...grave to us, yet if we were to possibly use wisdom, we may miss the pitfall all together. The wisdom of learning from the past, of individually taking control, making a change and not relying on the powers that be, is one strategy. “Makes me wonder if all the wisdom was given to King Solomon and none left for us”, but even he faltered. So then it begs to say is there any purpose, reason or hope. Do we just literally exist and go round on a cog wheel of time. Without straying too far from the point, there is allot of room left for speculation as to whether some of these conspiracy ideas are true. Were we just put here and are aimlessly wondering this planet. While I was doing this piece it brought up allot of question about the past, future, who we are, why we are here? How our world/universe came to be? Is this all about balance and not right or wrong? TECHNOLOGY seems to be our vice, we are moving very...
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...I wish could look into the future! I don’t think I would wish to see the future, what would the fun be in that. If I could see the future there would be now meaning in living, because I would already know what would happen to me. Also I knew that something bad would happen to me and I couldn’t do anything about it, I would go insane. So I don’t understand why people can wish for it. On the other hand it is tempted to know if you get the dream job you always had dreamed of. If I would or demand to look into the future but I could choose what I would see I would probably chose to see if I got married, not who I would marry for that should be a secret for me. I would also like to see if I got a good job which doesn’t make me miserable. That would be that, there are no other things that I would like to see, for like in the movies, you can’t change the future it will always end up biting you in the butt. That’s also why I don’t want to see the future that includes me. But if I could see the future itself, like if the planet still is here in 50 years or if there comes a war. Still I think we should let the future be and just live in the present, then the future will...
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...“The future of shopping” case study It is often said that “life is not a wish-granting factory”, however from the case we seem to witness a shopping future that meets all the needs of customers. Imagining a perfect normal day, walking down the fifth avenue and saw a pretty dress you really liked, you went home and couldn’t possibly get that dress out of your mind. Therefore, you went on the Internet and found the exact same dress and saw the price on the website of the store. Will you just buy the dress directly from the Internet without thinking about other possible opportunities? The answer is no. Most of us will start to browse other information about the dress and start to compare it with different other stores that possibly has a cheaper price for the dress. Or even go to the real store and check the dress out for yourself, plus send a picture of you trying on the new dress and send it to your friends for feedback. The thing about the future shopping life is Internet inevitably connects all of us. Not only the consumers but also the retailers are adjusting in order to thrive in this new ever-changing future. It is written in the case that nowadays, consumers are getting harder to please, they would like to avoid the hassle to virtually visit the store in person because sometimes the stores are crowded with people tending to either appreciate the products or fighting for discount stuffs. On the other hand, they also fear for buying those products that look good on the...
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...benefits, features, and other aspects of office of the future? Some of the benefits, features, and other aspects of a virtual office that I want to take a look at are: the definition of a virtual office, technology and it’s role, people’s view of the future office, Microsoft’s view, an effective workspace, the flexibility of a virtual office, and what you might find/see in your office of the future. “A virtual office is a combination of off-site live communication and address services that allow users to reduce traditional office costs while maintaining business professionalism.[1] Frequently the term is confused with “office business centers” or “executive suites” which demand a conventional lease whereas a true virtual office does not require that expense” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_office). Virtual office is the new office of the future. Although a virtual office has been around for a while, it has not been used by everyone because when the concept was adopted, there was not much technology developed yet to support it. Now, with the increasing amount of technology for home use, now companies can move more jobs to this form of an office. The most common careers using virtual office is customer service representative’s jobs. A plan is put into place when designing what an office should look like in the future. When a company designs a model for a project; there is also a model designed for future offices. Corporate America has designers to create an...
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...Daniel Dockal Feb 19, 2010 Bio 101 Heather Senseney-Mellor Prediction of the future In this paper I will be taking about the prediction of the future going forward 5 million, 100 million and 200 million years into the future of this planet earth. I decided to research and find scientific evidence to write and explain what will occur in the future. I think everyone is eager to know how this planet will evolve and what will happen to the human kind and other living things. This is one of the questions that we will never know or be accurate about. The more we know about our history the better knowledge we have about the future and what will happen. History always repeats itself this is why we learn as much as we can about the past and study it so well, so we can predict the future. By going into the future the climate of the earth is always going to be changing and all living things are going adapting to the changes and other species are evolved and others will die out because of it. “The condition of the environment is the key of the living things in this earth and plants are depend on it”(science nsa). The earth has to have a certain amount of carbon dioxide, a change in this can have a big impact on the living things and animals. “The temperature is also an important role”(wired magazine), if the temperature keeps rising every year than the plants will dry out and even cause global warming which we already are facing. This will only be a disaster and we have to know how...
