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Episode 785 08.23.22 Nick McQuire, director, strategic missions and technologies, Microsoft joins Peggy to talk about the future of the cloud, sharing the four key areas that are collectively shaping the future of cloud. He also shares the three key technology shifts that are core to both today’s innovations and tomorrow’s disruptions, and stresses how co-innovation will play a role in making future cloud technologies available to all. Below is an excerpt from the interview. To listen to the conversation from The Peggy Smedley Show, click here or go to https://peggysmedleyshow.com/ to access the entire show. Peggy Smedley: Nick, I’m…

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Is the future of smart-home control local or centralized—or is there a third option? Residential homes will change more during the next couple of decades than they did during the hundreds of years preceding them. This is according to Jonathan Collins, research director at ABI Research, who explains further by saying that homes will expand in capability, function, and activity, thereby reflecting the wider global needs of the planet, economies, societies, and individuals. The homes themselves will not do this on their own, of course; it’ll be the people living within them who drive the change, and they will do…

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At this year’s Inland Transport Committee roundtable hosted by the UNECE (UN Economic Commission for Europe), the panel identified three critical challenges facing global supply chains: labor shortages, equipment availability, and the ripple effect of global bottlenecks. Though the panel convened earlier this year, the challenges facing international supply chains across industries remain the same in the second half of the year. Can the newly passed CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 deliver on its promise to strengthen supply chains? Will it help alleviate the ongoing chip shortage? In January, Gartner predicted things like inflation, increased borrowing rates, and geopolitical…

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According to Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, healthcare is high up there on the list of experiences that “need reinvention.” Americans would tend to agree. A study published by Statista suggests 43% of people in the U.S. are not very satisfied or not at all satisfied with the American health system. But is Amazon the company to reinvent healthcare? The tech giant’s latest proposed acquisition has sparked a lot of discussion about the future of Amazon, the future of healthcare in the U.S., and the future of health data—and, more specifically, the privacy of health data. In…

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