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Checklist for science and technology advances

Ray Kurzweil

Executives anxious about bridging the gap between business as usual and exponential advances in science and technology have been given a checklist for their attention. These are the technologies recommended by the experts: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Medicine and Human-Machine Interfaces, Networks & Computing Systems, and Energy & Environmental Systems.

These [...]

CEO angst revealed

Chief Executive Magazine asked a cross-section of of CEOs to write about their outlook for the coming year. Editor J.P. Donlon said he was struck by their twin concerns about rising government spending and increasing taxes and regulations, as well as the effect both would have on what they regard as a fragile economic recovery.

Donlon observed, [...]

Peter Drucker foresaw today’s economic turmoil

Peter Drucker, the professor, author and consultant who revolutionized the theory of management, was amazingly prescient, having the ability to foresee the future. He has been dead for more than three years, but his ideas live on.

Peter Drucker

He was spot-on in describing what is now being experienced in the economy, and slotted it into historical [...]

From Harvard a new buzzword disruptive innovation

A new slogan may be ascending to an important position in the lexicon of health care. It is ?disruptive innovations?, a term used persuasively by the author of a new book, The Innovator?s Prescription, published by McGraw-Hill.

The rise of technologies that introduce the ability to diagnose precisely the root causes of disease and create targeted [...]