Emerging New Jobs
(This is an on-going listing of new and emerging jobs I come across during my research. The entry date aims to give a time context. Each entry also has a short-hand for what area the job relates: AI for Artificial [read more]
technology
Sustainability and the Digital World – teach the sustainable development framework to engineering students
We are on the path of digitalizing everything that can be digital and that is pretty much everything. There is no going back to the analog world of the past. And, many of us are already too used to the [read more]
Book Review: “The God Equation” and “The Future of Humanity”
Book Review The God Equation, by Michio Kaku, Doubleday, 2021 The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar travel, Immorta lity, and our destiny beyond Earth, by Michio Kaku, Random House, 2018 I get my books from the public library and receiving [read more]
Exponential technologies and the U.N.
The term “exponential technology” was made popular by Google’s director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, in his 2005 best seller The Singularity is Near. Exponential referred to the speed and nature of technological change that is fast, usually a doubling in [read more]