the US vs. entrants in Japan and how that led to the downfall of the US consumer electronics industry.
Small upstarts were able to take the invention, wrap a new business model around it that motivated the current players to ignore or flee their entry. They thus successfully displaced the entrenched incumbents even though the incumbents were investing heavily in the technology and the entrants weren’t.
In the image below, the blue “path taken by established vacuum tube manufacturers” is the cramming approach vs. the green entry by outsiders who worked on minor new products which could make use of the rough state of transistors at their early stages of development.
The history of investment in transistor-based electronics shows how following the money (i.e. R&D) did not lead to value creation, quite the opposite. There are many such examples: The billions spent on R&D by Microsoft did not help them build a mobile future and the billions spent on R&D by Nokia did not help them build a computing future.
There are other white elephant stories such as IBM’s investment in speech recognition to replace word processing, the Japanese government spending on “Fifth Generation Computing” and almost all research into machine translation and learning from the 1960s to the present.
But today we hear about initiatives such as package delivery drones and driverless cars and robots and Hyperloops and are hopeful. Perhaps under the guiding vision of the wisest, most benevolent business wizards, breakthrough technologies and new infrastructures can finally be realized and we can gain the growth and wealth that we deserve but are so sorely lacking.
But the failure of crammed technologies isn’t rooted in a lack of wisdom. It was the wisest of minds which foresaw machine learning, advanced computing, mobility and convergence coming decades before they came. It was their wisdom which convinced others that resources should be spent on these initiatives. And it was the concentrated mind power of thousands of scientists which spent hundreds of billions in academic and government research.
What failed wasn’t the vision but the timing and the absence of a refinement process. Technologies which succeed commercially are not “moonshots.”1 They come from a grinding, laborious process of iteration and discovery long after the technology is invented.
The technology is one part of the problem to be solved, the other is how to get people to use it. And that problem is rooted in understanding the jobs people have to get done and how the technology can be used defensibly. That’s where the rub is. An unused technology is a tragic failure. Not just because it has no value but because the resources (those beautiful minds) used in making it could have been applied elsewhere.
Building usage means imparting and retrieving learning through a conversation with the customer. That conversation is best spoken with a vocabulary of sales and profits. Without profits the value is unclear. Nothing is proven. Without economic performance data, the decision of resource allocation becomes a battle of egos.2 The decision may be right but going by past history the odds are low.
Incidentally, timing is the other element that is key to success. It might seem that timing really is a matter of luck. But timing can be informed by the same conversation with the customer. As you observe adoption you can also measure how long it take for a technology to be adopted. You can do A/B tests and see what is faster.
The most reliable method of breakthrough creation is not the moonshot but a learning process that involves steady iteration. Small but profitable wins. A driver-less car might be achieved but first a driver-assisting car might teach the right lessons. An electric car might be achieved but first a hybrid car might teach the lessons needed. A delivery drone might be achieved but first a programmable UPS truck might be a better way to learn.
And finally, Android (née Linux) in 2005 might have been foreseen as the future of mobile operating systems but it took the learning from iOS to shape it into a consumer-friendly product. Even when you see a moonshot work, you realize that a lot of learning had to have taken place. It’s like the story of an overnight success that took a lifetime of perseverance.
- It could be said that the space and nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War were the original “moonshots” and they succeeded. But although successful in their goals, those goals were not commercial value creation and we are left with little to show for it. See also Concorde. [↩]
- This is how most research is allocated today. [↩]
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I am Sik Lee, president of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI).
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Javaughn J. Porter: A Rising Star in the World of Innovation and Technology
In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and an ever-growing demand for innovation, certain individuals stand out for their contributions and vision. Javaughn J. Porter is one such figure whose name is increasingly becoming synonymous with forward-thinking solutions and technological prowess. This article explores the journey of Javaughn J. Porter, highlighting his achievements, impact, and the potential future of his career.
