That’s right. Information is the “plastic” of this century. Those that have information, control information, understand information and distribute information will be the masters of the 21st century economy. An examination of the policy debates in Congress concerning intellectual property, the policy discussions at the FCC concerning spectrum and who controls it, the debate over [...]
Is the Intellectual Property system (patents, copyrights, etc). The world has moved from an era of individual inventors (see Thomas Hughes: American Genesis) to one which creates by cooperation across cultures, across national boundaries and across coporate boundaries. Robert Scoble interviews IBM’s IP attorney — and he emphasizes this point.
If we don’t adjust [...]
PEW Foundation has a new study on state investment strategies regarding innovation.
Investing billions of dollars in everything from nanotechnology to health care and agricultural science R&D funds are being used by states as diverse as New York, Minnesota, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia and Arizona. California alone has committed $3 billion to a 10-year investment in [...]
Why is it our government feels the need to monitor our communications to protect us from the terrorists being financed by the gasoline we buy - for which our government feels no need to create alternatives?
We are all going to be minute workers — some of us may be identified as such already. Wired has a piece entitled Crowdsourcing describing how this new market for labor will work. Another piece, entitled 5 rules for the new workforce describes the parameters within which this labor market functions. Wired then gives you a [...]
Brother Blankenhorn posts a piece on a South African Linuxe entrepreneur talking about Open Source and how the nature of that model supports creation of local jobs.
Amen. Get an education, find a nice place to raise a family, any where, plug in, and go to work. All you need besides broadband is the willingness to [...]
The headlines on the KIA plant for West Georgia remind me of an old George and Gracie Burns routine where Gracie describes how her brother got run over by a truck. Seems he was wearing two pairs of pants and the driver couldn't tell if he was coming or going (hey — the material is [...]
Here, in a concise nutshell found in Tom Friedman's column today, is how the economy will work this century:
Mr. Raju said: "We told ourselves: if business process outsourcing can be done from cities in India to support cities in the developed world, why can't it be done by villages in India to support cities in [...]
Several authors have talked about the long history of the Bush family and oil. Kevin Phillips in his latest book, American Theocracy, makes no bones about the fact that the current Middle East policy is in fact a geopolitical strategy devised by Dick Cheney on behalf of the Oil Industry in the late 90's. But, [...]
WSJ column by Andy Kessler, The Design Economy, posits that perhaps the stock market knows how the economy works better than we do as it zips past the behavior models we expect it to conform to.
Perhaps here's how the world works these days. No need to borrow billions and build big ethylene plants anymore. You [...]
