Banking hasn't really changed that much in the last 200 years, but the forces that are impacting banking this decade are better understood by technologists, programmers and user experience designers, than they are by bankers.
As Beijing well understands, training technologists, amassing massive high-quality data sets, and accumulating patents are key to competitive and security advantage in the 21st century.
The BBC couched this as a minor technical change, and Ofcom held a very short, very quiet consultation, but was overwhelmed by a flood of negative submissions from the public and from technologists who understood the implications of this move.
For reasons not yet fully understood, the X-ray technologist, Raven Knickerbocker, activated the CT scan 151 times on the same area, state investigators concluded.
Technologists understand our users and break down how user engagement increases from somebody that maybe just tries your product once and then goes away, to a different kind of person that progressively gets more and more engaged and then becomes just totally locked into your product.
A cross-cultural communicator from an early age, Christopher is not only a multilingual economist, but an adept "translator" between professional disciplines: helping technologists understand policy makers, activists understand CEOs, and all of us understand trends shaping our inter-connected future.
The best way to understand the intensity of technologists' feelings about computer languages is to consider Paul Graham's story about using LISP to power his company, Viaweb.
The site, which includes a help desk and crowd-sourced knowledge base, was built to provide activists at the greatest risk of surveillance with culturally relevant digital safety tips, tools and support, vetted by technologists that understand and are participants in social movements.
The great news is that technologists who understand that you must look beyond just the financials to accurately measure performance now have tools available to them to create solutions to do just that.
Conversely, the supposedly 'urgent' issues that instead take up the time and attention of educational technologists (such as instrumental or contextual concerns over 'what works and why?'), cannot be fully understood or addressed without detailed knowledge of the pedagogical underpinnings of the technology use (Cobo, 2016).
