Jan 22, 2016
Even as digital media users spend more time online than they sleep, only every second user thinks it has improved their quality of life. This is according to more than 5 000 digital media users from Brazil, China, Germany, South Africa and the US. Paradoxically,...
Jan 21, 2016
Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Globally-averaged temperatures in 2015 shattered the previous...
Jan 20, 2016
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and genetics and biotechnology, will cause widespread disruption not only to...
Jan 19, 2016
Consumer spending by a fast-growing middle class is as important a growth driver for Africa as mineral and resource demand, according to a new survey of global logistics executives. In the survey, which is part of the 2016 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index,...
Jan 18, 2016
More than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020, according to Gartner. The impact of the IoT on consumers’ lives and corporate business models is rapidly increasing as the cost of...
Jan 15, 2016
When Russell Lethbridge walks his property in northern Australia – kicking-up clouds of dust that catch the sunlight as he assesses the grasses, shrubs and brush that fill the landscape with muted tones of green – he carries the legacy of five generations...
