No Stake

No Stake

Concepts are driving the new economy. Uber, with operations in 10,500 cities, is one of the fastest growing transportation companies in the world. Facebook is an online social networking service company. Airbnb operates a web-based hospitality marketing service company. Google LLC is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services. What do these corporations…

Technology Moving us into the 21st Century

Technology Moving us into the 21st Century

Self-driving cars, automation in the food services industry, package deliveries by drone, virtual reality, utility fogs and nanotechnology. These technologies are unfamiliar to many of us but are already in use. Fitness trackers such as Fitbit and the Apple watch will one day benefit the user’s overall health by recording data that can determine cause…

Building Blocks

Building Blocks

In the not too distant future the average person will be writing code and developing their own programs with the ease of today’s most sophisticated programmers.  How? Simple…Divide and conquer. The next phase of technological advancement will involve taking an existing compendium of software programming and translating specific codes into visual building blocks. The amateur programmer…

Ransomware

Ransomware

USA Today reported that 77 countries have been victims of a widespread hacker extortion ring. Europe’s police agency, Europol, has reported that 99 countries were hit by this cyber security breach. Whatever the number, a recent string of cyber-attacks have touched over 150 countries in the past thirty days alone, and global attacks are expected to…

MPH

MPH

Artificial Intelligence and robotics combine as companies push to be first with self-driving automobiles. Toyota recently announced it is investing $2.8 billion into establishing an autonomous car company. Google, Ford, Tesla, Uber, GM, and many others are racing to get their version of self-driving vehicles on the streets. Tesla and Google are striving to have…

Robotics Going Mainstream

Robotics Going Mainstream

The existence of robotics is nothing new. They’ve been around since early Greek mythology, when reading and writing became standardized in advanced civilizations. Industrial Robotics has played a key role in manufacturing for well over 75 years, with programmable features in the last 50 years. But recently, new devices have been introduced that assist humans…

The Three R’s

The Three R’s

If things aren’t changing fast enough for you, how about pilot school for children? Yes, if you are a parent, your child might ask that you send them to pilot school…but hold on. Pilot school – not for airplanes or helicopters – but for drones! In the ever advancing technology wave, what was once novel…

Lagging Indicators

Lagging Indicators

As Europe continues to struggle in commercial real estate development, the outlook for new projects across the Atlantic is much brighter. In 2017 the U.S. economy grew by 4.1% to a GDP of U.S. $19,390.6 billion. Gross domestic product (GDP) measures national income and output for a given country’s economy. The GDP of the United…

Cloud Smart

Cloud Smart

There is a technological revolution happening right now that nobody talks about and even fewer know about. This is an advancement that rivals many of the world’s past accomplishments since the dawn of the technological age. By the year 2020 almost 90% of businesses will use the Cloud in some form or another. Many still…