This report examines how digital technologies are impacting human cognition, neurology and behaviour. It is based on interviews with four globally recognised experts spanning the fields of neuroscience and behavioural psychology.
Intimate technology - the battle for our body and behaviourKarlos Svoboda
This essay aims to spark a wave of public and political debate about a series of new products already showered out over you, the volume of which will continue to increase during the coming years. This essay takes a serious look at the trend that technology is rapidly nesting itself in between us, very close to us and even within us, increasingly coming to know us and even receiving human traits. In short, we have become human-machine mixtures, cyborgs.
Some futurists and artificial intelligence experts envision credible scenarios in which synthetic brains will, within this century, extend the functionality of our own brains to the point where they will rival and then surpass the power of an or-ganic human brain. At the same time, humans seem to have no limitations when it comes to finding ways to attack the computerized devices that others have invent-ed. Attackers have successfully compromised computers, mobile phones, ATMs, telephone networks, and even networked power grids. If neural devices fulfill the promise of treatment, and enhance our quality of lives and functionality—which appears likely, given the preliminary clinical success demonstrated from neuropros-thetics— their use and adoption will likely grow in the future. When this happens, inevitably, a wide variety of legal, security, and public policy concerns will follow. We will begin this article with an overview of brain implants and neural devic-es and their likely uses in the future. We will then discuss the legal issues that will arise from the intersection among neural devices, information security, cybercrime, and the law.
Combining the technology of both computer science and electronics, Brian Microchips connect human brains with the technology with the help of Microchips.
Intimate technology - the battle for our body and behaviourKarlos Svoboda
This essay aims to spark a wave of public and political debate about a series of new products already showered out over you, the volume of which will continue to increase during the coming years. This essay takes a serious look at the trend that technology is rapidly nesting itself in between us, very close to us and even within us, increasingly coming to know us and even receiving human traits. In short, we have become human-machine mixtures, cyborgs.
Some futurists and artificial intelligence experts envision credible scenarios in which synthetic brains will, within this century, extend the functionality of our own brains to the point where they will rival and then surpass the power of an or-ganic human brain. At the same time, humans seem to have no limitations when it comes to finding ways to attack the computerized devices that others have invent-ed. Attackers have successfully compromised computers, mobile phones, ATMs, telephone networks, and even networked power grids. If neural devices fulfill the promise of treatment, and enhance our quality of lives and functionality—which appears likely, given the preliminary clinical success demonstrated from neuropros-thetics— their use and adoption will likely grow in the future. When this happens, inevitably, a wide variety of legal, security, and public policy concerns will follow. We will begin this article with an overview of brain implants and neural devic-es and their likely uses in the future. We will then discuss the legal issues that will arise from the intersection among neural devices, information security, cybercrime, and the law.
Combining the technology of both computer science and electronics, Brian Microchips connect human brains with the technology with the help of Microchips.
Knowledge Will Propel Machine Understanding of Big DataAmit Sheth
Preview video: https://youtu.be/4e0dtV7CTWM
CCKS Keynote, August 2017: http://www.ccks2017.com/?page_id=358
SEAS Summer School, July 2017
https://sites.google.com/view/seasschool2017/talks
Related paper: http://knoesis.org/node/2835
CCKS Conf had over 500 attendees- some photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5CdlfAX1uYwvgqsQ2
By current estimates, we’re about a decade away from having exascale computing capability. That’s a pretty long time – especially in our world of HPC. What will the world be like in 2022? What form will exascale computing take when it’s real? These are difficult questions to answer. Never before has the HPC community focused so intensely on a machine so far beyond its grasp. Nevertheless, stalwart cadres around the globe are drafting strategies, plans, and roadmaps to get from here to exascale. So, what about the rest of us? Are there useful things we could do while waiting - or instead of waiting - for exascale? Perhaps there are. In this talk we’ll take a look at a few possibilities, including:
• Education
• eScience
• Big Data
• Broad HPC Deployment
• Computing in Industry
• Public Engagement
• Infrastructure Development and Build Out
• Success Metrics
Exascale computing may be a decade away, but there’s a lot to accomplish to be ready to exploit it. We’ll explore a few options here. We make no claim that these constitute the right agenda for the coming decade – nor do we suggest that we’ve given an exhaustive to-do list. Our intention is rather to open the conversation about what we should do while “waiting” for exascale.
Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing – three intertwined strands of ...Amit Sheth
Keynote at Web Intelligence 2017: http://webintelligence2017.com/program/keynotes/
Video: https://youtu.be/EIbhcqakgvA Paper: http://knoesis.org/node/2698
Abstract: While Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and others engage in OpenAI discussions of whether or not AI, robots, and machines will replace humans, proponents of human-centric computing continue to extend work in which humans and machine partner in contextualized and personalized processing of multimodal data to derive actionable information.
