Today, I’ll be talking on an area that has been influencing our lives for centuries. Technologies including social networks are once again changing industries, business models and lifestyles. How? What if I did say that social networks are not just used for communicating with people? Also, what would anyone have to say for the potential of the apps world, cloud computing, search, 3D printing, gestural technologies and so on?
But first, let me start off with 2 videos and an article that shows how technology has been influencing our lives right since the Paleolithic Stone Age Period.
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It’s Time to Embrace the Knowledge Revolution – Mindshare – Universal MindRevolutions don’t spring up every day, unless your talking about the Middle East and North Africa these days. Political revolutions aside… -
Also, coopetitive and innovative approach took over from just the customer-centric approach 20 to 30 years ago. IBM, P&G were just 2 of the early adopters of the coopetitive and innovative approach that has now been furthered by Amazon, Apple, Samsung, FB and so on. In addition, there are also the low-cost innovations or blue ocean strategies that are coming out from countries like China, India, Brazil and so on. The globality video below shows such strategies and innovations. Globality or glocalisation or semi-globalisation is the stage after globalisation where anyone and everyone compete with each other from anywhere and everywhere.
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P&G’s New Innovation Model – HBS Working Knowledge
Editor’s note: Procter & Gamble has operated one of the greatest research and development operations in corporate history. But as the com… -
So, with few examples, I shall show how technologies are once again, shifting business models, industries and lifestyles:a) Trade shows have shifted from their traditional ways to the virtual or hybrid ones since 1993. Marketplace365 as shown under first article used to be known as ConventionView, the first virtual trade show as seen under the second article.
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Marketplace365 :: The Ultimate Virtual TradeshowMarketPlace365 gives you the tools to create an online community for your market sector or area of interest by delivering synergy and mom… -
How to Save Valuable Time and Money – Take the Virtual Tradeshow RouteFairfield, CA, 01/24/12 – Savvy business owners have grown their businesses by always seeking out ways to expand their contact base, brin… -
Hybrid events could change the tradeshow landscapeAttending meetings and tradeshows without ever setting foot inside a convention center already is an important component of many expositi… -
b) Blended learning where by 2019, 50% of the high schools in the US would have it via the online methods. The last two basic types are just the online versions under the first article while the next article shows the evolution of education where education’s been changed by various technologies.
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Blended Learning: A Disruptive Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC] #edtech …
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c) Self service revolution that is part of our lives today – ATMs, self-checkout, point-of-sale, kiosks, etc as seen under the first article while the second article with the document shows its evolution in the last 200 years including via mobile phones. It even exists with all the apps used these days and 1 of the industries used here is the transportation sector where the last four articles deals with the self service revolution related to that sector. The third article shows how some European countries have been using mobiles for transportation payment for more than 10 years while the fourth article shows how open transit payment system existed in Germany since 1990s. The fifth and last articles deal with how mobile apps are changing public transportation as well as having wifi within the public transportation. Thus, these and other technological and innovative services exist in different ways within all industries.
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The Self-Service Revolution is Real | NCR
Self-service is now an everyday part of our lives. We are living in a world in which consumers are increasingly using self-service techno… -
Today’s consumers want access to information now – and armed with technology they get it. More than a century in training, coupled with m…
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ICT Results – User-friendly, innovative transport payment systemThe IST programme-funded project Telepay assessed the technical and commercial feasibility of a purchase and payment system for virtual ‘… -
Talking Transit: Chicago transit gets open payment systemventrachicago.com MPC Research Assistant Melanie Truhn contributed to this post. Published twice a month, MPC’s Talking Transit provides … -
How Mobile Payments Are Revolutionizing Public TransitThe Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It… -
Bus WiFi & Public Transportation | Moovbox – SinglePointMass transit is making a comeback, thanks to high gas prices, affordable fares and new amenities – including bus WiFi.Meanwhile, riders r… -
d) Manufacturing and defence force sectors where there is a shift in the type of work that humans do while robots are used more. Under the video, it shows that the US manufacturing has undergone changes and has shifted to the high value end in the last 20 years or so due to its collapse before that. This shift has now started taking place in the last couple of years all around the world. Additionally, the next generation robots use artificial intelligence as shown in the article below.
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Made In The USA | America Revealed | PBSFind out about the episode. -
Next generation military robots have minds of their ownA number of robots in development for the military are being given increasing amounts of autonomy. The question is now how they will be u… -
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Taking the case of the legal industry, 4 of the trends reshaping the legal industry are globalization, virtual law firms, alternative legal service providers and legal process outsourcing. Due to the growth of the Internet, there is not only automation of legal processes, developments in data security and emerging technology tools but also powerful smart phones and tablets, software-as-a-service applications and secure web-based technologies including social media and VOIP (like Skype within FB or as a stand-alone, Google Hangout under Google products or as a stand-alone, Viber) are allowing legal professionals to work from virtually anywhere. Due to this, more legal professionals are working remotely from home or from a virtual law office and the legal marketplace is changing where there is a growing number of non-lawyer
professionals such as legal self-help sites, virtual assistants and offshore legal vendors. Also, the legal industry has experienced a global shift towards the legal process outsourcing delivery model for legal services. Additionally, virtual offices are bringing down the total monthly costs of serviced offices by a huge amount. This is the same case for administration and some of the other professions. -
INFOGRAPHIC: Trends that are Reshaping the Legal IndustryEmployment of lawyers is expected to grow 10 percent from 2010 to 2020, about as fast as the average of all occupations. Competition for … -
Commercial Vs Virtual Office | Visual.lyThis infgraph goes over the similarities commercial offices have, and virtual offices, while also highlighting the cost benefits of havin… -
The Third Wave of Virtual Work – Harvard Business ReviewArtwork: Jules de Balincourt, Big Globe Painting, 2012, oil and acrylic on panel, 90″ x 96″ If you wanted to find three decades of the ev… -
f) The Yuan maybe challenging the US Dollar but even the medium of exchange is shifting slowly more towards technology as nowadays can use even mobiles to pay for goods. There are also the electronic cards as well as virtual currency.
