JohnJordan1

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Early Indications September 2009: Universities and an Information Economy

Apart from asserting, with Emil Faber, that "Knowledge is good," there is…

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July 2009 Early Indications: Love & Work part II

Taking as our cue Freud's famous dictum that people are defined by…

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Early Indications June 2009: Love, Online

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.-Sigmund FreudHow have the…

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May 2009 Early Indications: Clouded Over

The proliferation of so-called cloud computing platforms has been rapid. Because there…

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Early Indications April 2009: Reexamining Offshoring

When U.S. firms replace onshore technical and other resources with lower-cost labor…

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Early Indications March 2009: A Disruption Scorecard

With the newspaper business in apparent freefall, it's perhaps useful to tally…

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Miscellany: Trust, Loyalty, and Book Notes

1) Trust in social networksSeveral recent developments point to the big questions…

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Early Indications: The Job Issue

Writing just days after roughly 60,000 layoffs were announced, it's difficult to…

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Information-age Stimulus

As economies around the world continue to wobble in the aftermath of…

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Of Crowds, Both Wise and Foolish

The surest sign that a phrase has entered broad usage is to…

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