Aging is one of the most striking mega trends changing our society in the next decade. Over the next ten years, aging and how we respond to it will increasingly affect society. The number of 65+ year olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020.
An aging population will have several implications to the society, workforce market and new technologies that will emerge.
But is also interesting to notice that elderly of tomorrow will behave different as elderly of today. Fresher, more technologically savvy, better educated seniors and a big need for elderly involvement in employment and society in general, could change the way will look aging.
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2020 workplace won’t look the same as today. We will see a more flexible, freelance based, highly collaborative and far less secure work world. It will be run by a generation with new values — and women will increasingly be at the control
Technology and the ageing population will be the main drivers of change for bringing opportunities and new ways of work like more flexible career paths and nomadic working environments. Future worker will be highly specialized and the lack of personal contact might change the culture of organizations as an important of their jobs will be teleworking. Finally will seeing a blurfed division between home, work, retail, information, entertainment.
Let me share the top 10 likely truths for the future workplace in this post.
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DNA sequencing technology could help us detect genetic predispositions to illnesses and customize treatments accordingly. Today we are just in the midst of a genetic revolution where DNA sequencing is mainly used to either do long read of hundreds of bases on genomes that have yet to be sequenced, or shorter reads that only align with a genome we have already sequenced.
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Researchers from IBM were able to simulate the cerebral cortex of a cat (the most advanced part of a mammal’s brain) trough a massive supercomputer power.
The supercomputer has 147.456 CPUs and 144 terrabytes of main memory which simulates up to 1.6 billion neurons and 8.87 trillion synapses. The simulations, which incorporate phenomenological spiking neurons, individual learning synapses, axonal delays, and dynamic synaptic channels, exceed the scale of the cat cortex creates the dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations.
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How the world will looks like in eleven more years. What are the mega trends that will forge our society? How people will live? What will be the main challenges that humankind will face? What type of technologies will affect our way of communicating, sharing and connecting with others?
I tried to list some interesting areas to discuss about the future in this post.
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