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  • Feb 22, 11

    People tend to move up the food chain as their incomes rise, consuming more meat than they might have when they made less money, the experts said.

    It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs,

    • A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050,
    • almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia,

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    • Hace poco más de dos meses y medio, la situación política de la mayoría de los Estados del Norte de África y Medio Oriente -en muchos casos inmutable durante décadas- era ajena a las portadas de los medios de comunicación. En sólo unas semanas, esto cambió radicalmente.
    • Un movimiento de cambio se extiende por la región y muchos analistas afirman que estamos ante un giro histórico -e imprevisto- en el mundo árabe y musulmán.

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  • Mar 04, 11

    By 2029, we’ll have reverse engineered and modeled and simulated all the regions of the brain. And that will provide us the software/algorithmic methods to simulate you know, all of the human brains capabilities including our emotional intelligence. And computers at that time will be far more powerful than the human brain. And we’ll be able to create machines that really do have subtlety and suppleness of human intelligence.

  • May 30, 11

    While we can’t predict the future, we can prepare for it. “Don’t listen to financial planners who tell you that you’re going to get six or seven percent or even two or three percent every year from investing in a certain way. They don’t know that. 

    • The key to securing your financial future may lie in anticipating the safest place to stash your savings. “Over a whole lifetime, over several decades, over your active life there will be great punctuations and disruptions. You’ve got to think of strategies which can survive such punctuations. You’re trying to really pit your wits against history. But we’re all in that situation.”
  • Sep 29, 11

    Where the U.S. has a long-term competitive advantage, says Altman, is in its unique ability to sell the rags-to-riches dream worldwide. This, he believes, will position us as the world’s future sales force – its messaging machine – as the global economy continues to integrate. But that opportunity depends, he says, on the U.S. keeping the dream alive by fostering a truly meritocratic economy. 

    • Where the U.S. has a long-term competitive advantage, says Altman, is in its unique ability to sell the rags-to-riches dream worldwide. This, he believes, will position us as the world’s future sales force – its messaging machine – as the global economy continues to integrate. But that opportunity depends, he says, on the U.S. keeping the dream alive by fostering a truly meritocratic economy. 
    • Give your customers the ability to do what they can’t currently do but would want   to if they only knew it was possible.
    • what problems they are going to have and solve

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    • Ask yourself, “What knowledge and skills can I learn that will supplement my current strengths so that I can thrive in the years ahead? What are the new areas of learning that will make me more relevant in a world of rapid change?”
    • it difficult to know what new skills to learn,

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    • “Average Is Over,”
    • It’s that the nature of work itself is changing, largely because of the increasing power of intelligent machines. Smart software, Cowen argues, is transforming almost everything about work, and ushering in an era of “hyper-meritocracy.”

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