Innovation is about finding a better way of doing something. Like many of the new development buzzwords (which many of them are over-used on many business documents), the concept of innovation originates from the world of business. It refers to the generation of new products through the process of creative entrepreneurship, putting it into production, and diffusing it more widely through increased sales. Innovation can be viewed as t he application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in-articulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that “breaks into” the market or society.
Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation article points out that there is a form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth. The definition of innovation is easy to find but it seems to be hard to understand. Here is a simple taxonomy of related activities that put innovation in context:
- Novelty: Something new
- Creation: Something new and valuable
- Invention: Something new, having potential value through utility
- Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful
The taxonomy is illustrated with the following diagram.
The differences are also evident in the mechanisms that exist to protect the works: Novelties are usually not protectable, Creations are protected by copyright or trademark, Inventions can be protected for a limited time through patents (or kept secret) and Innovations can be protected through market competition but are not defensible through legal means.
Innovation is a lot of talked about nowdays as essential to businesses to do. Is innovation essential for development work? article tells that innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development. Donors increasingly stress innovation as a key condition for funding, and many civil society organisations emphasise that innovation is central to the work they do.
Some innovation ideas are pretty simple, and some are much more complicated and even sound crazy when heard first. The is place for crazy sounding ideas: venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:
Not all development problems require new solutions, sometimes you just need to use old things in a slightly new way. Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
Theorists of innovation identify innovation itself as a brief moment of creativity, to be followed by the main routine work of producing and selling the innovation. When it comes to development, things are more complicated. Innovation needs to be viewed as tool, not master. Innovation is a process, not a one time event. Genuine innovation is valuable but rare.
There are many views on the innovation and innvation process. I try to collect together there some views I have found on-line. Hopefully they help you more than confuze. Managing complexity and reducing risk article has this drawing which I think pretty well describes innovation as done in product development:
8 essential practices of successful innovation from The Innovator’s Way shows essential practices in innovation process. Those practices are all integrated into a non-sequential, coherent whole and style in the person of the innovator.
In the IT work there is lots of work where a little thinking can be a source of innovation. Automating IT processes can be a huge time saver or it can fail depending on situation. XKCD comic strip Automation as illustrates this:
System integration is a critical element in project design article has an interesting project cost influence graphic. The recommendation is to involve a system integrator early in project design to help ensure high-quality projects that satisfy project requirements. Of course this article tries to market system integration services, but has also valid points to consider.
Core Contributor Loop (CTTDC) from Art Journal blog posting Blog Is The New Black tries to link inventing an idea to theory of entrepreneurship. It is essential to tune the engine by making improvements in product, marketing, code, design and operations.
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Physicists Show a Speed Limit Also Applies in the Quantum World
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-show-a-speed-limit-also-applies-in-the-quantum-world/
Even in the world of the smallest particles with their own special rules, things cannot proceed infinitely fast. Physicists at the University of Bonn have now shown what the speed limit is for complex quantum operations. The study also involved scientists from MIT, the universities of Hamburg, Cologne and Padua, and the Jülich Research Center. The results are important for the realization of quantum computers, among other things. They are published in the prestigious journal Physical Review X, and covered by the Physics Magazine of the American Physical Society.
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A new study reveals that quantum physics can cause mutations in our DNA
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-reveals-quantum-physics-mutations-dna.html
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9 “Facts” You Learned In School That Are No Longer True
http://uk.businessinsider.com/facts-no-longer-true-2017-3?r=US&IR=T/#then-america-won-its-independence-on-july-4-1776-1
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Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Found a Portal to the Fifth Dimension
It’s probably in this weird particle.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35471480/dark-matter-fermion-portal-fifth-dimension/
Dark matter could be the result of fermions pushed into a warped fifth dimension.
This theory builds on an idea first stated in 1999, but is unique in its findings.
Dark matter makes up 75 percent of matter but has never been observed … yet.
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https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/developing-a-new-generation-of-quantum-hard-drives-using-2d-magnets/
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https://phys.org/news/2021-02-sub-diffraction-optical-enables-storage-nanoscale.html
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/scientists-create-new-class-of-turing-patterns-in-colonies-of-e-coli/
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The past, present, and future of FYI: How Hiten Shah turned an obsession with customers into Product Excellence
https://www.productboard.com/blog/hiten-shah-age-of-product-excellence/
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The ‘X17’ particle: Scientists may have discovered the fifth force of nature
A new paper suggests that the mysterious X17 subatomic particle is indicative of a fifth force of nature.
