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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021
There were lots of top tech lists released early last year, we thought this one was particularly salient. Take a look and let us know what you think and add your thoughts on which ones they may have missed.
A New Crop Of Farmers Is Helping Hawaii Grow More Food
This article brings home the continually growing importance of supply chain problems (definitely to our Hawaiian contingent). Silicon chips are highly missed during this present shortage to be sure, but food makes the realities of supply chain problems relatable to practically everyone.
The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies
We found this article kind of compelling and wanted to share. Interesting to avoid communicating using analogies. It is harder than you think! It also occurred to us how analogies seem to be used throughout cultures, across generational gaps and are used by everyone almost regardless of who or where they are. The article suggests that analogies are a critical key to AI and provides in depth details on how analogy thinking fits in with other elements of AI.
Systems Thinking Is A Complex Adaptive System (CAS)
A great distillation of Complex Adaptive Systems and provides some good starting points for how CAS might become one of your organization’s focus points.We found it a valuable source when trying to explain CAS to a non-technical audience (plus it includes amazing birds video…)
‘RoboRace’ autonomous racing selects Velodyne Lidar
For the racing fans out there, we came across Roboracing during search for sensor suppliers. The expected jokes came up (“No cupholders!” “Do you get chased by Robocop?”), but are finding this challenge interesting to watch develop.