“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) shaping our world? Right now! The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our world is real. More so than you may think. Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The BBC in its The A-Z of how artificial intelligence is changing the world provides a very interesting and wide ranging overview of how AI is shaping our world.
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Note: This article is a collective work by the futurologist Jens Hansen and digital expert Carsten Lexa. Digitization brings us disruptions in a wide variety of industries. Newspaper publishers, video rental companies, retailers, bookstores — all have already undergone a major transformation. The change in the retail business for books was particularly bad especially in the USA. In 2011 the
The future ain’t what it used to be. – Yogi Berra Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) – the Fourth industrial Revolution – are all tech terms that have moved into the mainstream of our everyday conversations. Unfortunately the talk is usually one of doom and gloom, punctuated by predictions such as: Robots could
You don’t often get to link trade and sports together but attorney Timothy P. Stratford has done a brilliant job making an apt analogy that the current USA- China trade war is like a game of football. The key to the analogy and its true brilliance rests in, what kind of football? Don’t understand the US-China trade war? This metaphor could
Connectivity is often synonymous with digital or technological connectivity, and rightfully so as it is a major means and mode of connectivity. Connectivity, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, however is more about relationships. That is to say the relationships “between people-people, people-things, and things-things.” Competitiveness, in our globalized world, be it as an individual or business or nation-state, is increasingly based
When it comes to the hotspots of the startup scene, most think of Silicon Valley, London and Berlin or Paris and Stockholm. And that´s it pretty much. However, it is often forgotten that every city can basically develop a lively start-up community — and the ingredients for that are not that hard to spot. As one of the founding members of “Gründen@Würzburg”,
I recently had an opportunity to teach a post graduate course at the Caribbean Maritime University in Kingston Jamaica entitled: The Legal Aspect of International Security. The students were from the security forces and border protection agencies. Needless to say the classroom was filled with seriousness tempered with energy, learning, a true spirit of collaboration and a degree of levity that
Laws are one of the greatest human technologies ever invented. However, they must be upload, downloaded and embedded into the Fourth Industrial Revolution for it to be a success. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is happening, it is already here and is accelerating in pace; and in scale and in scope. But what about the laws that govern it? The legal
Improving logistics is critical to economic development especially in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. I am happy to have the privilege of working at Jamaica’s Special Economic Zone Authority on advancing the country’s economic development by transforming Jamaica into a logistics centred economy. In many ways Jamaica’s Logistics Hub Initiative is a direct policy response the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Related