In this talk, we discuss how maturing towards the emerging paradigms of semantic computing (SC), cognitive computing (CC), and perceptual computing (PC) provides a continuum through which to exploit the ever-increasing and growing diversity of data that could enhance people’s daily lives. SC and CC sift through raw data to personalize it according to context and individual users, creating abstractions that move the data closer to what humans can readily understand and apply in decision-making. PC, which interacts with the surrounding environment to collect data that is relevant and useful in understanding the outside world, is characterized by interpretative and exploratory activities that are supported by the use of prior/background knowledge. Using the examples of personalized digital health and a smart city, we will demonstrate how the trio of these computing paradigms form complementary capabilities that will enable the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. For background: http://bit.ly/PCSComputing
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing at Wright State (Kno.e.sis)
Center overview: http://bit.ly/coe-k
Invitation: http://bit.ly/COE-invite
Why code robots, avatars and software agents with compassion? In one word: Neuroplasticity. Repeated exposure to objects, relations,emotions changes who we are. Recent Discoveries in Neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, Psychoneuroimmunology, etc. show biological benefits from compassion - witnessing it, giving it or receiving. Designing technologies without considering how they change us, without designing to display or encourage compassionate we are in some sense encouraging our psychopathic tendencies through our daily interactions. Slides contain some disturbing graphics.
see paper: Engineering Kindness 2015; email contact cindymason@media.mit.edu
Kim Solez Technology, the Future of Medicine, and the Bridge between Transpla...Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "Technology, the Future of Medicine, and the Bridge between Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine" at the Alberta Interprofessional Conference 2015 on Sunday March 22nd, 2015 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2015, JustMachines, Inc.
Knowledge Will Propel Machine Understanding of Big DataAmit Sheth
Preview video: https://youtu.be/4e0dtV7CTWM
CCKS Keynote, August 2017: http://www.ccks2017.com/?page_id=358
SEAS Summer School, July 2017
https://sites.google.com/view/seasschool2017/talks
Related paper: http://knoesis.org/node/2835
CCKS Conf had over 500 attendees- some photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5CdlfAX1uYwvgqsQ2
By current estimates, we’re about a decade away from having exascale computing capability. That’s a pretty long time – especially in our world of HPC. What will the world be like in 2022? What form will exascale computing take when it’s real? These are difficult questions to answer. Never before has the HPC community focused so intensely on a machine so far beyond its grasp. Nevertheless, stalwart cadres around the globe are drafting strategies, plans, and roadmaps to get from here to exascale. So, what about the rest of us? Are there useful things we could do while waiting - or instead of waiting - for exascale? Perhaps there are. In this talk we’ll take a look at a few possibilities, including:
• Education
• eScience
• Big Data
• Broad HPC Deployment
• Computing in Industry
• Public Engagement
• Infrastructure Development and Build Out
• Success Metrics
Exascale computing may be a decade away, but there’s a lot to accomplish to be ready to exploit it. We’ll explore a few options here. We make no claim that these constitute the right agenda for the coming decade – nor do we suggest that we’ve given an exhaustive to-do list. Our intention is rather to open the conversation about what we should do while “waiting” for exascale.
Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing – three intertwined strands of ...Amit Sheth
Keynote at Web Intelligence 2017: http://webintelligence2017.com/program/keynotes/
Video: https://youtu.be/EIbhcqakgvA Paper: http://knoesis.org/node/2698
Abstract: While Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and others engage in OpenAI discussions of whether or not AI, robots, and machines will replace humans, proponents of human-centric computing continue to extend work in which humans and machine partner in contextualized and personalized processing of multimodal data to derive actionable information.
In this talk, we discuss how maturing towards the emerging paradigms of semantic computing (SC), cognitive computing (CC), and perceptual computing (PC) provides a continuum through which to exploit the ever-increasing and growing diversity of data that could enhance people’s daily lives. SC and CC sift through raw data to personalize it according to context and individual users, creating abstractions that move the data closer to what humans can readily understand and apply in decision-making. PC, which interacts with the surrounding environment to collect data that is relevant and useful in understanding the outside world, is characterized by interpretative and exploratory activities that are supported by the use of prior/background knowledge. Using the examples of personalized digital health and a smart city, we will demonstrate how the trio of these computing paradigms form complementary capabilities that will enable the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. For background: http://bit.ly/PCSComputing
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing at Wright State (Kno.e.sis)
Center overview: http://bit.ly/coe-k
Invitation: http://bit.ly/COE-invite
Why code robots, avatars and software agents with compassion? In one word: Neuroplasticity. Repeated exposure to objects, relations,emotions changes who we are. Recent Discoveries in Neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, Psychoneuroimmunology, etc. show biological benefits from compassion - witnessing it, giving it or receiving. Designing technologies without considering how they change us, without designing to display or encourage compassionate we are in some sense encouraging our psychopathic tendencies through our daily interactions. Slides contain some disturbing graphics.
