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Month: July 2014
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What Will Digital Life Be Like in 2025?
1 comment on What Will Digital Life Be Like in 2025?The Pew Research Center is marking the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web with a number of reports on the current state and potential future of our digital lives. Last week I discussed the first such report, The Web at 25 in the US, which looked at the fast growth of the Internet and mobile…
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The Internet started out as a DARPA sponsored experimental project to develop a fault-tolerant computer network. ARPANET was launched in 1969, and by the mid-1980s, it had evolved into NSFNET, a network widely used in the academic and research communities. Then, with the advent of the World Wide Web, the Internet began its transformation from…
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A few weeks ago, NY Times columnist David Brooks posted an OpEd on The Evolution of Trust. The OpEd is focused on Airbnb, the online platform where people list and book accommodations all over the world, which now has over 600,000 listings in more than 34,000 cities and 190 countries. Brooks thought that people would…
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The recent New Yorker article, – The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong, – by Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, has led to a flurry of opinions on disruptive innovation. The New Yorker described the article as “Rethinking the innovation craze.” Others called it an “absolutely devastating takedown of disruptive innovation,” a…
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Otherwise serious concepts sometimes end up as overused buzzwords. If the books and articles that introduced them become popular, the concepts can get stretched and applied way beyond their intended meaning. The business world is particularly awash with such trendy buzzwords. After a while, most of them quietly return to their academic roots or disappear…