Futures Thinking
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“Trends are forcing fuel retailers to reassess their position in the future of transportation”
In the Philippines, I don’t hear much about electric vehicles but in Singapore, they aim to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040. This puts gas stations under pressure to change their business models. From IN FOCUS: Singapore’s electric vehicle revolution is coming – does this spell the end for petrol stations?: With most Read more
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Economic growth, GHG emission reduction, and the Kuznet’s Curve
Three years ago, I did my master’s thesis examining the causal relationshipbetween energy consumption, economic growth, and CO2 emissions in the Philippines. Employing the Toda and Yamamoto procedure to test the causality between the variables, I found that the country’s economic growth may help reduce CO2 emissions in the long run. However, CO2 reduction may Read more
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Are they real people?
What does a real person look like? Well, you imagine them having a head and a face. That they have eyes, ears, nose, and lips. Some of them smile with teeth while others don’t. But what if you see someone with such features, then you’ll be told that they’re not real? Here’s an example of Read more
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Artificial vs. human intelligence: are they comparable?
While I was attending an online training on neural networks, we were first asked about identifying the difference between artificial and human intelligence and which is superior to the other. The thing that came to mind was something I read from Life After Google: AI is believed to be refining what it means to be Read more
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Microgrids and food security
One study found that “inflation in oil price is harmful for energy security and threatening food security.” It suggests that “it’s necessary to diversify the energy consumption in agricultural sector.” And from this article, microgrids become the solution to liberate the food industry from relying on “fossil fuels for processing, transportation and fertilizers.” While the Read more
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How to make futures thinking a part of your life?
It was quite a different evening for me because I was able to talk to two people about futures thinking. It didn’t even start as a classroom lesson. I only began by sharing what I learned from a course I took at the Urgent Optimists. What is Urgent Optimists? Here’s a blog post where I Read more
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They look like real people
We consume media and allow it to tell us what truth means. But seeing the truth through its lens isn’t as truthful as we hoped. Admit it or not, we Google for almost everything. And in this way, we allow Google to define truth. We have trained ourselves to trust the first result we get from Read more
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