see paper: Engineering Kindness 2015; email contact cindymason@media.mit.edu
Kim Solez Technology, the Future of Medicine, and the Bridge between Transpla...Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "Technology, the Future of Medicine, and the Bridge between Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine" at the Alberta Interprofessional Conference 2015 on Sunday March 22nd, 2015 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2015, JustMachines, Inc.
Trends allow training programs to stay relevant. Learn what L&D experts think of some of the most prominent trends to shape the industry in the last 5 years.
The SlideShare Zeitgeist 2008 - The World's Presentation trends for 2008Amit Ranjan
As the year draws to a close, we decided to take a deep look inside slideshare and come up with the ruling trends of 2008. We are calling this the SlideShare Zeitgeist 2008…this is a collection of facts & trivia that we hope you will find interesting.
Aquí tenéis la presentación que Fernando Tellado utilizó para explicar cómo crear webs ultrarrápidas para móviles con Google AMP y WordPress en nuestro segundo webinar sobre este CMS organizado por SiteGround (www.SiteGround.es) en colaboración con Fernando Tellado, experto en WordPress (www.ayudawp.com).
Además, contamos con David Navia, Webmaster en www.Eslang.es, como invitado especial que compartió su opinión sobre Google AMP y su relación con WordPress.
En nuestro canal de YouTube tenéis el vídeo del webinar youtu.be/43aD8Sv7Xew
Podéis encontrar más info en Twitter con el hashtag #SGwebinarAMP y en nuestro blog www.siteground.es/blog/webinars-googleamp-wordpress/
No os perdáis el próximo webinar el mes que viene. Os daremos más detalles en breve.
How To Kick Ass Online Webinar - Part 3 Digital Leadership Website Sales Funn...Doyle Buehler
How to connect and re-align your website across your entire online platform.
What you actually need for a working, qualifying, sales and leads funnel.
Creating influence beyond your immediate reach through focussed advertising and analytics.
The ultimate goal is that you will gain incredible clarity of what you need to be doing online to maximise your ATM, and how to put all of your digital ecosystem pieces together, to work FOR you.
Want to build and maintain a compelling competitive online presence using your ATM? Based upon Doyle Buehler's award winning digital strategy framework, this KPI series will show you how to construct a comprehensive, integrated digital ecosystem that has all your online assets working together (strategy, social media, website, sales funnel, branding, content, advertising, SEO etc)
Specifically designed to complement the 5P framework, you will get a step-by-step understanding over 3 webinars that kicks your platform into high gear, with the tools and knowledge to really make things happen online for your business...
Evolution and Trauma in Corporate e-Learning @ ICERI 2014 SevilleRosario Cação
Stories of companies that are dealing with bad experiences in their e-learning projects.
How they have been recovering from those traumas, and how those traumas are blocking their initiatives in e-learning.
What is it about the human brain that makes us smarter than other animals.pdfRazaAliKhan10
The human brain is one of the most vital organs in our bodies. Humans grew smarter than other animals as a result of this brain. It is critical to understand the answer to this question, what is it about the human brain that makes us smarter than other animals? The human heart is one of the most vital organs in the body, as it is responsible for keeping us alive. It’s a four-chambered muscular organ. The heart is approximately the size of a clenched hand. The human heart is one of the most powerful and hardest-working muscles in the body, and it functions throughout a person’s life.
The human brain is one of the most vital organs in our bodies. Humans grew smarter than other animals as a result of this brain. It is critical to understand the answer to this question, what is it about the human brain that makes us smarter than other animals? The human heart is one of the most vital organs in the body, as it is responsible for keeping us alive. It’s a four-chambered muscular organ. The heart is approximately the size of a clenched hand. The human heart is one of the most powerful and hardest-working muscles in the body, and it functions throughout a person’s life.
However, this is only a small part of a more complex picture. In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, using evidence from different species and multiple neuroscientific disciplines, we show that there isn’t just one type of information processing in the brain. How information is processed also differs between humans and other primates, which may explain why our species’ cognitive abilities are so superior.
We borrowed concepts from what’s known as the mathematical framework of information theory – the study of measuring, storing and communicating digital information which is crucial to technology such as the internet and artificial intelligence – to track how the brain processes information. We found that different brain regions in fact use different strategies to interact with each other.
