Article link: Anti-outsourcing legislation unlikely as global outsourcing of IT jobs gains momentum The German Innovations Report published a summary of an analysis on IT outsourcing by the consulting company Frost & Sullivan. The trend of outsourcing IT jobs from developed countries to less developed states cannot be stopped through legislation. If a country were [...]
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NY Times: Business reorganization affects innovation
12/7/2004
Article link: Innovation and disruption still going hand in hand The New York Times reports that “the cutthroat environment of ever increasing competition could actually hinder future technological advances.” The drive for innovative business models in an increasingly deregulated and globalized environment creates rapid continuous change in the global economy. An American school textbook publisher, [...]
Home living in 2004
12/2/2004
The best element of this picture is not the steering wheel. It is the man in the suit — he worked for RAND, which is a pioneering organization in projecting scenarios and forecasting techniques. In his position, he knew his vision of the future was probably wrong… but, he appears fearless. And, that is what [...]
Digital Chosunilbo: “New forms of online communication spell end of email era in Korea”
11/30/2004
Article link: New forms of online communication spell end of email era in Korea This article cites research that finds that over two-thirds of high school and college students in two South Korean provinces rarely or no longer use email to communicate. Younger generations are instead turning to SMS, IM and blogs to communicate. “Email’s [...]
NY Times: “Computers as authors? Literary luddites unite!”
11/23/2004
Article Link: Computers as authors? Literary luddites unite! (free registration required) The New York Times reports that to write novels, computers don’t need writers anymore. Selmer Bringsjord at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and David A. Ferrucci at IBM created “Brutus.1” an artificial intelligence program that simulates literary creativity. Read one of Brutus.1′s stories.
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