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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

A number of high-profile software failures at companies like Southwest Airlines or EasyJet show how code that runs well most of the time can also fail spectacularly. Main constituency: Businesses like airlines that can’t live without their technology. Some physicists have been using GPUs for complex simulations for some time.

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VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Poonen talks about how United Airlines is transforming their operations uses mobile devices (supported by Apple devices and AirWatch by VMware). The demo spans a Mac in the doctor’s office, an iPad that he carries with him, and a thin client leveraging rich 3D graphics functionality. VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote.

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The Verge Awards at CES 2022

The Verge

The Verge and countless other outlets had hotel rooms confirmed and airlines booked. The hardware dial to rotate your array of virtual monitors across that wall of screen looks awesome, too, reducing the need to rely on special windowing software to get work done. There needs to be more than 3D renders.

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2021+ 9 themes for next year and beyond

Trends in the Living Networks

Specialist manufacturing is returning onshore, local 3D printing and assembly is rising, the demand for quality local food production is soaring, and nations are focusing on food and energy independence. When borders can be closed in an instant, the equation entirely changes, with resilience to shocks the highest priority.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

And then one day, we got a fax from American Airlines. And I asked Mike, had he been working with American Airlines, and he said no. But American Airlines is an American company. And so, that was sort of the guerilla marketing that we did in the early days. And neither had I. And so, we’re like, “Wow, this really works.”

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Since 2015, her company’s goal has been to morph entertainment into “edutainment” with digital worlds that exist inside the realms of virtual, mixed, and augmented realities.

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