Here are some hits and links to some stories that have recently caught our attention. This Bloomberg podcast goes deep into Japan’s current economic state, including the use of robots and automation to replace falling workforce numbers, (Note: podcast.) Speaking of automation and work, this piece discusses how jobs that require “emotional labor” will be…
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Well, it looks as though we are back on a semi-regular schedule. Here are things that caught our eye as we went about our business. What’s the world’s second most used resource? Did you guess sand? Neither did I. Anyway, like water, it is getting scarcer. Related to sand, rising agricultural commodity prices are…
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We’ve not done this for a while, but here are some interesting bits from our scanning that caught the eye of FA futurists today. In Sweden, the new ReTuna Återbruksgalleria shopping mall sells only recycled or upcycled goods. Connecting consumers more directly to the recycling/upcycling process could be a way to make the idea of…
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