Tag: Industry 4.0

  • Neighbours in Radio History

    Neighbours in Radio History

    On May 20th, 1920, history was made from the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. building in Montréal with the transmission of the world’s first scheduled radio broadcast. An audience in Ottawa tuned in nearly two-hundred kilometres away to enjoy a live vocal performance which was transmitted successfully from an aerial atop the building on William Street,…

  • GR8 changes ahead

    GR8 changes ahead

    It’s July 2020, and today we celebrate reelyActive’s eighth anniversary of incorporation amidst a global pandemic and a tumultuous global climate, both political and planetary. If anything is certain, it is that great changes lie ahead. After the team flew to San Francisco in March to proudly accept an Elastic Search Award for “making physical…

  • Ask your digital transformation provider…

    Ask your digital transformation provider…

    Would you choose to receive dental treatment from a dentist with bad teeth? Fitness coaching from a coach that is unfit? Change management consulting from an organisation resistant to change? At the First International Innovation 4.0 Forum this week, we took in multiple vendor presentations about the digital transformation of entire industries, including the services…

  • The catallaxy of Industry 4.0

    The catallaxy of Industry 4.0

    Consider the following prediction by Matt Ridley, in his 2010 book The Rational Optimist: I forecast that the twenty-first century will show a continuing expansion of catallaxy — Hayek’s word for spontaneous order created by exchange and specialisation. Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up; work…