Editor’s Note: In 2020, an MIT Task Force produced a comprehensive report on the Work of the Future. Since then, the global pandemic has had a significant effect on work and businesses, providing the impetus for The Work of the Future, by the same authors. The book, from which the following excerpt […]
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Next-generation solutions and products are hitting a wall with wi-fi: it’s not fast enough, and latency and connectivity issues mean it’s not reliable enough. What’s an innovator to do? Focus on what’s next: 5G and software-defined networking. Nick McKeown, senior vice president and general manager of the network and edge […]
Dell This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of CES 2022. Some of us are still working from home. Others have gone back to the office. Still, more are embracing a kind of hybrid work, mixing work-from-home and […]
Climate Action, Climate Change, COVID-19, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Global, Green Economy, Health, Poverty & SDGs, Sustainability Opinion Visitors at booth for Beyond Expo. Credit: TechNode BEIJING, Dec 14 2021 (IPS) – A landscape of shared global challenges The COVID-19 pandemic has moved […]
Editor’s Note: In their desperate search for advantage, terrorists often use new technologies or employ old technologies in new ways. They frequently bungle the job or otherwise fail, but when they innovate successfully it can prove devastating. Don Rassler and Muhammad al-`Ubaydi of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point identify innovation […]
When looking at the future of technology, it’s essential to have perspective. In other words, the past is prologue. Previous technology inflection points include electricity, which changed the world, and the development of the internet. No one was using the internet 35 years ago, and now there are 4 billion […]