In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. 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.
Anthony Faiola, writing for the Washington Post, discusses why globalization hasn’t fulfilled the hope that it would end world food shortages and the devastation such shortages bring [“Where Every Meal Is a
The news has been filled lately with reports of food shortages and rising prices. There have been reports of food hording, even in the United States. In response, places like Costco and
The nasty word “inflation” is starting to be heard in more press reports than it has in a long, long time. Oil was the original culprit that nudged inflation onto to the
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
Finding easy and inexpensive ways to provide prophylactic medications to people (especially children) in developing countries remains a goal for those involved with global health issues. Preventing diseases is much cheaper than
In several posts I’ve written about bio-diesel, I’ve mentioned the fact that diverting food crops into sources of bio-diesel has been causing food prices to rise. Keith Bradsher, writing in the New
One of the continuing debates in the environmental world is about the use of fertilizer. Some environmentalists lament that fertilizers are actually killing the land they are supposed to enrich and that
Famine and hunger are twin plagues for much of the African continent. They are also two of the reasons that those areas remain in grinding poverty. The requirement to mount new food
Nothing breeds success like success. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which earlier attracted billions from investor Warren Buffett, has now teamed with the Rockefeller Foundation to tackle food security in Africa
This week’s Economist magazine discusses the collapse of the Doha round of trade talks that started after the system perturbation of 11 September 2001 [“The Future of Globalization,” 27 July 2006]. The
