Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Early Indications September 2009: Universities and an Information Economy

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Apart from asserting, with Emil Faber, that "Knowledge is good," there is little one can say with certainty about the role of the ...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Early Indications August 2009: Informational Geography

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As the U.S. economy has shifted away first from agriculture and then manufacturing as its core activity, numerous side effects have emerged....
Monday, July 27, 2009

July 2009 Early Indications: Love & Work part II

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Taking as our cue Freud's famous dictum that people are defined by their love and their work, last month's letter looked at online d...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Early Indications June 2009: Love, Online

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -Sigmund Freud How have the technological changes of the recent past affected these two...
Monday, June 01, 2009

May 2009 Early Indications: Clouded Over

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The proliferation of so-called cloud computing platforms has been rapid. Because there is so much material available that defines the pheno...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Early Indications April 2009: Reexamining Offshoring

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When U.S. firms replace onshore technical and other resources with lower-cost labor in offshore markets, the logic is typically financial. ...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Early Indications March 2009: A Disruption Scorecard

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With the newspaper business in apparent freefall, it's perhaps useful to tally up some of the various winners and losers among the incum...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Early Indications February 2009 Miscellany: Trust, Loyalty, and Book Notes

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1) Trust in social networks Several recent developments point to the big questions regarding trust in social networks. First, both Facebook...
Friday, January 30, 2009

January 2009 Early Indications: The Job Issue

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Writing just days after roughly 60,000 layoffs were announced, it's difficult to look anywhere else for stories to analyze. Many facets...