Author: Regional Economic Diversification Opportunities (Agency) Publisher: Regional Inn L Research ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 130
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The overall goal of this study is to develop technology and market forecasts for four industries perceived to be key growth sectors in the National Capital Region: software development, telecommunications, environment, and life sciences. Two main information sources were used to provide technology forecasts: a review of the most recent literature and a series of key informant interviews conducted with local experts and company personnel in each of the four sectors. Issues addressed in the interviews included anticipated trends in technology, how technological developments will affect products produced, anticipated growth and decline in various product categories, anticipated changes in customer demand and behaviour, major markets and their trends, industry characteristics, and implications of technology and market trends for human resource requirements and for the Region's industries. For each of the four sectors studied, the report reviews the industry in the Region and its broader context, presents the forecasts, and discusses market trends and other issues addressed in the interviews.
Author: Lee Artz Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791486338 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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When commercial media practices are insinuated into local cultures, existing cultural and media practices are often displaced and social inequalities are exacerbated—sometimes with the consent of consumers, but frequently confronting organized proponents. The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony provides case studies from five continents—from government-promoted telecommunications programs and technologies in Canada and Britain, MTV Asia's call-in request lines, and the pan-Latin ideology of a Mexican television variety show, to Islamic pop radio in Turkey, commercial radio in Africa, a "Millionaire" game show in India, and Hollywood's muted influence on Korean cinema, among others. Each case offers new insight into the particulars of an expanding corporate hegemony and together they invite the conversation on media globalization to consider the dynamics of class conflict and negotiation as an analytical perspective having prescriptive potential.
Author: National Intelligence Council Publisher: Cosimo Reports ISBN: 9781646794973 Category : Languages : en Pages : 158
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"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Author: National Research Council of Canada Publisher: Regional Innovation Office (National Capital Region), National Research Council of Canada ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 112
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Summarizes presentations made at a round table focusing on the information and telecommunications industry in the Ottawa region. Topics include: initiatives to identify and remove barriers to growth of the region as a high technology centre; customers in the 21st century; telecommunications infrastructure; challenges for the high technology sector; software for 21st century demands; alternative telecommunications technologies; microchip and semiconductor fabrication and design; the Internet; changes in global telecommunications; research directions for the telecommunications industry; the role of fibre optics in 21st century telecommunications systems; regulatory issues and barriers to innovation; and human resource issues for the telecommunications and computing industry.
Author: Klaus Schwab Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 1524758876 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 194
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World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 148
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For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.
Author: Linda D. Hall Publisher: Gale Cengage ISBN: 9780787697037 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 1362
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Each updated edition of this detailed resource identifies nearly 35,000 live, print and electronic sources of information listed under more than 1,100 alphabetically arranged subjects -- industries and business concepts and practices. Edited by business information expert James Woy.
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