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/fifth-force-nature
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Not bot, not beast: Scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-bot-beast-scientists-programmable.html
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https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-have-filmed-a-spacetime-crystal-for-the-first-time/
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A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
MICHELLE STARR
3 MARCH 2021
https://www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-children
A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence.
Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there’s more going on in their strange little brains than we knew.
Their ability to learn and adapt, the researchers said, could have evolved to give cuttlefish an edge in the cutthroat eat-or-be-eaten marine world they live in.
The marshmallow test, or Stanford marshmallow experiment, is pretty straightforward. A child is placed in a room with a marshmallow. They are told if they can manage not to eat the marshmallow for 15 minutes, they’ll get a second marshmallow, and be allowed to eat both.
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https://hackaday.com/2021/03/02/rube-goldbergs-least-complicated-invention-was-his-cartooning-career/
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Could “Topological Materials” Be A New Medium for Ultra-Fast Electronics?
Discovery of laser-triggered properties one step toward advanced quantum computers and high-speed, low-power devices
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/materials/topological-materials-laser-controlled-new-electronics-medium
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Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech:
Interview with the head of Intel Labs, Dr. Richard Uhlig, on Intel’s moonshot ideas involving integrated photonics, neuromorphic and quantum computing, and more
The Intel Moonshot Division: An Interview with Dr. Richard Uhlig of Intel Labs
by Dr. Ian Cutress on March 2, 2021 9:00 AM EST
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16515/the-intel-moonshot-division-an-interview-with-dr-richard-uhlig-of-intel-labs
Some analysts consider Intel to be a processor company with manufacturing facilities – others consider it to be a manufacturing company that just happens to make processors. In the grand scheme of things, Intel is a hybrid of product, manufacturing, expertise, investment, and perhaps most importantly, research. Intel has a lot of research and development on its books, most of it aimed at current product cycles in the 12-36 month time span, but beyond that, as with most big engineering companies, there’s a team of people dedicated to finding the next big thing over 10-20+ years. This is usually called the Moonshot Division in most companies, but here we find it called Intel Labs, and leading this team of path-finding gurus is Dr. Richard Uhlig.
I’ve had a number of divisions of Intel in my periphery for a while, such as Intel’s Interconnect teams, Intel Capital (the investment fund), and Intel Labs. Labs is where Intel talks about its Quantum Computing efforts, its foray into neuromorphic computing, silicon photonics, some of which become interesting side announcements at events like CES and Computex. Beyond that, Intel Labs also has segments for federated learning, academic outreach and collaboration, government/DARPA project assistance, security, audio/visual, and many others that are likely kept out of the eye from persistent journalists.
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Scientists shocked at water and organic material found on asteroid for the first time
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/space/water-asteroid-hayabusa-mission-space-b1812285.html
Scientists have found water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid sample collected from the solar system – the first time that such material has been found on an asteroid.
The sample, which was only a single grain, came from asteroid ‘Itokawa’ by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (Jaxa) first Hayabusa mission in 2010.
It shows both water and organic matter that originate not from an alien world, but from the asteroid itself. Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, suggest that the asteroid had been evolving for billions of years by incorporating the liquid and organic material in the same way Earth does.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva has now found a total of 59 new particles since it started colliding protons in 2009.
Cern: scientists discover four new particles – here’s why they matter
https://bit.ly/30a0s4o
The theory of tiny particles isn’t complete. But new discoveries are helping scientists expand it.
Don’t get us wrong: the theory of the strong interaction, pretentiously called “quantum chromodynamics”, is on very solid footing. It describes how quarks interact through the strong force by exchanging particles called gluons. You can think of gluons as analogues of the more familiar photon, the particle of light and carrier of the electromagnetic force.
However, the way gluons interact with quarks makes the strong force behave very differently from electromagnetism. While the electromagnetic force gets weaker as you pull two charged particles apart, the strong force actually gets stronger as you pull two quarks apart. As a result, quarks are forever locked up inside particles called hadrons – particles made of two or more quarks – which includes protons and neutrons. Unless, of course, you smash them open at incredible speeds, as we are doing at Cern.
To complicate matters further, all the particles in the standard model have antiparticles which are nearly identical to themselves but with the opposite charge (or other quantum property). If you pull a quark out of a proton, the force will eventually be strong enough to create a quark-antiquark pair, with the newly created quark going into the proton. You end up with a proton and a brand new “meson”, a particle made of a quark and an antiquark. This may sound weird but according to quantum mechanics, which rules the universe on the smallest of scales, particles can pop out of empty space.
