article thumbnail

Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

Trends 88
article thumbnail

Our engineering ratchet

Seth Godin Blog

Quietly, over the last thirty years, engineering has become dramatically more efficient and effective. Insulated glass, cars that don't break down, keyboards with just the right feel to them… Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are all moving faster than ever. The ratchet turns the ratchet.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Since everyone has a unique financial situation, amount of free time, and ability to travel, some of these suggestions will be more applicable to you than others. Speaking of travelling, this is obviously an attractive, but expensive, option. Learn a new skill, try a new activity, give back, travel, or consult.

article thumbnail

Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

Yes, the Computer Science curriculum had several required Hardware Engineering classes. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. I started to travel internationally as a consultant in the late 1990s. (Okay, there were only 6 of us, and 2 were women.

Software 111
article thumbnail

Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business

Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! Ford or Tesla?

article thumbnail

‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Changing attitude towards work. The attitude towards work is changing.

article thumbnail

Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. Like international travel or meditation, it creates space for us to question our assumptions. They make us more efficient and productive.