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A report from RBC Royal Bank reaffirms what thought leaders keep insisting – there will be more and more demand for a liberal arts education in our increasingly digital world.
Government is about to be disrupted by technology in the same manner as major industries. It’s about time.
Toronto has entered a joint venture with a Google sister company to create a high-tech urban development area. The goal is to ‘re-imagine cities from the internet up’ – Google’s internet, of course.
The digital pin-ups’ business models actually inhibit serendipity and, indeed, innovation by absorbing entire markets into the sealed-off space of their platforms.
Netflix has seamlessly adapted to new technologies and disrupted existing business models. But unlike traditional media enterprises, Netflix has never tried to attract a mass audience.
Objects of almost any shape or geometry can be produced by 3D printing. The technology could seriously disrupt not just manufacturing but related national plans for economic development.
Apple has ramped up its spending on R&D, but that’s no guarantee it is building the ‘next big thing’.
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Senior Fellow in Science, Technology & Economics at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Professor in Public Policy and Society, University of Toronto
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Professor, College of Business, Zayed University
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Lecturer, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Associate Dean, Humanities, McMaster University
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Engaged Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow in Non-Traditional Security Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Professor of Autonomy in Art, Design and Technology, St Joost Art Academy, Avans University of Applied Sciences
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Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
