In a dynamically developing world, one has to keep up with the times and constantly improve skills. Professionals who are advancing in their industry should pay attention to a number of in-demand professions. Experts believe that these professions are the future.
The modern world is changing rapidly, and many professionals are sometimes perplexed, not knowing whether or not their profession will be relevant in the near future. In this regard, experts pay attention to a number of specialties that will become popular as early as 2025.
TechnomedicsIn the coming years, a significant breakthrough can occur in medicine. Experts who work at the junction of medical and technical specialties will be in demand. This applies both to the sphere of creating new solutions (doctor-scientist) and to practical application (doctor-operator). The first will develop innovations in the field of diagnostics, delving into the decoding of the genome, and the second one will apply this knowledge in practice. They will have to become IT-specialists. In the near future, robotic devices will replace the scalpels and tweezers.
Virtual Reality ArchitectsProfessionals of the future will be able to get the necessary information not on paper or display, but in the format of augmented reality. The professions of architects of augmented and virtual reality will become relevant. Every year the need for developers of such interfaces will grow rapidly. At present, the augmented reality interfaces are at the start of a long journey, and choosing the right profession today is a good investment in a future career.
Designers of smart houses and the Internet of thingsAnother profession that will become relevant in the near future is the development of smart houses and the Internet of things. Specialists of this profile are already in demand, and in the future a huge field of work awaits them. In a world where each device will be connected to another, it will be important to build balanced systems from different devices. The banking sector will be also transformed. Data processing from sensors and communication between different devices will allow automating a number of financial products, experts believe.
Artificial Intelligence OfficersFurther development of artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the search for specialists capable of protecting technology and preventing theft of information. The profession of the AI officer will become very popular, and it should be separated from the specialty of the expert on digital security. The principal difference here is that the AI officer will work not with people but with artificial intelligence: directing its development in the right way, controlling, etc.
Communication Systems ArchitectsIn the future, the profession of a specialist in data transmission over long distances will become in demand. The development of information transfer systems for very large distances will become a separate issue in this industry. These include the transfer of data to other planets. In the nearest century, mankind will have to resolve the issue of the rapid transfer of large volumes of information over huge distances, so it is possible to master the specialty of an architect on interplanetary communications right now.
Alternative Energy ExpertsSpecialists in clean energy will be extremely in demand in the future. Renewable energy sources replace oil and coal. As soon as the storage and transmission of electricity will be simple and low-cost, all types of alternative energy will be considered a priority and can become traditional.
In a dynamically developing world, one has to keep up with the times and constantly improve skills. Professionals who are advancing in their industry should pay attention to a number of in-demand professions. Experts believe that these professions are the future.
The modern world is changing rapidly, and many professionals are sometimes perplexed, not knowing whether or not their profession will be relevant in the near future. In this regard, experts pay attention to a number of specialties that will become popular as early as 2025.
TechnomedicsIn the coming years, a significant breakthrough can occur in medicine. Experts who work at the junction of medical and technical specialties will be in demand. This applies both to the sphere of creating new solutions (doctor-scientist) and to practical application (doctor-operator). The first will develop innovations in the field of diagnostics, delving into the decoding of the genome, and the second one will apply this knowledge in practice. They will have to become IT-specialists. In the near future, robotic devices will replace the scalpels and tweezers.
Virtual Reality ArchitectsProfessionals of the future will be able to get the necessary information not on paper or display, but in the format of augmented reality. The professions of architects of augmented and virtual reality will become relevant. Every year the need for developers of such interfaces will grow rapidly. At present, the augmented reality interfaces are at the start of a long journey, and choosing the right profession today is a good investment in a future career.
Designers of smart houses and the Internet of thingsAnother profession that will become relevant in the near future is the development of smart houses and the Internet of things. Specialists of this profile are already in demand, and in the future a huge field of work awaits them. In a world where each device will be connected to another, it will be important to build balanced systems from different devices. The banking sector will be also transformed. Data processing from sensors and communication between different devices will allow automating a number of financial products, experts believe.
Artificial Intelligence OfficersFurther development of artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the search for specialists capable of protecting technology and preventing theft of information. The profession of the AI officer will become very popular, and it should be separated from the specialty of the expert on digital security. The principal difference here is that the AI officer will work not with people but with artificial intelligence: directing its development in the right way, controlling, etc.