Some brain regions exchange information with others in a very stereotypical way, using input and output. This ensures that signals get across in a reproducible and dependable manner. This is the case for areas that are specialised for sensory and motor functions (such as processing sound, visual and movement information).
Take the eyes, for example, which send signals to the back of the brain for processing. The majority of information that is sent is duplicate, being provided by each eye. Half of this information, in other words, is not needed. So we call this type of input-output information processing “redundant”.
But the redundancy provides robustness and reliability – it is what enables us to still see with only one eye. This capability is essential for survival. In fact, it is so crucial that the connections between these brain regions are anatomically hard-wired in the brain, a bit like a telephone landline.
However, not all information provided by the eyes is redundant. Combining informa
Does the Internet Make You DumberThe cognitive effects are measurab.docxjacksnathalie
Does the Internet Make You Dumber?The cognitive effects are measurable: We're turning into shallow thinkers, says Nicholas Carr.
By NICHOLAS CARR- the wall street journal
Updated June 5, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET
The Roman philosopher Seneca may have put it best 2,000 years ago: "To be everywhere is to be nowhere." Today, the Internet grants us easy access to unprecedented amounts of information. But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the Net, with its constant distractions and interruptions, is also turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers. (1)
The picture emerging from the research is deeply troubling, at least to anyone who values the depth, rather than just the velocity, of human thought. People who read text studded with links, the studies show, comprehend less than those who read traditional linear text. People who watch busy multimedia presentations remember less than those who take in information in a more sedate and focused manner. People who are continually distracted by emails, alerts and other messages understand less than those who are able to concentrate. And people who juggle many tasks are less creative and less productive than those who do one thing at a time. (2)
The common thread in these disabilities is the division of attention. The richness of our thoughts, our memories and even our personalities hinges on our ability to focus the mind and sustain concentration. Only when we pay deep attention to a new piece of information are we able to associate it "meaningfully and systematically with knowledge already well established in memory," writes the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel. Such associations are essential to mastering complex concepts. (3)
When we're constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be online, our brains are unable to forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give depth and distinctiveness to our thinking. We become mere signal-processing units, quickly shepherding disjointed bits of information into and then out of short-term memory. (4)
In an article published in Science last year, Patricia Greenfield, a leading developmental psychologist, reviewed dozens of studies on how different media technologies influence our cognitive abilities. Some of the studies indicated that certain computer tasks, like playing video games, can enhance "visual literacy skills," increasing the speed at which people can shift their focus among icons and other images on screens. Other studies, however, found that such rapid shifts in focus, even if performed adeptly, result in less rigorous and "more automatic" thinking. (5)
In one experiment conducted at Cornell University, for example, half a class of students was allowed to use Internet-connected laptops during a lecture, while the other had to keep their computers shut. Those who browsed the Web performed much worse on a subsequent test of how well they retained the lecture's content. While it's hardly surprising th ...
This presentation lists some brain-computer interface technologies that exist today and that could be attainable in future. At the end, philosophical comments about this kind of technology and transhumanism are purposed, in order to reveal the key difference between a humain brain and artificial intelligence.
Studies, research papers, & other interesting tid bitsBrian Russell
Over the past 2 years I've done a considerable amount of research in the realms of behavioral, cognitive, and social, psychology, as well as product psychology and the psychology of music, and cognitive neuroscience. Many of the studies and research papers I've aggregated have profound business and consumer implications.
Brain computer interaction and medical access to the brainKarlos Svoboda
This paper discusses current clinical applications and possible future uses of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) as a means for communication, motor control and entertainment. After giving a brief account of the various approaches to direct brain-computer interaction, the paper will address individual, social and ethical implications of BCI technology to extract signals from the brain.
These include reflections on medical and psychosocial benefits and risks, user control, informed consent, autonomy and privacy as well as ethical and social issues implicated in putative future developments with focus on human self-understanding and the idea of man. BCI use which involves direct interrelation and mutual interdependence between human brains and technical
devices raises anthropological questions concerning self-perception and the technicalization of the human body.
ICCA 2063 - Exploring the Next Fifty Years by Rohit Talwar 03/09/13Rohit Talwar
To help us explore what the next fifty years might hold, ICCA asked industry futurist, Rohit Talwar, to peer over the horizon and help us understand the science and technology developments that might shape our world and explore the implications for associations and their events.
