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Artificial creativity (A.C.): Can a computer be creative? It’s scarily close

Idea to Value

In 2013, I wrote a breakthrough article on the nascent examples of computers beginning to generate ideas in a way similar to human creativity. Let’s me outline the technological advances which will lead to the breakthroughs, and then see my predictions of jobs robots will soon steal from creative people: 1. So what comes next?

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

by January, 2013 when Lampert appoints himself CEO. As malls came along, Sears was again a pioneer “anchoring” many malls and obtaining lower cost space due to the company’s ability to draw in customers for other retailers. Media is under change, and that change is being created by technology. In just under 2.5

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The 5 Stocks You Should Buy This Week

Adam Hartung

Black Friday sales in traditional retail stores declined in 2013, 2014 and 2015 – down 10.4% Due to this trend, mega-retailer Wal-Mart announced last week it is closing 269 stores. Nobody comes close to matching the user base size, or marketing/advertising opportunities Facebook offers. Facebook is down 13.5% Rented a DVD?

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 3

Boxes and Arrows

Or imagine if a customer support agent was trying to help users through the website’s forgot password flow, unaware that the customer was seeing a different version due to an A/B test that your team was running. To avoid these types of problems, I recommend a three-step communication program: Pre-test notification.

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New Energy for Climate Innovation

Outside Innovation

The goal of the first coalition is for national and state governments to double their investments in clean energy R&D; the second one is a coalition of 28 billionaires who have agreed to invest in commercial companies whose technologies will deliver near zero emission energy breakthroughs. Joe Romm, who once ran the US Dept.