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Articles by Ed Sappin
Banks Are Under Fire for Their Funding of the Climate Crisis. Here’s How One Says It’s Stepping Up.
It does not take much internet sleuthing to end up gorging on data and analysis that suggests many of the world’s largest financial institutions have lit many of the matches that fired up the global climate crisis. Much of the criticism is based on the fact that the same financial institutions which say they are all-in on fighting climate change are also financing fossil fuel projects — to the tune of almost $4 trillion since the Paris climate agreement alone, according to one estimate.
Joe Biden’s EV Love Letter to The Big 3 Automakers and Their Unionized Employees
With the infrastructure and electrification focus of the new American Jobs Plan, President Joe Biden has set the stage for the “Big 3” U.S. automakers to enjoy a thriving market for their new electric vehicles in the years to come.
Is ESG Investing Poised to Take Another Giant Leap Forward?
The electronics giant Samsung announced in late February that it was redoubling its efforts toward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives, offering one more piece of evidence of just how seriously corporate sustainability, and ESG investing, are now regarded.
This Venture Capital Firm Invests in Diversity, Social Good and Long-Term Profits
In business, the opportunity to practice social good can start in the investment sphere itself. Venture capital firms not only can bolster financial outcomes for startups and small businesses, but also help drive company culture. To that end, Muse Capital invests in social impact companies and advocates for diversity and inclusion in start-ups. The Los-Angeles based seed stage fund is a diverse female team and holds a 50 percent minority or female-led portfolio.
You Just Lost Your Job Because of COVID. Is an AI Career the Answer?
What can you do when a global pandemic cuts your best-laid career plans short? An August report in Time Magazine indicated that 40 million jobs were lost at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and 42 percent of them are likely gone forever. If yours counts among the lost, your best bet for finding a replacement might be to aim your career trajectory towards one of the sectors that is growing exponentially such as artificial intelligence.
With the Pandemic Savaging Jobs, Could Your Future Lie in Artificial Intelligence?
What can you do when a global pandemic cuts your best-laid career plans short? An August report in Time Magazine indicated that 40 million jobs were lost at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and 42 percent of them are likely gone forever. If yours counts among the lost, your best bet for finding a replacement might be to aim your career trajectory towards one of the sectors that are growing exponentially, such as artificial intelligence.
If IoT is Built On Sensing, How Good Are Our Sensors?
Smart technology does what we tell it to do, in theory. That might seem obvious in a world where Alexa can dim our lights on command, manipulate our thermostats or connect us with the delivery person knocking at our door, but given how much we are starting to take these capabilities for granted, let’s start here. Of course, our internet of things (IoT) devices are only ever as good as the data their sensors gather.
How to prevent an AI-induced mid-career crisis
By Ed Sappin At this point, it feels like I’ve heard countless stories about workers who are restless about the effects that AI will have on their jobs and their careers in the relatively near future. While we must certainly take into account that the nature of certain workplaces and the human roles within them may change, I believe a proactive approach in adapting can make all the difference in withstanding AI’s advent in the workforce.
How to prevent an AI-induced mid-career crisis
At this point, it feels like I’ve heard countless stories about workers who are restless about the effects that AI will have on their jobs and their careers in the relatively near future. While we must certainly take into account that the nature of certain workplaces and the human roles within them may change, I believe a proactive approach in adapting can make all the difference in withstanding AI’s advent in the workforce.
What Asia's Love-Hate Relationship With Cryptocurrency Means For Investors
2018 was the year of cryptocurrency, to hear the news tell it. Even as bitcoin, Ethereum and others rose to unprecedented heights, fell and fell some more, one thing is now certain: Love them or hate them, blockchain and cryptocurrencies are here to stay. If you’re a technologist or crypto enthusiast, what does this mean? Blockchain and crypto are emerging from their decadelong infancy, and governments around the world are all reacting differently.
Clean Energy Makes More Business Sense Than Ever Before
We are in the midst of a clean energy revolution. Renewables have never been more efficient or cheaper, and while some roadblocks remain (notably the scaling of energy storage), it’s clear that society is at a tipping point. In the coming years and decades, solar panels on rooftops will likely become more common than gas stations along highways. Many companies and consumers have jumped onto the clean energy train, though some lingering resistance remains.
2019: The End of the Beginning for Blockchain?
Last year was a painful one for cryptocurrencies and blockchain. After crypto prices hit all time highs a year ago, the market cap for all cryptocurrencies dropped more than $500 billion by the end of 2018, with many altcoins suffering as bad or worse as bitcoin. There’s no shortage of claims that the death of crypto is at hand. But is it?
Rising Interest Rates Loom Over Energy and Infrastructure
The Federal Reserve continued to raise interest rates in 2018 as we reached the end of one of the longest bull markets in United States history. As the market cycle turns and the likely economic correction plays out in the coming months and years, what are the implications for the energy and infrastructure markets, which have greatly benefited from low interest rates? Interest rates have been historically low since the 2008 financial crisis to encourage borrowing and to boost economic activity.
2019: The End of the Beginning for Blockchain?
Last year was a painful one for cryptocurrencies and blockchain. After cyrpto prices hit all time highs a year ago, the market cap for all cryptocurrencies dropped more than $500 billion by the end of 2018, with many altcoins suffering as bad or worse as bitcoin. There’s no shortage of claims that the death of crypto is at hand. But is it?
The Rise Of The (Self-Replicating) Machines
By now, it’s a truism that automation will replace certain careers while leaving others intact. Experts believe the most vulnerable are jobs that require routine, rote tasks: a bookkeeper, a secretary or a factory worker. Each of these involve highly repetitive and predictable duties easily taught to machines. By that logic, roles that require abstract thinking should be safe. This includes graphic designers and software programmers, who must think deeply (and creatively) in order to solve problems.
