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New (to me) heard in Davos #wef19
- New Collar Worker (with tech &soft skills to work in tech indust obtained via nontraditional education paths)
- "We don't teach, we provide opportunities to learn"
- 1 key to 5G is v low latency
New (to me) heard in Davos #wef19
- New Collar Worker (with tech &soft skills to work in tech indust obtained via nontraditional education paths)
- "We don't teach, we provide opportunities to learn"
- 1 key to 5G is v low latency
- 5G will change our lives and economies as radically as smartphones did
- US-CN trade war is just the opening skirmish in long battle over tech dominance
- "Precise Regulation" of big tech is needed (Marc Benioff)
- US-CN trade war is just the opening skirmish in long battle over tech dominance
- "Precise Regulation" of big tech is needed (Marc Benioff)
- There is a global minimum wage for seamen; it's about $650 a month. 
- "Today's largest universities are institutions designed in the 19th century and staffed in the 20th century trying to prepare students for the 21st century" Vijay Eswaran, CEO of Qi, @vijayeswaran_QI
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In the US, universities served to educate the elite (see chart) in 1800s.
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Enrollment exploded in 20th century. many new univ founded or massively expanded - mostly on 19th century model (itself based loosely on older univ like Oxford, which was based on the Sorbonne)
In the US, universities served to educate the elite (see chart) in 1800s.
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Enrollment exploded in 20th century. many new univ founded or massively expanded - mostly on 19th century model (itself based loosely on older univ like Oxford, which was based on the Sorbonne)
