Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Early Indications August 2011: Paradoxical Productivity

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There are some structural issues with our economy, where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer w...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Early Indications July 2011: Place, Space, and Time

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For millennia, geography has defined human civilizations. As our communications capability increases, as measured by technical specificatio...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Early Indications June 2011: Identity and privacy

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With the soft launch of Google Plus, it's an opportune time to think about digital privacy, insofar as Google is explicitly targeting wi...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Early Indications May 2011: Firms, Ecosystems, and Collaboratives

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The Internet and mobility are changing how resources can be organized to do work. The limited liability joint stock corporation remains use...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April 2011 Early Indications: The iPad as a Teaching Tool

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Last year I was given an iPad by my university with which to experiment. Here are my impressions at the end of the school year. As a media ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

March 2011 Early Indications: Reinventing Retail

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Despite its unquestioned status as an innovator and a leader in customer experience, Amazon isn't typically credited with business model...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Early Indications February 2011: An Earthquake Every Year

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It's become a commonplace to state that we live in extraordinary times. Rather than merely assert this, however, it doesn't take a ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Early Indications January 2011: The Downsizing of the State?

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Data points from all over converge to announce a time of reckoning: -According to the Pew Center on the States, the 50 states collectively h...