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Accelerating change

Last weekend I attended the “Accelerating Change Conference” at Stanford, put on by the Accelerating Change Institute (ACI), a 501(c)3 with the sole purpose of facilitating—you guessed it—accelerating change. Accelerating change doesn’t just mean that things are changing faster, it means the rate of change itself is accelerating. The change rate is becoming exponential, and, according to some, we are ...

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Care-Giver Tech Slowly Evolves

Wired News: Care-Giver Tech Slowly Evolves As someone with very elderly in-laws, I’d estimate that this is going to be very singnficant. You really want remote monitoring. All I can say is that it’s got to be goof-proof. A significant part of this will probably be cancer patients. What do you think can be done for them by telemetry and ...

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IBM and cancer-focused system

Big Blue evidently has built a demonstration grid system focusing on breast cancer.

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Romania's got more than gymnasts

I think the so-called “outsourcing” flap is beginning to take the right perspective: it’s about the future of the global economy, not just economic recovery. Here’s an article saying that IT outsourcers are looking at Eastern European countries because “India’s getting more expensive.” Whaa?!

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