Included topics - Future frontiers of science and technology; information technology, the internet and beyond; manufacturing, robotics, and new materials; and human enhancement
Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speechusmsystems
Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech for most people who are frozen and unable to speak, the signals for what they want to say hide in their brains. No one could interpret those signs directly. But three research groups have recently made progress in transforming data from electrodes placed on the brain into computer-generated speech. Using computational models called neural networks, they have, in some cases, reconstructed words and sentences that are understandable to human listeners.
Decades of economic growth and development along with better governance and nutrition-specific programmes had lifted hundreds of millions of people in Asia out of poverty, as well as starvation and malnutrition. However, due to the uneven development, while a large segment of Asian's population had changed their eating habits to over-nutrition diets and worrying about lifestyle diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart diseases, there are still some countries and regions suffering from lack of nutrition. For example, childhood malnutrition and stunting is still prevalent in South Asia, one Indian survey found that 21% of children suffer wasting, and a further 7.5% of children suffer it severely.
For more details, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sustainability/fixing-asias-food-system/white-paper/food-thought-eating-better?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
Digital platforms and services stimulate economic growth and development. Countries are looking to the “internet economy” to provide new market opportunities and help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as promoting economic growth and sustainable industralisation, a process often relying on an increase in online access rates and smartphone penetration.
For more details, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/technology-innovation/digital-platforms-and-services-development-opportunity-asean?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
The world’s top 100 asset owners (AOs) represent about US$19trn in assets under management. The largest, and potentially most influential, proportion is in Asia—more than a third of the total. Out of the top 20 largest funds, three out of the first five and nearly half of the total are in Asia.
For more insights, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sustainability/sustainable-and-actionable-study-asset-owner-priorities-esg-investing-asia?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
Internet connectivity has proven to be one of the most profound enablers of social change and economic growth of our time. Beginning with fixed narrowband internet connections and moving through successive generations of increasingly pervasive and powerful networks, connectivity has come to underpin our working and personal lives, empowering businesses to operate more efficiently and with wider reach. In turn, connectivity has sparked and fuelled countless new industries, products and services that are coming to define our modern age. Connectivity has proven to be a vital ingredient for business success.
This report examines the burden of lung cancer in Latin America and how well countries in the region are addressing the challenge. Its particular focus is on 12 countries in Central and South America, chosen for various factors including size and level of economic development: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
In the cyber world, many are attacked but not all are victims. Some organisations emerge stronger. The most cyber-resilient organisations can respond to an incident, fix the vulnerabilities and apply the lessons to strategies for the future. A key element of their resilience is governance, a task that falls to the board of directors.
To learn more about the challenges of governing a cyber-resilient organisation, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) conducted a global survey, sponsored by Willis Towers Watson, of 452 large-company board members, C-suite executives and directors with responsibility for cyber-resilience.
Among the findings:
-In the past year, a third of the companies surveyed experienced a serious cyber-incident — one that disrupted operations, impaired financials and damaged reputations — and most placed high odds on another one in the next 12 months.
-Many companies lack confidence in their ability to source talent and develop a cyber-savvy workforce.
-Executives cite the size of the financial and reputational risk as the most important reason for board oversight.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will profoundly affect the ways in which businesses and governments engage with consumers and citizens alike. From advances in genetic diagnostics to industrial automation, these widespread changes will have significant economic, social and civic implications. As such, Intelligent Economies explores the transformative potential of AI on markets and societies across the developed and developing worlds.
This report, developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Microsoft, draws on a survey of more than 400 senior executives working in various industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing,
retail and the public sector. Survey respondents operate in eight markets: France, Germany, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, the UK and the US.
As businesses generate and manage vast amounts of data, companies have more opportunities to gather data, incorporate insights into business strategy and continuously expand access to data across the organisation. Doing so effectively—leveraging data for strategic objectives—is often easier said
than done, however. This report, Transforming data into action: the business outlook for data governance, explores the business contributions of data governance at organisations globally and across industries, the challenges faced in creating useful data governance policies and the opportunities to improve such programmes.
It wasn’t long ago that a work meeting meant gathering around a table to discuss an agenda. These days you may be using Slack, Hangouts or other digital collaboration platforms that blend messaging with video and allow real-time editing of
documents. Even with these tools, communication at work can still break down, potentially endangering careers, creating stressful work environments and slowing growth.
A survey from The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Lucidchart reveals some of the perceived causes and effects of these communication breakdowns. The survey, conducted from November 2017 to January 2018, included 403 senior executives, managers and junior staff at US companies divided equally and from companies with annual revenue of less than
US$10m, between US$10m and US$1bn and more than US$1bn. The survey research provides insights about what employees see as the biggest barriers to workplace communication, the causes of the barriers and their impact on work life. Complete survey results are included at the end of
this report.
