These 12 innovations that will change the world!

[Christophe]

A McKinsey report lists innovations that would have a colossal economic impact. But what about jobs that have become obsolete or uncompetitive?

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The list drawn up by McKinsey's experts is not exhaustive but revolves around two criteria: the importance of the economic and societal impact of these innovations and their ability to really break with the existing market. The twelve innovations:

Mobile Internet: increase and decrease in the cost of connectivity between the Internet and mobile terminals;

automation of intellectual work: creation of intelligent software and systems with refined judgment and knowledge processing capacities;

Internet of communicating / connected objects: creation of low-cost sensor networks collecting data, analyzing and acting on it;

cloud computing: system for hosting files and services on remote servers;

advanced robotics: robots with improved senses, dexterity and intelligence, used to automate more tasks or even "augment" humans themselves;

autonomous vehicles: vehicles capable of moving with little or no human intervention;

new-generation genomics: improved genome sequencing, faster and at lower cost, thanks to innovations in data analysis and synthetic biology;

energy storage: systems and terminals capable of storing energy in larger quantities and for longer periods of time (mainly batteries);

3D printing : additive manufacturing technique which consists of creating objects from a digital model by superimposing thin layers of materials;

advanced materials: materials with superior characteristics and functionalities (hardness, resistance, durability, elasticity, conductivity ...);

advanced exploration and drilling: techniques for exploiting previously inaccessible oil and gas resources;

renewable energies.

Full article: http://www.rue89.com/rue89-eco/2013/06/ ... age-243522

[sen-no-sen]

This list speaks volumes about the current system!
It is no longer a question of improving the lives of the inhabitants, but of simple economic "impact".
This confirms the deadly logic of the search for exponential growth: to create growth we destroy a maximum of jobs!
Furthermore:

new-generation genomics: improved genome sequencing, faster and at lower cost, thanks to innovations in data analysis and synthetic biology;

Once again the transhumanist bludgeoning, whose will is to create humans adapted to the system!
Darwin must turn around in his grave!

[plasmanu]

I would add the Aerogel.
The miracle insulator.
3mm is sufficient to insulate from -80d ° to + 1600d °.

From space engineering.
Something sick. Light and transparent (sometimes) but fragile (depending on the model).

37 times more insulating than glass wool.

Composed of 99,8% air, only 2 times the weight of air and supports 2000 times its weight.
But too expensive.

[raymon]

It is no longer a question of improving the lives of the inhabitants, but of simple economic "impact".

Totally agree I would have preferred;
let no more starve
access to water for all
health for all
stopping financial speculation ...........................................

[Ahmed]

The title of this thread is also meaningful: it contains the noun "innovation" and the verb "change".
Even if innovation has a very positive connotation, it is clear that few innovations are changing the world and that a lot of what is currently changing it (and worse!) Are not new (behind the smoke screen (sic!) of the "virtual" economy hide the coal-fired power stations of the Middle country ...).

Innovation and change are seen (sold?) As constituents of “progress”, as if everything that is new, as if everything that changes should be favorable. This is seldom the case since the increase in power which results from certain innovations only increases our destructive capacity.
This in the sense that it only influences the means and not the ends, ends which are external to the technique (thus, the increase in productivity would be an excellent thing if it translated into a reduction in the working time of all and not the separation of society into castes, "workaholics" on the one hand, excluded on the other).
The fulfillment of the wishes of Raymon do not depend on any technical innovation whatsoever!

[Janic]

raymond hello
Beautiful idealism!

Totally agree I would have preferred;
let no more starve

There is more than enough to feed everyone today, it is the distribution and speculation on food that is the problem.

access to water for all

ditto, the problem comes more from the wasting of water than from the water itself.

health for all

still the same. It is believed that health is a due whereas it is a capital which is spent without counting until the cases are empty and that there are still many years to survive.

stopping financial speculation

this speculation, it is we who provoke and maintain it by taking ourselves for the wealthy and behaving as such.
"Science without conscience, is only the ruin of the soul"

[moinsdewatt]

I would add the Aerogel.
The miracle insulator.
3mm is sufficient to insulate from -80d ° to + 1600d °.

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Except that the heat will be transmitted by influence.
It will take also materials of almost zero emissive coeficient.

[plasmanu]

You're nice.
Propose better.