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...When Dr. Bennis listed broad education as a common factor of “future” leaders in his book “On Becoming a Leader” in 1989 I believe he was correct. A prediction twenty-three years ago has become reality. My interpretation of broad education does not just mean continued education but a combination of learning the facts and ideas behind the subject one is studying. With each generation, education seems to grow in importance and has seemed to even become almost a necessity in succeeding at least in the business world. It was rare in my grandparent’s era to have a college education at least in the heartland of the United States where farming and homemaker were the career paths of most. Now, my generation is seeking graduate degrees and beyond to make it out in the real world. Will this trend continue in the future? Will formal education be the focus or will interpersonal skills dominate? Is education or experience the most important factor in leadership? I believe that experience was, education is presently, and we are leading to a combination of both in the future. Importance of Education in the Past Currently in the market for a new job, I can testify that education is a very important factor currently, but it seems that that was not always the case. My great-grandparents did not even complete high school and they did well as far as money and social status goes. In some of my past jobs, I have noticed that when a position opens up within the company, some form of continued...
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...The Future of Libraries Robin Singh Parmar T00522848 Thompson Rivers University The Future of Libraries Technology (namely, ‘Internet’) has made a very significant impact on our lives. It has brought about those changes that were not even expected. One of the affected yet quite ignored field is the field of libraries. As we continue to go hand in hand with the techno culture, we need to ask ourselves that, are we leaving hands with the library culture? Slowly and steadily, as we keep watching as mere spectators, we are able to see that technology has replaced ways of doing things. It is a very difficult state to say whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage. There were days when people used to consider libraries as a place of learning but now is more like a community centre. Technology did create a gap which was named as the “digital divide” (S. Coffman 2012). People today have become so used to this technology that it has become a basic necessity. Sherry Turkle talks about this in her book, ‘Alone together’ published in 2011. Turkle tells us as to how technology was earlier perceived as a substitute has now become the primary source. Turkle argues technology that was earlier used to help us find time has in turn to lead us more and more busy life. We feel that we are free but we are not. Technology had offered us a virtual world, a virtual ‘AVATAR’ of our own self. But as we continue to use it, we are no longer able to differentiate between the virtual and the real...
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...Future Statement I can't say for sure whether the world will be a place after 100 years, because I think one part will change for the better, while another part will be worse. In the technology, everything has a different type. Many new machines have been invented. Those things will help people more efficiently. You can finish a lot work by one touch. You just hold a small remote, and it will order everything. For example, the car will drive to your house by itself according to your orders, the TV will choose the best program and tell you what the important news is for you today. We will have no traffic jams because the cars will fly in the sky, you don't need to drive them because everything is automatic. On the other hand, when we get so many new things in our life, which will cause some problems in life. Maybe people will feel strange around other people, because we will hardly talk to one another. We have known all of the answers by modern machines. We use the Internet to connect everything, however we need to consider that face expressions and physical touch are very important to human beings. This world is full of the benefits of technology, therefore we are sometimes depending on technology too much. For example, one person would not move from there household. He can order something to eat by telephone, he can also buy clothes by Internet. This kind of service is used delivery system, so he doesn’t need to move from his house. This is one of benefits of technology...
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...of the Future would be built for convenience and customization. The house can change depending on who is walking through the rooms. The home has scanners that would read the family members’ retinas. Some of the customized systems in the house would be walls disappearing into the ceiling depending on if you want to shorten or expand rooms. You can also decide wall and carpet colors and designs too, if you desire. For instance furniture will automatically change to how a family member would like it. One couch would be glossy and pink to one family member, and be red and cushy to another. Beds would have an advanced technology called SnoozTec, which would sense the warmth or discomfort of a sleeper. It would automatically adjust the firmness, music, lights, and temperature of the bed. There would also be moving walkways on conveyor belts that could take you through your house. You would of course be able to control what speed and destination you want. Every family will have a rocket ship garage, because in the future humans will have already settled in, and take vacations on, other planets. If you care about the environment (which everyone should), then you can purchase the Green Machine for your house, which is a trashcan that you throw your waste in. Then, the trashcan simultaneously converts the trash into fuel for your rocket ship, and electricity for your house. Even though I love my house that I live in now, I am more excited for the House of the Future. It is...
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...this expansion has been and what the future may hold. Although the creativity and serendipity of individual discoveries will remain difficult to model, quantitative research has revealed regularities in the rates of discovery and the outcome of published findings over time (1). Some of these studies demonstrate that innovation has been decreasing, which may reflect the output of a scientific enterprise whose system of input has supported the pursuit of research focused on “low-hanging fruit” (2). Coincident with this decline has been the recent global recession, a circumstance that called for accountability of economic and social returns from public investments in research (3). There is now a great demand for insight into how the system of science works. On page 127 of this issue, Wang et al. (4) offer one approach to assess, and perhaps even augment, scientific productivity. An emerging area of interest in research on the “science of science” is the prediction of future impact. Impact prediction is consequential for the evaluation of research grants, the dispensing of scholarly awards, and the determination of faculty salaries, among other decisions. As predictions improve, they will play a larger role in directing choices about what areas public and private capital will choose to research, develop, and produce. But how can we predict the future? A number of recent studies have honed our understanding of the factors that influence future citations to an article or researcher...
