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On September 27 I participated in a workshop at IBM’s Almaden Research Lab on The Co-Evolution of Future Technologies, Skills, Jobs, and Quality-of-Life. The key objective of the workshop was to explore how new technologies are changing the economics of work activities, and to understand the frameworks, theories and models that might help us better…
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In March of 2010, The Atlantic published an excellent article by Don Peck which painfully described the dire consequences of a long period of high unemployment on US society - How a New Jobless Era will Transform America. According to Peck, the consequences of prolonged unemployment are not only bleak but truly systemic in nature - …
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The IBM Personal Computer was announced on August 12, 1981. Having sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005, IBM itself did not mark the occasion, and as far as I know, neither did Lenovo or the other companies still selling IBM PC’s. But, the 30th anniversary of this important event in the history of computing was…
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About a year ago I wrote a blog on the post retirement phase of my life. Tom Foremski, a journalist blogger and friend who reports on the business and culture of innovation in Silicon Valley Watcher, wrote an interesting comment in my blog: “In some ways, I see your post-retirement life as being somewhat futuristic,…
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I spent the first week of June in Chile, my fourth visit in the last five years. I was there at the invitation of Fernando Flores, President of the National Innovation Council for Competitiveness, to assist in the Modernization of the State initiative, one of the major projects in the administration of Chile’s President Sebastian…
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The huge success of the Internet and World Wide Web was made possible by the continuous advances in digital technologies over the past few decades. The technology advances were absolutely necessary, – but not sufficient. The underlying IT architecture supporting the new Web-based applications had to radically evolve as well in order to take advantage…
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In part I of this entry, I discussed the need to significantly transform the world's digital payments infrastructure to support the emerging evolution toward univeral mobile digital money. This transformation is a very complex an undertaking that will require significant research and innovation, and will likely play out over many years. Let me summarize some…
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In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum collaborated in a project called A History of the World. The heart of the project was a BBC Radio program which focused on one hundred objects from the collection of the British Museum, around which you can tell the history of humanity over the past two million…
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In March of 2009, The Economist published a special report on entrepreneurship. Its lead article said: “For most people the term “entrepreneur” simply means anybody who starts a business, be it a corner shop or a high-tech start up . . . A disproportionate number of entrepreneurial companies are, indeed, small start-ups. The best way…
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Recently, some colleagues were talking about the upcoming LinuxCon 2010 in Boston – “The Linux Foundation's annual technical conference that provides and unmatched collaboration and education space for all matters Linux.” Hearing about this conference brought me back to 1999, when we started a number of studies that culminated in the announcement of the new…