The Future of Urbanization
March 24, 2008
In a recent post about what Paul Polak has been doing in developing countries [Work versus Welfare], I mentioned the fact that he is expanding the scope of his work to include
Enterra Insights
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other cutting-edge technologies with a focus on supply chain management, autonomous decision-making, and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, autonomous intelligent enterprises, emerging technologies, and global trade. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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IBM’s Big IT Bets
March 21, 2008
The sheer size of IBM means that people take notice of how it’s positioning itself for the future. One of the places they look for clues is IBM Research — the company’s
Forecasting Pandemics
March 20, 2008
Resilience is normally defined as the ability to bounce back after some catastrophic event. Needless to say, resilience is a great characteristic for any system to have. Even better than resilience, however,
Technology and Developing Countries
March 19, 2008
Since the computing age began in earnest starting in the mid-1980s, there has been talk about a digital divide between developed and developing countries. In recent years, pundits have been surprised how
Smoking and Development
March 18, 2008
One of the subjects I have repeatedly written about in this blog is healthcare in developing countries and how important it is to have a healthy population in order to attract FDI.
Green Development
March 17, 2008
There has been an empirical argument around for years that developing countries are little concerned with the environment until they reach a certain level of per capita GDP (somewhere, as I recall,
Turkey Invests in Kurdish Region
March 14, 2008
In many of my posts about the security situation along the Turkey/Iraq border, I’ve noted that the solution is more economic than diplomatic and more diplomatic than military. Both the central Iraqi
The Seeds of Resilience
March 13, 2008
Back in June 2006, I wrote a post that discussed, in part, the fact that work had begun on a huge vault on the Norwegian island of Svalbard to house seeds from
Conflict Resolution in Africa
March 12, 2008
Two New York Times columnists, Roger Cohen and Nicholas Kristof, recently wrote about two situations in Africa that appear to have very different stories unfolding. Cohen wrote about Kofi Annan’s apparent success
Work versus Welfare
March 11, 2008
Debates about how best to bring people out of poverty are endless. Some people, like Steven Pearlstein, believe that wealth should be redistributed through taxation [see my post Looking for a Globalization