Communication Systems ArchitectsIn the future, the profession of a specialist in data transmission over long distances will become in demand. The development of information transfer systems for very large distances will become a separate issue in this industry. These include the transfer of data to other planets. In the nearest century, mankind will have to resolve the issue of the rapid transfer of large volumes of information over huge distances, so it is possible to master the specialty of an architect on interplanetary communications right now.
Alternative Energy ExpertsSpecialists in clean energy will be extremely in demand in the future. Renewable energy sources replace oil and coal. As soon as the storage and transmission of electricity will be simple and low-cost, all types of alternative energy will be considered a priority and can become traditional.
Not all the money brings joy to billionaire and concurrently US President Donald Trump. It turned out that even the dedicated capitalist can be annoyed by certain money flows. Particularly, by those that pass him by. One of such flows is connected with the Nord Stream 2. Trump has even introduced a new notion – the pipeline dollars. He used these words to describe the money that the European Union spends for Russian gas.
Still, his words make sense. Donald Trump thinks that buying gas from Russia is not a deal but financial aid on the back of sanctions. “Billions of additional dollars are being spent by NATO countries since my visit last year, at my request, but it isn't nearly enough. U.S. spends too much. Europe's borders are bad! Pipeline dollars to Russia are not acceptable,” Trump said. The United States stands against building the gas pipeline as part of the Nord Stream 2 project. The companies that participate in this project face a risk of being put under sanctions. “We have been clear that firms working in the Russian energy export pipeline sector are engaging in a line of business that carries sanctions risk,” the US State Department said.
On the other hand, this supposedly political rhetoric seems to have economic background. The United States has long wanted to squeeze Russia out of the European gas market, but so far it has no success in doing it. Nowadays, it is economically viable to export gas from the United States thanks to the modern transporting technologies. That is why most experts believe that Donald Trump is irritated as the US loses hypothetical big profits in so-called pipeline dollars.
Not all the money brings joy to billionaire and concurrently US President Donald Trump. It turned out that even the dedicated capitalist can be annoyed by certain money flows. Particularly, by those that pass him by. One of such flows is connected with the Nord Stream 2. Trump has even introduced a new notion – the pipeline dollars. He used these words to describe the money that the European Union spends for Russian gas.
Still, his words make sense. Donald Trump thinks that buying gas from Russia is not a deal but financial aid on the back of sanctions. “Billions of additional dollars are being spent by NATO countries since my visit last year, at my request, but it isn't nearly enough. U.S. spends too much. Europe's borders are bad! Pipeline dollars to Russia are not acceptable,” Trump said. The United States stands against building the gas pipeline as part of the Nord Stream 2 project. The companies that participate in this project face a risk of being put under sanctions. “We have been clear that firms working in the Russian energy export pipeline sector are engaging in a line of business that carries sanctions risk,” the US State Department said.
On the other hand, this supposedly political rhetoric seems to have economic background. The United States has long wanted to squeeze Russia out of the European gas market, but so far it has no success in doing it. Nowadays, it is economically viable to export gas from the United States thanks to the modern transporting technologies. That is why most experts believe that Donald Trump is irritated as the US loses hypothetical big profits in so-called pipeline dollars.
If in 2009 the price of bitcoin was less than $0.1, today 1 coin costs more than $6,000. Thanks to the rapid growth of the virtual currency rate over the past few years, many new dollar millionaires have appeared in the world. We bring to your attention the largest holders of BTC.
At present, the creator of the cryptocurrency No.1, who is hidden under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, is considered the largest owner of "digital gold". His capital is estimated at about 1 million BTC, which were produced at the dawn of the emergence of virtual currency. At the same time he never sold his coins. Given the current value of the cryptocurrency, his fortune exceeds $6 billion dollars.
