What would you do if your computer crashed? How about if your smartphone ran out of juice? The microwave blew a fuse? Or if, God forbid, you lost your Internet connection?
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
What would you do if your computer crashed?
- Again I am humbled — this time by India and the other places in the world where life goes on…..in the end its much like all those apocalyptic movies — the Mad Max genre — the beauty is we adapt and thrive…or at least we have the ability too.. Read more >Posted by rolex daytona on 2010-05-20 09:47:44
- Again I am humbled -- this time by India and the other places in the world where life goes on.....in the end its much like all those apocalyptic movies -- the Mad Max genre -- the beauty is we adapt and thrive...or at least we have the ability too.. Read more >Posted by David Sable on 2009-10-07 01:51:10
- Dear Parkin, You stole my thunder! I work and live in India and I was going to say, if all the above happened, well, we'd have another normal day. In fact, on weekends, I and many like me, have no requirement of any such technologies. We have other problems :) But so much for being flip, the point about being ...Read more >Posted by nidhu on 2009-10-06 12:07:29
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
How do we judge evolution
How do we judge evolution? Or can we? Is it possible to look at threads of change and make qualitative comments on its direction that could potentially alter the next round of variation? In essence, can we modify and alter transformation?
Posted by David on 02/23 at 04:06 PM
- watch out for spurious missions...
- Evolution doesn't suggest what outcomes will look like. Selection pressure says what the problem is, not the solutions. Evolution favors whatever emerges that stands up to the selection pressures best. In nature, what that will be is "nobody knows". In business, the big disrupters should be like that too - otherwise they would be out there already! We may all think ...
- Robert Kegan, a Harvard professor and thought leader in adult learning and professional development (who wrote books entitled The Evolving Self and How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, addresses how to integrate thought and emotion, meaning making and social development. He also applies this thinking to organizations. In terms of creating authentic, "safe" ...
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Hulu
Hulu. You have heard of Hulu?
- beats the dog.....
- If you don't want to wait for LG's new TV you can use Boxee on your AppleTV now and enjoy Hulu (and others) in your fourty-something tv.. Ironically, the reasons to keep your cable provider moving forward will be news and live TV.
- And this from the NY Times about CBS and TV.com: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/business/media/12cbs.html?_r=1&partner=MOREOVERNEWS&ei=5040 "When the CBS Corporation bought CNet for $1.8 billion last year, it acquired TV.com, a Web site that had little to brag about except a valuable domain name. Now CBS is transforming it into a video destination."
