The ‘Victorian Internet‘, better known as the telegraph, had at the start of 1846 an experimental 40-mile line (64 kilometer) between Washington D.C. and Baltimore. By 1850, it had grown to 12,000 miles (19,200 kilometers). In 1858 the first transatlantic cable had entered service.
The first postcard was sent in 1871. By 1873, more than 72 million had been send and received.
In 1896, Thomas Edison projected the first motion pictures in a New York music hall. By 1910 the still nascient motion picture industry churned out 200 reels per week. And this despite the best efforts of Edison’s lawyers to stop infringing on his patents.
A global coding contest is coming up on March 31st, 2017. The Catalyst Coding Contest that gives software developers a chance to show their skills and get the attention of corporates. The contest will take place in locations in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, South Africa, and Spain.
If you are missing a location and want the Catalysts organize one in your city, let them know and contact them.
Is Design Thinking equivalent to incremental innovation? When you look at it, DT starts with a hypothesis of of mostly known products and services. Then you observe, empathize and from there we go on to make better world.
But how do we find the new trends? The trends before they are trends? By finding signals, peeking over to other industry and collecting more of those signals.
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NSFW - Humans Need Not Apply
Today's NSFW - internet lingo for Not Safe For Work - summarizes the book Humans need not apply for you short several minutes of video. With the advent of AI and all the exponential trends, jobs will be done by robots - but fear not: new jobs will be created.
