Market trends and business perspectives
Agricultural innovations are essential for feeding our ever-growing global population.
Especially these days, as industrialisation and global warming continue to negatively affect soil fertility and reduce the amount of arable land.
According to the United Nations, the world’s population is set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050.
[Read more…] about Samsung moves into the vertical farming marketThe United States will regain its lead as the world’s most competitive manufacturing nation by the year 2020, according to a report by economic analyst Deloitte.
Deloitte made its forecast after surveying the opinions of manufacturing industry executives for its 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index.
Deloitte says “executives expect the US to assume the top position before the end of the decade”. [Read more…] about US will regain top spot from China in manufacturing by 2020, says report
United Nations Chief Technology Officer Atefeh Riazi says the end is nigh for human innovation.
In an interview with TechRepublic, Riazi says all future innovations will be made by computers.
“The next innovations will come through artificial intelligence,” says Riazi. “It will be the AI innovating.
“We need to think about our role as technologists and we need to think about the ramifications – positive and negative – and we need to transform ourselves as innovators.”