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There Is No Such Thing as “White” Math
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-white-math?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=facebook
I naively believed that STEM would be spared from the ideological takeover. I was wrong, says Princeton professor Sergiu Klainerman.
activists are destroying his discipline in the name of progress. Worse, they are robbing poor children of the opportunity to raise themselves up by mastering it — with untold effects on all of us.
Math, with its seemingly unbiased tools — 2 + 2 always equals 4 — has presented a problem for an ideological movement that sees any inequality of outcome as evidence of systemic bias. The problem cannot be that some kids are better at math, or that some teachers are better at teaching it. Like so much else, the basic woke argument against math is that it is inherently racist and needs to be made antiracist. That is accomplished by undermining the notion of right and wrong answers, by getting rid of the expectation that students show their work, by referring to mathematical testing tools as racist, and by doing away with accelerated math classes.
If that sounds like a caricature, I urge you to read this whole document, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which Sergiu writes about below. As the linguist John McWhorter put it in a powerful piece published yesterday: “to distrust this document is not to be against social justice, but against racism.”
Sergiu wrote me in an email that the situation in his field reminds him of this line from Thomas Sowell: “Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.”
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Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Neuroscience All Agree: Your Daily Routine Needs More ‘Non-time’Your busy daily routine is healthy and productive. It might also be killing your creativity.
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/steve-jobs-albert-einstein-steven-kotler-non-time.html
Both science and history tell us that getting your daily routine right is essential for success. No wonder the internet is full of admiring articles about the morning routines of famous people and lists of suggested habits to add to your daily schedule. Spend enough time with this kind of advice and it’s likely your day will end up crammed with worthy and beneficial activities, from gratitude practices to journaling exercises to nature walks.
Research shows all of these activities are good for you, but there is a catch to shoving ever more of them into your schedule — science is just as clear that you also need plenty of “non-time” in your routine.
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Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect
By
NATALIE WOLCHOVER
March 11, 2021
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-mischief-rewrites-the-laws-of-cause-and-effect-20210311/
Spurred on by quantum experiments that scramble the ordering of causes and their effects, some physicists are figuring out how to abandon causality altogether.
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rising-cost-of-college-in-u-s/
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Joonas Konstigin kolumni: Neljä ohjetta sinulle, joka haluat ajatella itsenäisesti
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11816531
Toisten mielipiteitä ei voi hyväksyä ennen kuin hyväksytään, että ihminen ei suvaitse toisten mielipiteitä, kirjoittaa kirjailija Joonas Konstig.
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VC Lindy Fishburne on the seemingly sudden democratization of science
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/05/vc-lindy-fishburne-on-the-sudden-democratization-of-science-and-deep-tech-investing/
TC: Science has been the big story of the last year. Are you hearing from investors and potential syndicate partners who weren’t reaching out previously?
LF: Yes. The pandemic has brought the importance of investing in science into sharp relief. For the first time, we’re really seeing a whole set of what you would think of as traditional tech investors who read about the mRNA vaccine that Moderna coded in a weekend and who are starting to believe that we’re able to engineer biology and that it doesn’t feel like a craft process anymore.
TC: You talk about coding a vaccine. Are laboratories becoming less important in that scientists are able to do much more in simulation and, if so, what does that mean for human testing? Are we getting to a point where we don’t have to rely on human testing as much as we did in the past?
LF: That’s where we hope to get on the human testing piece. We’re not there yet. You may have read and heard about organs on a chip and growing organoids, where you can have a very small piece of liver that you’re able to test toxicity on [and] we’re doing more of that. That said, we’re not ready to make that leap from completely doing it in silico to humans with a super-high level of confidence.The human body is such a complex system that we’re not able to model that fully yet.
I do think what you’re pointing toward to some degree is democratization in science and the access for more people to be able with lower skills to be able to work in drug discovery and drug development at a distance. So for example, we have a company that we’ve worked with called Strateos that has a full robotic lab that — instead of having technicians standing there — you have robots and a little train track that moves assays throughout the room so that scientists who were stuck at home this year were able to continue experiments regardless of their geography or safety in the lab or time constraints.
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That fractured landscape is not what was predicted—internet pioneers expected freedom and the wisdom of crowds, not that we would all be under the thumb of giant corporations profiting from a market in disinformation. What we invented was not what we hoped for. The internet became the stuff of our nightmares rather than of our dreams. We can still recover, but at least so far, Silicon Valley appears to be part of the problem more than it is part of the solution.
