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Big Data and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The potential of Big Data is slowly emerging on us, as analytical methods become increasingly more powerful in making the huge amounts of data we collect in todays society meaningful for understanding...
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Bridge to be 3D-printed in Amsterdam
The first time I saw a 3D-printer in action was at the science park in Lodz, Poland. The printer was a testbed for the science park, acquired to attract an eco-system of startup´s who would innovate...
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Development of Al-Alamein in Egypt
“Now this is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill, November 1942 Al-Alamein is a town in northern Egypt, located on...
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COP21 – What to Expect from Paris
When I travel, having the comfort of being offline, I bring myself up-to-date by reading the newspapers and magazines available in most airplanes. Over a flight from Stockholm to Zurich this afternoon,...
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Millennials and the New Age of Brand Loyalty
This morning, I read an article on Inc. Magazines website, about the Top 5 Millennial Brands, Cities, and Apps of 2015. The article was about how technology and the internet have created new behaviours...
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From the Chariots of Ben Hur to Automatic-Driving Cars
One of the classic Christmas holiday movies is Ben Hur (1960). I remember I watched it with my father around Christmas-time one year in the 1970s. The movie is an historical epic drama which portrays...
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The Key Quality of Leadership
We live in a time of constant media coverage. Nothing can be said or done on stage without public knowledge through the news, and if no journalist is around then the news is spread by civil society on...
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The World in 2016 – According to the Economist
Seasonal holiday time, a time with few work e-mails and even less phone calls. A time to reflect, rest, catch up on writing and not the least a time for family. This year my son is visiting New York...
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The Greatest Question in Science
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells,...
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Virtual Reality Comes Through
Virtual Reality has been around for 30 years, but application have continuously flopped as the technology has not been mature for mainstream use. As with so many other new technologies, breakthrough...
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The Rise of the Robots in the Financial Industry
In financial markets, automated trading has been around for many years. Software such as the ORC Liquidator allows automated trading engines for derivatives. Trading firms and banks rely on ORC...
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Cities Driving Development
To create a framework for sustainable development beyond 2015, the United Nations has announced a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals. Broader in scope than the...
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Kenyas Mega Projects
Today CNN highlight Kenya´s mega projects in a visual presentation which is worth a look. Kenya is already an infrastructure powerhouse of East Africa, but it is just the start of development. The...
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The Babel fish is Becoming Reality
In Douglas Adams iconic science fiction saga from the 1970s, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, one of the alien species is the Babel fish. To quote the book, “The Babel fish is small, yellow,...
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The State of the Financial Industry in 2016
At present, in February 2016, financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic. They are either retreating or plunging. The view of many observers is that there is a new gigantic market crash...
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The Global Economy since 1980 in 20 seconds
Many of my friends were born around 1980. It was the same year I entered high school and also the same year I travelled around in Europe for the first time, the brave teenager I was. Back then I had to...
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The Explosion of Globalisation
Conventional wisdom says that globalisation has stalled. Measured by trade statistics, the flows of goods and money to pay for goods are slowing down and even reversing. The Financial Times wrote...
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An Uber Innovation Experience in Egypt
Taxi in Egypt This week I have been working in Egypt. Taxi drivers here are notoriously know for ripping off customers, which I thoroughly experienced during my first days of my stay, when I took...
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If the World Were 100 People
The population of the world as I write this, at CET 8 PM on Tuesday March 29th, 2016, is estimated to be 7,411,904,385 people. At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world...
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The Bearing Wave in Kenya
This blog, The Bearing Wave has been around since 2009 and has reached a sizeable regular readership. Every day, several hundred people navigate to The Bearing Wave to read from the about 900 articles...
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