The government of Bulgaria is another large holder of bitcoins. In May last year, law enforcement agencies of the republic stopped the activities of a certain criminal group and seized about 214 thousand BTC from it. This amount of coins, for example, would be enough to pay off a quarter of the national debt of the country. As of July 2018, their value is estimated at about $1.4 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the Bulgarian authorities do not disclose further intentions with regard to the confiscated cryptocurrency.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, twin brothers from the US, became the first in the history of the crypto industry bitcoin-billionaires who earned their capital thanks to the appreciation of the digital currency. In March 2013, when the cost of one coin was about $120, they bought bitcoins worth $11 million. According to some sources, currently, the Winklevoss own almost 1% of BTC in circulation which equals approximately 100 thousand coins.
One of the first cryptocurrency billionaires, Roger Ver, dreams of creating his own libertarian country, where every person will become the absolute owner of his own life. In 2014, he renounced his American citizenship and moved to a small island in the Caribbean. It is believed that he owns at least 100 thousand BTC.
Barry Silbert is a venture capitalist and founder of the Digital Currency Group investment company. In 2014, at an auction organized by the US Marshals Service, he bought 48,000 BTC at a price of $350 per coin. This cryptocurrency was confiscated by the FBI in September 2013 from the Silk Road online site engaged in trading illegal goods
If in 2009 the price of bitcoin was less than $0.1, today 1 coin costs more than $6,000. Thanks to the rapid growth of the virtual currency rate over the past few years, many new dollar millionaires have appeared in the world. We bring to your attention the largest holders of BTC.
At present, the creator of the cryptocurrency No.1, who is hidden under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, is considered the largest owner of "digital gold". His capital is estimated at about 1 million BTC, which were produced at the dawn of the emergence of virtual currency. At the same time he never sold his coins. Given the current value of the cryptocurrency, his fortune exceeds $6 billion dollars.
The government of Bulgaria is another large holder of bitcoins. In May last year, law enforcement agencies of the republic stopped the activities of a certain criminal group and seized about 214 thousand BTC from it. This amount of coins, for example, would be enough to pay off a quarter of the national debt of the country. As of July 2018, their value is estimated at about $1.4 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the Bulgarian authorities do not disclose further intentions with regard to the confiscated cryptocurrency.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, twin brothers from the US, became the first in the history of the crypto industry bitcoin-billionaires who earned their capital thanks to the appreciation of the digital currency. In March 2013, when the cost of one coin was about $120, they bought bitcoins worth $11 million. According to some sources, currently, the Winklevoss own almost 1% of BTC in circulation which equals approximately 100 thousand coins.
One of the first cryptocurrency billionaires, Roger Ver, dreams of creating his own libertarian country, where every person will become the absolute owner of his own life. In 2014, he renounced his American citizenship and moved to a small island in the Caribbean. It is believed that he owns at least 100 thousand BTC.
Barry Silbert is a venture capitalist and founder of the Digital Currency Group investment company. In 2014, at an auction organized by the US Marshals Service, he bought 48,000 BTC at a price of $350 per coin. This cryptocurrency was confiscated by the FBI in September 2013 from the Silk Road online site engaged in trading illegal goods
The US consumer sentiment index fell, reaching a minimum of six months. This is evidenced by the data of the report, prepared by the Consumer Survey of Michigan University.
The US consumer sentiment index for July fell to 97.1 from 98.2 in the previous month. The July value became minimal since January of this year. At the same time, the fears of consumers about the economic situation in the country concerning the increase in duties have more than doubled.
Richard Curtin, the leading economist at the University of Michigan, pointed out that consumer sentiment, despite a decline in early July, remains almost the same as the average for the year (97.7). In addition, according to the economist, improving the situation with work and income was more important than accelerating inflation and raising the interest rate.
It's no secret that auctions exist in order to raise the value of an object through competitive bidding. In some cases, the price reaches truly astronomical heights. We present to your attention lots that have become record holders for the price at world auctions in certain categories.
The Badminton Cabinet was acquired in December 2004 at the Christie's auction for $36.8 million by the Museum of Liechtenstein, where it is still exhibited. It was made in the 18th century in Florence. The cabinet with drawers is made of ebony encrusted with amethyst, quartz, lapis lazuli and other semiprecious stones. It is a monument of furniture art, architecture, sculpture, and painting at the same time.
Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic is known for being the first in the history of cars to reach speeds of up to 200 km/h. It is noteworthy that in the period from 1936 to 1940, only four models of such automobile were produced, of which only two copies have survived to date. Aqua blue one was sold in May 2010 at the auction of Gooding & Company to an unknown collector for $43.7 million, and the second one is black and belongs to American fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
In May 2015, the Pointing Man sculpture was sold at Christie's auction in New York for $141.3 million. A 180-centimeter figure was created by Swiss master Alberto Giacometti in 1947. It is made of bronze and painted by the author manually, which, according to experts, gives it special value and uniqueness. The sculpture symbolizes the alienation and loneliness of a person in the modern world.
In November 2016, the dress in which Marilyn Monroe performed at the 45th birthday of US President John F. Kennedy was sold at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills for $4.8 million. The dress, adorned with 2500 crystals, was produced by well-known at that time in America fashion designer Jean Louis. It is known that when in March 1961 the actress was offered to sing before the head of state, she asked the couturier to make for her an extraordinary dress that no one ever had before.
In November 2017, the Savior of the World painting, created by Leonardo da Vinci, was sold at Christie's auction in New York for $450.3 million. Before the auction, the masterpiece was estimated at $100 million. According to some experts, the canvas, long believed to be lost, refers to the end of the Milanese period of the work of Leonardo da Vinci (90 of the 15th century), when the master wrote the famous The Last Supper.
In April last year at Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, the Pink Star diamond, weighing 59.6 carats, went under the hammer for $ 71.2 million. It should be noted that in 2013 the gem was already put up for auction. Diamond cutter from Geneva Isaac Wolf offered $83 million for the stone but could not pay for it.
China’s Legend Holdings bought almost a 90% stake in Banque Internationale a Luxembourg (BIL).
Legend Holdings, the owner of PC maker Lenovo Group, paid a total 1.534 billion euros ($1.79 billion) to acquire an 89.936% stake in 161-year-old BIL. Luxemburg’s government owns the rest 9.993%. Other minority shareholders hold only 0.071% equity.
Following the acquisition, the company’s asset structure is expected to be optimized. The bank’s assets will account for 35% of the total assets of Legend Holdings, while dominant Lenovo's shares in the company will fall from 54% to 33%.
The existing governance structure and management team of the bank will remain the same.
As of the end of 2017, BIL had total assets of 23.8 billion euros, and its net income after tax in 2017 was 117 million euros.
In May, Hang Seng Indexes Company removed Lenovo Group Ltd from its benchmark Hang Seng Index, citing a sharp fall in its shares.
China’s Legend Holdings bought almost a 90% stake in Banque Internationale a Luxembourg (BIL).
Legend Holdings, the owner of PC maker Lenovo Group, paid a total 1.534 billion euros ($1.79 billion) to acquire an 89.936% stake in 161-year-old BIL. Luxemburg’s government owns the rest 9.993%. Other minority shareholders hold only 0.071% equity.
Following the acquisition, the company’s asset structure is expected to be optimized. The bank’s assets will account for 35% of the total assets of Legend Holdings, while dominant Lenovo's shares in the company will fall from 54% to 33%.
The existing governance structure and management team of the bank will remain the same.
As of the end of 2017, BIL had total assets of 23.8 billion euros, and its net income after tax in 2017 was 117 million euros.
In May, Hang Seng Indexes Company removed Lenovo Group Ltd from its benchmark Hang Seng Index, citing a sharp fall in its shares.
China’s Legend Holdings bought almost a 90% stake in Banque Internationale a Luxembourg (BIL).
Legend Holdings, the owner of PC maker Lenovo Group, paid a total 1.534 billion euros ($1.79 billion) to acquire an 89.936% stake in 161-year-old BIL. Luxemburg’s government owns the rest 9.993%. Other minority shareholders hold only 0.071% equity.
Following the acquisition, the company’s asset structure is expected to be optimized. The bank’s assets will account for 35% of the total assets of Legend Holdings, while dominant Lenovo's shares in the company will fall from 54% to 33%.
The existing governance structure and management team of the bank will remain the same.
As of the end of 2017, BIL had total assets of 23.8 billion euros, and its net income after tax in 2017 was 117 million euros.
In May, Hang Seng Indexes Company removed Lenovo Group Ltd from its benchmark Hang Seng Index, citing a sharp fall in its shares.
