Apart from asserting, with Emil Faber, that "Knowledge is good," there is little one can say with certainty about the role of the university in an information,…
Taking as our cue Freud's famous dictum that people are defined by their love and their work, last month's letter looked at online dating. This time around,…
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.-Sigmund FreudHow have the technological changes of the recent past affected these two facets of our existence? As economies…
The proliferation of so-called cloud computing platforms has been rapid. Because there is so much material available that defines the phenomenon, we'll move here to an examination…
When U.S. firms replace onshore technical and other resources with lower-cost labor in offshore markets, the logic is typically financial. Five years after some of the biggest…
With the newspaper business in apparent freefall, it's perhaps useful to tally up some of the various winners and losers among the incumbent business models as compared…
1) Trust in social networksSeveral recent developments point to the big questions regarding trust in social networks. First, both Facebook and MySpace announced that registered sex offenders…
Writing just days after roughly 60,000 layoffs were announced, it's difficult to look anywhere else for stories to analyze. Many facets emerge as one studies the employment…
As economies around the world continue to wobble in the aftermath of the credit crises, the next American president will be faced with competing calls to "do…
The surest sign that a phrase has entered broad usage is to apply the cliche test: if you leave the last word(s) blank and most readers know…
