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Digital Economy: Some Underestimated Benefits of the Cryptocurrency Mania

by Andrew Odlyzko

How well you speak will always be an indicator of how well you know the subject at hand. And while nerves can often lead novice speakers to resort to distracting sounds and placeholders, a second or two of silence will help focus you as well as your audience. In this installment, Philip Yaffe reminds us that silence is golden. ...


Interview

A Conversation with Nikita Joshi: Using IoT and AI to build a more proactive and accessible healthcare future

Interviewed by Bushra Anjum

How well you speak will always be an indicator of how well you know the subject at hand. And while nerves can often lead novice speakers to resort to distracting sounds and placeholders, a second or two of silence will help focus you as well as your audience. In this installment, Philip Yaffe reminds us that silence is golden. ...



opinion

Digital Economy: The Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise: Twenty years later

by Kemal A. Delic, Umeshwar Dayal

The authors update their prediction of the emergence of intelligent enterprises, which will spawn a digital economy, impact societal structure and behaviors, and mark the beginning of the sixth technology epoch, dominated by the spread of cognitive systems—AI-augmented tools and systems. ...


opinion

Teens and Screens: Game of Life, Indeed: "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin"

by Espen Andersen

Sometimes, the most social person in the room might be the teen with the screen. ...