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Mobile phone sales in emerging economies - bottom of pyramid - phone industry speaker - Futurist
wpshapes.com http://www.globalchange.com Bottom of pyramid and how most mobile phone sales in future will be to people on low incomes. Consumer choices, behavior, customer insight, emerging middle class in nations like India, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Phillipines, China, Malaysia, Russia, BRICS nations, Brazil, Latin America and Asia. Impact of SMS on personal and business life. Social impact of smartphones and mobile commerce, mobile payment systems - banks and banking. Changes in consumer behaviour. Lecture for Dimension Data by Dr Patrick Dixon, Futurist, author Futurewise, keynote conference speaker. Patrick Dixon has given keynote presentations on a wide range of issues in Central America, Latin America, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Baltic States, Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and South East Asia. Countries include Barbados, Belarus, Brazil, Burundi, China, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Estonia, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uganda, United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe.From:lee sueViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:07More inGaming

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The Futurist: Crack-free cell phones, nano tubes and super insulation
Building tomorrow #39;s future never looked so promising, especially with these cutting edge materials of the 21st century including a glass that makes your cell phone screen nearly invincible, super strong nano tubes and super insulation.From:TheListShowTVViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:32More inEntertainment

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Randstad Shaping the World of Work breakfast series November 2012
Randstads November "shaping the world of work" breakfast event looked at the leadership challenge and provided insights for key HR and business leaders to prepare their leadership capabilities for the future. We invited leadership futurist, Dr. Cheryl Doig to highlight global trends in leadership development and the implications they have for organisations of the future, and to challenge our audience to think beyond current practices to explore new possibilities.From:randstadauViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:49More inEducation

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Conspiracies UFO Secrets
Conspiracies UFO Secrets In the first half, George Knapp welcomed investigative author Cheri Seymour for a discussion about the Octopus, a globe-trotting undercover intelligence operation involved in narcotics trafficking, money laundering, arms sales. Picking up on the work of journalist Danny Casolaro (who died of a supposed "suicide" in 1991 in the midst of his investigation of the Octopus), she traced a labyrinth of crime that went all the way up to the US Dept. of Justice, and included a maze of politicians and officials in the National Security Council, the CIA, the FBI. She outlined how the theft of PROMIS software was used as a cover for international money laundering and other criminal activities by officials in the Reagan presidential administration. Seymour noted that in Dan Moldea #39;s 1986 book Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and The Mob, MCA is referred to as the Octopus, and she suspects that is where Casolaro obtained the name for the larger organization. Further, she uncovered that the Mafia had ordered the Dept. of Justice to shut down an FBI investigation. -------------------- In the latter half, Dan Smith, who has received inside information regarding UFOs and ETs from an intelligence officer, was joined by futurist Gary Bekkum to discuss this alleged secret knowledge. The intelligence officer was named as Ron Pandolfi, who some have referred to as the real life Fox Mulder. A UFO/ET "core story" espoused by members of the "Aviary" such as Rick ...From:DisclosureBubbleViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:37:25More inScience Technology

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Are We Close to A Skynet Takeover?
Experts at the prestigious University of Cambridge will conduct research into the "extinction-level risks" posed to humanity by artificially intelligent robots. The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk is dedicated to "ensuring that our own species has a long-term future" by studying the risks posed by AI, nanotechnology and biotechnology. "The scientists said that to dismiss concerns of a potential robot uprising would be "dangerous," reports the BBC. The project was co-founded by Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, Martin Rees, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology Astrophysics at Cambridge, and Jaan Tallinn, the co-founder of Skype. It also counts amongst its advisers Max Tegmark, Professor of Physics, MIT and George M Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. An article written by Tallinn and Price warns that artificially intelligent computers or robots could take over "the speed and direction of technological progress itself," and shape the environment of planet earth to their own ends while displaying about as much concern for humanity as we do for a bug on the windscreen. Far from being resigned to works as science fiction such as in the Terminator films, the threat posed by a potential future "rise of the robots" has never been closer to reality. The study echoes the predictions of respected author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, renowned for his deadly accurate technological forecasts. http://www.infowars.com ORDER THIS ...From:TheAlexJonesChannelViews:1329 61ratingsTime:09:51More inScience Technology