Would You Trust An AI To Look After Your Business Finances?
Artificial intelligence is on the rise. I write and read extensively on AI, and one gets the impression that this is a zero-sum proposition: Either everything improves and we will live in a Utopia — or we face an imminent apocalypse. Thankfully, things are not so black and white. Automation, long seen as a killer of jobs, may displace fewer people than experts once believed.
7 Ways Entrepreneurs Drive Economic Development
Entrepreneurs create businesses, businesses create jobs and people with jobs make good customers..
Why We'll Never Be Able To Use Siri Like Dwayne Johnson
There are a couple of things we may never be able to do like Dwayne Johnson. Rocking a black turtleneck, for instance. Or using Siri to order a Lyft for you in under 60 seconds. You might check your phone in the middle of a conversation. There’s a physical person sitting across from you, but you get that itch to link up with the digital world. The result: You unintentionally ignore every word they’re saying. So how can you stop this from happening?
Will Self-Driving Cars End The Big Automakers?
Technological innovation is at the heart of modern development, driving society forward and creating new opportunities, while disrupting and destroying existing industry after existing industry. The mobility sector is no different, and in the near future, innovations will alter transportation and how automakers and drivers engage with cars. In California, it’s projected that 600,000 driving jobs will die off due to automation technology.
Three Tech Innovations Leading The Smartphone To Its Grave
The rotary phone. The beeper. The fax machine. These communication devices were revolutionary upon invention, but they're now all but extinct. Is the smartphone next? The smartphone is the most widely used mobile technology in the United States — as of 2018, 77% of U.S. adults own a smartphone, according to Pew Research Center. It's created swift and interconnected communications, offering people the ability to connect with friends and family in seconds.
4 ways AI could help shape the future of medicine
At times, progress occurs so quickly that it’s difficult to separate science fiction from real life. Just five decades ago, computers were massive, unwieldy machines running on punch cards and primitive circuits. Today, a single smartphone has more processing power than the computer used on the Apollo missions. AI has benefited greatly from this explosion in computing power and capability.
The 3D Printing Revolution is Leaving Its Mark. Just Not in the Way You Expect
Once upon a time, 3D printing was the next big thing. The 3D printing revolution was eager to deliver a world of make-upon-demand items, we imagined a society free of factories. Instead, each household would have an advanced 3D printer that could conjure up whatever your heart desired. In many ways, our ideas of 3D printers were heavily influenced by science fiction. Like replicators from Star Trek, we thought that 3D printers could simply print out objects from whatever schematics were available.
We need small players to help shape the future of AI
Google, Alibaba, Facebook, Baidu, and other tech giants are leading the charge in developing and acquiring AI companies and talent. Many observers have expressed concern that the big players are dominating what will be one of the most important fields in technology. Unlike past waves of technological development, the AI boom could shut out startups and entrepreneurs.
How AI could create a world of haves and have-nots
We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Artificial intelligence is all over the news, with tech titans arguing over whether it is a force for good or bad. An equally important question is whether AI will further stratify society, creating a world of haves and have-nots.
How AI and IoT must work together
As artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) become more commonplace, it is both useful and important to understand how these two important trends work together to benefit specialists and the average person alike. How can AI control and potentially improve the rollout of IoT? For starters, IoT creates a tremendous amount of data. That data can be captured (enter: big data) and analyzed. But it is not realistic to do this tracking by human effort, given the sheer volume of data.
4 Steps From Startup to a Growth-Stage Company
You’ve taken the plunge and started a new business. You made it through the first year and turned a profit - congratulations. When an entrepreneur takes an idea and turns it into a profitable business, it’s a cause for celebration. But it’s not enough to just keep doing the same thing -- continued success is going to depend on different and evolving strategies.
7 Ways Entrepreneurs Drive Economic Development
Entrepreneurs create businesses, businesses create jobs and people with jobs make good customers. October 20, 2016 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There’s been a lot of talk lately about the future of work. Much of the time, these conversations are fueled by the anxiety many of us share as we try to understand the impact new technologies will have on our industries.
6 Ways to Leverage Global Innovation to Grow Your Business by @esappin
The World has been Flat for more than a decade, and our worldwide market continues bringing people and countries closer and closer. Competition and opportunity increase as technology travels across the globe in milliseconds. Collectively tuned into streams of newsfeeds, with an on-demand global database of knowledge at our fingertips, we are of a century awash in innovation. Businesses and people, are for the most part, better for it.So what does this mean for your company?
The Internet of Things Promises a Future of Being Coddled by Your Appliances
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We interact with countless things each day that support us as we sleep, eat, work and play -- the bed we get out of in the morning, the shower head, your toothbrush, the car steering wheel, your watch and your lunchbox. Your stove, blender and refrigerator -- you get the picture. What if these objects, on which we rarely spare a second thought, had intelligence of their own?
To Make Investors Care About The Environment Show Them the Money!
Apply now to be an Enterpreneur360™ company and let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Often times, investors don't appear to care about the environment. It seems they only care about the almighty dollar. Traditionally, the main priority of investors has only been financial return, meaning social and environmental impacts have played second fiddle, if at all.
The candidates are wrong about China
The issue: China should play by international rules on market access, trade and currency and not "take" U.S. jobs. What the candidates say: China and international trade are ugly phrases in a populist year. Hillary Clinton, an architect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now opposes it. She rails against unfair currency manipulation. Bernie Sanders decries China's economic and trade practices as taking away from U.S. workers to line the pockets of wealthy global corporations.
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