August 2003

Code-Name: Ginger

August 29, 2003

A great book about the process of conceiving of, designing, and manufacturing the (in?)famous Segway scooter Human Transporter....Continue reading...

TrendWatching.com August Trends

August 24, 2003

Nations-Lite: "a light version of a country or society, like a Diet Coke, stripped of annoying 'features' like crime, bad weather and excessive taxes. Which leaves the good things like sun, nice villas and glittering shopping malls." Counter-Googling: Using Google...Continue reading...

Nonzero

August 18, 2003

Robert Wright's followup to The Moral Animal, one of my favorites and a life-changing read. This, too, has vast implications and is exhaustively researched and annotated....Continue reading...

Power Outages and Networks

August 16, 2003

Barabasi, author of Linked, has an interesting article at the NYTimes on the recent power outages and how their severity is due mostly to our interconnectedness....Continue reading...

Machines that think for you

August 15, 2003

Went to a talk this Wednesday about "customer relationship management systems"--basically call support centers and the software that runs them. Interesting to me was the fact that basically untrained employees come in to work, and sit down at a computer...Continue reading...

The Culture of FEAR

August 06, 2003

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16,...Continue reading...