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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

The next year, Viktor Yanukovych, the corrupt thug whose attempt to steal a presidential election sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004, was voted into power in a legitimate election. New technologies like artificial intelligence and synthetic biology are leading to not only life-saving cures, but potential solutions to climate change.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

A good friend and I were eating lunch, and talking about concerns that there wouldn't be any good or interesting jobs for our kids, because of the usual technology advances - robotics, automation, machine learning and other factors. Now, of course, there is a new buzz phrase - machine learning and/or AI, especially focused on ChatGPT.

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Are You Future-Proof? Preparing for Technological Disruptions

Phil McKinney

Technology is profoundly changing how we work and live, from automated manufacturing to artificial intelligence. They eventually declared bankruptcy in 2010 after losing over $900 million in revenue between 2000 and 2004 because of the shift in consumer tastes away from physical media.

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The Geek who Changed the World

Destination Innovation

He also works as a senior research scientist at LCS which has now become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. He has served as director of the consortium since then.

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Innovation – Is it all just a game of Jeopardy?

Wazoku

In 2004, researchers chose Jeopardy! Watson was created as a question answering (QA) computing system that IBM built to apply advanced natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning technologies to the field of open domain question answering.

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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

hackerearth

Simon , an influential twentieth-century social scientist, published a book titled “The Sciences of the Artificial” in 1969. In 2004, the “innovation and design” firm IDEO worked with Shimano, a Japanese bicycle components manufacturer, to understand why 90% of adults in the United States did not ride bicycles.

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3 Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

Qmarkets

In 2017 it was blocked for a few hours by the OOCL Japan, in 2006 it was blocked by the Okal King Dor for 8 hours, and before that in 2004 the Tropic Brilliance became lodged for 3 whole days. Fortunately, large businesses have found a much more efficient way to manage a large number of ideas in the form of idea management software.