America In Realization [02.02.15]

Government

• Defense secretary pick Dr Ashton Carter primed for confirmation [USA TODAY]

 

US Healthcare

Healthcare IT 

Feds push electronic medical records [USA TODAY]

Biologic Drug

Biologic drugs—made from living cells, blood components and tissue as opposed to chemicals—are expected to generate up to $200 billion in sales by next year (WSJ)

 

Road Accidents

• Safety Gear Helps Reduce U.S. Traffic Deaths [WSJ]

 

Demography : African Americans

• After nearly 100 years, Great Migration begins reversal : African Americans returning to South for jobs, ‘sense of ancestral history’ [USA Today]

An older couple rest at the end of a workday on a plantation in Tennessee in February 1930. Before the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North, the three states with the largest black populations were Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama.

Lunch break at an auto manufacturing plant in Michigan in 1947. Jobs in the industrial North were one of the driving forces in the Great Migration.

Latest From Science, Technology & Medicine [11.01.14]

Aerospace

• Sir Richard Branson has vowed to continue his space tourism venture (BBC)

 

 

Robotics (Physical Digital Computing)

Augmented Robotics

• Rise of the robots Prepare for a robot invasion. It will change the way people think about technology (Economist) 
• Economist Special Report : Rise of the Robots (Economist) 

 

Wearables (Physical Digital Computing)

Microsoft Band

• Microsoft unveils $199 wearable fitness device (BBC) 

• Geak Android smartwatches ‘last a week or more’ between charges (BBC) 

 

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – UAV (Physical Digital Computing)

• EDF France: Inquiry after drones buzz nuclear sites (BBC) 

 

Smart Car (Physical Digital Computing)

Autonomous Car

• Google shows off self-driving car (Washington Post) 

 

Digital Manufacturing (Physical Digital Computing)

• Technology Review Business Report : Breakthrough Factories (Technology Review) 
• HP looks to 3D printing market to boost performance (BBC) 

“We estimate that the global 3D printing market is set to grow from $1.15bn (£930m) in 2013 to $4.8bn in 2018,” said Arnaud Gagneux, vice-president, technology transformation, at CCS Insight.”

 

Computer Reimagined

Physical Digital Interaction / Experience

• If Da Vinci Had A Desktop, It Would Be HP’s $1,899 Sprout (Forbes) 

HP Sprout

 

Internet of Things (Physical Digital Computing)

• Technology Review Business Report : Internet of Things (Technology Review)

 

Smart City (Physical Digital Computing)

• Tomorrow’s cities – future of shopping (BBC) 

 

Smart Home (Physical Digital Computing)

• The smart home (Time) 

 

Smart Retail (Physical Digital Computing)

• Retail 2020: Reinventing retailing— once again A joint project between IBM & New York University (pdf) 

 

Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality (Physical Digital Computing)

• Beyond gaming, the VR boom is everywhere—from classrooms to therapy couches  (Arstechnica)
  • From trauma treatment to space exploration, VR is more than just fun and games.
• Zuckerberg sees “50 to 100 million” Oculus units sold in next decade. (Arstechnica)
  • Facebook head envisions long-term path to VR becoming “a new major computing platform.” 
• Google Glass With a Built-In Projector Gets Patented by Google (Technobuffalo) 

 

 

Healthcare IT (BioEngineering & Translational Medicine)

 

• Data-Driven Health Care (TR)