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- Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to…
- Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger…
- Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is…
- A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea…
- Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization…
- Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable…
- Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
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