Early Life and Education
Javaughn J. Porter’s journey into the realm of technology and innovation began with a solid educational foundation. Born and raised in [insert location], Porter demonstrated an early interest in technology and problem-solving. His academic pursuits led him to [insert university or educational institution], where he majored in [insert relevant field, e.g., Computer Science, Engineering]. During his time at [institution], Porter was known for his intellectual curiosity and innovative approach to complex problems.
Career Beginnings
After completing his education, Porter embarked on his professional journey, initially working with several tech startups and established companies. His early career was characterized by a series of impactful roles where he honed his skills in [insert specific technologies or fields, e.g., artificial intelligence, software development]. Porter’s ability to blend technical expertise with creative problem-solving quickly set him apart from his peers.
Major Achievements
Innovative Projects
One of Javaughn J. Porter’s most notable achievements is his work on [insert specific project or technology]. This project revolutionized [insert industry or field], demonstrating Porter’s knack for identifying and addressing key challenges. His innovative approach not only enhanced the functionality of the technology but also set new benchmarks in the industry.
Awards and Recognition
Porter’s contributions have not gone unnoticed. He has received several accolades and awards, including [insert names of awards or recognitions]. These honors are a testament to his exceptional work and influence in the field of technology. The recognition underscores Porter’s role as a thought leader and innovator.
Contributions to Technology and Society
Javaughn J. Porter’s work extends beyond technical achievements. He is deeply committed to leveraging technology for societal good. His initiatives include [insert specific initiatives or contributions, e.g., developing tech solutions for underserved communities, advocating for ethical AI practices]. Porter’s holistic approach to technology underscores his belief that innovation should serve a broader purpose.
Vision for the Future
Looking ahead, Javaughn J. Porter’s vision for the future is both ambitious and inspiring. He is focused on [insert future projects or goals, e.g., advancing sustainable technologies, exploring new frontiers in artificial intelligence]. Porter’s forward-thinking mindset and dedication to pushing the boundaries of technology suggest that his impact will continue to grow.
Potential Challenges
Despite his success, Porter is aware of the challenges that lie ahead. The rapid pace of technological change and the ethical considerations associated with emerging technologies pose significant hurdles. However, Porter’s proactive approach and commitment to addressing these challenges head-on demonstrate his readiness to navigate the complexities of the tech world.
Influence and Mentorship
In addition to his technical achievements, Javaughn J. Porter is known for his role as a mentor and leader. He actively engages with [insert organizations, institutions, or communities] to share his knowledge and inspire the next generation of tech enthusiasts. Porter’s mentorship is characterized by his willingness to guide and support emerging talents, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
Personal Philosophy and Values
At the core of Javaughn J. Porter’s success is his personal philosophy and values. He is driven by a belief in the transformative power of technology and its potential to address pressing global challenges. Porter’s commitment to ethical practices, continuous learning, and community engagement reflects his dedication to making a positive impact through his work.
Conclusion
Javaughn J. Porter represents a new generation of technology leaders who are not only shaping the future of innovation but also redefining the role of technology in society. His journey from a curious student to a prominent tech innovator is a testament to his talent, hard work, and visionary outlook. As Porter continues to push the boundaries of what is possible, his influence and contributions are likely to resonate across various industries and communities.
In a world where technological advancements are rapidly transforming every aspect of life, Javaughn J. Porter stands out as a beacon of innovation and ethical leadership. His story is one of inspiration, demonstrating that with passion, expertise, and a commitment to making a difference, individuals can leave a lasting impact on the world.
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Flight Lieutenant Thummavudth Nonsee, Senior Executive Vice President (Airport and Aviation Standard), Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT), Mr. Sompob Paksawan, Executive Vice President (Airport and Aviation Standards), Mrs. Onuma Adunyanon, Executive Vice President of the AOT Academy jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ratchasuda College, Mahidol University for a mutual collaboration to enhance academic service for persons with disabilities.
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