Miss You Amma! Rest in peace My Guardian Angel!

A stronger heart stopped beating

Hard working hands at rest,

It broke my heart to see you go,

God only takes the best!

They say that memories are golden

Well may be that is true

But I never wanted memories

I only wanted you

Your life was love and labour

Your love for family true

You did your best for all of us

We will always remember you

I sat beside your bedside

Heart crushing and sore

I did my duty to the end

Till I could do no more

In tears, I watched you sleeping

Watching you silently fade away

And though my heart was breaking

I knew, you could not stay

Our lips never spoke how much we loved

Our hearts cannot tell what to say

But God only know how I miss you

In our home that is lonely today

I fought with you as a child

Behaving rather weird and wild

Today, I weep like a craving child

Waiting for the comfort hug even mild

Every time I fell, you gave your hand

To raise again, to emerge more stronger

Every time I made a mistake, you were my eraser

Wiping away the dirt, and letting me rewrite

Rest now Angel, in peace, n comfort

With no clinical syringes pricking you to live

Rest now Angel, in happiness n strength

Having reunited with dad after so long

Rest now Angel, with no pain of sickness

With no watching over motors or meters

Rest now Angel, with no waiting for calls

Or for those few days you get to rejoice

Rest now Angel, the peace is now all yours

With no one to interrupt or take away

Rest now Angel, within the God's wings

Not hearing the barking dogs or whispering hallucinations

Rest now Angel, knowing for sure

That you have raised children who are strong

Rest now Angel, knowing for truth

That you have left behind a legacy unparalleled

Stay there, calm, healthy and at peace

Until we get to meet again

Stay there dear mom, for heaven is your place

That gained with so much sacrifice

Love you loads mom, for you are no ordinary woman

You are one of resilience, inner strength and strong will

Love you loads mom, not because you left us behind

Just because we just got lucky being your kind

Words cannot suffice, to heal the pain

Our loss today, is heaven's forever gain

Our beloved mother, Smt. P. G. Sampath Kumari passed away on 7 Aug 2018, Tuesday.

She was a symbol of woman strength and sacrifice battling all her life, with a chronic asthma that squeezed her lungs,  with the unexpected tragedy of losing our dad when she was in mid-40's and there after having had to raise 3 minor daughters all by herself with her government job in Madras Municipal Corporation where she worked for 35+ years despite all physical and emotional struggles.  There are plenty of takeaways from her life.   She never showed emotions or expressed love in words, but she did her duty diligently.   She build her home step by step, brick after brick, with her blood and sweat, the tired steps she took with her pulling asthma.   She used to preserve every penny possible so that we had the best of education.  She had master 5 year plans to ensure all three of us got married at the right time or even earlier. All this with no loans and systematic planning on the meager salary she earned.  She showed all her love and care for her three grandchildren who became her world in the last few years.   She loved travel and managed to make trips to USA, Canada, Nepal,  Singapore and Malaysia and all over India.   She missed her most planned trip to Europe due to the hand fracture last year.  Probably she is now in a much better place traveling all over the skies watching us over and keeping us safe.  Tribute to an epitome of motherhood.

My journey of becoming a Lawyer :-)

This is the story of a man who had great dreams for his daughters.   A ordinary middle class state government employee had great aspirations, a wonderful heart,  a lovely smile on his face always and happiness was his only goal in life.   He was simple man with high thinking.  He raised his daughters equal to sons in the gender discriminate society.  And one of his dreams was to make one of his daughters a lawyer.  He injected the seed of service and aspiration to pursue law in her when she was young.  This seed grew into a passion and became the girl's most favorite dream.  However, destiny had its own say and took him away before even his girls could reach the college.  Life turned overnight

A man who dreamt big for his daughters and mother who did the best she could

There was no room for dreams, passions or aspirations.  It was only a struggle to survive.  A mother with 3 minor girls was left alone to raise them.  The woman could not give space for dreams for the need of the hour was more important, to feed them, to give them the lifestyle they had when the father was alive, to give the best of education, to ensure they are married off and settled as soon as life gave a chance.  To her, the only goal was to see them married off.   This young girl could not pursue her dream of law when she was out of the school and was entering college.  She had to go by what her mother could afford,  could provide and finally ended up with a different education and career followed by a marriage that even needed more attention and adjustments.  

