Wednesday, May 02, 2012

April 2012 Early Indications: The Robotic Moment

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Everywhere I look, it seems, all I see are robots. Not literally, but while the Apple narrative consumes lots of headline space, there's...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

March 2012 Early Indications II: The new tech landscape

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First things first: I'm pleased to announce that John Wiley has just published my book, Information, Technology, and Innovation . The to...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

March 2012 Early Indications I: Financial oddities of tech companies

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Three data points start this exploration: 1) According to Thomson Reuters, Apple is moving the entire S&P 500: "the fourth-quarter ...
Monday, February 06, 2012

Early Indications February 2012 I: Thoughts on video and pedagogy

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It's been fascinating to see how fast the phrase "flipping the classroom" has come into discussion after Sal Khan used it in h...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

December 2011 Early Indications: Immigration and entrepreneurship

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In our time of economic stagnation, attention on the part of many political figures is turning to the question of immigration. Presidential ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

November 2011 Early Indications: The State of Online Music

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The past 20 years have been tumultuous, to say the least, for the recording industry. From a time when old formats (the LP and cassette) wer...
Monday, October 31, 2011

October 2011 Early Indications: Heroes

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Watching the public reaction to the death of Steve Jobs has been a fascinating exercise. The flowers, poems, tributes, and now biography sa...
Friday, September 30, 2011

September 2011 Early Indications: The Innovation Moment?

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What follows is a selection from the opening to a book I'm completing. Recent tech-related news -- Apple's dominance, Amazon's ...
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...