Successful young entrepreneurial innovators have achieved something akin to rockstar status. They grace magazine covers and keynote global conferences, inspiring burgeoning
start-ups and Fortune 50 companies alike.
Collectively, young entrepreneurs are innovative by nature and their thinking is an important source of growth and job creation across the world. Today, with digital tools in hand, leaders are better positioned to expand their businesses across borders, seize niche opportunities and shape the global economic future.
Yet, most of today’s young entrepreneurs want more than status and a global corporate footprint. Their ideas of success arise from powerful social, political and economic convictions.
To find out what really makes young innovators tick, The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by FedEx, surveyed more than 500 of these young entrepreneurs around the globe about their motivations, ideals and priorities. Our survey respondents were between 25 and 50 years of age and all founders, owners or partners of firms with fewer than 500 employees. They are living in North America, Europe, Middle
East, India and Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. We surveyed them on matters of globalization, technology and social values.
We then compared their views with a similar survey of the general public in the same regions. Side by side, these surveys enabled us to differentiate the outlooks of today’s young and innovative entrepreneurs.
Our surveys identified four key mindsets that guide young entrepreneurs: leading with passion; thinking globally; embracing social responsibility; and banking on connectivity. This report explores the similarities and divergences of today’s young entrepreneurs and the general public. It seeks insights into the elements of the business environment that matter most to entrepreneurs, as well as their views on a variety of issues including free trade and social responsibility.
Education systems across the world are grappling with the challenge of preparing their students for the rapid changes they will experience during their lifetimes. To this end, schools have a critical role in equipping students with the requisite skills and
competencies that will be in demand, particularly as digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly transform businesses and influence economies. In this report, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) discusses the results of a study that explores how to best prepare primary and
secondary school (referred to in this report as “K-12”) students for the 21st century workplace (“the modern workplace”), where
a mix of hard and soft skills are crucial for success. The research, sponsored by Google for Education, draws on a survey of 1,200 educators in 16 countries.1 It looks at the
strategies most effective in developing 21st century skills and how technology can support such efforts.
Gone are the days when marketing chiefs focused solely on the classic 4Ps: Product, Price, Promotions and Place - they now must take an integrated approach to drive company goals.
Corporate and shareholder sentiment towards MA has rebounded since the dark days of 2008. Low borrowing costs have coaxed many new buyers, including acquisitive Chinese conglomerates, into the market. The prices of prized assets have risen accordingly. It remains a sellers market in technology-driven deals, particularly in the consumer-goods, financial services, and media and telecommunications sectors.
Corporate treasury is now a top target for cyber-criminals. Treasury’s trove of personal and corporate data, its authority to make payments and move large amounts of cash quickly, and its often complicated structure make it an appealing choice for discerning fraudsters.
Corporate treasury is now a top target for cyber-criminals. Treasury’s trove of personal and corporate data, its authority to make payments and move large amounts of cash quickly, and its often complicated structure make it an appealing choice for discerning fraudsters.
In today’s low-yield and regulated environment, many Asia-Pacific investors are more actively monitoring their portfolios with a willingness to increase turnover and shift asset allocations for higher returns.
Asia-Pacific institutional investors are struggling to balance long-term liabilities with the need to secure yield in a world where it is increasingly scarce. They are also in the world’s fastest-growing region that has no shortage of volatility. How are they achieving returns while managing risks?
How are institutional investors in North America adapting to increasingly complex risks? Are these risks driving investors to make portfolio changes based on short-term goals or are they making tactical moves to stay focused on long-term objectives?
Political risks and the search for yield are pushing some North American institutional investors toward more tactical decisions. Investors are focused on reallocating to equities and using alternative investments to mitigate risks.
How are EMEA investors responding to changing macroeconomic and regulatory environments, stakeholder objectives and pressures, and market conditions? Based on a survey of 200 institutional investors in the region, this report takes a detailed look.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
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2. As its scope, scale and influence
extends, the Internet is being
classified by some as an “intellectual
technology”, in the same category
as the printed page, the number, the
clock, the abacus and the typewriter.
These are all tools designed to
magnify our mental powers. But in
magnifying our powers, they also
shape how we think.
It is already accepted by
neuroscientists that the Internet
and digital technology will leave
some physical impression on our
neurological systems. All interaction
causes changes in the brain. Whilst
these changes are particularly
pronounced in childhood, the brain
Digital technologies are having a profound
impact on our neurological systems. They
have the potential to empower or enfeeble
our brains – the choice is ours.
continues to adapt throughout
adulthood, forming new neural
connections and pathways and
destroying old unused ones,
through a process known as
neuroplasticity. “Our brains change
as a function of what we do, what
we’re good at, what we master, and
what we don’t do,” says Michael
Merzenich, professor emeritus and
neuroscientist at the University of
California, San Francisco.
