Market penetration of BEVe expected to go from 3.9 percent in 2019 to 14 to 20 percent in 2025—a sales volume of roughly 3.8 to 5.0 million vehicles.
“It is to deliver meaningful value to selected stakeholders - the customer . “
We are at an exciting stage as we enter “the Nexttech revolution”
Gertz talks of passive Nihilism - Our lives, we are told, are no longer real: they have become media-facilitated concoctions. We no longer have real friends or honest conversations. We are forced to make do with media facsimiles. We no longer know who we are. Our very goals and values have been determined for us by hidden algorithms, without our knowledge or consent. The fact that most of us feel that technology has made our lives better merely demonstrates how effective and dangerous is the illusion that technology generates. We are becoming, or have already become, computer-driven zombies that are no longer truly human.
There is a horrifying rise of a technological mass culture which is now apparently enslaving us.
Are we victims of “techno-hypnosis.”??
This is a problem and has nothing to do with agile - “technology and your phone” can be a drug - and we need to be careful to ensure that we continue to remind ourselves what it means to be human.”
According to Gertz, “we” spend it on meaningless “orgies of clicking” - finding ‘new ways to indulge our ecstatic urges”, such as when technologies allow us to “post anonymous comments, form flash mobs, and become cybervigilantes.” Leading us from a self-destruction of guilt to a destruction of shame.”
This is scary
Technology has massive positives it enables us to
We need to have a balanced approach to technology and balance both the benefits and risks of technology in our lives.
Do as I write not do as I do!!
Do not discount the dangers of technology!
See also https://australianinnovation.blogspot.com/2020/07/are-we-becoming-bots.html
David Michaelis article written in 2015 was visionary....
http://anewdomain.net/david-michaelis-moral-drones-apologetic-zuck-enough/
Here are some extracts that hit me between the eyes
Has Facebook, google and amazon colonised the globe?
Is the 4th revolution and the giant disruption that is coming going to make the Internet age look like a Lotus 1-2-3 decimal upgrade?
We want that toy. It’s shiny! Can’t wait for autonomous flying cars! Like the Jetsons! Whoo-whee.
The phone and related tech has made us selfish and greedy and denial and blame and sneakiness is prevalent!
We have become automated bots and faceless avatars - bearing to the drum of subliminal messages!
We were born - but are beings have become “made”
Tech is taking away some of our humanity, or at least what’s left after the Industrial Age, the Information Age and now the age of robotics, AI and the IoT where we are becoming the things .
See also https://australianinnovation.blogspot.com/2020/07/are-we-using-too-much-phone.html
A one-minute coronavirus breathalyser test has been invested in Israel - that if approved from the US FDA could be a game changer!
If validated - this breathalyser could be a game changer - and could soon be installed at places such as at ports, workplaces and cruise ships, with each device processing breath from about 4,000 people every day.
The invention of an instant COVID-19 breathalyser could have enormous implications for air travel and the economy.
The clever contraption, which uses frequency to detect the deadly SARS-CoV-2, was designed by a team based at an Israeli university and has a success rate of more than 90 percent in trials to-date.
Current tests for the new coronavirus use throat or nose swabs and look for particles but the team led by Professor Gabby Sarusi at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev thought outside the box in terms of detection.
“We asked ourselves, since this virus is just like a nano-particle or a quantum dot with a diameter between 100nm to 140nm in terms of its size and electrical properties, can we detect it using methods from the worlds of physics, photonics and electrical engineering?
“We discovered that the answer is yes, this virus resonates in the THz frequency, and spectroscopy in these frequencies reveals it promptly.”
The hand held device contains a chip with densely packed sensors to capture tiny particles from the breath, including any viruses.
The chip is then read through a THz spectroscopy, which takes about 20 seconds.
Scientists look for the tell-tale changes in resonance in the THz spectral range caused by the coronavirus. Within a minute they can tell if someone is carrying the virus, even though they may be completely without symptoms.
The next steps are to conclude the validation process then get Food and Drug Administration approval, for which there is a COVID-19 fast-tracking system in-place, meaning that the tests could be seen in public as soon as September.
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Team - a group of people who bind together to solve problems!
“Out of conflict comes clarity”
“Diversity is inviting them into the room...... Inclusion is inviting them to dance with you “
