Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
Bill Gates,
innovators,
eco,
economist,
nuclear,
Nathan Myhrvold,
travelling-wave reactor,
TerraPower
The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
research,
technology,
financial,
government,
energy,
university,
innovators,
science,
car
One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.
Monday, June 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
energy,
india,
innovators,
science,
economist
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of food giant Nestlé, told the Economist’s ‘The World in 2009’: “under present conditions… we will run out of water long before we run out of fuel”.
Friday, April 24, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
innovators,
broadband,
financial innovation,
starbucks,
telecoms,
voip,
3-d imaging,
mobile financial services,
global banking
Data is about to drive some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions the global markets have ever seen. Some banks are preparing for a breathtaking integration of telecom delivery channels which will leave their competitors gasping for growth.
