High-Grade Iron Ore Exploration in an Increasingly Steel-Hungry World: The Past, Current, and Future Role of Exploration Models and Technological Advances

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilke Dalstra ◽  
Marcus Flis
Keyword(s):  
Iron Ore ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Ore Exploration

A corpus-based investigation of techno-optimism and propositional certainty in the National Intelligence Council’s ‘Future Global Trends Reports’ (2010–2035)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Jamie McKeown
Keyword(s):  
Global Trends ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
Discursive Representations

This article reports the findings from a study of discursive representations of the future role of technology in the work of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC). Specifically, it investigates the interplay of ‘techno-optimism’ (a form of ideological bias) and propositional certainty in the NIC’s ‘Future Global Trends Reports’. In doing so, it answers the following questions: To what extent was techno-optimism present in the discourse? What level of propositional certainty was expressed in the discourse? How did the discourse deal with the inherent uncertainty of the future? Overall, the discourse was pronouncedly techno-optimist in its stance towards the future role of technology: high-technological solutions were portrayed as solving a host of problems, despite the readily available presence of low-technology or no-technology solutions. In all, 75.1% of the representations were presented as future categorical certainties, meaning the future was predominantly presented as a known and closed inevitability. The discourse dealt with the inherent uncertainty of the subject matter, that is, the future, by projecting the past and present into the future. This was particularly the case in relation to the idea of technological military dominance as a guarantee of global peace, and the role of technology as an inevitable force free from societal censorship.

scholarly journals Operating without operations: how is technology changing the role of the firm?

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Breidbach ◽  
Sunmee Choi ◽  
Benjamin Ellway ◽  
Byron W. Keating ◽  
Katerina Kormusheva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Operations Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Operations ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the history and future of service operations, with the goal to identify key theoretical and technological advances, as well as fundamental themes that can help to imagine the future of service operations in 2050. Design/methodology/approach A review of the service operations literature was undertaken to inform a discussion regarding the role that technology will play in the future of service operations. Findings The future of service operations is framed in terms of three key themes – complexity, orchestration, and elasticity. The paper makes three contributions to the service science literature by: reviewing key themes underpinning extant service operations research to frame future trajectories of service operations research; elaborating a vision of service operations in 2050 based on history and technology; and outlining a research agenda for future service operations. Practical implications The case of service automation is used to provide an illustration of how the three themes converge to define future service operations, and in particular, to show how technology is recasting the role of the firm. Originality/value Service operations in the next 30 years will be very different from what it was in the past 30 years. This paper differs from other review papers by identifying three key themes that will characterize and instill new insights into the future of service operations research.

scholarly journals The past and future role of conservation science in saving biodiversity

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
David R Williams ◽  
Andrew Balmford ◽  
David S Wilcove
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Science ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Past

Trends Affecting the Implementation of Advertising and Promotion

1973 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seymour Banks
Keyword(s):  
Future Role ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Advertising And Promotion

The past, present, and future role of advertising and promotion as seen by many of today's top business executives is described by the author. The article also reports some of the organizational and functional changes in advertising and promotion personnel made during the past 15 years.

Scotland, Malawi and Medicine: Livingstone's Legacy, I Presume? An Historical Perspective.

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
John Lwanda
Keyword(s):  
Medical History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

In this personal short historical perspective I reflect on aspects of the medical history of Malawi, formerly Nyasaland, highlighting the role of Scotland and its people in the development of the Malawi medical services in both the colonial as well as the postcolonial period which began in 1964. The paper, after discussing the history of medical training in Malawi and current constraints and challenges, goes on to make some suggestions - based on historical lessons - about future role of Scottish involvement in Malawi's medical development. It would be unfortunate if, in a rush to ‘help or do something’ the mistakes of the past are repeated.

scholarly journals Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: the past and future role of simulation models

Authorea ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Marechaux ◽  
Fanny Langerwisch ◽  
Andreas Huth ◽  
Harald Bugmann ◽  
Xavier Morin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecology ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Artificial intelligence and machine learning in dynamic cyber risk analytics at the edge

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petar Radanliev ◽  
David De Roure ◽  
Rob Walton ◽  
Max Van Kleek ◽  
Rafael Mantilla Montalvo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
New Process ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Cyber Risk

AbstractWe explore the potential and practical challenges in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber risk analytics, for improving organisational resilience and understanding cyber risk. The research is focused on identifying the role of AI in connected devices such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Through literature review, we identify wide ranging and creative methodologies for cyber analytics and explore the risks of deliberately influencing or disrupting behaviours to socio-technical systems. This resulted in the modelling of the connections and interdependencies between a system's edge components to both external and internal services and systems. We focus on proposals for models, infrastructures and frameworks of IoT systems found in both business reports and technical papers. We analyse this juxtaposition of related systems and technologies, in academic and industry papers published in the past 10 years. Then, we report the results of a qualitative empirical study that correlates the academic literature with key technological advances in connected devices. The work is based on grouping future and present techniques and presenting the results through a new conceptual framework. With the application of social science's grounded theory, the framework details a new process for a prototype of AI-enabled dynamic cyber risk analytics at the edge.

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