i3 Magazine – Sep/Oct 2020

Mobile First Firms Have 825% Higher Value Compared To Companies with No Mobile Focus
Download PDF The COVID Crisis Accelerating Mobile Dominance By Jim Harris MOBILE FIRST FIRMS have a 825% higher value upon IPO than companies with no mobile focus, highlighting how essential mobile is for success. This is a staggering finding from the 2020 Mobile Report by App Annie. Here are a few reasons: Scaling Mobile first […]
School Transportation News – November 2020

Tech Trends Driving Dramatic Disruption
Download PDF Electrification, Autonomous Vehicles and the Internet of Things revolutionize the school bus market By Jim Harris The price of Lithium-ion batteries has plummeted by 89 percent from 2010 to 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), and the trend will continue: Source: BNEF The largest cost of electric vehicles (EVs) historically has […]
Disruption Magazine – Issue 10 – Jul 2020

COVID Crisis Accelerating Three Trends
Download PDF Firms Focused On Digital Transformation, Mobile First & AI Centric Strategies Experiencing Explosive Growth By Jim Harris The Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the global economy. COVID-19 is hyper-charging the growth of companies that have aggressively pursued digital transformation, by putting mobile first philosophy at the core of their business strategy and embedding […]
i3 Magazine – Mar/Apr 2020

Artificial Intelligence: A Hot Topic at CES 2020
Download PDF The hottest topic at CES, in my opinion, was artificial intelligence (AI). AI chips will add intelligence into billions of smart devices in the coming years. These devices will be at the edge — meaning that they’ll work without having to be connected to the cloud or a data center. Syntiant won a […]
Corporate Knights

Zombie Car Companies
Gas Cars are Dead: Here’s Why Traditional car companies are zombies. They’re dead but they just don’t know it yet. By 2022, Electric Vehicles (EVs) will become cheaper to buy than gas cars. EVs are already cheaper on operating cost and maintenance cost. The electricity to power EVs costs 80% less than the gas to […]
Disruption Magazine – Issue 8 – Jan 2020

What is Wealth?
Download PDF Wealth, Values, and Society Have Transformed Wealth. Millennials have a far different view of it than their boomer parents. While young adults generally do not have much accumulated wealth, millennials have about half of what their boomer parents did at this point in their lives. The median net worth of millennial households is […]
i3 Magazine – Jan/Feb 2020

NEXT GEN TV: The Transformation Begins
Download PDF Television has gone through a few fundamental changes, such as the evolution from black-and-white to color in the 1960s, and the transition from analog to digital in 2009. The shift to NEXT GEN TV will change how we watch TV. NEXT GEN TV is the industry name for ATSC 3.0, the world’s first […]
PR News Wire – January 2020

AI, 5G and NextGen TV Named 2020 Top Tech Trends
Live Reporting on Innovation from the Consumer Electronics Show TORONTO, Jan. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — International bestselling author and social media influencer Jim Harris will be covering CES live from Las Vegas, during the Media Days on January 5 and 6, and throughout the show January 7-10. CES is the world’s largest electronics show, with […]
i3 Magazine – September/October 2019

Smart Home Evolution
Download PDF Smart homes are expected to grow to a $4.5 billion market in 2019 in the U.S., according to CTA. That a 16% growth rate over 2018 making it a very hot market. The Intelligence of Things The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is shifting to the “Intelligence of Things” – as artificial intelligence (AI) […]
i3 Magazine – July/August 2019

OLED TVs Hit Prime Time
Download PDF Sales of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs grew 60% in 2018 in the U.S. and are set to roughly do so again in 2019. “OLED to many consumers is still a very new technology,” says John Taylor, senior vice president at LG Electronics USA. OLED technology was originally invented by Kodak scientists […]
Disruption Magazine – Issue 5 – April 2019

Becoming an Agent of Disruption
Download PDF What makes someone a disruptor? Disruptive innovation is a hot topic these days. What exactly is it? Why is it happening? What’s driving this phenomenon so relentlessly? How is it that some people, and initiatives disrupt entire industries while other efforts fall flat? We are living in times of exponential change. Most people […]
i3 Magazine – January/February 2019

Electric Cars: A Disruptive Model
Download PDF EVs set to upset traditional car companies in 2020 Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) predicts that by 2025, electric vehicles (EVs) will be cheaper than gas powered autos (known as internal combustion engines). The blue line in the chart below represents the average price of gas-powered cars which is predicted to slowly increase […]
PR News Wire – February 2019

Smartphones are Eating the Consumer Tech World – 59% of 2018 Global Consumer Tech Spending Spent on Smartphones
Live Reporting From Mobile World Congress, Feb 25-28 in Barcelona, Spain TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — International bestselling author and social media influencer Jim Harris will be covering Mobile World Congress (MWC) live from Monday, February 25 to Thursday, February 28, 2019, in Barcelona Spain. International bestselling author and social media influencer Jim Harris […]
i3 Magazine – September/October 2018

AI Enables Real-Time Translation
Download PDF Google recently unveiled Duplex, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant at its developer conference. As your personal assistant, Duplex can call to book a hair appointment or make a restaurant reservation. The people on the other end of the phone won’t even realize that they’re talking to an AI. Duplex uses AI, machine learning, […]
Disruption Magazine – Issue 3 – September 2018

Coping With Unprecedented Change
Download PDF Strategies for thriving in our fast paced business world We’re experiencing more change than ever before, and the rate of those changes are accelerating exponentially. While it took the aviation industry 68 years to reach 50 million customers, it took Pokémon Go just 19 days. It used to be large organizations that dominated […]
i3 Magazine – July/August 2018

AI, How it will Transform Business Models
Download PDF More data has been created in the last two years than in all of human history combined. Companies are awash in data, but how can you derive strategic advantage from it? That’s where artificial intelligence (AI) comes in. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Uber are data-driven companies. AI is central to their business models, […]
i3 Magazine – May/June 2018

What are the Top Trends in TV?
Download PDF Television is the most pervasive consumer technology with 96.5 percent of U.S homes owning a TV. And some TVs are morphing into massive sets that can bend and stretch bringing a new dynamic way to view content. At CES 2018 companies made many exciting announcements about how TVs are evolving. LG unveiled the […]
Disruption Magazine – Issue 1 – April 2018

Death to Driving
Download PDF A STAGGERING 94% OF CAR ACCIDENTS ARE DUE TO DRIVER ERROR. So think about the 40,000 lives that will be saved in North America every year in 2025 when all new cars are autonomous (self-driving) vehicles. Think of the 2.5 million people who won’t be maimed or seriously injured annually. Think of the […]
i3 Magazine – March/April 2018

Digital Spending Dominated by Smartphones Globally
Download PDF For the first time, global digital spending will exceed $1 trillion in 2018. And surprisingly, just three product categories make up 75 percent of this global expenditure: smartphones (48 percent); TVs (12 percent); and mobile PCs/tablets (15 percent). The only category consistently growing in market share is smartphones. From 2011 to 2018, TV’s […]
i3 Magazine – January/February 2018

Rapid Rise of Voice
Download PDF Our relationship to computers is profoundly shifting. Like Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek, within a few short years most of us will primarily interact with technologies — smartphones, computers, smart home devices and our cars — by speaking to them. We are leaving the era of the GUI (graphical user interface) and entering […]
i3 Magazine – September/October 2017

The Lemonade Lock-In
Download PDF How AI is disrupting the insurance market Lemonade is disrupting traditional insurers in an industry that takes weeks, or even months, to settle most property and casualty insurance claims. A New York-based insurer, Lemonade set the world record in December 2016 for settling a claim in just three seconds by using its claims […]