Early Indications

Early Indications is the weblog version of a newsletter I've been publishing since 1997. It focuses on emerging technologies and their social implications.

Friday, July 22, 2005

Signals and Noise on Broadband

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(distributed July 11) Patterns are emerging from some seemingly unrelated recent developments: Item: After the mass transit bombings in Lond...
Friday, June 17, 2005

June Early Indications: Can IT Fix Health Care?

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"The solution seems obvious: to get all the information about patients out of paper files and into electronic databases that -- and...
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

May 2005 Early Indications II: Power laws for fun and profit

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(shipped May 26, posted at www.guidewiregroup.com, and archived here) Five years ago, the Internet sector was in the middle of a momentous s...
Friday, May 27, 2005

May 2005 Early Indications I: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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(shipped 5/16) Issues of electronic identity and mobility have recently been playing out in quiet but important ways. Each of three instanc...
Tuesday, May 03, 2005

April Early Indications II: My Way

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Until further notice, I'll be posting at the Guidewire Group site (I'm on their advisory board). The posts will be archived here, ...
Friday, April 22, 2005

April Early Indications I: Convergence Management

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Since as long as ten or twelve years ago, observers at the bleeding edge of technology have predicted the coming of something called converg...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

March 2005 Early Indications II: Information Gumbo

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The world of data has entered a notably rich period of evolution. Search technologists at a variety of startups and deep-pocketed incumbent...
Friday, March 18, 2005

March 2005 Early Indications I: Being Analog

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The march of digital processes and devices to fill spaces formerly occupied by analog technologies proceeds apace. Some examples follow: -p...
Monday, February 28, 2005

February 2005 Early Indications II: Make Magazine review

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Tim O'Reilly has always been an atypical technical publisher, beginning with his training: a bachelor's in classics from Harvard. Fo...
Friday, February 18, 2005

February 2005 Early Indications I: Demo trip report

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Demo trip report The mood in Phoenix was celebratory this year as the Demo conference put on a party to mark 15 years of innovative product ...
Monday, January 31, 2005

January 2005 Early Indications II: The Battle for the Wire

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In the beginning was the wire: a telephone connection to the home or business, owned and operated by AT&T with government regulation ove...
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John M. Jordan
John Jordan is a professor of practice at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He joins the iSchool from the Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems at Penn State, where he taught in the master's and undergraduate business programs. Formerly a principal with Ernst & Young/Capgemini, he directed research at the Center for Business Innovation and the Americas Office of the CTO. John holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan as well as a master’s from Yale University, and graduated from Duke University. Prior to entering consulting, he won teaching awards at the University of Michigan and Harvard University; in 2011, 2012, and 2013 he was honored among the best 2nd-year MBA professors at Penn State's business school. A new book on 3D Printing was published by MIT Press in 2019. His book on robotics was published by MIT Press in 2016 and is being translated into six languages. In 2012 he published Information, Technology, and Innovation with John Wiley.
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