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Disruptive Innovation and the Social Screen Advantage | Merging Media 2012
Disruptive Innovation and the Social Screen Advantage Exploring the success of Social TV today and how the adoption of new technologies continues to drive Television audience viewing habits and help build fan bases. Featuring the interactive TV newcomer Google TV, with insights into Connected TV and key second screen platforms that have captured the attention of an increasingly sophisticated Social TV audience today. Moderated by Jonathan Carrigan (Director Product Development at CBC/Radio-Canada) Panel: Jeremy Butteriss, (Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google Canada), Tawny Schlieski, (Futurist, Intel Labs), Brent Friedman (Founder/Partner, Electric Farm Entertainment), John Heinsen (CEO, Bunnygraph Entertainment).From:MergingMediaBCViews:0 0ratingsTime:58:57More inEntertainment

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PROUT #39;s Personal and Social Leadership
Futurist Prof. Sohail Inayatullah on PROUT #39;s concept of leadership -- internal and external. Recorded in Mooloolaba, Australia, 6 February, 2012. Produced by http://www.PROUTGlobe.orgFrom:trondoverlandViews:1 0ratingsTime:02:04More inNonprofits Activism

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Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general.

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Most modern humans are now attempting to cram more data into their heads in a single day than most of our ancestors did during entire lifetimes. In the 15 minutes it takes you to read this essay, the amount of information being generated by the human race will have expanded by about 20 petabytes, equivalent to about three times the amount of information currently in the Library of Congress, or about one-half of all written works from the beginning of recorded history in all languages. The worlds total data is doubling every two years.

Its not just what humanity is collectively generating thats overwhelming us; its what we, as individuals, attempt to digest daily. Every year we try to cram in, read, understand, and remember at least 5 percent more words than the year before. That means that instead of coping with a mere 100,000 words per day five years ago, we are now coping with more than 130,000--plus billions of compounding bits. Even what used to be the calming act of looking at the stars has been transformed: Within weeks of its launch, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey satellite collected more astronomical data than had all of mankind in its entire history.

From 'I Think I'm Sure' to 'I Know and Can Prove It'

We are shifting from a world in which we know, because we sampled a little and extrapolated a lot, into a world in which we know--where all data is collected, analyzed, and stored. We are all becoming citizens of the new realm of truly Big Data.

As we transition from sampling and polling to having a complete census of enormous data sets, we also transition from I think Im sure to I know it, and I can prove it. For instance, Google has created a census of every word published since 1500. We now know exactly who used more than 500 billion words, in more than five million books. And we can trace the specific use, frequency, and context of every one of those words and phrases. Thus we know the words love and war battled for frequency of usage from 1800 through 1914. (Love usually triumphed.) Since 1914, war has been the overwhelming victor. And the word sex? For better or worse, its been steadily gaining on the ever-declining use of love.

All of this is taking place within a massive and explosive evolution in how we use, store, and transmit information. In 1986, only 6 percent of the worlds data was digital, and wwwwas still three years away. There was no Google. Today, more than 99 percent of the worlds written words, images, music, and data are transmitted in the two-letter Boolean alphabet of 1s and 0s. Other than perhaps the agricultural revolution of 10,000 years ago, no event in human history has ever generated as much wealth and changed as many lives as this transition into a digital world.

The Electronic Tattoo You Can't Erase

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November 27, 2012, 8:50 AM PST

Takeaway: By the 2030s or 2040s, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions micro-computers embedded non-invasively in the brain that will act as an interface to a cloud of storage and processing power.

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil remains coolly confident in his prediction that by the 2030s, blood-cell sized computers will integrate with the human brain and dramatically expand its cognitive capacity well beyond the neocortexs paltry 300 million or so pattern recognizers.

And why shouldnt Kurzweil be confident? By his count, hes been right about 86 percent of the time, and thats not counting near-misses like predicting wed all be riding in self-driving cars by now.

Advancing technologys capacity to mimic, and eventually deeply integrate with, the human brain was one of the central topics of a public Q&A Kurzweil participated in last night in Louisville, KY as part of a promotional tour for his new book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. The new book draws on his deep knowledge of language and cognitive hierarchy to predict how computers will continue to expand humans ability to store and relate information in what we call intelligence.