On the day of the official start of the Yandex.Station smart speaker selling, the first buyer came to the Yandex brand store at 5 am, and by 9 am the queue was stretched to 300 meters. What is remarkable about Yandex.Station and why people are standing in line to have it, read in our photo gallery.
A new development by Yandex, a multimedia platform with artificial intelligence, can be considered a quite revolutionary step, since before that the Russian company produced only software products.
Yandex.Station works on the basis of a voice assistant named Alisa. You can just talk with the gadget, or you can ask to perform small tasks, to set an alarm clock or tell a story.In order to revive the station, you need to say the word-activator: "Alice" or "Yandex".
The gadget can turn on music depending on the preferences of its owner, and can also find and show movies in such applications as Amediateka, ivi.ru and Kinopoisk (the device connects to a TV with Smart TV function via HDMI-wire).
The device will find reference information for you, show a forecast or data on traffic jams, or remind you of tomorrow's flight. In the future, the developers plan to teach the column to manage various devices in the house.
A major advantage is that the station supports the Russian language. This distinguishes it from other similar devices. The price of the gadget is 9,990 rubles ($160).
Yandex.Station is equipped with seven microphones instead of one, which form a so-called microphone matrix. This helps the device hear and recognize the owner's commands, even if it is located in another room and neighbors are drilling a wall.Thanks to the matrix, the voice source is determined and other sounds are cut off. The speaker is capable of perceiving commands even during loud music playback.
The microphone matrix can be turned off. Then the device will not react even to words-activators. This function is created specifically for those users who are afraid that artificial intelligence will eavesdrop on them.
Yandex experts believe that the voice interface is the future. For several years from the moment when the opportunity to enter the address "without hands" appeared in the mobile service "Yandex.Navigator", the number of voice requests to it reached million a day.In March 2018 the company launched a beta version of the Yandex.Dialogues platform, which, according to the developers, will help Russian businesses integrate voice management into their services and products. And at the same time, it will make the potential set of skills of the Alice Russian-speaking voice assistant virtually unlimited.
You can buy a smart speaker only in an offline store so far, but soon it can be ordered through the Internet.According to company estimates, no more than 1,000 devices will be sold on the first day due to the bandwidth of the store. Demand for the Yandex.Station speaker is great, so only two devices are given in one hand.
On the day of the official start of the Yandex.Station smart speaker selling, the first buyer came to the Yandex brand store at 5 am, and by 9 am the queue was stretched to 300 meters. What is remarkable about Yandex.Station and why people are standing in line to have it, read in our photo gallery.
A new development by Yandex, a multimedia platform with artificial intelligence, can be considered a quite revolutionary step, since before that the Russian company produced only software products.
Yandex.Station works on the basis of a voice assistant named Alisa. You can just talk with the gadget, or you can ask to perform small tasks, to set an alarm clock or tell a story.In order to revive the station, you need to say the word-activator: "Alice" or "Yandex".
The gadget can turn on music depending on the preferences of its owner, and can also find and show movies in such applications as Amediateka, ivi.ru and Kinopoisk (the device connects to a TV with Smart TV function via HDMI-wire).
The device will find reference information for you, show a forecast or data on traffic jams, or remind you of tomorrow's flight. In the future, the developers plan to teach the column to manage various devices in the house.
A major advantage is that the station supports the Russian language. This distinguishes it from other similar devices. The price of the gadget is 9,990 rubles ($160).
Yandex.Station is equipped with seven microphones instead of one, which form a so-called microphone matrix. This helps the device hear and recognize the owner's commands, even if it is located in another room and neighbors are drilling a wall.Thanks to the matrix, the voice source is determined and other sounds are cut off. The speaker is capable of perceiving commands even during loud music playback.
The microphone matrix can be turned off. Then the device will not react even to words-activators. This function is created specifically for those users who are afraid that artificial intelligence will eavesdrop on them.
Yandex experts believe that the voice interface is the future. For several years from the moment when the opportunity to enter the address "without hands" appeared in the mobile service "Yandex.Navigator", the number of voice requests to it reached million a day.In March 2018 the company launched a beta version of the Yandex.Dialogues platform, which, according to the developers, will help Russian businesses integrate voice management into their services and products. And at the same time, it will make the potential set of skills of the Alice Russian-speaking voice assistant virtually unlimited.
