Lifeboat Foundation

Although I do luv online retail; my concern is will we wake up to a day with an online hangover where mid- and small-size towns/ cities no longer have the bricks-and-mortars to visit. I just hope we don’t go too overboard like we have on other things.

In the ongoing battle between traditional brick and mortar retail and online commerce, online retail has been killing it.

While Amazon is clearly the biggest beneficiary of this trend, there are many other companies benefiting as well.

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Always fun to read; most are no surprise.

As one year ends and another comes into life, it’s a time of both reflection and prediction. People tend to reflect on the past year – what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong, and also predict how things are going to go for the next 12 months. In terms of technological advancements, 2016 bought us quite a few, but according some of the biggest names in science, 2017 will be even better. Keep reading to see what they had to say:

With Norway and other countries switching away from FM Radio, how long until it’s gone completely?

This 100% recyclable house is almost entirely made of cardboard. And no, it won’t melt when it rains.

Amazon announces a new type of smart brick-and-mortar shopping with no checkouts.

The researchers at CellAge see aging differently to many people and they have a vision.

#aging #crowdfundthecure

A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate payouts to policyholders.

Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI.

The CO₂ detector space mission patch.

What it Does.

My, what big eyes you’ll have.