Despite all the changes in life, the struggles and successes that embraced her in different spheres of life,  the young girl, now a middle aged woman, still held her dream tight in her head.   It was in 2015,at the age of 39, a year before her own daughter was entering college, she took that one daring step to pursue her dream....get back to college of law, to fulfill her passion and do her best.   There were no plans to leave the career she built over two decades, however, the pursuit of happiness lies in making her dream come true.

With a full time job, a family that is dependent on her, her commitment to the social work,  and then this one step to study further.   It was not easy, but not impossible.  It took 3 full years to focus on the course.  Several weekend trips to Bangalore to the college, lot of early morning and late night hours studying and continuous encouragement from her friends, full support from family,  sharing books and study material and tips to crack the exams from her closest batch mates,  those early morning dormitory revisions, long weekend stays in hotels to have uninterrupted study hours, working after exams, and then taking those many train journeys gave so much of learning and experiences of lifetime. 

Finally on July 28th, 2018 after 3 years of chasing this dream, the much awaited results of the final semester came in.   The one three letter word 'LLB' became her own.   She dedicated this graduation degree to her father who injected the dream in her.  

Yes, officially Umasree Sampath Kumar LLB is now a reality.

Many of my friends asked me if I am quitting IT and pursuing Law as a career full time.  It is a decision that time alone will decide.  For now, I am just happy being a Lawyer and helping the NGO's I am associated with on the legal advice and rehabilitation of abused girl children,  cage girls,  HIV affected and transgenders. This will not have conflict of interest with my work that I still love doing.  Project management to me is way of life.

Those weekend Practicals! Rajiv Gandhi College of Law, KSLU

I am grateful to my husband and daughter, my loving sisters, my beloved nephews and few closest friends, my colleagues  who were strength to me in chasing this dream.   Today, I am happy soul.  Feeling contented and fulfilling.  To many it may just be a degree. but for me it is a dream that came true...

Midnight flight to Bangalore to attend the Moot Court-  Toppers!

My closest friends...bonded in law, friendship that is beautiful

Brian Regu started the Moot Court Practicals

Umasree Raghunath aka Umasree Sampath Kumar, B.Com, CWA(Inter), MBA,LLB!

Z for Zachman Framework

The Zachman Framework is a visual aid for organizing ideas about enterprise technology. It is attributed to IBM professional John Zachman, as presented in the article "A Framework for Information Systems Architecture" published in the IBM Systems Journal in 1987.

IT Experts describe the Zachman Framework as an "ontology" composed of a matrix that orders the aspects of enterprise resources and stakeholders. One axis of the matrix is composed of the traditional "5 Ws + H" model used in traditional print journalism, i.e., who, what, where, when, why and how. The other includes labels such as "scope" and "model" that further define projects.

The name Zachman Framework was trademarked by its original author.

The title "Zachman Framework" refers to The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture with version 3.0 being the most current. The Zachman Framework has evolved in its thirty-year history to include:

• The initial framework, named A Framework for Information Systems Architecture, by John Zachman published in a 1987 article in the IBM Systems journal.^[5]
• The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, an update of the 1987 original in the 1990s extended and renamed .^[6]
• One of the later versions of the Zachman Framework, offered by Zachman International as industry standard.

Collage of Zachman Frameworks as presented in several books on Enterprise Architecture from 1997 to 2005.