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...Future Trends Charmaine Saint Surin OI/466 June 6, 2016 Fred Greifenstein Future Trends According to Webster.com dictionary, a trend is usually known as something undergoing change or is developing into something or going into a general or specific direction. Innovation is about timing, but there is not a theory behind it. It includes processes and new ideas and then they are converted into new useful products. It creates value for customers who pay for it. Disruptive Innovation is an all-out risk taker, creating new markets with more practical approaches towards buyer's purchasing power. What we know is that innovation does not have an end, it's the fact that what we want and what we need continues to change. Innovation is not the goal but everything we do to get to that point. I think collaboration within innovation is an revolving trend. This is the concept of an open source. With the internet age, there are so many people connected worldwide, so there is the fact of collaboration. It creates alternatives for companies who which are smaller to have the ability to remain small and agile. If that is the choice, it also allows those less ended businesses to be a part of the larger agenda in innovation. Innovation is a connected function of communities. It seems like we are all trying to come up with new solutions that capture the technologies we encompass and maybe even working with alternatives reworking those technologies. An example of this is universities...
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...In the future, I see tablets taking over the computer in the home, office/work place and in our schools. We can already see some of this taking place now. Testing for the work place and schools is taking place all over our country. In the home, the tablet is becoming more and more dominate. On society as a whole, tablets are saving us time, money and overall making our lives easier. Schools are implementing tablets in students’ lives, making learning easier, saving tax dollars. Students are able to access the internet from where they sit in the class room, instead of wanting on their turn at the computer or going to the library, both are at the touch of their fingers. In the work place, it is saving us time, money and energy. Employees are accessing information/documentation from the office everywhere they go. In the home, the tablets are easing our minds and making our lives easier by the touch of finger. Apps on these tablets are the can help keep our homes and families safer by turning on and off our lights, setting the “forgotten” security system, closing the garage door, turning on security cameras so we can see who is home, (such as our children), if they are supposed to be there or not, and list can go on and on. On economy, it is constantly changing. For the publishing world, it seems the tablets are causing decreases in actual published material and increasing the digital published material. People are changing to digital for several reasons; the biggest...
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...COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE Strategy as Stretch Strategy must be built upon the juncture of where the firm is and where it wants to be. It is not cash that fuels the journey to the future, but the emotional & intellectual energy of every employee. Imagine you were an investor who, a decade or two ago, was asked to choose between the following pairs of firms as long-term investment opportunities: Where would you have put your money? Most investors would probably have been tempted to invest in the firms in the left column. Why? These firms had strong reputations, technological riches & deep pockets. They could hire the most talented people in their industry, had sizable market shares and in most cases, had a worldwide distribution presence. In short, they had resources. Yet, they lost much of their leadership to firms with far fewer visible resources. Take the example of RCA & SONY? RCA had almost single-handedly created the color television industry in U.S., and every competitor relied on RCA patents, products of one of the world’s outstanding research laboratories. How could Sony out-innovate the U.S. consumer electronics pioneers? Conclusion: Starting resource positions are a very poor predictor of future industry leadership. A firm can sit on huge amount of cash & talented people, and still lose its preeminent position. Likewise, a firm can sometimes overcome enormous resource handicaps & successfully scale the heights of industry leadership. The...
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...Research Paper Number 2 Have you watched Family Guy where the character “stewie” is able to travel back in time and/or the future revisit or relive events? The next amazing technology that will be available is the new time machine. This device is compact and looks just like a watch but instead of telling the current date and time, this device is going to be able to allow you select the date and time where you would like to travel. Picture this, want to know what the answers are going to be on your next quiz in Professor Frierson’s Problem Solving class? Well guess what you can time travel into the future to get the correct answers and make an “A” Don’t feel like coming to class? You can miss class get counted absent and travel back in time to be marked present. Of course there are so many other reasons that you can travel in time and accomplish such as saving someone’s life, modifying different events such as preventing wars, changing your wealth and education, changing laws and preferences. In the future you can view all of the changes that you have made in the present and past. The great thing about the time travel is that you can travel to in the future and scope out what has been affected and if it is something that you don’t like, then you can always travel back in the past and make changes to what you see fit. Another great reason to have a time travel device would be if there is a part of you past that you wish that you can just relive, you can always go back and relive...
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...Whether we like it or not, machines will play an important part in the future. They already play such a large role in our life, it’s almost inevitable. Over the past 20 years, the use of computers has skyrocketed. Now there is almost one in every home. Children of this generation are being taught to use computers at a very young age. Computers are used in most every office, also. Jobs that used to be done by men can now be done by machines. Technology is growing each day. Jobs are being replaced by machines, and there is more need for people familiar with computers or technology. In a lot of cases as far as jobs etc go, it’s something you need to know or something that helps considerably. Technology is becoming more advanced. As the technology changes, so do our lives in a small way and it shall continue into the future. Technology has changed our lives for both better and worse. It has made life so much easier. Now instead of baling the hay themselves, farmers can put the hay into a machine that makes bales. It is not only more efficient, but the outcome is much more desirable. Laborious jobs have been reduced or eliminated. Though it has made life easier, it also has promoted laziness. Instead of using our physical ability to accomplish a job, so many can now be done by machine. Rather than walking to the store to pick up margarine most would drive to the store. Little things that are so easily accomplished by hand can now be done mechanically. We’d rather have a machine do...
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