What could advertising look like in 2020 and what do we need to do to prepare for it? — Original Post: The Wharton Future of Advertising Program What could advertising look like in 2020? A. Culture breeds innovation. Advertising has always been a formula. With some applied calculus and a dash of imagination, the function of marketing becomes integral to the entire equation. However, things have changed and the formula has become a little more volatile due…

The Biased and Unsettling Low-Functioning Pre-Trained Transformers We’re Building Our Future On — Have you ever put a red shirt in the white load? Pink everywhere, right? That’s what we’re dealing with here. I totally understand viewing the world through rose-colored lenses, but this is a stretch when our future depends on it. From virtual assistants to recommendation systems, pre-trained transformers have become…

How I overcame a paralyzing fear of sharing my inside voice. — Writing isn’t just about the finished product, rather, it’s about the process in itself and the self-discovery found along the way. I guarantee what you recall in your memory changes as you type out the emotions and feelings. As you write, you may uncover things about yourself that you never…

A relationship worth putting time into and nurturing, or else. — Creativity is a process of understanding the end goal or result and the steps in which to communicate it effectively. It also involves original thinking, serendipity, and external influences which include falling down more often than desired and making mistakes. Technology helps creative professionals to be more productive, streamline and…

A Theory in Utilizing Anonymized Point Clouds — Privacy, a valuable but often elusive commodity in our digital era, receives front-and-center attention due to increasingly alarming data breaches and tracking concerns. Tech giants face escalating pressure to innovate and protect user data more rigorously. …

Algorithms silently guide our daily decisions, influencing and forming the world we live in. From the stock market to medicine, from music to national security, algorithms are becoming more sophisticated and prevalent every day. But what exactly are algorithms, and should we worry about their increasing dominance in our lives…

Can We Really Power the World with Renewable Energy? — Experts estimate that powering the world with solar energy would require 115,625 square miles of photovoltaic panels. Surprisingly, this would only occupy 1% of the Saharan desert. However, installing all those panels would be cheaper than using nuclear fuel. Is solar energy powerful enough to meet the world’s energy needs…

You may or may not have seen, nowadays companies are investing heavily in technologies to improve their employee and customer experiences, designed for allowing for greater access to all. Also of note, there has been a significant rise in investments in social initiatives to address issues of income and gender…

When Silicon Meets Chalk — In the wake of a digital dawn, the chalk-and-blackboard era of our past is ebbing away replaced instead with ones and zeros. An evolution is occurring, underpinned by the surge of Artificial Intelligence (AI), poised to re-engineer the brick-and-mortar architecture of education. But disappearing is not just the antiquated teaching…