In other sources the Zachman Framework is introduced as a framework, originated by and named after John Zachman, represented in numerous ways, see image. This framework is explained as, for example:

• a framework to organize and analyze data,^[7]
• a framework for enterprise architecture.^[8]
• a classification system, or classification scheme^[9]
• a matrix, often in a 6x6 matrix format
• a two-dimensional model^[10] or an analytic model.
• a two-dimensional schema, used to organize the detailed representations of the enterprise.^[11]

Beside the frameworks developed by John Zachman, numerous extensions and/or applications have been developed, which are also sometimes called Zachman Frameworks, however they generally tend to be graphical overlays of the actual framework itself.

The Zachman Framework summarizes a collection of perspectives involved in enterprise architecture. These perspectives are represented in a two-dimensional matrix that defines along the rows the type of stakeholders and with the columns the aspects of the architecture. The framework does not define a methodology for an architecture. Rather, the matrix is a template that must be filled in by the goals/rules, processes, material, roles, locations, and events specifically required by the organization. Further modeling by mapping between columns in the framework identifies gaps in the documented state of the organization.^[12]

The framework is a logical structure for classifying and organizing the descriptive representations of an enterprise. It is significant to both the management of the enterprise, and the actors involved in the development of enterprise systems.^[13] While there is no order of priority for the columns of the Framework, the top-down order of the rows is significant to the alignment of business concepts and the actual physical enterprise. The level of detail in the Framework is a function of each cell (and not the rows). When done by IT the lower level of focus is on information technology, however it can apply equally to physical material (ball valves, piping, transformers, fuse boxes for example) and the associated physical processes, roles, locations etc. related to those items

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachman_Framework
 https://www.techopedia.com/definition/30657/zachman-framework

 

Y for YOUTUBE- How it works?

How YouTube works

YouTube began in early 2005 and has grown rapidly. Every minute, people around the world upload more than 300 hours worth of video footage to YouTube.
YouTube has the second-largest search engine in the world, behind Google (which owns YouTube). This means people are constantly searching for information using YouTube and discovering videos relating to these topics.

YouTube videos

YouTube provides a simple way for people to store videos online and share them with others. YouTube videos cover any topic anyone cares to upload a video about. These videos are easy to share via other forms of social media, email and websites and can also be embedded in other websites.
Beside every video on YouTube is a list of 'suggested videos' - videos that YouTube's search engine calculates are likely to interest people who watch the video you are watching.
YouTube encourages viewers to express their opinion of videos they watch, to store videos to watch later and to share videos they like. You can make a video publicly available to anyone, or share it privately with selected people.

YouTube Analytics

YouTube Analytics is a self-service analytics and reporting tool. It provides data about each video you upload, so you can easily track how many views it gets, where people are coming from to find it and what type of people are watching it.

YouTube Analytics can give you information about:

• the 'firsts' for the video, including the first referral from a related video, first referral from a YouTube search (including the search terms used), first time the video is embedded in another website
• how many views came from each referral source
• which gender and age groups the video is most popular with
• which countries the video is most popular in
• how many comments and ratings it has received.

As an example, the YouTube Analytics for the Queensland Government's video on 'Crab rules in Queensland' on its fisheriesqld channel show that it is most popular with males aged 55-64 in Australia. It also shows that 52.5% of views for embedded videos have come via the website of a commercial crab pot manufacturer that embedded the video in its site.

YouTube channels

You can set up a YouTube channel for your business, bringing all your videos together. This allows you to customise your channel with images representing your firm. Your channel includes an 'About' section where you can provide a short description of your business and a link to your website or contact details.
Your channel is where you group the videos you make and upload, the videos you watch and like, and the playlists of videos you create.
Your channel will have a web address (URL) that you can promote on your website or marketing material. People can subscribe to your channel. This means when they log in to YouTube your videos will be listed on their YouTube homepage.
You can also create 'playlists' within your YouTube channel to organise your videos by subject or type. For example, you could have a playlist featuring videos about each of your product categories, or you might have a playlist for videos contributed by your customers for a video competition you run.