The talk, which was taped for national airing, ranged widely, as does Kurzweils influence on technology and almost any discussion of what the world will look like 30 years from now. For the most part, Kurzweil steered clear of the headline-grabbing philosophical and ethical implications of his predictions, most notably that supercomputing will create a macro cyber-intelligence in which human consciousness will live forever. (As I imagine many of you will note in the comments section, thats a gross oversimplification of Kurzweils fascinating work.) Instead, Kurzweil focused on the fundamentals of the science behind How to Create a Mind, and how current technology already has greatly augmented those lame 300 million recognizers nature gave us.

Kurzweil said his latest predictions are built around his theory of Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind (PRTM), which describes our cognitive processes as a series of nested activities. In How to Create a Mind, he cites the example of how most people struggle to recite the alphabet backward, although the components of the information are clearly stored in the neocortex. But the pattern or more precisely, the potentially thousands of patterns in which the neocortex connects those data are the essence of intelligence, human or artificial.

This theory is based on Kurzweils own ground-breaking work on optical character and speech recognition software, and a similar theory was employed in large part to program Watson, the supercomputer that recently whooped up on human Jeopardy! champions. Kurzweil defends the Watson project from criticism that the supercomputer was simply running statistical analysis against specialized programming. Watson actually read 200 million Wikipedia pages to build its knowledge store, and the statistical analysis it ran was patterned after the human brains own hierarchical models of data relationships (Kurzweil dubbed them Hierarchical Hidden Markup Models in his speech recognition work). Kurzweil was quick to note that Watson is not as good as an average human when it comes to understanding a single Wikipedia page; its the ability to store massive quantities of information and quickly relate it that makes the computer so smart. He suggested that soon, technology derived from the Watson project will be able to aid physicians in diagnosing illnesses, since doctors dont have enough time or pattern recognizers to read and immediately recall tens of millions of pages of medical research.

And hes confident that his Law of Accelerating Returns will continue to hold true for computational power, even though Intel now predicts Moores Law will run its course by 2022 or so. (If you havent read this excellent TechRepublic post by Peter Cochrane, do so now.) Kurzweil describes Intels 3D structure for transistors as the sixth paradigm of Accelerating Returns (with Moore coming in at number five) that will continue to drive exponential growth in computing power and get us to that technological singularity everyone is so excited (or freaked out) about.

By the 2030s or 2040s, he envisions micro-computers embedded non-invasively in the brain that will act as an interface to a cloud of storage and processing power it will be like having five or 10 neocortexes on demand. And, given that the adult brain often has to overwrite redundant instances of data to learn new things, that wont be so different than our use of external computers to store and process data today. Fondling his own smartphone throughout the hour-long presentation, he repeatedly described such devices as brain extenders.

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Black Ops 2 Prestige 2
Date of Prestige - 11/21/12 Kills - 3629 Score - 499870 Wins - 88 K/D - 1.03 W/L - 0.64 Score Per Minute - 339 Hope you all enjoyed I will be uploading many more of these! I will be attempting to show you guys all the Black ops 2 Achievements! No Man Left Behind (20 points) - Rescue Woods. Gathering Storm (20 points) - Investigate the jungle facility. Shifting Sands (20 points) - Gather intel on Raul Menendez from Mullah Rahmaan. Driven by Rage (20 points) - Take down Menendez and his operation. Waterlogged (20 points) - Gather information on Raul Menendez #39; suspected terrorist plot. What Happens in Colossus... (20 points) - Find the Karma weapon. False Profit (20 points) - Capture Manuel Noriega and bring him to justice. Deep Cover (20 points) - Capture Menendez. Sinking Star (20 points) - Interrogate Menendez. Late for the Prom (20 points) - Escort the president to the secure location in downtown LA. Death from Above (50 points) - Stop Menendez once and for all. Old Fashioned (50 points) - Complete "Pyrrhic Victory", "Old Wounds", "Time And Fate", and "Suffer With Me" in Veteran. Futurist (50 points) - Complete all future levels in veteran. Giant Accomplishment (50 points) - Complete all challenges in Black Ops II. Mission Complete (10 points) - Complete all challenges in a level. Just Gettin #39; Started (10 points) - Complete 1 challenge in any level. Singapore Sling (15 points) - Successfully neutralize the SDC freighter at Keppel Terminal. Desert Storm (15 points ...From:WantedConstantViews:9 2ratingsTime:00:38More inEntertainment

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