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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

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They didn’t just “grow up with social media,” they grew up with “social media that constantly changes.” ” In fact, not only do they keep up with the changes on a particular social media service, they are always exploring the latest new services.

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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols.

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What’s Happening Today That No One Sees?

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So, the lens of 2005 (history) and 2025 (future) is the one I’m currently enjoying. The Big Short is picking up major steam in 2005. Instead, I generally like a ten year moving window to process things. The climax happens in 2008 and the denouement continues on until 2011.

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I Encourage Entrepreneurs To Ignore The Word “Bubble”

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While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. This has been going on for at least a quarter or two, but the velocity of it seems to have picked up with a wave of high priced financings along with large financings for nascent companies.

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The Future of Transportation

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Between 1991 and 2005, the capacity that could be bought with $100 went up by a factor of 11. The following year, twenty-two of twenty-three entrants in the 2005 Challenge surpassed the 7.3 Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. The trend continues through to the present day. The farthest distance traveled was 7.3