The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?
Four ways the party may be coming to an end
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-end-of-silicon-valley-as-we-know-it/?/
Understanding four trends that may shape the future of Silicon Valley is also a road map to some of the biggest technology-enabled opportunities of the next decades:
Consumer internet entrepreneurs lack many of the skills needed for the life sciences revolution.
Internet regulation is upon us.
Climate response is capital intensive, and inherently local.
The end of the betting economy.
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Tasapaino pehmeiden ja kovien tieteiden välillä luo innovaatioita
https://www.dna.fi/yrityksille/blogi/-/blogs/tasapaino-pehmeiden-ja-kovien-tieteiden-valilla-luo-innovaatioita?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=linkad&utm_content=artikkeli_tasapaino_pehmeiden_ja_kovien_tieteiden_valilla_luo_innovaatioita&utm_campaign=all_kampanja_trendit2021_21&fbclid=IwAR3ssJYfZc7LEFgOW1ibHvszbmiwM_PxwutPRNZmDTSp5z0fbD4wtCOZ-W4
Innovaatio on sana, johon koko teollistumisen yhteiskunnallinen ja taloudellinen muutos kiteytyy. Se tarkoittaa jotakin uutta tai olennaisesti paranneltua tuotetta, prosessia, palvelua tai keksintöä, joka on taloudellisesti hyödyllinen. Monet jahtaavatkin mullistavaa innovaatiota, mutta miten ihmeessä innovaatiot oikein syntyvät?
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Kaksi kulttuuria ei keskustele keskenään
”Varmin resepti uuden innovaation luomiseen on humanististen tieteiden ja kovien tieteiden tuominen yhteen. Innovaatiot kaipaavat taakseen koulutusta, jossa yhdistyvät taide ja tiede. Tarvitsemme yhteistyötä niin luonnontieteilijöiden, humanistien, teknologian kuin taiteenkin kesken, mutta usein koulutusjärjestelmät eivät edesauta vuorovaikutusta näiden alojen välillä. Konvergenssin puute synnyttää kaksi erilaista, toisistaan erillistä kulttuuria”, Gurel selittää.
https://www.dna.fi/yrityksille/blogi/-/blogs/tasapaino-pehmeiden-ja-kovien-tieteiden-valilla-luo-innovaatioita?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=linkad&utm_content=artikkeli_tasapaino_pehmeiden_ja_kovien_tieteiden_valilla_luo_innovaatioita&utm_campaign=all_kampanja_trendit2021_21&fbclid=IwAR3ssJYfZc7LEFgOW1ibHvszbmiwM_PxwutPRNZmDTSp5z0fbD4wtCOZ-W4
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Five Steps To Thinking Like A Software Company
https://www.forbes.com/sites/vijaygurbaxani/2021/03/08/five-steps-to-thinking-like-a-software-company/
Here’s the key takeaways for companies who want to make the leap to truly thinking like software businesses:
1. Assemble and develop in-house talent
2. Implement a modular architecture
3. Embrace experimental innovation
4. Start small, then build scope and scale
5. Balance the risk of error against its benefits
CIOs, for obvious reasons, are generally risk averse when it comes to software development. But a greater willingness to accept initial errors can reap significant dividends in terms of increased efficiencies. For example, one of the companies I interviewed had a leased strategic application that was not only expensive, but unsuited to its business model, often recommending inefficient solutions. The company assigned a couple of talented developers to build an “adequate” working replacement quickly.
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How Sherlock Holmes’s “Mind Palace” Trick Can Boost Your Memory, As Shown By Brain Scans
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-sherlock-holmess-mind-palace-trick-can-boost-your-memory-as-shown-by-brain-scans/
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The Importance of the Discovery Phase
https://andersenlab.com/blueprint/importance-of-discovery-phase?fb%2Farticles%2Fba%2Feur%2Fdp&fbclid=IwAR1er25SUN1nMvZG1XXHODHB38OSPzy6rZ_8QN8TfyLTnSjunpKRIpltOAA
No matter how incredible and unique the initial idea of the project is, the customer doesn’t always receive the exact product they wanted in one go. Even if the customer formulates their idea in lay terms and developers manage to fully understand the concept, there can be many small details that are not immediately apparent but will have a huge impact on the project development later. Revealing a number of problems in the process of development leads to spontaneous changes in the already written code, unplanned budget spending, and, as a result, missed deadlines, project freezing, or even its failure. Such an outcome for the project can be avoided by conducting a discovery phase.
