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Disruptive technologies – The Future is here, are you ready?

Researchers from Glasgow University have developed a handheld  diagnostic device that can measure and track metabolites to help monitor health and progression of specific diseases.

Forget the book – “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and it represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work and relate to one another. It is a new chapter in human development, enabled by disruptive technologies.

According to Wikipedia, disruptive technologies are… Continue reading

Intelligent Process Automation Summit 2019

Intelligent process automation, the combination of artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, has been helping companies to balance trade-offs, achieve greater levels of efficiency and add value to business. RPA combined with machine learning and cognitive computing has been helping in impersonating the activities of humans, conducting highly repetitive tasks.

Machine learning, natural language processing, machine vision, emotion recognition, and optical character recognition, that were earlier reserved for human processing, are now undertaken using bots as well, based on learning… Continue reading

Can blockchain technology be a threat to the energy providers?

Blockchain technology based solutions are springing up fast around the world and they don’t just disrupt the world of finance, but can, for example, fundamentally change the world for energy companies.

Imagine a country where each house has Tesla solar tiles, or some sort of energy-collecting device coupled with a Tesla Powerwall, Nissan XStorage or Sunverge battery.

Instead of being “off-grid”, they’re very much on it – but they’re not dependent on an energy provider. Instead, houses… Continue reading