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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Morocco’s Example

Last September in a post entitled Making Money in the Med I discussed Tanger Med, a large Moroccan port that had opened earlier in the year. The port can handle 3.5m containers

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Carbon Capture and Storage

In a recent blog, I noted that legislation being voted on today and aimed at controlling greenhouse gas emissions is counting on the fact that technology will be developed that effectively and

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Buying the Farm

In my post Food and Water Shortages in the Middle East, I cited an article that reported “several oil-rich nations, including Saudi Arabia, have started searching for farmland in fertile but politically

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The Debate about Smart Grids Continues

The stimulus package passed earlier this year by Congress contains funding for smartening up America’s power grid. An office park in northern Kentucky, sponsored by Duke Energy, is one of several proof-of-concept

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The Conundrum of “Clean Coal”

Television viewers in America have seen dueling advertisements between environmental groups and the coal industry. Coal industry ads show a video clip of President Obama on the campaign trail talking about clean

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Go Green, Save Lives

We’re all familiar with the negative consequences of living in a polluted world. We also intuitively understand that drinking clean water and breathing clean air improves health and saves lives. The military,

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Looking for Entrepreneurial Magic

This is the fourth of five posts on The Economist‘s special report on entrepreneurship (the first three posts were entitled Entrepreneurs as Heroes, The Rise of Entrepreneurialism, and More on Global Entrepreneurialism).

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The Emergence of North Africa

For decades, the Maghreb has been best known for being part of the arc of crisis that begins at Gibraltar and ends in Pakistan. Maghreb is an Arabic word meaning “place of

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Job Creation and State Capitalism

State capitalism is defined as an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but in which there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production. With the huge stimulus packages

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