What a discovery phase is and what steps it consists of
The discovery phase is a stage, the result of which is the defined approximate (planned) terms of the project implementation (within the frameworks that are stipulated during the discovery phase). These terms will be as realistic and accurate as possible when working according to the Agile methodologies. Also, in the process of this stage, a plan of the actions necessary to obtain a successful product is outlined.
The duration of the discovery phase may vary. As a rule, it takes from several weeks to a month, or even more – it depends on the project complexity.
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Is open-source hardware a lost opportunity?
https://www.edn.com/is-open-source-hardware-a-lost-opportunity/
The last decade was defined by open-source innovations in various technology fields. The software stack’s publicly accessible nature empowered the developer community to exchange code and realize ideas to build collaborative masterpieces beyond the organizational boundaries. The wider community didn’t recognize the trend for a very long time. Eventually, the sheer volume and quality won many advocates, and open-source became the de-facto gold standard for software, but what about open-source hardware?
While the software was growing, hardware development remained siloed and company-focused to create a competitive advantage. The history of hardware is full of non-collaborative movements leading to the emergence of divergent specifications. There are so many examples where siloed innovation ultimately led to a fragmented market. Instead of becoming a sustainable business advantage, the proprietary nature became a bottleneck and eventually led to the end of that standard. Sony BlueRay was one such example.
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https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1354044/can-math-be-subjective#:~:text=Every%20single%20statement%2C%20question%2C%20and,picked%20to%20observe%20their%20consequences.
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Meet the swirlon, a new kind of matter that bends the laws of physics
By Stephanie Pappas – Live Science Contributor 22 days ago
Researchers discover a new state of active matter.
https://www.livescience.com/swirlonic-matter-unusual-behavor.html
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How Global Health and Wealth Has Changed Over Two Centuries
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-health-and-wealth-over-two-centuries/
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Machine finds tantalising hints of new physics
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56491033
Physicists have uncovered a potential flaw in a theory that explains how the building blocks of the Universe behave.
The Standard Model (SM) is the best theory we have to explain the fine-scale workings of the world around us.
But we’ve known for some time that the SM is a stepping stone to a more complete understanding of the cosmos.
Hints of unexpected behaviour by a sub-atomic particle called the beauty quark could expose cracks in the foundations of this decades-old theory.
The findings emerged from data collected by researchers working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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The Future Of Learning & Development In The Workplace, According To One Of The World’s Top Online Learning Designers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shanesnow/2021/03/07/the-future-of-learning–development-in-the-workplace-according-to-one-of-the-worlds-top-online-learning-designers/
While the pandemic has forced us to learn a lot of things quickly, it has also literally slowed our learning in a key area: employee training.
Now that we’ve largely gotten used to collaborating remotely, many businesses are starting to worry about the longer-term missed opportunity of L&D and training programs if we don’t adapt there as well. We need to keep developing our people, and we can’t do it the same way we used to.
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BALANCED DESIGN AND HOW TO KNOW WHEN TO QUIT OPTIMIZING
https://hackaday.com/2021/03/13/balanced-design-and-how-to-know-when-to-quit-optimizing/
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Digital transformation: This is why CIOs need to stay brave and keep on innovating
Innovation is the key, even when things don’t go according to plan.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/digital-transformation-this-is-why-cios-need-to-be-brave-and-keep-on-innovating/
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/11873-nokian-bell-labs-palkintokisa-avautui
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Meritta Pyykkönen oli kutosen oppilas, johon harva opettaja uskoi – keväällä hän valmistui itse opettajaksi: “Olisin tarvinnut koulussa kuuntelijaa”
Kokemus huonojen arvosanojen saamisesta voi olla hyödyksi opettajan työssä.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11818880
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Mitä voi oppia siitä, kun Alan Turing rakensi tietokoneen MVP
https://www.meom.fi/venture/blogi/mita-voi-oppia-siita-kun-alan-turing-rakensi-tietokoneen-mvp/
Uuden tuotteen elinkaaren konkreettisin hetki on MVP:n julkaisu. Minimum Viable Productin avulla keräät valtavasti oppia, ymmärrystä ja pystyt rakentamaan paremman tuotteen.