You can buy a smart speaker only in an offline store so far, but soon it can be ordered through the Internet.According to company estimates, no more than 1,000 devices will be sold on the first day due to the bandwidth of the store. Demand for the Yandex.Station speaker is great, so only two devices are given in one hand.
On the day of the official start of the Yandex.Station smart speaker selling, the first buyer came to the Yandex brand store at 5 am, and by 9 am the queue was stretched to 300 meters. What is remarkable about Yandex.Station and why people are standing in line to have it, read in our photo gallery.
A new development by Yandex, a multimedia platform with artificial intelligence, can be considered a quite revolutionary step, since before that the Russian company produced only software products.
Yandex.Station works on the basis of a voice assistant named Alisa. You can just talk with the gadget, or you can ask to perform small tasks, to set an alarm clock or tell a story.In order to revive the station, you need to say the word-activator: "Alice" or "Yandex".
The gadget can turn on music depending on the preferences of its owner, and can also find and show movies in such applications as Amediateka, ivi.ru and Kinopoisk (the device connects to a TV with Smart TV function via HDMI-wire).
The device will find reference information for you, show a forecast or data on traffic jams, or remind you of tomorrow's flight. In the future, the developers plan to teach the column to manage various devices in the house.
A major advantage is that the station supports the Russian language. This distinguishes it from other similar devices. The price of the gadget is 9,990 rubles ($160).
Yandex.Station is equipped with seven microphones instead of one, which form a so-called microphone matrix. This helps the device hear and recognize the owner's commands, even if it is located in another room and neighbors are drilling a wall.Thanks to the matrix, the voice source is determined and other sounds are cut off. The speaker is capable of perceiving commands even during loud music playback.
The microphone matrix can be turned off. Then the device will not react even to words-activators. This function is created specifically for those users who are afraid that artificial intelligence will eavesdrop on them.
Yandex experts believe that the voice interface is the future. For several years from the moment when the opportunity to enter the address "without hands" appeared in the mobile service "Yandex.Navigator", the number of voice requests to it reached million a day.In March 2018 the company launched a beta version of the Yandex.Dialogues platform, which, according to the developers, will help Russian businesses integrate voice management into their services and products. And at the same time, it will make the potential set of skills of the Alice Russian-speaking voice assistant virtually unlimited.
You can buy a smart speaker only in an offline store so far, but soon it can be ordered through the Internet.According to company estimates, no more than 1,000 devices will be sold on the first day due to the bandwidth of the store. Demand for the Yandex.Station speaker is great, so only two devices are given in one hand.
According to a report showed on Tuesday, the British economy expanded by 0.3% in May. In this regard, the country’s central bank could raise its benchmark interest rate.
The Office for National Statistics said that the UK’s gross domestic product increased by 0.3% on a monthly basis compared with a 0.2% increase in April.
The latest release by the ONS marks the launch of the new model for publishing gross domestic product. The growth rate is calculated based on April and May 2018 data, instead of figures for a quarter. The changes will mean quicker estimates of the economic growth, but the report's indicators can still be revised.
According to a report showed on Tuesday, the British economy expanded by 0.3% in May. In this regard, the country’s central bank could raise its benchmark interest rate.
The Office for National Statistics said that the UK’s gross domestic product increased by 0.3% on a monthly basis compared with a 0.2% increase in April.
The latest release by the ONS marks the launch of the new model for publishing gross domestic product. The growth rate is calculated based on April and May 2018 data, instead of figures for a quarter. The changes will mean quicker estimates of the economic growth, but the report's indicators can still be revised.
According to a report showed on Tuesday, the British economy expanded by 0.3% in May. In this regard, the country’s central bank could raise its benchmark interest rate.
The Office for National Statistics said that the UK’s gross domestic product increased by 0.3% on a monthly basis compared with a 0.2% increase in April.
The latest release by the ONS marks the launch of the new model for publishing gross domestic product. The growth rate is calculated based on April and May 2018 data, instead of figures for a quarter. The changes will mean quicker estimates of the economic growth, but the report's indicators can still be revised.
