Until this highly unusual year, “digital transformation,” while a priority for many companies, was a gradual process for most. The Covid-19 pandemic — with most companies not fully prepared for sudden remote work for the masses — has thrown transformation into hyperspeed, with automation as a key technology in that…
How Staying Cool Indoors Warms The Planet
The advent of air conditioning more than 100 years ago fundamentally changed our world. It erased geographic limitations on where humans can comfortably live, changed the landscape of the modern city (imagine skyscrapers without AC) and enabled the advent of technologies like the microchip and computers that would be impossible…
Resiliency, Not A Revolution: How 3D Printing Will Change Global Supply Chains
Recent events have made it very clear that today’s global supply chains leave manufacturers and their customers vulnerable to external risks. Almost 75% of supply chain executives reported major supply chain disruptions in 2020 due to Covid-19, with almost half reporting they didn’t have a plan in place to deal with such…
Xerox plans to mass produce disposable ventilators
The portable device wouldn’t replace hospital-grade ventilators but could be a stopgap measure for some COVID-19 patients. WASHINGTON — Xerox, known for making copies, is set to announce Monday that it will be “rapidly scaling up” production of inexpensive, disposable ventilators that could serve as a critical stopgap for ICU-grade…
PARC is turning 50: From ethernet and laser printing to this wild new tech
The legendary Palo Alto Research Center has been the beating heart of tech development during a legendary half-century of R&D. From the ethernet and laser printing to fiber optics and natural language processing, Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has been at the heart of some of tech’s most important breakthroughs. This…
Naresh Shanker Has 100 Year Old Xerox Thinking Like A Startup
Naresh Shanker is a pivot expert. He has been the Chief Information Officer of companies like Palm after its lead in personal digital assistants had fallen. He joined HP as CIO, and led the separation of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) from HP in record time with remarkably few hiccups along the…