Sunday, April 30, 2017

Early Indications April 2017: A Great Deflation?

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In agricultural and industrial economies, price inflation has historically been a major concern. High interest rates make borrowing money...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Early Indications February 2017: B2B Websites a year later

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A year ago this month I published the results of a survey of 100 business-to-business websites. (You can review those findings here .) I re...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Early Indications January 2017: Where’s the innovation?

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As I was discussing the pace of change with my class recently, I struggled to name a hot young startup. It turns out there was a reason for...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

Early Indications December 2016: The Future of Aging

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We grow too soon old and too late smart.       -Proverb variously attributed to Swedes, Germans, and Dutch While it is common to no...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Early Indications November 2016: Beyond Party Realignment?

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At the risk of getting confused for a political scientist or Beltway blogger, I want to look at the recent US and UK elections through the...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Early Indications October 2016: What's Ahead for Higher Education?

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First things first: my Robots book was published by MIT Press a couple weeks ago. I worked with a wonderful team there; among other th...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

Early Indications September 2016: Welcome to Dystopia?

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If you’re an author with a knack for conjuring up nightmare scenarios, these are in fact the best of times: George R. R. Martin (Game of T...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Early Indications August 2016: The Next Car

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About 125 years ago, when the internal combustion engine supplanted equine power for personal mobility, there was much talk regarding “hor...