26 Nov 08: Automobile Executives and Change-Is it an Oxymoron?      In his most recent book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas Friedman quotes Michael Mandelbaum on page 108: “People don’t chan... [More...]

4 Oct 08: Advice for Business Failure -- Part II In The Ten Commandments for Business Failure the third commandment is: Isolate Yourself. (See Part I) Isolate yourself from your clients and/or your custom... [More...]

18 Aug 08: Advice for Business Failure? Part I Charlie Rose interviewed Donald Keough this week on PBS. A former executive at Coca Cola, Mr. Keough’s book was released last month: “Th... [More...]

12 Aug 08: More About the Digital Divide More about the Digital Divide August 1, 2008 Jonathan Adelstein appeared on C-Span recently. He was Brain Lamb's guest on The Communicators. Mr. Adelstein ... [More...]

17 May 08: Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants Part II The title for the first (Part I) posting came from an article by Marc Prensky. Since then there was an excellent article: The Millennial Generation – A ... [More...]

12 Mar 08: Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants Part I Last month I spoke to a group of students at a local university. They are business students interested in the global economy. There were about 30 of them all ... [More...]

5 Feb 08: Moore In 1994 I bought a computer which cost me $2,700.00. I was so proud because the sales person told me it could process 10 million instructions per second (10MI... [More...]

12 Jan 08: We should not be surprised about the speed or the impact of information. Francis McInerney’s main point is about how the falling price of information ha... [More...]

21 Dec 07: Going Through Nashville! Another person who influenced me in the middle 90’s was someone I actually met in person, Francis McInerney. 1994 was a seminal year for me. Having work... [More...]

25 Nov 07: The One-Hundred Dollar Laptop Finally, regarding Nicolas Negroponte, he has committed time and effort to create a laptop for under US$100.00 that could be distributed to underprivileged st... [More...]

10 Nov 07: More on Nicholas Negroponte There were several things Nicolas Negroponte said on Charlie Rose the night of February 6, 1995. One of those was to stop thinking in atoms and start thinking... [More...]

5 Oct 07: Hello Digital World! Someone asked me a question the other day about how I got interested in the Information Age and the Knowledge Economy. I would have to answer Wired Magazine. ... [More...]