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Month: February 2009
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The Industrialization of Services
4 comments on The Industrialization of ServicesIn the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution started the transition from a manual-labor based economy towards an economy based on using technologies, tools and machines to significantly improve the manufacturing of physical goods. Over the next two hundred years we have seen the industrial sector of the economy achieve major improvements in the productivity…
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For a long time, scientists and science-fiction writers alike have pursued the question whether you can accurately predict the future from the past given sufficiently large groups, historical information and computational power. For example, in the Foundation Series, one of science-fiction's classics of all times, Isaac Asimov introduced the fictional scientific concept of Psychohistory. The…
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I think that it is by now pretty clear that there is no simple answer to the causes of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Plain, old-fashioned greed – that is, the pursuit of individual wealth, possessions and power – clearly played a major role. So did the Wall Street's bonus system which…
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The Founding Fathers is the name we give to the leaders who signed the US Declaration of Independence and participated in drafting the Constitution. They set up a system of governance based on the principle of separation of powers under which the state is divided into different branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of…