MVP ei ole täydellinen tuote, sillä sen tarkoituksena on saada liiketoiminta käyntiin samalla, kun kartoittaa asiakkailta, mikä on se täydellinen tuote.
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Artist Daniel Aristizábal on eccentricity and introspection in design
https://www.editorx.com/shaping-design/article/daniel-aristizabal-digital-artist-interview
Constantly exploring new technologies, Daniel Aristizábal is always seeking new ways to grow and express himself through his art
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Radia Perlman: How This Woman Transformed the Internet
“Constantly question why things are the way they are.”
https://medium.com/swlh/radia-perlman-how-this-woman-transformed-the-internet-e55aa4f52b5
As this year marks 35 years since Radia Perlman invented the algorithm for implementing a spanning tree protocol (STP), I thought it a great time to share her story which originally appeared in my book, Female Innovators at Work.
Radia’s invention (one of many patents she holds) transformed the Ethernet from technology which was limited to a few hundred nodes confined to a single building into a technology that could handle massive networks and thus laying the groundwork for the internet as we know it today.
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The World Just Moved Even Closer to a Real, Working Warp Drive
Scientists have a new model for faster-than-light travel that actually uses conventional physics
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35820869/warp-drive-possible-with-conventional-physics/
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Luovuus on yrittäjän voimavara – 3 vinkkiä luovuuden ruokkimiseen
https://www.elo.fi/elomedia/2021/luovuus-on-yrittajan-voimavara-%E2%80%93-3-vinkkia-luovuuden-ruokkimiseen?fbclid=IwAR2msexAWlmozw9fTLVfCqNRvoNdcOVfWa689sTCsv-kUFP5p4FJo9GTZCI
Luova ajattelu auttaa näkemään haasteet mahdollisuuksina ja ottamaan käyttöön koko oman potentiaalin. Miten yrittäjä saa itsestään luovuuden irti haastavinakin aikoina?
Luovuus määritellään yleensä kyvyksi luoda jotain uutta. Usein ajatellaan, että luovuutta on taito piirtää tai maalata, säveltää, kirjoittaa kirjoja tai suunnitella huonekaluja ja rakennuksia. Ihan jokainen meistä voi kuitenkin olla luova ja synnyttää uusia ideoita ja ajatuksia. Luovuutta on se, että osaa katsoa maailmaa monesta eri näkökulmasta ja nähdä ympärillään vaihtoehtoja.
Varsinkin yrittäjille luovuus voi toimia tärkeänä voimavarana. Menestyvän yrityksen pyörittäminen edellyttää uusien toimintatapojen ja mahdollisuuksien näkemistä ja niihin tarttumista. Eli sitä, että ajattelee luovasti ja saa sitä kautta kilpailuetua.
Tomi Engdahl says:
15 reasons why teaching Millenials to fly is tough
https://generalaviationnews.com/2019/02/24/15-reasons-why-teaching-millenials-to-fly-is-tough/
Recently, a friend of mine was working on a Holly carburetor off his vintage car when his nephew stopped by. The nephew looked at the carburetor and asked “what does that thing do?”
The scary point here is that the nephew had just graduated from a technical school with a degree in auto mechanics!
If new auto mechanics don’t know what a carburetor is, then how difficult is it going to be to teach Millenials how to fly?
Tomi Engdahl says:
“We are not making something that’s alive, but we are creating materials that are much more lifelike than have ever been seen before.”
Scientists create a ‘lifelike’ material that has metabolism and can self-reproduce
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/scientists-create-a-lifelike-material-that-has-metabolism-and-can-self-reproduce?utm_medium=Social&facebook=1&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1616512608
An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines.
Scientists at Cornell University devise a material with 3 key traits of life.
The goal for the researchers is not to create life but lifelike machines.
The researchers were able to program metabolism into the material’s DNA.
Tomi Engdahl says:
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
https://www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-children/amp
A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence.
Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there’s more going on in their strange little brains than we knew.
Tomi Engdahl says:
New result from the LHCb experiment challenges leading theory in physics
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-result-lhcb-theory-physics.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
The clothes we wear are about to undergo a wild digital revolution
https://www.fastcompany.com/90614443/future-of-clothing-manufacturing?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
The way clothing gets made has changed surprisingly little over the years. But new advances are adding intelligence and customization to the process.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Recognize the signs of closed-mindedness and open-mindedness that you should watch out for.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/recognize-signs-closed-mindedness-open-mindedness-you-ray-dalio/
It’s easy to tell an open-minded person from a closed-minded person because they act very differently.