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g) Most of these technologies have already changed industries – retail, entertainment including publishing and music worlds.
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Books are the vessels for some of our earliest learning and repositories of our earliest information. Consider epic poetry (Dante’s Infer…
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Some of the free book sites where people can find textbooks or any other books and not just within IT or computers can be found under
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The above site includes public libraries and university libraries from all around the world. This, Scribd and 44 other sites are places for getting free books under the site
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Offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios.
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In addition to above, there are real-time integrated solutions now for apps and social media including for search. Cue/Greplin and Kitedesk even though they say they organise content for scheduling event purposes according to specific times within specific dates, they can do more. They can search messages, posts and even updates of pages that the individual has chosen within a social network like fb and the search is done for that particular individual (the search apps do not show the public of individual’s stuff). Cue/Greplin and Kitedesk does search for GMail, Google Calendar, Salesforce, FB, LinkedIn, Twitter and so on. There are also other third party real-time integrated search apps but not as good as Cue/Greplin and Kitedesk. Kitedesk goes one step further where can share and store files under the app which is more than what Cue does though Cue does the search for more applications than Kitedesk. Kurrently is the public real-time integrated search app that does it for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN and others. More on Cue, Kitedesk and Kurrently can be found under http://storify.com/rohitthomas/history-on-privacy-and-is-it-safe-to-have-personal.
Facebook can be used as an information or knowledge and communications centre as Facebook has its own blogging area called FB Notes; pages as well as Skype, Spotify (music app), Soundcloud (music app) and other apps including Docs app (MS Docs’ reply to Google Docs – cloud computing). Google Hangout, part of Google , is more than what Skype is currently though Skype is modifying as Google Hangout can not only do face-to-face communications with different people around the world but can also share files, watch videos including movies together as well as watch any site together or even fool around with the animated effects as a family. Twitter provides real-time news though it has flaws as social media and networks are still in their early stages (search engines also had flaws during their early stages). Facebook isn’t good at search and its blogging area still needs to be developed as good blogging platforms are under Google or WordPress but Facebook has so many apps as well as pages under it in comparison to Google. Twitter has pages yet it uses third party blogging platforms or sites for links and articles. So, social’s still developing and is also integrating with search and other apps. Google searches are done according to its algorithm while Cue/Greplin and Kitedesk are the right tools for searching not only within FB but also within other apps as mentioned above where under FB, Twitter, etc can choose the pages that the individual loves and not depend on Google’s algorithm (because each individual’s taste including for search differs).
If use right settings and apps including lists which any firm or social network has provided, that organisation’s potential can be used efficiently; pages, contacts and apps won’t get so cluttered and also posts/ads/comments can be done for free (mostly).
Furthermore, search, social and other technologies are headed for content marketing, anticipatory computing and so on and the potential of 3-d printing is very great including with the online world.
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SEO Is Out, ACE (Anticipatory Computing Engine) Is In | Social Media TodayImagine a world in which your mobile device is able to listen to and understand your conversations and, much like the silent, ever-presen… -
Content Is King. 92% of Marketers Agree Content is Very Effective for SEOAs search engines continue to refine their algorithms to provide the best user experience, relevant information and content becomes a key… -
Innovation Lessons From 3-D PrintingBy Jeroen P.J. de Jong and Erik de Bruijn When people in online user communities start collaboratively developing open-source innovations… -
3-D Printing Will Change the World – Harvard Business ReviewTo anyone who hasn’t seen it demonstrated, 3-D printing sounds futuristic-like the meals that materialized in the Jetsons’ oven at the to…
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Lastly, traditional retail, manufacturing assembly jobs, postal service workers, office and administrative workers, telemarketing and door-to-door sales are some of the dying careers which can be seen under
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Dying careers and thriving careers: The jobs of tomorrowTechnological advances are changing the jobs market, says Alan Townsend Postal service has been hit by new technologies and increased aut… -
Much as it looks like the job market may be starting to turn around for some, certain careers look poised for long and difficult declines…
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Is the full-time job dying? | Business Review Weekly | brw.com.auWorkplace flexibility … in Australia, 29 per cent of workers work on a contingent basis, as temporary labour. Photo: Michele Mossop The… -
The jobs numbers: never mind the quantity, check the qualityIt’s heartening to see Friday’s news that the unemployment rate edged down to 7.8% last month. But let’s not get too caught up in celebra…
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Thus, technologies are once again changing industries, business models and lifestyles.
