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Blogs Become Mainstr |
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Consider this statistic: The term “Web log” was coined in December 1997. Today, some 35 million people read blogs. In other words, eight people have begun reading blogs, on average, every minute of every day for the past eight years. That’s one every seven-and-a-half seconds. And there appears to be no end in sight. |
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The Battle for Wirel |
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A broadband connection has become more and more essential to every aspect of our lives, whether at work, or at home, or on the road. People are becoming so dependent on it that the next obvious step is to have a wireless connection everywhere. And that’s what we’ve been promised for some time now. |
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Membership in Virtua |
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Enormous increases in processing power and bandwidth are blurring the lines between the real world and the virtual one. As work, education, government, and entertainment have moved on-line, the barriers of space and time that formerly marked different parts of people’s lives have disappeared. Virtual work teams, telecommuting, long-distance learning, and electronic shopping for many have resulted in an “anything, anywhere, anytime” lifestyle, in which formerly distinct areas of people’s lives are now intertwined in cyberspace. People’s lives and their relationships with others are increasingly taking place in this electronic reality. As a result, digital technology has transformed the personal and public lives of most Americans over the past 15 years. |
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A New Nuclear Renais |
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To decrease their dependence on oil, many developed nations are turning to nuclear power as a more reliable source of energy. Most of the groundswell of activity in nuclear power is coming from Asia. According to the World Nuclear Association, east and south Asia currently have “about 100 nuclear reactors in operation, 20 under construction, and plans to build a further 40. |
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4차 산업혁명, 승자와 패자가 바뀐다 |
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‘세계경제포럼’에서는 이제 제4차 산업혁명을 언급하고 있다. 맥킨지나 보스턴 컨설팅 그룹, 프라이스워터하우스쿠퍼스PwC 등의 컨설팅 회사들은 제조업 분야에 ‘산업 4.0’이라는 이름을 붙였다. 명칭이 어떻든 간에, 인류가 역사상 가장 중요한 경제적 진보의 순간에 놓여 있다는 점은 확실하다. 그렇다면 우리는 현재 어디에 있으며, 또 제4차 산업혁명이 야기할 새로운 세상은 어떤 모습일까? |
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