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Alexander Graham Bell and the Evolution of Communications

QAD

And that number is expected to reach more than 18 billion by 2025. Some important milestones in telephone history followed: The first phone line was operated between New York and Philadelphia in 1885. Today, mobile technologies are heavily depended on by most people in the world. 1900 saw the first coin operated telephone installation.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

The city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. I live in city-center Philadelphia. Like the barrel of the gun that I see across the street protecting Pope Francis in City Center Philadelphia, I think it is time for all manufacturing companies to rethink safe and secure. There is no traffic on the streets.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. Following a customer uproar the date was extended until 2025. As a result, I believe that SAP innovation will lag and SAP will play catch-up in 2025. As I look below, I see field after field of United States farmland.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. Following a customer uproar the date was extended until 2025. As a result, I believe that SAP innovation will lag and SAP will play catch-up in 2025. As I look below, I see field after field of United States farmland.

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Will AI and Automation Decimate the Middle Class?

Enterra Insights

… The organization cites that automation will supplant about 85 million jobs by 2025. However, by the year 2025, it’s believed that the balance will dramatically change to a 50-50 combination of humans and machines.” “[1]. That would be terrible news if that was all there was to the story.