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<title>Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas</title>
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<description>Ericsson 2020 Shaping ideas. The world is changing in a profound way, and it's not just due to the financial recession. Find out why.</description>
<item><title>Healthcare through mobile devices</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/jeff-arnold.html</link><pubDate>2010-09-14 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Could technology revolutionize healthcare? According to Jeff Arnold, founder of the health portals Sharecare and WebMD, the medical field has huge potential for improvement. When he imagines the future interaction between a doctor and a patient, he sees a mobile device with medical applications.]]></description></item>
<item><title>From pyramids to bird's nests</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/charles-leadbeater.html</link><pubDate>2010-09-02 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[According to Charles Leadbeater, author of We-think, in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas the web has created enterprises that lack traditional hierarchy and let consumers take active part in innovation. These organizations resemble bird's nests rather than top to bottom pyramids.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Learning by doing, not by listening</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/jp-rangaswami.html</link><pubDate>2010-06-24 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[JP Rangaswami is chairman of the social enterprise School of Everything. He thinks the educational institutions of the past have overlooked our human urge to feel free and to participate. In social networks and the open source movement he sees the potential for a whole new approach to learning.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Father of the Internet</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/vint-cerf.html</link><pubDate>2010-05-28 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vint Cerf designed the Internet almost 40 years ago. Today his business cards say Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. In 2020 Shaping ideas he talks about a future where computers and electronics are becoming even more intelligent. And the mobile phone, he predicts, will be our companion rather than just a device.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Connecting Africa</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/sanjay-kaul.html</link><pubDate>2010-05-18 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sanjay Kaul, predicts in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas that Africa will reach the same connectivity as the rest of the world by 2020. But to get there new business models must be in place. As telecommunications spread, the line between rich and poor countries gets further blurred.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Change and humility in politics</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/george-yeo.html</link><pubDate>2010-04-30 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Singapore's foreign minister George Yeo says in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas that it was largely technology that brought down The Soviet Union. During his over 20 years as a Minister he has witnessed The Cold War end, Asia emerge and the political power become diffused.]]></description></item>
<item><title>We still need handshakes</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/patricia-mokhtarian.html</link><pubDate>2010-04-30 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[According to Patricia Moktharian in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas technology makes us travel more, not less. She predicts that there will be more cars in the world by 2020.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Our world: transform or collapse?</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/will-steffen.html</link><pubDate>2010-03-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Will steffen talks in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas about a critical point in history. The next ten years will decide if our society can transform into a sustainable one, or if it will follow the way of the Roman and Mayan civilizations, and simply collapse.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Fighting Poverty with Connectivity</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/jeffrey-sachs.html</link><pubDate>2010-02-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs explains in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas how mobile phones are decreasing economic isolation in Africa, and why we could be halfway to achieving an important goal in 2020: the end of extreme poverty.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Twenty Four Seven Connected</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/ian-pearson.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Futurist Ian Pearson talks in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas about how new technologies, such as devices that talk to each other, artificial intelligence that tells us what to do and high-speed connections available in any place at any time, will make our lives easier in 2020. But as we solve old problems, we create new ones.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Music like water</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/gerd-leonhard.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Music used to be a product that we bought piece by piece. Now it is becoming a public utility, says media futurist Gerd Leonhard, who argues that we will soon be constantly connected to an infinite library of songs. And when music is like water or electricity, our friends become the new music critics.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Golden Age or Another Crisis?</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/carlota-perez.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Carlota Perez. By 2020, our world could be in the middle of a sustainable golden age, but it depends on how we handle the current recession. Carlota Perez, professor of technology and socio-economic development at the Technological University of Tallinn, explains how the global economy depends on technological advances.]]></description></item>
<item><title>New demands on the telecoms industry</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/johan-bergendahl.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Johan Bergendahl says in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas the telecom industry has to take a bigger role in driving the future. Without connectivity, the world would stop.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Growing up Digital</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/don-tapscott.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics, describes in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas today's young people as the smartest generation ever. He claims that adolescents, who have grown up with the Internet, are not only more used to handling digital technology, but their brains are actually different.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Download, Adjust, Print!</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/adrian-bowyer.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Adrian Bowyer. What if you could download physical objects? Now you can. The Rep Rap machine is a 3D printer that can create a wide range of things, perhaps most remarkably, another Rep Rap machine. The inventor, Adrian Bowyer, believes that 3D printing can revolutionize the manufacturing industry.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Creative minds flourishing</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/brenda-walker.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Adrian Bowyer. What if you could download physical objects? Now you can. The Rep Rap machine is a 3D printer that can create a wide range of things, perhaps most remarkably, another Rep Rap machine. The inventor, Adrian Bowyer, believes that 3D printing can revolutionize the manufacturing industry.]]></description></item>
<item><title>A new era of advertising</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/jeffrey-cole.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Cole claims in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas that in the near future, most digital content will be free. Who will pay for it? The advertisers will.]]></description></item>
<item><title>Ethical Business and Female Power</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/anne-lise-kjaer.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Anne Lise Kjaer predicts in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas that in the future, the most successful companies will need to embrace females in their organizations. She describes the typical 21st century cooperation as less hierarchical, led in a more empathetic way and with an increased focus on ethics.]]></description></item>
<item><title>On our way to a stable world</title><link>http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/hans-rosling.html</link><pubDate>2010-01-01 12:32:22</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hans Rosling crushes in Ericsson 2020 Shaping Ideas the misconception that there are two kinds of countries - rich and poor.]]></description></item>
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