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Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
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While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
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For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened.
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Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
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The pandemic is exposing long-fractured aspects of our society.
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The job market of tomorrow will require people to develop their technical capacity in tandem with human-only skills.
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Almost all experts agree that coding will become nearly as ubiquitous as literacy in the future. But the nature of coding in the future may be very different.
Abraham Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs is depicted as a triangle with self-actualization at the very top. Right before his death, Maslow wanted to add another to the hierarchy: Self-transcendence.
Famous inventors and scientists submission to the daily grind
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