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Speech: Capitalize on the digital entertainment revolution
I know it’s been some since I last posted recent speeches … so here is one that I delivered to the International Association of Radio and Television Engineers conference on October 21, 2004. I’ve attached both the presentation material and the MP3 recording of the speech. Sorry — HP requires that I
A Different Perspective
All of our lives, we’ve been conditioned to think in terms of opposites: – Up or down – Big or small – Fast or slow – Good or bad This simplistic way of dividing everything into equal and opposite groupings restricts our ability to recognize complexities. Subtleties. Opportunities in the chaos. Not
Smart Questions
The best innovations are those that come from smart questions. As a student, Dr. William Hunter, a leading cell biologist and CEO of Vancouver -based Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, was told by one professor that the difference between good science and great science is the quality of the questions posed.
Offshoring Innovation
The talk of offshoring jobs brings out the economic doomsayers. “..angry, disillusioned developers are talking about everything from political activism to organized labor in the hopes of stemming the tide of lost jobs.” DevX.Com 1 October 2003 “States Try to Stop U.S. Firms from Sending Hi-Tech Work
Bill Gates – Call for innovation
At the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash., Bill Gates challenged the audience to create solutions that will “change the way things are done.” Some of the items that he identified as the key areas of innovation were: – Terascale computing – Wireless mesh networking (low cost d2d auto
Sketchy Information
From MIT Technology Review Looking for a book, CD, or movie recommendation? Type in the name of an author that you like at Gnooks.com and up pops a screen of other writers. But what makes the site different is that the authors doesn’t appear as a scrollable list. Instead, the name you provide sits i