Optimists believe digital technology
could help improve cognitive health
and tackle neurological disease. In
the near future, all individuals will
be able to conduct self-assessments
of their cognitive health, predicts
Written by:
Alvaro Fernandez, chief executive
officer of Sharpbrains.com, a market
research firm that tracks the health
and wellness applications of brain
science. Mr Fernandez believes
such assessments, as well as brain-
training exercises using online tools,
will provide researchers with an
unprecedented amount of data that
can help identify commonalities
in brain and cognitive disorders.
Professor Merzenich believes that
if it is leveraged to achieve the
right ends, such digital technology,
“will lead to a new awakening”
in the diagnosis and treatment
of behavioural and neurological
disorders. As age-related
neurological diseases grow in step
3. with the ageing population globally,
technologies which help monitor and
re-shape brains will become useful
tools.
Online exercises are already
available to improve brain functions
including memory, attention
span and people skills. A 2011
report in the UK by Nominet, a
social technology funder, argued
that brain-training can improve
our ability to convert short-term
impressions and thoughts into
long-term knowledge. The findings
support a 2009 study which argued
that working memories can be
trained and improved through
online exercises. For just 30 minutes
a day, over a period of 19 days,
young adults completed a series
of computer-based brain-training
exercises. These included puzzle-
solving, memorizing to-do lists and
comparing and contrasting symbols
and shapes. In this particular study,
improvements in working memory
and fluid intelligence (the ability to
solve problems in new situations)
were recorded.
Even computer games, criticised by
many for their impact on children,
can improve spatial attention, mental
rotation, motor responses and visual
processing skills. This could have
beneficial applications in the real
world. A study conducted in 2007
found that surgeons who played
video games before performing
laparoscopic surgery (key-hole
surgery) made 37% fewer errors
than those that had not played.
The potential for video games to
influence our cognitive functions,
both negatively and positively, will
only increase as technology becomes
more immersive, realistic and
interactive.
Brain-training tasks can be also
intensified to deal with more
significant neurological dysfunctions.
According to Professor Merzenich,
brain-training can re-establish
the social and learning abilities
of children with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). His
company even has a trial, currently
underway in the US, of a training
programme that aims to correct
chronic schizophrenia.. Beginning
with simple questionnaires, brain-
training can initially help identify
neurological distortions in
individuals. Tailored exercises are
then designed to improve different
functions, to drive the brain in
corrective ways. Continual exercises
are also supposed to be able to help
repair degraded parts of the brain
and correct hormonal imbalances.
If this technology is used on young
children at high -risk of developing
chronic schizophrenia, Professor
Merzenich believes an “illness
that has plagued people from the
beginning of time can probably
be corrected by device-controlled
exercises.” An expansive library
of ‘apps’ is already on the market,
designed to help individuals
cope with a range of cognitive,
neurological and behavioural
disorders, including mood-tracking
apps designed to help people with
anxiety and depression by allowing
them to monitor, track and reference
their emotional experiences.
“Technology empowers you to
do things that are unimaginable
and scale them. It’s like inventing
neuropharmacology without having
to come up with the drug stores,”
says Professor Mezernich.
4. The story is not all rosy, however.
Some neuroscientists are worried
that digital technology and the
internet, while doubtless having
positive neurological impacts, can
also undermine critical mental
functions when used to excess.
China has already declared internet
addiction a clinical disorder and has
built more than 400 rehabilitation
camps for treating young people.
“Internet use disorder” has, since
May 2013, even been included
in the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders - the
Digital backlash
official US document for classifying
mental disorders - as a condition
“recommended for further study.”
Leading neuroscientists fear that
the time people spend engaged with
digital and web-based technologies,
is time not spent rehearsing physical
and social skills. As the brain is
plastic, it operates under a “use it or
lose it” principle. Susan Greenfield, a
British scientist and author of Mind
Change, is particularly concerned
by the “quantitative” shift in the
amount of time we spend on
screens. Young Americans spend
on average more than 53 hours per
week consuming entertainment
media. When the use of other
devices, such as mobile phones, is
taken into account, young people
spend on average nearly 11 hours
per day engaged with a screen .
Unlike television, the internet’s
presence is truly ubiquitous and
immersive. Professor Greenfield
argues the mind can be constantly
engaged by a variety of sources
5. from mobile phones to laptops and
iPads, all vying for our attention. An
environment in which people are
intensively staring at screens and
only using their hands and fingers
is unnatural, preventing the brain
from making an accurate model of
the real world and of the body. This
degree of physical inertia marks a,
“radical change in the way the brain
is engaging with the body … and
there will be substantial neurological
and medical consequences in
future years,” says Professor
Merzernich. The consequences
could be more severe for younger
people, particularly those growing
up using digital technologies from
an early age (a group referred to as
‘digital natives’ or the ‘millennials’).
