Yesterday Bruce Springsteen recieved the American National Medal of Arts from the hand of President Joe Biden, for his outstanding contributions to the American songbook, and….
….for ’being The Boss’. You can see the short ceremony here below. President Biden greeted Springsteen with the words, “Some people are just born to run, man” (for public office).
The National Medals of Arts is the highest honor from the United States government for advancing the country’s arts and it include actors, comedians and singers.
I have always been interested in innovation Nd when the first drones were introduced, I – like many other innovators – could see potentially millions of new possibilities for this technology in the future.
The ambition from the start was high and the early examples were outstandingly promising. Then it took some time to see the real commercial and social benefits materialize. Now we are there – and in fact, we have been for som time.
Here is one example. Zipline delivers medicine and blood for transfusions across Rwanda.
This is all done with unmanned drones that are the loaded in 30 seconds, delivers the packages with super accuracy, return to base and can be used again and again.
They’ve made almost half a million deliveries – while most of us still think that operational and scaled systems like this probably is something for the future.
Check out this movie! Incredibly impressive!
There are already drone pilot projects connecting systems like this one – with the international supply and value chains to make global trade more efficient.
Watch out, this is an area that will explode – at least for certain of products. When we connect this last mile delivery option with integrated supply chain solutions in an echosystem of trust – with trade compliance management supervision, then borders becomes truly invincible.
We have just seen the start of this development. A delivery recolution is coming. Like my Canadian heroes in Bachman-Turner Overdrive once sang, ’You ain’t seen nothing yet’.
Do you know how fast a crack in glass can move or what percentage of world’s shipping traffic using the Suez Canal?
Numbers are magic. They are everywhere in our daily lives or at work in budgets.
Here are some numbers you probably never have thought about – or maybe you have?
4%
The percentage of lost TB remote controls that turn up in the fridge
4.2 million
The number of times/year the avarage human blinks
10%
The percentage of world’s shipping traffic using the Suez Canal
4800km/h The speed at which cracks in glass can move
5kg The avarage mass lost by a Formula One driver during a race (I really need to start driving F1, at least two races a week)
25%
The percentage of the world’ unspoiled forests that grow in Russia
59
The number of times Walt Disney was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscars)
95%
The hinting successcrste of dragonflies
21years
the length of summer on Uranus
1300
The number of invention patented by Thomas Edison
1500
The litres if fuel used by a jumbo jet taking off
6 months
The lenght of time it takes to build a Rolls-Royce
10%
The percentage of the world’s salt thst is used to de-ice American roads
4
The number ofcweeks it can take for a sloth to digest food
90%
The aporoximate percentage of sgark attack victins that are male
1962
The year in which the US state if Maryland declared jousting its official sport
2.5 million
The number of rivets in the Eiffel Tower?
6 dats
The age at which Mary# Stuart became Queen of Scotland
690
The numbers of days it would take to circumnavigate the world, walking 12 hours a day
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