{"id":21363,"date":"2013-03-14T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=21363"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:58:59","slug":"visionary-speaks-college-of-business-faculty-member-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2013\/03\/visionary-speaks-college-of-business-faculty-member-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Visionary speaks, College of Business faculty member comments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 4, 2013, renowned thinker Ray Kurzweil spoke at Florida International University (FIU) on \u201cThe acceleration of technology in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century: the impact on business, the economy and society.\u201d The College of Business was a co-sponsor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21365\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kurzweil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21365\" title=\"Ray Kurzweil\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kurzweil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kurzweil.jpg 550w, https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kurzweil-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Kurzweil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, was one of three panelists invited to give a one-minute response to the talk.<\/p>\n<p>With expertise in both business and technology&#8212;especially related to healthcare IT&#8212; she opted to \u201cfocus on things that had implications to business.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21364\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21364\" title=\"Panel\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Panel.jpg 550w, https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Panel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Chiarini Tremblay was one of the panelists to add insights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRapid logarithmic change in IT is fundamentally changing the definition of competition,\u201d she said. \u201cOnly the truly creative and innovative will be able to survive. An upstart will be able to make you obsolete in a day, especially since you don\u2019t have to have huge amounts of funding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 4, 2013, renowned thinker Ray Kurzweil spoke at Florida International University (FIU) on \u201cThe acceleration of technology in the 21st century: the impact on business, the economy and society.\u201d The College of Business was a co-sponsor. Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, was one of three panelists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":21369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3959,2880,1935],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23865,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions\/23865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}