Sunday, July 31, 2022

June 2022: Locating the demarcations

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In the many years that I’ve been tracking technological, cultural, and economic change, it’s become quite clear that 2022 is radically diffe...

July 2022 Early Indications: Actual Reality

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As much as it’s tempting to address a wave of news in the virtual reality market from Meta, Apple, and elsewhere, I’m more concerned about t...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Early Indications May 2022: From work from home to work from anywhere?

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Over the past year or so, I’ve had variations on the following conversation several times: 
 Tech worker: My company just went full remote-w...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Early Indications April 2022: Career Capital

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Over the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve been paying close attention to the question of how young people get launched in careers. I’ve taught course...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Early Indications March 2022: Inflation hits the tech sector

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After decades of low, stable interest rates, a whole generation of managers and consumers is experiencing both global instability and widesp...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Early Indications February 2022: Passing the Baton?

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For several years, I’ve been concerned about the pace of innovation in the tech sector. There are many ways to measure this, of course, but ...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Early Indications January 2022: Bowling in Atlanta?

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*In 2000, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam expanded a 1995 essay into a book entitled Bowling Alone . In it he contended that p...