Mayor Rahm Emmanuel last month created a Technology Industry Diversity Council, which he tasked with increasing the percentage of minority employees in technology firms, increasing the percentage of minority-owned and operated tech companies, and creating a pipeline through which students can transition into the technology economy.
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Considering the diversity and range of the technology industry, here are some important things to know about the technology field.
Yet, for all its single-minded predictability, technology has always flourished on a diversity of opinions and an unerring ability to invent alternative solutions.
Others attacked him for indecency or for his cataloguing of the limitless particulars of modern life its diversity of people, its trolley cars, its technology: literature, after all, was about higher things and ought to be properly expressed.
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The studies ranged from understanding the impact of modern technology on culture, the importance of time, diversity, the role of creators and governments in culture.
That might sound good on the surface, but it's a bad omen for competitors that genuinely can't respond in kind -- and it could erode some of the values of diversity and innovation that we're supposed to hold dear as technology fans.
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The STAR Act, introduced by John Cornyn (R-TX), would eliminate the diversity lottery and redirect those green cards toward foreign graduates of American universities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM).
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Bottom line is: there is considerable diversity in the technological capabilities and systems used by healthcare delivery organizations, and what they need from a technology perspective today is likely not what they will need tomorrow.
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Such an advanced technology might well send explorers whose size and shape we cannot yet imagine to study and examine the diversity of life that evolved elsewhere -- and rather than exploiting us, they might value and support the natural biodiversity of the galaxy.
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