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From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...
I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first...
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Mass hysteria? It's not like Skype's died. It's just a really bad hangover
Of the million or so I told you so's that have already been written regarding eBay's confession that it might not get the return on its investment in Skype that it originally thought it would, I...
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Nicholas Carr: IT still doesn't matter
In May 2003, Nicholas Carr stirred up a hornet's nest with his Harvard Business Review essay, "IT Doesn't Matter." Carr argued that information technology is necessary for business...
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IT doesn't matter--business processes do
In this excerpt from their critical analysis of Nicholas Carr's IT article, the authors dissect Carr's view of IT as a commodity, examine the danger of lumping all IT into a commodity bucket, and...
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Q&A of the week: 'The current state of the cyber warfare threat' featuring Jeffrey Carr
In this week's Q&A, I chat with Jeffrey Carr, the founder and CEO of Taia Global, and the author of 'Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld', on the current state of the...
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Bleak Outlook for Climate Change with Record CO2 output in 2010
After a dip in greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 emissions growth has rebounded dramatically to reach record levels in 2010.
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Ubuntu Linux 11.04's Target Audience: Casual Windows Users
Canonical has big plans for its Ubuntu 11.04 desktop Linux. It wants to capture casual Windows users using a first-person shooter game style desktop.
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Negroponte: Turn tablets into a 'constructionist medium'
Nicholas Negroponte touts the importance of tablets at Mobilize 2010 in San Francisco. The One Laptop Per Child founder says physical books are too expensive, take up too much space, and are hard...
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Study Refutes Nick Carr, Shows Data & IT Do Matter
Lots of people have debated Nicholas Carr's argument that IT Doesn't Matter Anymore in the last 7 years, but few have offered new empirical evidence one way or the other. Now there is some - and...
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On hyperlinks, visionary Nick Carr is totally regressive
Nick Carr made his deep thinker reputation with two ahead-of-the-curve books last decade. On his opposition to the ubiquitous practice of embedding hyperlinks in Web pages, however, Carr seems to...
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Nick Carr's Big Switch
Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive and profound critic of information technology, will be in Silicon Valley tonight (7.00 pm), at Campbell's Barnes and Noble bookstore in conversation with...
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Enterprise vendors: in pursuit of reality
Michael Hickins at BNet cracks open the customer/vendor relationship kimono, using Ray Wang's most recent post as the backdrop. As we enter the conference season, the timing could not be better:...
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Facebook Fallout: Is it time for Zuckerberg to go?
For the record, I've never officially met Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. But I've met guys who are probably like him. Young. Smart. Rich. Full of great ideas. And, yeah, probably a...
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OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
At the TED 2009 conference, Nicholas Negroponte says that OLPC's open-source hardware design will result 5 to 6 million new machines every month within three years.
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A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge
Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy. Those are some of the takeaways from a case study...
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From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...
I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first...
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Negroponte's big lie
Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back...
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XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when...
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Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into...
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Sugar on Windows looking inevitable
Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of...
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