Young brains are more susceptible
to their external environment and
this generation is spending the
longest amounts of time plugged in
to screens.
Concerned neuroscientists point
to studies that show outdoor
activity is essential to healthy
brain development. In a seminal
experiment in the 1940s, the
psychologist, Donald Hebb,
compared the problem-solving
capabilities of rats confined to
the laboratory with rats that
had been freed. Within a matter
of weeks the “free-range” rats
outperformed their counterparts in
captivity across all problem-solving
exercises . This concept, known as
“environmental enrichment” asserts
that exposure to new, challenging
environments can lead to positive
differences in the composition of
the brain including; increased brain
weight, increased neuron cell size
and the increased thickness of the
brain’s cortex.
A further area of concern is the
impact on concentration. The
internet and digital sphere is full
of applications that compete for
our attention. These distractions,
Nicholas Carr believes, make the
internet an “interruption system”.
Human brains are unable to process
the vast quantities and various
sources of information, degrading
the way that we learn and think. The
brain has three different types of
memory; short term, long-term and
‘working memory’, with the latter
converting new information into
long-term memories. This process
is slow and requires the careful
gestation of incoming information.
As Carr describes, “imagine filling
a bathtub with a thimble; that’s the
challenge involved in transferring
information from working memory
into long-term memory.”
Unlike a book, which provides one
continuous stream of information,
the internet offers the mind many
streams which can overfill the small
thimble, causing what is known as
“cognitive overload”. The internet
also delivers a particularly rich form
of media, known as “hypermedia”,
which is full of audio and visual
signals, including hypertext links,
images, sounds and moving pictures.
With these factors combined, minds
struggle to convert information into
long term memories.
6. Both the negative and positive
arguments are hard to prove
empirically. Brain-scanning
technology is not yet developed
enough to provide scientists with a
detailed enough picture of neural
activity. As Susan Greenfield notes,
“brain scans are like old Victorian
photographs that show static
buildings but exclude any people
or animals, which would have been
moving too fast for the exposure
time.”
Current experiments also lack the
sophistication to separate out cause
and effect. Many studies lump
together internet use with watching
TV and playing games, for instance.
“They fail to control for social and
educational factors that correlate
with media use, and they provide
only a single snapshot of evidence …
they are purely correlational,” says
Christian Jarrett, a neuroscientist
and author of the book “Great Myths
of the Brain”.
There is no single experiment that
can be conducted which will lay the
matter to rest. And given the brain’s
sensitivity to external conditions it
becomes nearly impossible to prove
a causal relationship. As Christian
Jarrett quips, “yes, the internet
will change your brain but so will
deciding on whether or not to have a
cup of tea.”
Don Tapscott, adjunct professor
of management at the Joseph L.
Rotman School of Management
at the University of Toronto and a
leading authority on innovation,
believes the headlines concerning
the young generation and digital
technology stem from ignorance
and fear. This is a unique time in
history, in which children are more
advanced than their parents in
the operation and design of digital
technologies, he argued, dismissing
claims that the Internet is breeding
an increasingly narcissistic youth
culture.
Neuroscientists can recognise
the great potential that digital
technology offers in the diagnosis
and treatment of brain disorders
and strengthening of cognitive
functions like spatial awareness and
memory. But at the same time, they
see the damage that excessive use
of screen-based digital technologies
can inflict. These technologies will
have a very uneven impact across
the human race, as Professor
Merzenich predicts: “In some ways
we’re driving the mind to new
heights, and in other ways we’re
carrying it into the dumpster.”
Everything in moderation
7. Is digital technology re-wiring your brain? was written by Tom Upchurch,
contributing author at The Economist Intelligence Unit. It examines how
digital technologies are impacting human cognition, neurology and behaviour.
The report is based upon interviews with four globally recognised experts,
spanning the fields of neuroscience and behavioural psychology. The Economist
Intelligence Unit would like to thank the following individuals for sharing their
insights and expertise in the production of this report:
Baroness Susan Greenfield, Senior Research Fellow, Lincoln College Oxford
Christian Jarrett, Author, Wired magazine, and Author, Great Myths of The
Brain
Michael M. Merzenich, Professor Emeritus Neuroscientist, University of
California & Chief Scientific Officer, BrainHQ
Don Tapscott, Adjunct Professor of Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of
Management, University of Toronto and Author of Grown Up Digital
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