What might be a failing in terms of our comprehensive knowledge of the world, is a total win for marketers and app makers.
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These leaders work in the fast-moving world of IT, and only with a deep knowledge of and curiosity about technology can they stay abreast of developments in the field.
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With a new US president with very little if any knowledge of world politics and a potentially unstable domestic platform after the recent, highly political judgement reached by the American Supreme Court, the time has never been better for Europe to take up its historic responsibility to put its own house in order.
Mr Djoghlaf also pointed to a lack of awareness and knowledge about the natural world among the public and politicians, citing a study published last September showing that nearly 40% of British children between five and 10 did not know the difference between a bee and a wasp.
But if this NCO class of the corporate world is allowed to absent itself from training programmes it will takes a wealth of knowledge and experience away with it, thereby reducing the value of formal training for everyone else.
This is a nation that met that responsibility by choosing, like your ancestors did, to keep alight the flame of knowledge and invest in a world-class education for your young people.
Moreover, a paradox has emerged in our networked world where knowledge is ubiquitous and change is rapid, but the absence of a common vision and agenda ensures that the status quo will be maintained with respect to major global challenges.
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The levels of poverty and inequality in a world rich in knowledge, technology and capital is the biggest moral issue the world faces and the biggest threat to the safety and security of the world.
Without prior knowledge of what happens in a world where power is only distributed to those who are considered worthy, the newer generations have failed to see the warning signs of a closing internet and did not demand that things remain as open as they could be.
Here are a few ways I incorporate lessons from the U.S. Navy in the world of technology start-ups to foster a culture of knowledge sharing.
Thus the 1992 Cable Act is a legal anachronism that blindly careens into the future like a 1992 time capsule devoid of knowledge of the real world of today or the amazing technological innovations in the pipeline.
"We need to move into a world in which an informed citizenry decides what use we make of knowledge, " he remarked in his speech.
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Instead of cutting education benefits, raise them to remain a world leader in secondary education and produce a highly qualified workforce of knowledge workers.
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Historians and sociologists of science have made a convincing case that language plays a crucial role in the production of knowledge about the natural world.
Steadily COPA has produced a body of knowledge about how Cirrus airplanes behave in real-world conditions that has served Cirrus supremely well.
When men like Adam Smith founded modern capitalist thinking, did they also abandon earlier knowledge of what it takes to foster a sustainable world?
To make it useful to the rest of the world requires domain knowledge, and often a transformation that is simply nonsensical within the source domain.
All the skills and knowledge in the world will not make a successful entrepreneur of a man who thinks the future is perpetually half empty.
But in a world of rapid change in the marketplace, of an increasing proportion of knowledge work, of increasing technical complexity of the work, and where customers who do not even know themselves what will delight them, stable predictable work environments are largely a thing of the past.
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The Higgs boson feels untouchably esoteric, a fragment of pure knowledge that may never be applied in the practical world.
Without these letters and the insight they provide, along with a range of other significant historical research, the world would have little or no knowledge of St Patrick's exploits, achievements and opinions.
She envisions the platform expanding to include a digital and personal network of women mentors and fledgling entrepreneurs, meant to create a meaningful exchange of information, knowledge and stories between women around the world.
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With Mr. Buffett as a business mentor, the kids learn to apply basic knowledge from the world of business to everyday adventures, and learn through hard work that in the end, the best investment they can make is in themselves.
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He finds that both institutions put a premium on deep knowledge of academic disciplines and using technology to change the world.
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Welcome to the world of data mining, also known as knowledge discovery, which is a process that evaluates data.
The marriage of the four strands is intended to Mr Deutsch to yield a unified version of the world as multiverse, in which the dominant phenomena of evolution, knowledge and the quantum enjoy jointly explanatory roles.
With support from Norway, UNESCO published a 2-volume book in the Mayangna language based on their indigenous knowledge of the natural world.
Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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It created quite a fantastic movement in the world of mixology that brought many along for the ride and elevated not only our knowledge but our palates and drinking habits.
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