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The Evolution of Robots: Rapid Advances But Humans Need not Worry Yet

By Dick Weisinger

Robots are evolving, and the evolution is being led by the military, fulfillment operators like Alibaba and Amazon, and Chinese startups developing devices to enable low-cost manufacturing. Rodney Brooks, a robotics pioneer, chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, and inventor…

Digital Transformation: Lack of Bandwidth, Skillsets and Vision Block IT’s Progress

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses will spend $1.7 trillion by the end of 2019 trying to transform themselves to become digital operations, according to a forecast from IDC. But as many as three-quarters of those businesses will fail to meet their digital objectives. The…

Technology: More than One Billion+ Devices Run an Android Version 2+ Years out of Date

By Dick Weisinger

Android is the biggest competitor to Apple’s IPhones and operating system, but it has a big problem: few Android phone owners keep current with new releases of the Android operating system. While Google boasts more than 2 billion devices running…

Bitcoin: Some Contrarians Dare to Question BlockChain

By Dick Weisinger

A couple of weeks back I posted the article “Bitcoin: The Economics are Unsustainable.”  Maybe now that a single Bitcoin trades in the range of $15-20,000 that argument holds less water.  But by all measures, Bitcoin still seems like an incredible…

3D Printing: Smarter Software Improves Quality and Speeds Up Printing

By Dick Weisinger

While 3D printing is growing in popularity, creating printed objects takes time. Because of that 3D printing is a long ways from being able to replace much of the large-scale mass productions that are manufactured using traditional technologies. Part of…