Category: Brainstorm
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Mendeley Brainstorm – Quantum Computing – We Have a Winner!
Many thanks to all those who entered the Mendeley Brainstorm related to Quantum Computing; picking a winner was not easy, however in the end, we selected Rui Santos’s post: Revolution, as a concept itself, implies a shift in the until now set paradigm of thinking and doing. As offered now, computing runs the output scenario…
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Mendeley Brainstorm – The Gig Economy – We Have a Winner!
Many thanks to all those who entered the Mendeley Brainstorm related to The Gig Economy; picking a winner was not easy, however in the end, we selected Rita O’Connell’s post: From the perspective of the dominant companies behind the rise of the gig economy, the prevailing designation of the gig workforce is not one of…
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Mendeley Brainstorm – Quantum Computing: Close to Prime Time?
Recently, PhD students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology made a breakthrough in the field of Quantum Computing. They successfully simulated a 45-qubit quantum circuit; this brings closer the day when current computers will be obsolete. Is quantum computing an evolution or revolution? What will be its effects? We are looking for the most…
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Mendeley Brainstorm – The Future of Energy – We Have a Winner!
Many thanks to all those who entered the Mendeley Brainstorm related to The Future of Energy; picking a winner was not easy, however in the end, we selected Neil Frandsen’s post: Folks, I write from the viewpoint of a mountain-born, high plains of Alberta raised, retired Seismic Surveyor. For ye Urb-folk, this means that I…
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Mendeley Brainstorm – The Gig Economy: Potent or Precarious?
The “gig economy” is a fact of life. To “Uber” has become a verb. Airbnb is ubiquitous. People sell their skills in short term engagements via freelancing websites. This has opened up a world of low-cost services; however, is the gig economy’s destruction of secure employment worth it? We are looking for the most well…
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