YouTube advertising

YouTube incorporates features that let businesses promote their videos to people who might be interested in them, targeting customers by demographics, topics or interests.
Advertisers pay each time someone views their video. You can choose which locations your ad will appear in, what format it will be, and even how much you are prepared to pay per view (if you want to boost the prominence of your ad over your competitors). YouTube's advertising guide explains how it works.

Other video sharing services

Other examples of video sharing services include:

• Vimeo: a video website popular with more serious video producers interested in higher quality video production
• Facebook video: the most popular social media site, Facebook, allows users to upload, create and send videos as well as photos and text
• Flickr: primarily a photo sharing site, but can share videos up to 90 seconds as well.

Source: 

https://www.business.qld.gov.au/running-business/marketing-sales/marketing-promotion/online-marketing/youtube/how
 

X for XML-RPC ! One difficult alphabet to figure it out

XML-RPC is a simple, portable way to make remote procedure calls over HTTP. It can be used with Perl, Java, Python, C, C++, PHP and many other programming languages. Implementations are available for Unix, Windows and the Macintosh.

Here's a short XML-RPC client written in Perl.

use Frontier::Client; $server = Frontier::Client->new(url => 'http://betty.userland.com/RPC2'); $name = $server->call('examples.getStateName', 41); print "$name\n";

When run, this program will connect to the remote server, get the state name, and print it. (State #41 should be South Dakota in this example.)
Here's the same program in Python. (This time, we use Fredrik Lundh's xmlrpclib.)

python> import xmlrpclib python> server = xmlrpclib.Server("http://betty.userland.com/RPC2") python> server.examples.getStateName(41) 'South Dakota'

In the following chapters, you'll learn how to write XML-RPC clients and servers in a variety of programming languages.

How it Works

XML-RPC is described fully in Dave Winer's official specification. If you're curious, go ahead and take a look—it's a quick and straight-forward read.
On the wire, XML-RPC values are encoded as XML:

sample.sumAndDifference 5 3

This is verbose, but compresses readily. It's also faster than you might expect—according to measurements by Rick Blair, a round-trip XML-RPC call takes 3 milliseconds using Hannes Wallnöfer's Java implementation.

Supported Data Types

XML-RPC supports the following data types:

int

A signed, 32-bit integer.

string

An ASCII string, which may contain NULL bytes. (Actually, several XML-RPC implementations support Unicode, thanks to the underlying features of XML.)

boolean

Either true or false.

double

A double-precision floating point number. (Accuracy may be limited in some implementations.)

dateTime.iso8601

A date and time. Unfortunately, since XML-RPC forbids the use of timezones, this is very nearly useless.

base64

Raw binary data of any length; encoded using Base64 on the wire. Very useful. (Some implementations don't like to receive zero bytes of data, though.)

array

An one-dimensional array of values. Individual values may be of any type.

struct

A collection of key-value pairs. The keys are strings; the values may be of any type.

The History of XML-RPC

XML-RPC was inspired by two earlier protocols. The first is an anonymous RPC protocol designed by Dave Winer and announced in an old DaveNet essay. (This is why XML-RPC servers are often installed under /RPC2.) The other, more important inspiration was an early draft of the SOAP protocol.

A longer history of XML-RPC has been generously provided by Dave Winer. This also explains the relationship between XML-RPC and SOAP.

Reference : 

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XML-RPC-HOWTO/xmlrpc-howto-intro.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC
 

W for Wallet - e-Wallet Technology and how it works

The traditional leather wallet is your stalwart companion for safekeeping precious possessions of all kinds. It holds tightly your cash, credit cards, family pictures, driver's license, insurance identification, shopping loyalty cards and more. Alas, your wallet grows thicker and more unwieldy by the day; your spine shrieks every time you sit on it the wrong way.

Oh, and it's entirely unsecure. Any crook that gets his hot little hands on your wallet can easily blow all of your cash and possibly wring your credit accounts dry, too. In spite of that fact, 85 percent of transactions across the globe are still based on cash and checks [source: Yahoo News]. Americans alone wrote around 14 billion checks in 2009 [source: Huffington Post].

