Catching Up On Readings: Tech Trends 2019

This feature from Vox/Recode, with the help of charts, looks back at the key technology tends that shaped 2019. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Top 25 Healthcare Supply Chain 2019

This report from Gartner recognizes the top 25 companies across the healthcare value chain that advance healthcare by improving patient outcomes and controlling costs. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Rendezvous Online Recording: November 26, 2019

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Rendezvous Online Recording: November 5, 2019

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A Technology-Fueled Career Path For Humanities Grads

The Economist recently had a cover story titled The 650bn Binge. It opens:

America has seen some spectacular investment booms: think of the railways in the 1860s, Detroit’s car industry in the 1940s or the fracking frenzy in this century. Today the latest bonanza is in full swing, but instead of steel and sand it involves scripts, sounds, screens and celebrities. This week Disney launched a streaming service which offers “Star Wars” and other hits from its vast catalogue for $6.99 a month, less than the cost of a dvd. As the business model pioneered by Netflix is copied by dozens of rivals, over 700m subscribers are now streaming video across the planet. Roughly as much cash—over $100bn this year—is being invested in content as it is in America’s oil industry. In total the entertainment business has spent at least $650bn on acquisitions and programming in the past five years.

For a while, Humanities educators around the world are facing existential questions. What is the point of an English LIterature degree?

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Rendezvous Online Recording: October 8, 2019

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Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Sci-Fi Series of 2010s

As the end of the decade draws near, this feature from Comic Years takes a look at some of the best Sci-Fi books of the past ten years. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Rendezvous Online Recording: October 29, 2019

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