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Category: Innovations
An Uber Innovation Experience in Egypt
Taxi in Egypt This week I have been working in Egypt. Taxi drivers here are notoriously know for ripping off customers, which I thoroughly experienced during my first days of my stay, when I took three taxi rides in Cairo. On the first ride, the taxi driver said he knew the destination. Then he set… Continue reading An Uber Innovation Experience in Egypt
The Babel fish is Becoming Reality
In Douglas Adams iconic science fiction saga from the 1970s, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, one of the alien species is the Babel fish. To quote the book, “The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and… Continue reading The Babel fish is Becoming Reality
World Economic Forum 2016 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The World Economic Forum this year, seems to have been very much about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We have written about this already here on the Bearing Wave, although we would like to highlight this page which is a menu of the WEF´s excellent articles on the topic, and the brief video below, which puts… Continue reading World Economic Forum 2016 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Rise of the Robots in the Financial Industry
In financial markets, automated trading has been around for many years. Software such as the ORC Liquidator allows automated trading engines for derivatives. Trading firms and banks rely on ORC Liquidator and similar software to automate a wide variety of sophisticated trading strategies on trading venues globally. Algorithmic trading is designed to react extremely quickly… Continue reading The Rise of the Robots in the Financial Industry
The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing
Ever-more people move into cities, and as the urbanisation trend continues, it is projected that hundreds of trillions of dollars will be needed for investment in urban infrastructure in upcoming decades. Where will all the money come from? Well, as we have written about previously on this blog, in general the lack of investable projects … Continue reading The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing
Disruptive Innovation in the Payment Industry
Over recent years the financial sector has confronted a dramatic increase in innovation in technology, services, and platforms and to some degree in organisational structure. The need to innovate is broadly-based and not just a financial sector challenge. Typically in financial services, as in most other sectors in todays world of increasing hyper competition, there is… Continue reading Disruptive Innovation in the Payment Industry
Virtual Reality Comes Through
Virtual Reality has been around for 30 years, but application have continuously flopped as the technology has not been mature for mainstream use. As with so many other new technologies, breakthrough is about the availability of cheap platforms, and we have this now with smart phones and low-cost computer helmet screens. With the platform in… Continue reading Virtual Reality Comes Through
From the Chariots of Ben Hur to Automatic-Driving Cars
One of the classic Christmas holiday movies is Ben Hur (1960). I remember I watched it with my father around Christmas-time one year in the 1970s. The movie is an historical epic drama which portrays a wealthy Palestinian Jewish merchant who clashes with the Romans at the time of Christ. Ben Hur´s actions sends him… Continue reading From the Chariots of Ben Hur to Automatic-Driving Cars
The Future of Urban Design
Design thinking has come out to the mainstream in both urban design and innovation this year, as we have written about in several articles. Within the field of urban design, Rory Hyde, curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at London’s Victoria and Albert museum, discusses in the video below, why he thinks citizens will play… Continue reading The Future of Urban Design