To combat theft, simplify your finances, avoid being the "check-writing guy" in line at the store and maybe even ward off trips to the chiropractor, perhaps it's time for a wallet upgrade. For that, you might consider the digital wallet.

Before we go any further, understand that the term digital wallet is a blanket descriptor for a range of technologies that let you perform many tasks. In general, though, a digital wallet (also sometimes called an e-wallet) is a transformation in the way you pay for things.

Many digital wallet services work through apps on your smartphone. At the supermarket, for instance, you might simply tap your phone to a compatible check-out register to pay instantly. For others, all you need to use them is something you know, such as your mobile phone number and a PIN (personal identification number).

No matter what form it takes, a digital wallet is based on encryption software that substitutes for your old, analog wallet during monetary transactions. You benefit from the protection and convenience. Merchants benefit because they're more protected against fraud and they sell more products, faster.
A smartphone digital wallet will help you pay for stuff, but it will also store your concert tickets, bus and subway passes and gift cards. Retailers will reward your loyalty by offering instant freebies, discounts and coupons. Your digital wallet might even unlock the doors to your house.


A digital wallet could alter the way you organize your finances and your life in general.

Source:  https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/digital-wallet.htm

V for Vodcasting! A step ahead to Video Podcasting

fter podcasting, which lets users subscribe to audio files, comes vodcasting, the easiest way to bring Internet video to your desktop. Here's how it works.

Portable video players make watching vodcasts a snap

 
What is vodcasting? 
 
A step beyond podcasting, vodcasting, also called video podcasting or vlogging, adds video to the downloadable sound files podcast listeners are used to. Download the video files is a simple matter of subscribing to a vodcast in one of the many freely available directory programs.

After downloading and saving them to a portable video player, users can choose when and where they want to watch the video, making them independent of television programming schedules. A number of vodcasting tools also exist to help turn people from mere video consumers to producers
.
Apple added vodcasting support to its popular iTunes software, which lets users subscribe to pod and vodcasts and automatically downloads the most recent updates. Ipodder, another popular service that started with podcasts, also has a vodcast directory.

Vodcasts' large file size makes a flat rate, broadband Internet connection a necessity to speed up downloads and keeps costs down. Watching the video away from the computer also requires a mobile video player, which are often built into newer PDAs and many MP3 players, including the iPod Video.

How does vodcasting work? 

Many vodcasts are listed in the iTunes directory

The RSS feeds, short for really simple syndication, bloggers started using in 2001 to send their entries directly to readers' inboxes are just as useful when it comes to receiving vodcasts. An enclosure feature, standard to RSS feeds, allows links to videos that can be processed by programs like iTunes and Ipodder, which then download the vodcasts automatically, and leaves subscribers only with the work of finding vodcasts that catch their interest.

Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp)

Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp)

Ubiquitous Computing  also called Ubicomp (a concept in computer science) can occur using any
device at any location and in any format. A user interacts with the computer (which can be in many different forms like laptops, computers, glasses, watches, refrigerators, terminals etc) constantly. Simply the computing is made to appear anywhere and everywhere.
Ubiquitous Computing employs internet, middleware, operating system, mobile code, sensors and other technologies to support and operate the system.

Putting it together, Ubiquitous Computing  aims to provide small, inexpensive and robust network processing devices.



Source:
http://lmeasy.blogspot.in/2015/11/ubiquitous-computing-ubicomp.html


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Technology Trends that dominate 2018 and going forward

In the age of disruption, businesses and their leaders will rise or fall based on their ability to spot and creatively respond to rapid technological change. Some companies notice an emerging technology and take a “wait and see” attitude. Others see a new technology and take action. They begin experimenting, making small bets, and learning.

Their attitude is that it’s never too early to start. It’s never too early to begin looking at what others are already doing. It’s never too early to engage the imagination to conceive of how the new technology could be used to create competitive advantage.

These "fast movers" often jumpstart creative applications by asking themselves leading questions such as:

• Where is this technology likely to be in five years?
• When will it become mainstream?
• How might it help us differentiate, and to add value to customers? To improve speed of satisfaction, manage choice and complexity, and enhance customer experience?
• How will/could this new technology help us gain productivity and become a better place to work?

With such questions in mind, what follows are eight technologies that are ripe for exploitation by your company in 2018, and beyond:

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to go mainstream.
Real Estate giant Coldwell Banker is experimenting with AI to target classes of likely buyers for a specific property, and piloting new AI software that helps identify likely sellers. Leading law firms use AI to scan thousands of legal documents in minutes, rather than weeks, to build stronger cases at a fraction of the cost.
While Netflix, Amazon, Google and Facebook pioneered artificial intelligence, AI is beginning to be deployed by increasing numbers of mid-sized and even small businesses. Here, the applications are exploding.  At Coldwell Banker, when their data shows a confluence of events, the software alerts the company to a likely new prospect. For example, the homeowner’s youngest kid just went off to college. The couple has been in their home beyond the average of 10 years.  And it sees that the couple has been online browsing for properties in North Carolina. AI brings these data-points together and concludes that this household is likely to be selling soon. “If we can find those people before they even know they’re selling, we’re that much ahead,” Coldwell Banker CEO Charles Young tells Chief Executive Magazine.

2. Apps are becoming essential tools for boosting customer convenience and employee productivity. What are you app to do next?
Fort Worth, Texas-based startup Booster Fuels saves time-strapped motorists a trip to the gas station. When you order fuel on your Booster app, they bring the gasoline to you. Startup businesses like Booster Fuels are taking advantage of the app trend to address unmet customer needs. And established companies like Safeco auto insurance are finding new ways to use apps to add value to customers — and improve worker productivity.
Safeco’s auto insurance customers can now report an auto accident using the company’s app. Right from the accident scene, customers can submit photos, report what happened, and arrange for a tow — all by using Safeco’s innovative app. Fast movers will increasingly use mobile apps for on-the spot-troubleshooting, managing inventory, providing on-site estimates, generating invoices, and gathering data that can be used to better understand customer preferences.
Pest control operator Rentokil uses a proprietary app to give its field technicians a productivity edge. When confused by a type of bug or rodent, they simply snap a photo and run the app, which sifts through a data-bank of pest images to quickly identify the intruder. The app even suggests remediation solutions. Voila, problem solved.

3. Wearable technology. Already enhancing guest experience at Carnival Cruise Lines.
Modern cruise ships carry over 6000 passengers and offer everything from violin concerts to bungee jumping to belly dancing classes. But there’s a problem. Carnival Cruise Lines’ research showed that so many choices were overwhelming guests and creating an anxious-prone customer experience. So, Carnival created a wearable technology to help customers avoid “over-choice.” Passengers are given the option to wear a wristband device synced with a companion app on their smartphone to serve as a kind of constant guide while onboard. As you partake of various onboard activities, the wearable tool responds by guiding you to activities that you’re bound to like, providing a new level of customized service for passengers. Result: Carnival customer data shows that guests come away happier, less stressed, and more apt to return to Carnival for their next cruise.

4. Big Data is empowering Starbucks’ location scouting. What’s your next move?
Ever wondered how Starbucks can open multiple shops in the same neighborhood without cannibalizing existing store traffic? Answer: they use big data.
Until now, big data was available exclusively to big companies. No longer. As more and more digital data gets collected (as when you give your phone number to the clerk at the grocery store), mid-sized and even small firms are now able to tap the power of big data analytics to carve out new strategic advantage: to lower the cost of customer acquisition, find new ways to cut costs, increase sales, personalize product offerings, and enter new markets.
Starbucks was a first mover in using big data to give their location scouts a tool to reduce guesswork. Big data — the technology that allows more people to analyze more information from more sources in more ways than ever before — helps Starbucks’ staffers crunch data on foot traffic patterns, area demographic trends and customer behavior profiles, greatly reducing the complexity of decision making.

