FTI is a jack-of-all-trades consultant, paid by large companies and law firms to advise on technology integration, restructuring and economic analysis.
"The public discourse about new UIs [user interfaces] at the moment is at the level of celebrity gossip," says John Underkoffler, chief scientist of Oblong Industries, who has advised on technology in films such as Minority Report and Iron Man.
So as grant season approaches, we do a lot of work in providing expertise in designing experiments, understanding their needs, and advising on which technologies might be best to answer the interesting scientific questions they're posing.
"From a corporate risk perspective businesses have started asking the question: 'What would happen if we didn't have access to water?'" says Paul O'Callaghan, chief executive of Bluetech Research, a consultancy advising on water technology.
On client rounds with his boss, who was advising on trends in technology or social media, Mr. Koga, a computer science major, felt the urge to speak up.
Ivan Oelrich, a defense analyst who has advised on military technology issues for several decades, is equally dubious of the near-term prospect of laser weapons for defeating rockets and missiles.
Jeffrey Eisenach, a former Verizon consultant and current visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, is reportedly advising Trump on technology policy.
That shift from broadcasting announcements to a real two-way conversation is the next stage in schools' use of social media, according to John Bidder of Getloggedin, a company advising schools on technology and parental engagement.
The cuts at Credit Suisse First Boston could affect as many as 20percentt of the people who work in the firm's most depressed businesses, like advising on mergers and acquisitions and underwriting technology stocks, people inside the firm said.
An article on July 25 about cloud computing in Europe misidentified the city that is home to the headquarters of Capgemini, a company that advises businesses on technology matters.
John Hagel, of Deloitte's Centre for the Edge (which advises bosses on technology), calculates that the average time a company spends in the S&P 500 index has declined from 75 years in 1937 to about 15 years today.
