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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027. Other Trends.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. The company says it will seek to offer unmanned cabs to users including travelers from overseas and locals in areas where buses and trains are not available. Robot Taxi Inc., a joint venture between mobile Internet company DeNA Co.

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Your Business Is Going to Depend on Connected Spenders, So You’d Better Understand Who They Are

Harvard Business

Today connected spenders count for about 19% of the global population, and that is projected to grow to 37% by 2025. where internet access is just shy of 90%, only 36% of the population are currently connected spenders, a number that will grow to over 50% by 2025. In markets such as the U.S.,

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Uber Also based in San Francisco and launched more recently in 2010, Uber uses a smartphone app to receive requests of people needing transportation, and then sends out these requests to their drivers who transport the customers to their final destinations. billion since its launch.

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Automation Makes Things Cheaper, So Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?

Harvard Business

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Money spent on these necessities account for 70% of middle-class expenditures. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. (For

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