5. Amazon’s Alexa is bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) to consumers living rooms. Now may be your time to jump aboard.
In November 2017, Enrichment Federal Credit Union became the first credit union in the United States to link to Amazon’s Alexa voice-controlled smart speakers. Members of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based credit union can now move money between accounts, make loan payments and access balances and account histories using convenient voice commands.
Enrichment’s move is just the latest application of an exploding techno-trend where tiny sensors embedded in homes, buildings, and everyday objects such as smartphones, are connected via the internet, to comprise what is being called The Internet of Things (IoT). While Alexa is out front, Google’s Assistant is coming on strong, followed by a host of others just now entering the race to wire the living room.
IoT technology first burst on the scene in 2015, when a startup called Nest reinvented the thermostat and made it “smart,” which is to say programmable, and connected via the internet to the consumers smart phone, and voice-controlled speaker. Nest went on to reinvent smoke alarms, home security and a growing list of other products, and the technology is exploding. In home security, for example, for a fraction of the cost of traditional home security- service, consumers can set up the new do it yourself system — you set up the alarm system yourself by placing the easy to use sensors and cameras and motion detectors around your home, and connect to a control hub, and an app on your smart phone.
Look for ever increasing numbers of homes to be united with the IoT, and new entrants wishing to dance in Alexa's space.

6. Advanced robotics. Not just for factories now.
Hotel chain Aloft uses robotic bellhops to supplement their bell staff — delivering extra towels, keys and whatever else to guest rooms without delay. Suddenly, agile, trainable, lightweight robots aren’t just found on the factory floor, they’re showing up everywhere. And they won’t replace workers in most cases, they will enable smarter labor deployment by taking on repetitive, backbreaking and higher risk tasks and introducing logistical efficiency. In many a business, the question is not: will we or won’t we? The question is: where will we and when will we deploy robots, and in what kinds of uses do they make the most sense?

7. Drones. Not just for the military anymore.
While Amazon's drone delivery seems to be stalled by regulators and other hurdles, last year, a New Zealand couple became the first persons to have a pizza delivered by drone. The successful delivery came just three months after Domino's announced a partnership with a local drone delivery service. Suddenly drones — aircraft without a human pilot aboard — are everywhere. The commercial drone industry already touches almost every sector of the economy, 38 types of businesses have already been approved for drone operations, and the industry is poised to be one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. From inspecting infrastructure, to providing farmers with aerial views of their crops, to enabling rescues of swimmers in heavy surf, to allowing law enforcement agencies greater access to monitor criminal behavior, it’s no wonder businesses — small and large are clamoring to use this technology.

8. Virtual Reality. The possibilities are virtually limitless.
Home improvement pioneer Lowe’s created Holoroom, where customers plug in the dimensions of a room and can then see a VR mockup of their renovation plans, transfer design to Google Cardboard and take the VR mockup home. Cirque du Soleil’s traveling Kurious exhibit puts VR users in the center of the action via a 360-degree camera in the center of the performance. North Face brings the Yosemite wilderness to retail stores. Thomas Cook, Europe’s biggest tour operator, uses VR headsets to show customers what certain vacations would be like.
Virtual reality — computer technology that uses special headsets or multi-projected environments, sometimes in combination with physical environments or props, to generate realistic images, sounds and other sensations — is poised to take off, and not just in the consumer space. Increasingly, firms are using VR to lower the cost of training.

Source:  Article from Robert B Tucker
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbtucker/2018/01/29/eight-technology-trends-ready-for-exploitation-in-2018/#24c9f31c343f

Robert B. Tucker is a keynote speaker and consultant to over 200 of the Fortune 500. He's written seven bestselling books on innovation, including the latest, Innovation is Everybody's Business
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