Tag: IT
The Fake Phenomenon
“Sincerity – if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” US comedian George Burns
Read the full article...Trade, automation and US decline
Job losses in US manufacturing can’t simply be put down to China or IT
Read the full article...Automation anxiety and the future of IT
Every new day finds a fresh, still more breathless report about how robots, Artificial Intelligence and IT generally are poised to take up to half of all jobs in the West.
Read the full article...Strategies in Lean IT: their relevance to the travel business
This White Paper by James Woudhuysen looks at strategies in ‘Lean IT’ and their relevance to the travel business.
Read the full article...Transport: breaking through the impasse
ESSAY: Six arguments for innovation in transport.
Read the full article...Innovative technologies in manufacturing
These short video presentations cover a range of innovations and new technologies within manufacturing, describing the opportunities for growth and development open to SMEs over the next 10 years. Sponsored by Epicor Software.
Read the full article...Communicating the romance of innovation
James Woudhuysen delivered the Opening Keynote II ‘Communicating the Romance of Innovation‘ at the European Communication Summit in Brussels 2014
Read the full article...IT’s not the future
The Second Machine Age sacrifices sense at the altar of technology
Read the full article...The future of higher education and IT
There was a time when universities and higher education led many other sectors of the economy in their research about and use of IT. How do we get that position back?
Read the full article...Behind the froth in IT and innovation
James goes ‘Behind the froth in IT and innovation’ at TEDx Sussex University taking on two contemporary notions of IT – it’s all great or it’s all bad news.
Read the full article...Back on track
Europe’s railways need to up their game in IT.
Read the full article...Airlines: It makes sense to share
A breakthrough new approach to outsourcing is now available to the airline industry which has the potential to transform performance in this sector, and also act as a leading example to other industries.
Read the full article...IT must address grey matters
Technology must be harnessed to ensure businesses get the best out of the UK’s ageing workforce
Read the full article...The government IT club wants you
Government IT may be changing but it still encroaches where it is not needed
Read the full article...New players on the IT stage
Recent moves by a Chinese PC maker and an Indian teleco highlight the global forces reshaping IT
Read the full article...Developing IT
For all the concern about the ‘digital divide’, there is little sense of the real difference IT could make to the developing world.
Read the full article...Let IT be a force for good
On 10 December, the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) opens its World Summit on the Information Society, in Geneva.
Read the full article...Rebranding America
Outside the land of the free, America’s IT suppliers are admired more than America’s political values. So why doesn’t the American establishment promote American IT more?
Read the full article...Digital Visions: Cult IT
Are the claims made for Digital Technology accurate? And if not, why is the arts world so anxious to embrace IT as the latest must-have fashion accessory?
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Details in this Sunday Times article are extraordinary but unsurprising: Seems the PUBLIC are seen as a problematic threat to be managed/manipulated. Surely CPS impartiality is compromised by this decision? Read on...
1.6GW total from wind and solar this morning, from a total of ~45GW installed capacity. We're keeping the lights on by burning trees and gas. Nukes and reliance upon interconnectors making up the difference. No chance we can hit Net Zero grid by 2030.
“Mother Nature is in charge, and so we must make sure we adjust”.
Ex-cop Democratic Party mayor, indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges, supported by Trump and critical of antisemitism, tells people to tighten their... throats.
What a mess! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/new-york-water-shortage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls