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Archive of posts filed under the Jim Spohrer’s Blog category.

Building Resilient Societies

Good read and picture http://tinyurl.com/3aw4tsb and relates to whole service http://tinyurl.com/3r983y2

Make A Job Don’t Take A Job

Entrepreneurship as key skill for this and future generations, read report http://tinyurl.com/26jf9k6

More robots than employees

Foxconn news http://tinyurl.com/3kx3xet
Downward spiral for skills and jobs? http://tinyurl.com/tiz1 Or upward spiral? http://tinyurl.com/3ortgu4

Flying Robot Builders

Watch the video

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/19/university-researchers-create-networked-flying-robots-build-complex-structures/#

Innovation Ecosystem Summit at Stanford

Martha Russell (Stanford MediaX) convened us for #IESummit. http://www.innovation-ecosystems.org

Manufacturing as a Local Recycling Service

Janet Unruh has the right idea in Recycle Everything. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eokh-6d6QVc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Manufacturing as a Printing Service

Z Corp Burlington MA from National Geographic on 3D printing of tools. See

Economist Debate: Manufacturing

Can a national economy thrive without a large manufacturing sector? See the results now available Join post debate discussion http://www.economist.com/debate/debates/overview/207

Earthmine

Earthmine… one step closer to augmented reality and WorldBoard type system http://www.earthmine.com/conference/agenda.html

Italy Service Operations

L Smith (Exeter UK) Service Operations Management Forum, Florence, Italy Sept 19-20, 2011.  See http://www.som2011.org