Category: Critical Infrastructure

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.

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Energy from Crowds

Crowds seem to be one of life’s unavoidable challenges. Of course, where one person sees a challenge others see opportunities. A couple of MIT graduate students looked at crowds and instead of

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At the Nexus of IT and ET

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a great column about the need for a revolution in electric power generation and distribution technology (ET) to match the ongoing revolution in information technology

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World Bank Sets Priorities

I found it very interesting that Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank, has targeted for that organization the same regions and situations that Enterra Solutions® has targeted for its Development-in-a-Box™

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New Nuclear Plants Planned for Texas

I first started discussing challenges associated with the global generation of electrical power in June 2006 [The Energy Challenge]. In that post, I discussed a number of non-carbon-based energy methods for electric

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Mobile Phone Software and Standards

A couple of my recent posts have discussed mobile phones and the benefits of standardization [Relief, Development, and the Digital Divide] and the challenges faced when such standards are lacking [see postscript

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Complexity and Resilience

When I first founded Enterra Solutions, one of the emerging characteristics of the information age that intrigued me was its increasing complexity. It was clear to me that there was a growing

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Is the Coal Rush Over?

Over the past year I have written a number of posts dealing with electrical power generation and alternative sources of energy. For example in June 2006, I wrote a post entitled The

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America Remains in the Broadband Slow Lane

Last November I posted a weblog about America’s slow progress towards better broadband connectivity [Broadband Bound]. According to a Washington Post article by Blaine Harden, things have not improved much since then,

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