Where do the world’s poorest people live?
According to new estimates released last week by the World Bank, the world’s poorest people are now concentrated most heavily in Sub-Saharan Africa after China’s huge leap in pulling its citizens out...
View ArticleThe cost of pollution in India: $80 billion a year
Air pollution in India The World Bank has released a report that says pollution and other environmental degradation costs India $80 billion a year, nearly six percent of gross domestic product. The...
View ArticleWhat holds women back from entrepreneurship?
Fear of failure and lack of self confidence holds women from entrepreneurship. One reason there are significantly fewer women entrepreneurs than men entrepreneurs is because women often don’t think...
View ArticleThe most densely-packed startup areas in the U.S.
Brad Feld, the investor-turned-author who co-founded Techstars in Boulder, Colorado in 2006, stated on his website three years ago that Colorado might have the highest “entrepreneurial density” in the...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things could lead the U.S. economy out of a ‘slow-growth rut’
The report describes how technological innovation, particularly as it relates to the Internet of Everything (IoE), could lead America’s economy out of a “slow-growth rut.” The Internet of Things could...
View ArticleNatural gas is set to be the next big energy trend
Global consumption of natural gas will rival the use of coal and steal the market share from oil on the world market. The “next defining energy trend” is poised to be natural gas as it increasingly...
View ArticleMobile penetration in Africa hits 80% and is still growing
Mobile penetration in Africa is still growing at 4.2 percent annually. People tend to have certain paradigms about the “developed world” and the “developing world.” Including, of course, media-fed...
View ArticleThe decline of reading in America
The American bookworm is a rarer species than two or three decades ago. Nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past year, according to to a report from the Pew Research...
View Article6 key trends that are accelerating the adoption of technology in higher...
There is a shift from students as consumers to students as creators On February 3, 2014, the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition, officially launched. The report aims to examine emerging...
View ArticleMobile video viewing increased 719% between 2011 and 2013: Ooyala
Mobile viewership will double by end of 2015. TV isn’t just a box in the living room anymore, it also includes smartphones and tablets. A new report from video services company Ooyala provides more...
View ArticleWhat you need to earn in every county in the U.S. to afford a decent...
San Francisco is in the top 10 of most expensive counties. A report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition shows how much a worker would have to earn to afford what the Department of Housing...
View ArticleU.S. healthcare most expensive and worst performing in a new international...
The origin of the phrase “You get what you pay for” – the origin of that phrase is sometimes attributed to the fashion mogul Aldo Gucci, who said, “The bitterness of low quality is remembered long...
View ArticleThe U.S. government’s secret rulebook for labeling you a terrorist
The guidelines state that “the general policy of the U.S. Government is to neither confirm nor deny an individual’s watchlist status. There has been a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist...
View ArticleHow much time do students spend in classrooms worldwide?
Does a greater number of years in school mean more learning? When you compare education systems around the world to see what’s working and what isn’t, one of the metrics we often see is ‘school life...
View ArticleHere’s where 620 million people in Africa live without electricity
The International Energy Agency has come out with an in-depth analysis of Africa’s energy sector. According to the IEA report, there are 620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa who don’t have any...
View ArticleWhat changes should we expect when robots replace workers?
How long will it be before we see the first worker fired by a robot manager? It is rather significant that economists are shifting their belief. Up until now, economists have believed that new jobs...
View ArticleWhy Left-handed People Make Less Money
There’s a stereotype that left-handed people are clumsier, but that might have something to do with the fact that they live in a world of objects optimized for the right-handed: scissors, the computer...
View ArticleFAA Drags Feet on Drone Rulings
Many new drones are now making their debut – Image by media.salon.com In August, the Federal Aviation Administration missed a key deadline for developing rules for small commercial drones. That failure...
View ArticleTop 10 Trends in Digital Marketing
In the coming year, mobile will continue to strengthen its hold on the industry, smart data will outshine big data, and real-time marketing will become an achievable goal. With just a few weeks left in...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Influential Columns by Futurist Thomas Frey in 2014
Over the past year we’ve delved into a variety of different topics on FuturistSpeaker.com and naturally some have been more popular than others. Sometimes it’s the headlines, other times the graphics,...
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