Current Issues in IT

 provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances.

ThredUP operates by what it calls its “golden ThredUp rule,” that asks its members to only send the“quality  of  apparel”  they  would  expect  to  receive  in  return.  ThredUP  ranks  the  “quality”  of  each members’ items on a four-star scale. A second rating, called “style points,” which goes from 0 to 10, ranks  the  items  on  their  “stylishness.”  The  final  ranking  is  a measure  of  the  “punctuality”  of  their members’ shipments.

DNA-Sequenzierung ist die Bestimmung der Nukleotid-Abfolge in einem DNA-Molekül. Die DNA-Sequenzierung hat die biologischen Wissenschaften revolutioniert und die Ära der Genomik eingeleitet. Seit 1995 konnte durch DNA-Sequenzierung das Genom von über 1000 (Stand: 2010) verschiedenen Organismen analysiert werden

The  3D  bioprinting  of  supplemental  tissues,  including  heart  patches,  nerve  grafts,  blood  vessel
segments, and cartilage for degenerating joints, is expected to be in widespread use within the next
ten years.

 It’s called peer-to-peer lending or social lending. Online banking platforms like Zopa, Lending Club, and Prosper  lend  money  directly  to  individuals  and  projects. These  online  financing mechanisms  are becoming  popular  alternative  lending  vehicles  to  traditional  banks  because  they  eliminate  the middlemen and the high fixed costs of large financial institutions that are passed on to lenders in the form of higher interest rates.

The heart of this transformation is collaborative commons, which, Rifkin says, is emerging from the old paradigm of capitalism. He illustrates with the following example: “In a traditional market, sellers are always constantly probing for new technologies that can increase their productivity, reduce their marginal costs so they can put out cheaper products and win over consumers and market share and beat out their competitors and bring some profit back to investors.  So business people are always looking for ways to increase productivity and reduce their marginal cost, they simply never expected in their wildest dreams that there would be a technology revolution so powerful in its productivity that it might reduce those margins of cost to near zero making goods and services essentially free, priceless and beyond the market exchange economy. That's now beginning to happen in the real world.”