#commoditisation

[eannpatterson]

Commoditisation of civil nuclear power

A colleague and I published a paper last month that we hope will bring about a paradigm shift in the nuclear power industry. I was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science on the day following its publication – its the first time one of my scientific papers has made that big a splash in the media!  You can listen to the programme on BBC Sounds at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zdwv. In…

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[chkperley]

Integrated Agro-ecological Systems Land Use vs the ‘dis-integrated’ industrial machine

Integrated Agro-ecological Systems Land Use vs the ‘dis-integrated’ industrial machine

There is a difference in kind between complex, integrated, low input, free range systems of land, soil, organic matter, fungi & macroinvertebrates, plants & animals, and …. ….. industrial high energy input feedlot systems which abuse each of those – well, and people, community & local economy as well. (And it’s destroys many functions and replaces them with yet more techno- and…

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[xanseymour]

[humanengineers]

The New Skills Marketplace

By | Abhijit Bhaduri |Keynote speaker, Author and Columnist

Five decades of opportunity is more than what any other country in the world has or will have — it is an opportunity for India to seize and establish leadership. It is now a skills marketplace

First the good news. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) data1 tells us that India currently holds the longest window of opportunity, of…

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[huzni]

I’d love to hear these corporate old farts telling landowners, entrepreneurs, and politicians in all countries with any geopolitical claim over the Amazon that they can’t profit from any single tree standing anywhere within our national borders, despite there still being countless. I fucking dare them do it. Perhaps that’s what we need in order to make landowners, entrepreneurs, and politicians think of jungles and forests not as disposable objects we should all just exploit for the sake of profit and productivity, and then plainly be done with it; but as part of a well extended web of biological and ecological systems on which our health critically depends and permanently relies.

[skandyx]

Increasing commoditisation of services a 'challenge', says Vishal Sikka

Increasing commoditisation of services a ‘challenge’, says Vishal Sikka

[ad_1] Highlighting an increase in commoditisation of services, Infosys Ltd’s CEO Vishal Sikka on Thursday stated that the newly-developed trend is a challenge for the industry and stressed on the importance of tapping the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and facilitating greater utilisation of the same. Addressing the media post the announcement of the company’s Q4 results, Sikka said:…

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[chkperley]

Propaganda and the Rhetoric of the Ruataniwha Dam

Propaganda and the Rhetoric of the Ruataniwha Dam

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell

I was taught propaganda at school. Our English master, Mr Brown, liked words. He had an inspirational way of making us pause in admiration at the bon mot. He once stopped boys in the quad by calling some poor litterer a Philistine mixed up with…

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[ewanspence]

When you mean iOS, you write Smartphone. Obviously.

Of course when the NYT writes 'Six Steps to Decluttering Your Smartphone' they actually mean 'Six Steps to Handle all the Pointless iOS apps the Author has Downloaded.'

Sam Grobart at NYT.